New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17B Small or encouraged connected generation

• The following connected generation is not counted for the purpose of section 17A (but is counted for the purposes of section 17D, which relates to the threshold for corporate separation and arm’s-length rules):

  • (a) generation commissioned on or after 8 August 2001 if the electricity generated from it is produced only from renewable energy sources:

  • (b) generation commissioned on or after 8 August 2001 if the electricity generated from it is produced partly from renewable energy sources, as long as fossil fuels provide no more of the total fuel energy input for the generator or generators comprising the generation plant in any 12-month period than—

    • (i) 20%; or

    • (ii) any larger amount approved by the Minister (on the conditions, if any, he or she thinks fit) after first taking into account whether or not the generation uses new or advanced technology:

  • (c) generation where the total capacity (determined according to nameplate or nameplates) of the generator is 5 MW or less if the generation was owned or operated, directly or indirectly, by the relevant person—

    • (i) before 23 June 1998; and

    • (ii) continuously between that date and the date when the person counts that generation for the purposes of section 17A:

  • (d) generation that is disregarded under section 19.

  Section 17B: inserted, on 14 October 2008, by section 10 of the Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 71).