Pursuant to section 11 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 ("Act"), the Electricity Authority gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 165 (Mighty River Power Limited)) Exemption Notice 2013.
(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Exemption-Mighty River Power Limited (MRPL)
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"):
No. ICP No. ICP
1 0002900904TU661 23 0174783833LC243
2 0099230201WW016 24 0326030298LCE9A
3 0000581023UNC25 25 0447262139LCEC2
4 0890158951LCDD0 26 1001240888UN00E
5 0914486048LCDCB 27 0002900906TU6E4
6 0335366010LC083 28 0006924565RN88E
7 0481981412LC9FC 29 1001116442LC968
8 0243573223LC722 30 0000667047HBCD9
9 0140580689LCB25 31 0784028275LCAF8
10 0460461299LCA6F 32 0005198638HBDF9
11 0576652994LCA2C 33 0000190739HB1EA
12 0232412497LCE00 34 1001110589LCC97
13 0007245797LC490 35 0637545662LCE24
14 0296138707LC310 36 0242289242LCCF9
15 0326045351LC3B9 37 0473382418LC6B0
16 0646839763LC7F6 38 0415362313LCAB8
17 0524471784LC0AA 39 0823864778LCD6F
18 0124376175LCBC4 40 0170242079LC852
19 0191060854LCDD0 41 0900276061LCA54
20 0397152153LCCA5 42 0968442897LC7E6
21 0717449828LC8F1 43 0696592032LC7E3
22 0871392707LC5A0 44 0099090101WWD25
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, as recorded in the registry, on which MRPL no longer has the responsibility as the trader for the ICPs listed above.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) Granting the exemption meets the requirements in section 11(2) of the Act for granting exemptions;
(b) MRPL would incur significant expenditure in
fitting meters to each ICP where the loads are predominantly street lights, bus shelters and speed cameras with low annual consumption volumes
(but over the 3,000 kWh level for unmetered load);
(c) the loads at these ICPs are static, have little annual variation, and load changes can be accurately tracked;
(d) MRPL will continue to treat the loads as standard unmetered loads and record the information in the registry;
(e) the ICPs are likely to comply with the new threshold (6,000 kWh per annum) for predictable unmetered load when the new Part 10 of the Code comes into force; and
(f) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers, and will not affect any other Code provisions.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of March 2013.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.