UDL's Annual Forum 2025: 

Keep Calm and Carry on Resolving
Dealing with growing complaint numbers and changing technologies

UDL is bringing together a range of experts to explore important topics and give you new tools you can use to manage day-to-day life in complaint management.

Thursday 3 April
9am - 4:30pm
Icon Room, Te Papa
55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011

Find out more and register.

 

Book an online meeting with Rob Bernau – Progamme Lead for the Energy Competition Task Force programme – to discuss any unanswered questions about the Task Force's proposal to introduce mandatory non-discrimination obligations that the generator retailers would have to follow. These sessions are between 1.00pm to 5.00 pm on Monday 7 April and are for 30 minutes.

Transpower and the Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko are hosting an Industry Exercise to help prepare for dry winter situations.

Market participants are invited to register and participate, so that in the event of future extended electricity supply shortages parties can work together effectively to ensure the best outcomes for.

There will be webinars on 4 and 18 March that participants will also need to attend.

Find out more.

The deadline has been extended for the Electricity Authority's  'New ways to empower electricity consumers' cross-submissions . You have extra time to make a cross-submission on the feedback from our New ways to empower electricity consumers consultation (Energy Competition Task Force Package Two).

Watch a webinar about the proposals or read the Q&As.

The submission period has closed and cross-submissions to taskforce@ea.govt.nz are invited by 5pm, Friday 11 April.

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko is holding a webinar for electricity retailers, generators and distributors to discuss three case studies on alleged breaches of the Code, involving incorrect information to the reconciliation manager and exceeding generation capability with a 'deemed offer' on the wholesale market.

Find out more.

Transpower is surveying market participants to contribute to the Authority’s annual assessment of their performance as system operator, and how it can better support the changing needs of the system to continue to deliver benefit to consumers.

Feedback is due by 17 April 2025.

Find out more.

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko aims to release a full consultation on a working paper which aims to improve settings in relation to power purchase agreements (PPAs). 

It plans to release decisions in June.

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko invites developers to complete a short survey about barriers to progressing new electricity generation projects, to help inform and prioritise our ongoing work to strengthen security of supply.

It wants to hear from those who have progressed new generation developments to completion, are mid-development, and have had plans but cancelled them.

The survey will close at 5pm, Monday 28 April.

Complete it here.

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko is seeking feedback on a proposal to introduce a new electricity industry rule called ‘mandatory non-discrimination obligations’ that the generator-retailers – Genesis, Contact, Meridian and Mercury – would have to follow.

This new rule would prevent the gentailers from giving preferential treatment to their retail arms for hedge contracts. 

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko welcomes feedback on the proposal by 5pm, Wednesday 7 May.

Find out more.

The Commerce Commission will publish its final decision on Transpower's major capex project (MCP) proposal.

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko aims to release decisions on a working paper which aims to improve settings in relation to power purchase agreements (PPAs). Submissions were due 28 February 2025 and the full consultation was due for release in April (see above). 

The Government's Review of New Zealand's electricity market, launched in November 2024, is expected to conclude in late June 2025.