This section contains all current and closed Commission regulatory projects. This includes determinations, reports, inquiries, studies and disclosures relating to telecommunications, electricity lines, gas pipelines, airports and dairy.
Every five years, the Commission is required to consider whether there are reasonable grounds for commencing an investigation into whether any services should be omitted from the list of designated or specified services in Schedule 1 of the Telecommunications Act 2001 (Act).
The Commission is required to review each industry dispute resolution scheme at least once every three years and provide any recommendations to the scheme provider on how to improve the scheme.
This project amends the 2020–2025 default price path determination for electricity distributors to contain price settings that provide for Wellington Electricity’s transition to a default price path on 1 April 2021.
In June 2020, Aurora Energy (Aurora) applied to the Commission for a customised price-quality path (CPP) so it can spend $383 million over the next 3 years (or $609 million over five years) to address safety and reliability issues on its network.
Recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act mean that the treatment of broadcasting services revenue in the Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) is changing.
The Act allows us to specify points of interconnection (POIs) which are places in wholesale networks where responsibility for fibre services is handed over from a fibre provider to other commercial service providers.