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.
The current default price quality path for electricity distribution businesses (DPP3) is due to expire on 31 March 2025 and we must make a decision by 30 November 2024 on the next default price-quality path to apply (DPP4).
Different payment methods can impose additional costs on merchants. A payment surcharge is an extra fee charged by a merchant to cover these additional costs.
In November 2021, the Government asked us to carry out a year-long study into whether competition for residential building supplies in New Zealand is working well and, if not, what could be done to improve it.
Transpower’s New Zero Grid Pathways comprise a series of proposed investments to enhance the capacity of the core electricity transmission grid between Bunnythorpe and Whakamaru power stations, and the HVDC link across the Cook Strait, in order to accommodate potential new renewable generations and meet expected future electricity demand.
This project amends the 2020–2025 default price-quality path (DPP) determination for electricity distributors to contain price settings that provide for Powerco’s transition to the default price-quality path on 1 April 2023.