In accordance with 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. 233 (Mighty River Power Limited)) Exemption Notice 2015.

(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Exemption—Mighty River Power Limited (“MRPL”) is exempted from complying with the obligation in clause 8(g) of Schedule 15.3 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (“Code”) to provide non half-hour (“NHH”) submission information instead of half-hour (“HHR”) submission information for distributed unmetered load (“DUML”).

3. Term—This exemption expires at the close of 31 October 2023.

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

1. without the exemption, MRPL would incur significant administration and compliance costs changing its internal system to provide submission information for the DUML in NHH format, instead of in the HHR format it currently provides;
2. DUML is reasonably static and predictable, and any changes are accurately tracked within MRPL’s DUML database;
3. MRPL’s internal system replicates the profiling process used in the reconciliation manager’s system by converting NHH quantities into an HHR “shape” using on and off switch times recorded by a certified data logger and provides a similar level of accuracy;
4. the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers, and will not affect any other Code provisions; and
5. the exemption meets the requirements in section 11(2) of the Act for granting exemptions.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of December 2015.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:

Hon ROGER SOWRY, onzm, Member, Electricity Authority.