Pursuant to Regulation 194 of the Electricity Governance Regulations 2003, the Electricity Commission gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations 2003 (Exemption No. 121 (TrustPower Limited)) Exemption Notice 2010.
(2) This notice comes into force on 23 September 2010.
2. Exemption-TrustPower Limited ("TrustPower") is exempted from compliance with Rule 3.2 of Part D and Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003.
3. Terms and conditions-This exemption is granted on the following conditions:
(a) the exemption will expire on the earlier of:
(i) 22 September 2012; and
(ii) the date upon which the customer switches from TrustPower to another retailer;
(b) the exemption only applies to the ICP 0001440546UNC5A; and
(c) TrustPower must treat the load as standard unmetered load for the purposes of recording details of the type and capacity in the registry.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) the metering installation will not fit in the cabinet and TrustPower will incur costs in installing another cabinet that may be passed to the customer;
(b) TrustPower will incur significant ongoing compliance costs associated with a distributed unmetered load database for low consumption;
(c) the load is static and will have little annual variation. Most changes for load are changes that can be accurately tracked;
(d) by imposing a condition that TrustPower treat the load as standard unmetered load, the information will still be recorded in the registry; and
(e) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers and will not affect any other rules.
Dated at Wellington this 21st day of September 2010.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:
DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.