Resilience principles for investment decision-making
The Commission is intending to take a greater role in seeking assurance that regulated infrastructure providers’ resilience activities follow best practice.
In June 2025, the Commission engaged ResOrgs to develop principles and frameworks for evaluating infrastructure resilience investments across regulated utilities in New Zealand. Building on from this work, the Commission has commenced a project to develop draft guidance for infrastructure providers.
The purpose of the guidance is to outline the key principles for infrastructure investment decisions that infrastructure providers should consider when building a resilience business case and set expectations on the level of analysis required under each principle. It also provides infrastructure providers with a range of decision-making frameworks to use and additional resources to suit different investment needs and maturity.
Submissions received on the draft guidance are available in the documents tab below. For ease of access, a zip file containing all submissions received is also available for download.
Thank you to everyone who joined our online stakeholder workshop on 7 October to discuss the key themes raised in submissions on the draft guidance. We appreciated the thoughtful discussion and perspectives shared. Stakeholder input is an important part of this work, and we will consider the feedback received as we finalise the guidance.
Please note that there will not be a cross-submissions process.
We anticipate publishing the final guidance in December 2026.