Pursuant to Regulation 194 of the Electricity
Governance Regulations 2003, the Electricity Commission ("Commission") gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 107 (TrustPower Limited)) Exemption Notice 2009.
(2) This notice comes into force on 15 October 2009.
2. Exemption-TrustPower Limited ("TrustPower") is exempted from compliance with Rule 3.2 of Part D of the Electricity Governance Rules ("Rules") and Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J of the Rules.
3. Terms and conditions-This exemption is granted on the following conditions:
(a) This exemption expires on the earlier of:
(i) the close of a five-year period (on 14 October 2014); and
(ii) the date upon which the customer switches from TrustPower to another retailer;
(b) the exemption only applies to the ICP 0007725030WAFB4; and
(c) TrustPower must treat the load as standard unmetered load for the purposes of recording details of the type and capacity in the registry.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) without an exemption, TrustPower:
(i) will incur significant expenditure and complexity in fitting meters to the streetlights for low consumption volumes; and
(ii) will incur significant ongoing compliance costs associated with a distributed unmetered load database for low consumption;
(b) streetlights are static load and have little annual variation. Most changes for load are associated with changes in lamp wattage that can be accurately tracked;
(c) by imposing a condition that TrustPower treat the load as standard unmetered load, the information will still be recorded in the registry; and
(d) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers and will not affect any other rules.
Dated at Wellington this 13th day of October 2009.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:
DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.