A successful proposal will be the best TPM we can design that is consistent with the new TPM Guidelines, the Electricity Authority’s statutory objective and any determination by the Commerce Commission under Part 4 of the Commerce Act 1986.
We have developed the following design principles which will help guide the development of our new TPM proposal as we make necessary trade-offs between options which otherwise comply with the TPM Guidelines.
The process of developing our design principles
Draft principles
On 17 August, we published draft design principles and invited feedback through our TPM development newsletter. You can read that newsletter here. The draft principles were:
Feedback
On 7 September, we published the feedback we received. The feedback we received was helpful, and we offer our thanks to those who contributed.
| TPM design principles feedback |
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 Electricity Networks Association feedback on draft TPM design principles [ pdf 204.46 KB ] |
| Mercury feedback on draft TPM design principles [ pdf 420.69 KB ] |
| Northpower feedback on draft TPM design principles [ pdf 149.39 KB ] |
| Orion feedback on draft TPM design principles [ pdf 331.27 KB ] |
| Unison feedback on draft TPM design principles [ pdf 223.91 KB ] |
Our response
Based on our review and consideration of submissions we decided to revise our design principles, including by making it clearer they sit under the TPM Guidelines, the EA's statutory objective and any determination by the Commerce Commission under Part 4 of the Commerce Act.
On 29 September, we published a summary of the feedback, our response and our final design principles.
| TPM design principles |
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| TPM Development design principles - Summary and response [ pdf 2.54 MB ] |
Thanks again to all who contributed to this development process.
