Certified reconciliation participant audits
Reconciliation participants are required to obtain and maintain certification if they perform certain functions defined in the Code.
Reconciliation participants that could require this certification include:
- retailers
- people who buy or sell electricity to or from the clearing manager (except grid direct consumers)
- generators (including embedded generators)
- network owners (including embedded networks)
- grid owners.
What the certified reconciliation participant audit covers
The audit includes checking processes around:
- maintaining registry information and performing customer and embedded generator switching
- gathering and storing raw meter data
- creation and management (including validating, estimating, storing, correcting, and archiving) of volume information.
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    Reconciliation Participant Audit GuidelinesReconciliation-participant-audit-guidelines.pdf (PDF, 778 KB) Last updated: 05 October 2017 
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    Audit Regime Inherent Risk Register - Reconciliation ParticipantsAudit-Regime-Inherent-Risk-Register-Reconciliation-Participants.pdf (PDF, 358 KB) Last updated: 31 May 2017 
Certified reconciliation participant register and next audit date
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    Certified reconciliation participant register and next audit dateCRP-register.html (HTML, 156 KB) This register lists organisations that have been approved by the Authority Board to carry out the functions of a certified reconciliation participant as stipulated in part 15 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (Code) and the date of their next audit. Last updated: 15 March 2023 
More information
For any further information or questions contact the market operations team.
Email: marketoperations@ea.govt.nz
 
			