The Commerce Commission will hold a five day conference on Wednesday 17 - Friday 19 July, and Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 July, on the proposed thresholds and control regime for electricity lines businesses, as required under Part 4A of the Commerce Act 1986.
The conference is for interested parties to make oral submissions on the conceptual design of the regime, and provide the opportunity for the Commission to ask questions. Any media representatives interested in attending should contact Jackie Maitland (details below).
The conference will be held at Level 5, CSI House, 166 Featherston Street, Wellington.
The Commission released a Discussion Paper, in March this year, describing the Commission's proposals for its new responsibilities under the Commerce Act to set performance thresholds and, if required, control prices, revenues and quality of supply of New Zealand's 30 large electricity lines businesses, including Transpower.
In August, following the conference, the Commission will release its discussion paper on the review of asset valuation methodologies.
The discussion paper, as well as submissions made to the Commission, are available at the Commission's website at .
Agenda for the Electricity Lines Businesses Conference
Wednesday 17 July
8.30am - 9.15am Opening Address from the Chair
9.15am - 10.15am Hawke's Bay Network, Centralines and Scanpower
10.30am - 11:30am Hawke's Bay Network, Centralines and Scanpower
11.30am - 12.00pm Northpower
2.00pm - 2.30pm Northpower
2.30pm - 3.00pm Genesis Power Ltd
3.15pm - 3.45pm Genesis Power Ltd
3.45pm - 4.45pm Pukawa Bay Property Owners, Omori Kuratau
Ratepayers, Lake Rotoaira Bachowners Associations
Thursday 18 July
8.30am - 10.00am Simon Terry Associates
10.15am - 11.00am Simon Terry Associates
11.00am - 11.30am Federated Farmers
11.30am - 12.30pm Sustainable Energy Forum
1.30pm - 2.30pm CC93
2.30pm - 3.00pm MEUG
3.15pm - 5.00pm MEUG
Friday 19 July
8.00am - 10.00am Transpower
10.15am - 12.15am Transpower
1.15pm - 2.15pm PricewaterhouseCoopers
2.15pm - 3.15pm Counties Power Consumer Trust
3.30pm - 4.00pm Marlborough Lines
4.00pm - 5.00pm WEL Networks
5.00pm - 5.30pm WEL Energy Trust
Tuesday 23 July
8.00am - 10.30am PowerCo
10.45am - 1.00pm PowerCo
2.00pm - 2.30pm Mainpower
2.30pm - 3.15pm Electricity Ashburton
3.30pm - 4.30pm Network Tasman, Buller and Westpower
4.30pm - 5.30pm Vector
Wednesday 24 July
8.00am - 10.30am United Networks
10.45am - 1.00pm United Networks
2.00pm - 2.45pm NZ Tariff and Fuel Consultants
2.45pm - 3.15pm Orion
3.30pm - 4.30pm Orion
4.30pm - 5.00pm Grey Power Federation Energy Committee
Media contact: Jackie Maitland, Communications Manager
