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. 145 (TrustPower Limited)) Exemption Notice 2012.
(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Exemption-(1) TrustPower Limited ("TrustPower") is exempted from compliance with clause 10.3(b) of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") and clause 11 of Schedule 15.3 of the Code.
(2) This exemption only applies to installation control point 0000049939NT7FB.
3. Term-This exemption expires on the date on which the Electricity Industry Participation (Metering Arrangements) Code Amendment 2011 comes into force.
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) TrustPower would incur significant expenditure and complexity in fitting a meter to the street lights for low consumption volumes;
(c) TrustPower would incur significant ongoing compliance costs if it was required to provide a distributed unmetered load database for low consumption;
(d) the load is static and will have little annual variation. Most load changes can be accurately tracked;
(e) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers, and will not affect any other Code provisions; and
(f) TrustPower has stated it will treat the load as standard unmetered load and record the information in the Registry.
Dated at Wellington this 6th day of September 2012.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.