Appointment of Security and Reliability Council chairperson
The Authority has appointed Hon Heather Roy as the new chairperson of the Security and Reliability Council (SRC) for a 30-month term, ending 31 March 2021. Heather replaces Mike Underhill who stepped down in June 2018.
Heather is the Independent Chair of Utilities Disputes Limited and the Advertising Standards Authority, and is a principal and director of her business consultancy TorquePoint. She has extensive experience in senior leadership roles, including as a government minister.
Heather’s full biography is available on our website.
EMI will be unavailable from around 12 noon on Tuesday, although full service should progressively return throughout the afternoon, with everything back up and running by Wednesday morning.
In addition to improving robustness and performance, we’ll be deploying a new release of the EMI website with enhanced features, making it easier for users to explore the depth of information behind reports.
Reminder: Industry workshop on Dispatch Service Enhancements
Transpower is holding an industry workshop for the Dispatch Service Enhancements project.
The Dispatch Service Enhancements project will introduce alternate communications protocols (ICCP and web services) for dispatch. From mid 2019, these new communication protocols will remove the requirement for participants to use the current proprietary GENCO system to receive and acknowledge dispatch instructions.
This workshop will allow the project team to provide a progress update and share the detailed design for these enhancements. The project team will also describe the operation of these new communications protocols and the process for transitioning to them. This workshop is intended to provide you with an understanding of the impact of these changes on your organisation.
The workshop will be hosted on Friday, 30 November 2018, from 1 to 4pm at the Transpower offices in Wellington and via Skype. Please register your interest before Tuesday, 30 October 2018 to the Project Manager at Marije.Postma@transpower.co.nz
For further information on the project, please visit the Transpower website.
We are coordinating the consultation processes for more minor projects into an omnibus series. In our first omnibus, we are consulting on four areas.
1. Review of metering and related registry processes.
2. Access to WITS and the registry.
3. Switch process review.
4. Integrating hosting capacity into Part 6 of the Code.
Two draft lists of distributed generation eligible to qualify to receive ACOT: upper North Island and upper South Island
We are seeking views on two draft lists of distributed generation that would be eligible to qualify under the regulated terms in Part 6 of the Code to receive ACOT payments from distributors.
