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. 203 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2014.
(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 10.24(c) of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code"), not to use subtraction to determine submission information, in respect of installation control point ("ICP") 0000880392WEA92.
3. Term-This exemption expires at the earlier of:
(a) the close of 31 December 2022; and
(b) the completion date of a major upgrade to the switchboards at Contact's co-generation plant at
the Te Rapa dairy factory.
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) without the exemption, Contact would incur a significant cost to reconfigure the metering installations at the Te Rapa co-generation power plant to comply with the obligation in clause 10.24(c) of the Code;
(c) deriving the submission information from the metering installations at the ICP by subtraction is
as accurate as it would be if it was derived using directly metered data;
(d) the exemption from clause 10.24(c) of the Code will allow Contact to continue to use subtraction to determine submission information, even though the ICP is not also a network supply point; and
(e) the requested exemption will have no impact on any other participant or service provider, and will not affect any other Code provision.
Dated at Wellington this 25th day of August 2014.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
HON ROGER SOWRY, ONZM, Member, Electricity Authority.