Reconciliation process

The reconciliation process is set out in Parts 10 and 15 of the Code.

In this section:

Part 10 and Part 15 of the Code set out the obligations on industry participants in relation to reconciliation standards, dealing with:

how reconciliation participants and metering equipment providers must gather, store and provide information about electricity conveyed
how reconciliation participants must prepare and provide submission information and, where relevant, dispatchable demand information
how the reconciliation manager must allocate volumes of electricity among reconciliation participants
how the reconciliation manager must pass information to the clearing manager, for the calculation of invoices
the obligations of the reconciliation manager to pass the information to reconciliation participants, the registry and the Authority the requirements for the creation, approval and maintenance of profiles
the requirements for audits, auditors, approvals and certifications.

The reconciliation manager facilitates the monthly reconciliation process and is responsible for reconciling metering data against a register of contracts and passing the data to participants.

Reconciliation process - Reconciliation manager.

The clearing manager uses information supplied by the reconciliation manager to generate invoices for the electricity generated or consumed by industry participants, and for any dispatchable demand, during the previous month.

Spot prices - Clearing manager

Guidelines

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Memo to Participants on Threshold defaults to be applied under the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010

Memo-Default-thresholds-to-be-used-under-the-Code.PDF (PDF, 119 KB)

Last updated: 19 August 2016
Balancing area guidelines and network supply point implementation details v2.2

Balancing-Area-guidelines-and-Network-Supply-Point-Implementation-details-v2-2.pdf (PDF, 132 KB)

The balancing area guidelines give an explanation on how balancing areas operate and what distributor obligations under the Code are. A balancing area consists of two or more electrically interconnected GXPs and is used in the reconciliation process to allocate volumes of electricity to GXPs.

Last updated: 02 July 2015
Guidelines on electricity supplied v1.0

Guidelines-electricity-supplied-v1-0.pdf (PDF, 53 KB)

Electricity supplied means the electricity that is sold by retailers.

Last updated: 02 July 2015
Guidelines on Unmetered Load Management

Guidelines-on-Unmetered-Load-Management-2.pdf (PDF, 175 KB)

These guidelines are out of date. Please contact market operations (marketoperations@ea.govt.nz ) for further information

Last updated: 12 December 2016
Reconciliation methodology v1.0

Reconciliation-Methodology-v1-0.pdf (PDF, 132 KB)

Last updated: 24 June 2015

Network supply point table

An network supply point (NSP) is a composite identifier made up of the network participant identifier and the point of connection code. They are used to reference information to grid connection points for reconciliation purposes.

All valid network supply point identifier combinations are maintained by the reconciliation manager.

Network supply point table(external link)

This table provides the start and end dates of NSPs as well as, in the case of an embedded network, the point of connection to the grid.