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. 183 (Contact Energy 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-Contact Energy Limited ("Contact") is exempted from complying with the obligation in clause 11 of Schedule 15.3 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") to maintain a distributed unmetered load ("DUML") database for installation control point ("ICP") 0015768900ELB35.
3. Term-This exemption expires at the close of 31 May 2014.
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) Contact intends to install a metering installation at the ICP;
(c) creating a DUML database for a short period of time is an unnecessary interim cost for Contact; and
(d) 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 25th day of November 2013.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.