The Authority has decided to replace the system operator’s emergency management policy (EMP) in its entirety.

The EMP is a document incorporated by reference into the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 and sets out the steps the system operator must take, as a reasonable and prudent system operator, and encourage participants to take at various stages of an extended emergency, including one contributed to by a critical contingency. Following publication in the Gazette, the replaced EMP will take effect on 1 December 2022. Replacement of the entire EMP is an option available when extensive amendments are made.

The Authority has published a decision paper to explain the changes and our rationale for approving them. In addition to a number of relatively minor changes proposed to aid clarity of the EMP, the amendments:

  • clarifying and removing subjectivity for the triggering and ceasing of daily security of supply reporting
  • Including worst case ‘time to alert status’, and ‘time to an OCC’ metrics in daily security of supply reporting once daily reporting is triggered.