Pursuant to section 11 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 ("Act"), the Electricity Authority gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 161 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2012.
(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Exemption-Contact Energy Limited ("Contact") is exempted from compliance with clause 10.3(b) of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") in respect of the following installation control points ("ICPs"):
1. 0000014229HB38B 22. 0007301536NVF39
2. 0000016122NT99B 23. 0007406325NVE39
3. 0000037743NT445 24. 0008056235HB73B
4. 0000037860NTADF 25. 0008509968NV837
5. 0000038627NTADB 26. 0008509977NVD44
6. 0000126668TPFAC 27. 0008801008TP13C
7. 0000257810HB185 28. 0008801012TP900
8. 0000519820HB023 29. 0010330308EL0B2
9. 0000550099HBBF8 30. 0010330580EL1EA
10. 0000557925UND32 31. 0011219052ELE90
11. 0000600085HBD8B 32. 0013540268EL653
12. 0000730158NVF40 33. 0014189134HBC96
13. 0000740394NVB0F 34. 0014600276EL164
14. 0000916610TEA3F 35. 0014600340ELE17
15. 0001183605HB0B0 36. 0015726240EL9CB
16. 0005000081HB9B4 37. 0016096032EL6DD
17. 0005000772HBA61 38. 0016100018ELF71
18. 0006000164HBC8E 39. 0018081024HB16E
19. 0006000957HB7BB 40. 0018081027HBDAE
20. 0007118359RND0A 41. 0018137292HB7F1
21. 0007301242NV46C 42. 0046054751HBFE7
3. Term-This exemption expires at the earlier of:
(a) the date on which the Electricity Industry Participation (Metering Arrangements) Code Amendment 2011 comes into force; and
(b) the date on which Contact no longer has the responsibility in the registry as the trader for the ICPs listed above.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) Contact would incur significant expenditure and complexity in fitting meters to each ICP where
the loads are predominantly street lights and
under-verandah lights with low annual consumption volumes (but over the 3,000 kWh level for unmetered load);
(b) the loads at these ICPs are static, have little annual variation, and changes can be accurately tracked;
(c) Contact has stated it will continue to treat the
loads as standard unmetered loads and record the information in the registry;
(d) the ICPs are likely to comply with the new Part
10 threshold (6,000 kWh per annum) for predictable unmetered load when the new Part 10 comes into force;
(e) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers, and will not affect any other Code provisions; and
(f) granting the exemption meets the requirements of section 11(2) of the Act.
Dated at Wellington this 12th day of November 2012.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.