Pursuant to section 161D(1)(e) of the Climate Change Response Act 2002, I, The Honourable Simon Watts, Minister of Climate Change, give the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and Commencement

(1) This notice may be cited as the Call for the Provision of Electricity-Related Contracts (Aluminium Smelting) Notice 2024.

(2) This notice takes effect from and including 11 July 2024.

2. Interpretation

(1) Unless the context otherwise requires:

Act means the Climate Change Response Act 2002.

Aluminium smelting has the meaning given to it in the Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Regulations 2010.

NZAS means the company registered as New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited.

3. Electricity-Related Contracts Required to be Provided

(1) NZAS must provide this data to the Ministry for the Environment, within 30 working days of the date of this notice, a copy of the following:

1. The current electricity agreement, without redactions, between Mercury Energy Limited and NZAS; and
2. The current electricity agreement, without redactions, between Meridian Energy Limited and NZAS; and
3. The current electricity agreement, without redactions, between Contact Energy Limited and NZAS; and
4. any information or explanation of matters relevant to the agreements referred to in paragraph 3(1)(a), (b) and (c) which will assist in a determination by the Minister of an allocative baseline or baselines for NZAS pursuant to the Act (for the avoidance of doubt, this information may be provided in summary form in a newly created document rather than providing all source documentation for the calculations).

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of July 2024.

Hon SIMON WATTS, Minister of Climate Change.