Under section 11 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 (“Act”), the Electricity Authority gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 266 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2018.

(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 11.32A(1) of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (“Code”) to supply consumer consumption information to a consumer for any installation control point where:

1. Contact has used the information to provide any service to the consumer; and
2. Contact has sourced that information from Metrix Limited’s (“Metrix”) advanced meter midnight reads, which Contact does not use for billing purposes.

3. Term—This exemption expires on the earlier of:

1. the close of 30 June 2019; and
2. the date when Contact receives half-hour information from Metrix.

4. Reasons for granting the exemption—The reasons for granting this exemption are:

1. the information provided would not enable the consumer or its authorised agent to make informed decisions;
2. the exemption is only needed on a short-term basis, replacing the previous exemption (No. 238);
3. the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers, and will not affect any other Code provisions; and
4. granting the requested exemption meets the requirements in section 11(2) of the Act.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of February 2018.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:

SUSAN PATERSON, onzm, Member, Electricity Authority.