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.
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.
We assess electricity distributors asset management practices to understand their current practices and improve their performance through disseminating good practice; both in terms of asset management practices and the disclosure of those practices within the electricity distributors asset management plan (AMP).
The Commission uses specified instructions and templates to get the information we need to make our annual Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) determination.
The Fibre Deeds require Chorus and the LFCs to supply wholesale services on a non-discriminatory and equivalent basis, and, since 1 January 2020, have also required them to offer a point-to-multipoint layer 1 fibre access service (PON Fibre Access Service). The Commission has developed guidance to assist industry participants to understand our approach to monitoring and enforcing non-discrimination and equivalence obligations in telecommunications, including in relation to the PON Fibre Access Service.
