August 2013

In this market brief:

• Part 10 transition finishes midnight 28 August 2013
• New Part 10 – urgent Code amendment
• Part 10 implementation: amended guidelines for reconciliation participant and distributor audits
• Dispatchable demand information published
• Call for interest in a dispatchable demand user group
• Aligning forecast and final prices
• Improving transparency of consumers’ electricity charges
• Retail Advisory Group papers
• Work programme report to 30 June 2013
• Current consultations
• NZ electricity hedge contracts - 23 August 2013

In this market brief:

• National instantaneous reserves market
• Call for nominations for Retail Advisory Group (RAG) membership
• Briefing on dispatchable demand 
• Stress test scenarios unchanged for the October-December quarter of 2013
• Part 10 transition 
• Current consultations

In this market brief:

• Transition arrangements for Part 10 implementation
• Potential briefing on dispatchable demand
• Distributed generation: statistics
• Within-island basis risk
• New publication on the What’s My Number campaign
• Market performance enquiry into high spring washer price situation of 20 June 2013
• Current consultations
• ‘I’ on the market: Prices at Tekapo and Albury
• NZ electricity hedge contracts - 9 August 2013

In this market brief:

• Strategic directions for market development
• Part 10 Code amendments
• Guideline for Metering Equipment Provider Audits
• Quarterly disconnection statistics
• Removal of the in-band frequency keeping constrained on and off compensation
• Draft determination of causer of under-frequency event on 20 June 2013
• Retail Advisory Group minutes for 17 July 2013
• Reminder: Participant registration and information update
• Current consultations
• NZ electricity hedge contracts - 2 August 2013