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. 169 (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 complying with the obligation in clause 8(g) of Schedule 15.3 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") to provide non half hour ("NHH") submission information for the following 16 installation control points ("ICPs"):
ICP identifier ICP identifier
1. 0000031152CPB70 9. 0000939906HBEFE
2. 0900091389PC84E 10. 0000939908HBD65
3. 0001264717UNC3A 11. 0000939902HBFF4
4. 0001264718UN3E4 12. 0000939904HBE7B
5. 0001264719UNFA1 13. 0008807413WMA59
6. 0000939923HBEE4 14. 1001102039UNA95
7. 0000939921HBE61 15. 0001255308UN5C4
8. 0000939920HB224 16. 1001102038UN6D0
3. Term-This exemption expires at the close of 31 July 2023.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) granting the requested exemption meets the requirements in section 11(2) of the Act for granting exemptions;
(b) MRPL would incur significant administration and compliance costs changing its systems to provide submission information for the 16 ICPs in NHH format instead of in the half hour ("HHR") format it currently provides;
(c) MRPL's systems replicate the profiling process used in the reconciliation manager's system by converting NHH quantities into an HHR "shape" using on and off switch times recorded by a certified data logger and provide a similar level of accuracy;
(d) the load at these ICPs is static, has little annual variation, and load changes can be accurately tracked; and
(e) the requested 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 8th day of July 2013.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.