Archive - Transmission Advisory Group (disestablished)

It provided advice to the Commission on a variety of transmission matters including:

• Considering and developing rule change proposals affecting part F of the rulebook as determined by the workplan
• Providing comment as necessary to advisory groups whose work impacts on transmission

The first meeting was in mid 2004, and it met regularly through to its disestablishment in 2009 as part of the Commission's review of its approach to advisory groups.

The matters considered by this group will now be dealt with by the Investment Advisory Group.

The members of the Transmission Advisory Group (TAG) were:

• Bill Heaps (Chair)
• Bob Simpson (Transpower)
• Dick Whitelaw (New Zealand Steel)
• Michael Whaley (Powerco)
• Ralph Matthes (Major Electricity Users' Group)
• Peter Calderwood (TrustPower)
• Tas Scott (Orion)
• Tim George (Transpower)
• Clive Bull (Vector)
• James Collison-Smith (Contact Energy)
• Russell Longuet (Exergi Consulting)

John Gleadow, Director Transmission, was the Commission's representative on the group.