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Default Price-Quality Path issues paper

  • Updated February 7, 2025

ENA submission to the Commerce Commission about the default price-quality paths (DPP) for electricity distribution businesses. The submission highlights concerns about consumer price shocks and advocates for flexibility in capital expenditure to support decarbonisation and resilience.

Dispatchable load enhancement.

  • Updated February 10, 2025

ENA submission to the Electricity Authority about the introduction and enhancements of the dispatch notification process for small-scale generation and load. The submission emphasises the need for enhanced visibility and communication in the process to ensure safety and reliability in electricity distribution networks, with specific recommendations for improving the registry and establishing agreements with electricity distribution businesses.

Distributed generation pricing principles

  • Updated February 14, 2025

ENA submission to the Electricity Authority about the review of Distributed Generation Pricing Principles (DGPP). The submission discusses the implications of removing these pricing principles and suggests that current proposals bear risks of inefficiency and unintended outcomes, and potentially inappropriate cost allocations.

Distribution connection pricing

  • Updated February 7, 2025

ENA submission to the Electricity Authority about the proposed Code amendment for distribution connection pricing. The submission discusses the potential impacts of regulatory changes on pricing methodologies, advocating for principles-based regulation to enhance flexibility and address potential inefficiencies in connection pricing for electricity distribution businesses.

DPP3 draft decision

  • Updated February 12, 2025

ENA submission to the Commerce Commission about the Default Price-Quality Path (DPP3) draft decision which proposes new regulatory frameworks and incentives for electricity distribution businesses in New Zealand from 2020. The submission discusses aspects such as allowable revenues, quality standards, capex, and innovation expenditure with suggestions for improvements to support better financial and operational outcomes for electricity distributors.

DPP3 draft decision - cross submissions

  • Updated February 14, 2025

ENA submission to the Commerce Commission about the 2020 DPP draft decision. The submission addresses issues concerning opex and capex incentives, innovation allowances, productivity factors for electricity distribution businesses, and concerns over the low Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) impacting investment incentives.

DPP3 part one: regulating capex/opex incentives

  • Updated February 14, 2025

ENA submission to the Commerce Commission about the Default price-quality paths for electricity distribution businesses from 1 April 2020, concerning the regulation of capital and operational expenditures and incentives. The document offers insights into the need for greater flexibility in regulatory frameworks to accommodate the shifting technological and market environments and discusses specific feedback on capex, opex, and incentive components.

DPP3 part two: regulating quality

  • Updated February 14, 2025

ENA submission to the Commission about the regulatory framework for electricity distribution businesses (EDBs), focusing on quality of service regulations. The document emphasises separating planned and unplanned outage targets, improving normalisation methods, and including customer service metrics to align service levels with consumer expectations.

DPP3 reset process

  • Updated February 12, 2025

ENA submission to the Commerce Commission about the DPP3 reset process, highlighting the need for improved engagement and consulting with Electricity Distribution Businesses during regulatory changes. ENA points out missed opportunities for collaboration that could have benefited the DPP framework, such as the 'SAIDI N' regime and quality service guidelines, emphasising the importance of workshops and evidence-based decision-making for regulatory processes.