On 13 October 2018 the Electricity Industry Participation Code Amendment (Amendments to Certification Reports) 2018, will come into force. The amendments are to Part 10 of the Code.

• Code amendment and gazette notice 

The Authority is calling for nominations for a member of the Innovation and Participation Advisory Group (IPAG), following the resignation of Jennifer Cherrington-Mowat who has taken up a new role outside the electricity industry. 

In addition to the skills and experience generally required of IPAG members, we are particularly interested in nominations from people with experience in digital and technological innovation and strategy.

We are aiming to appoint the new member to IPAG in December 2018 to complete a term ending in September 2020. 

More details, including the nomination form, the charter and the terms of reference for the advisory groups, are available on our website.

Nominations close at 5pm on Tuesday, 30 October.

• About the role of an IPAG member
• Nomination form
• Charter
• IPAG terms of reference 

On Thursday, 11 October we will be undertaking planned maintenance of our What’s My Number website. 

We expect the site will be unavailable from 2pm until around 7pm. The Consumer Powerswitch website will not be affected, so we will encourage visitors to the site to go directly to Powerswitch to see what they can save. 

We apologise for any inconvenience this outage causes. 

Please follow our Twitter account @electricityauth for real-time updates, and email web@ea.govt.nz if you notice any unresolved issues on Friday.

Amendments to the 2018 policy statement

We are consulting on a proposed revision to the policy statement from the system operator. The key amendments proposed to the existing policy statement include clarifying the risk controls and quality outcomes of extended contingent events (ECEs) and amending the definition of other events.

• Consultation paper

Started: 02/10/2018; Ending: 05/11/2018 5pm

Market enhancements omnibus one: September 2018

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.

• Consultation paper

Started: 04/09/2018; Ending: 13/11/2018 5pm