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Electricity Industry Act 2010

Miscellaneous - Transitional and consequential provisions - Dissolution of Electricity Commission

136: References to reserve generation capacity in resource consents

You could also call this:

“When extra electricity is needed: Changes to resource consent rules after electricity management shift”

This law is about what happens to certain rules in resource consents after a change in who’s in charge of electricity in New Zealand.

Sometimes, resource consents had rules about when extra electricity should be made. These rules used to depend on what the Electricity Commission said. Now, after the Whirinaki agreement ends, these rules will depend on what the Authority says instead.

The Authority can only make decisions about extra electricity using rules that everyone can see. They can let the system operator make these decisions, but the Authority still has to make the rules.

If you have one of these resource consents, you can still change or remove the rule about extra electricity in the same way as any other rule in your resource consent.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous
Transitional and consequential provisions: Dissolution of Electricity Commission

136References to reserve generation capacity in resource consents

  1. This section applies to any condition of a resource consent, imposed before this section comes into force, that refers to a determination by the Electricity Commission that—

  2. reserve generation capacity is required to, or should, generate electricity; or
    1. reserve generation capacity is no longer required.

      1. After the date on which the Whirinaki agreement ends, any references to determinations referred to in subsection (1) must be read as references to the Authority making a reserve supply determination, or rescinding a reserve supply determination, as the case requires.

      2. The Authority may make or rescind a reserve supply determination only in accordance with criteria that are publicly available.

      3. The Authority may delegate to the system operator the power under this section to make and rescind reserve supply determinations, but may not delegate the power to set the criteria published under subsection (3).

      4. A condition of a resource consent referred to in subsection (1) may be amended or revoked in the same way as any other condition of the resource consent.