New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17C Connected customers selling cap rule

• (1) The connected customers selling cap is breached by a person if the person is involved in selling more electricity to connected customers within a local network area, in total, in a financial year, than the equivalent of the person’s qualifying generation within the local network area.

  (2) The person’s qualifying generation is the sum of the total annual nominal MWh capacity of the following generation (calculated as if the generation were operated at total capacity (determined according to nameplate or nameplates) for 24 hours for 365 days per annum):

  a + b + c

  where—

  a

  is the person’s connected generation that is counted for the purpose of the connected generation cap in section 17A; and

  b

  is any connected generation referred to in section 17B(a), (b), or (c) in which the person has an involvement; and

  c

  is any generation referred to in section 17B(a) or (b) that is connected to the national grid, if,—

  • (a) on application by or on behalf of the person, the Commission has determined, by notice in the Gazette, that the generation should be treated as being within the local network area of the lines in which the person is involved; and

  • (b) the total capacity (determined according to nameplate or nameplates) of all generation in which the person has an involvement does not exceed 100 MW.

  (3) The Commission may not determine that any generation should be treated as being within more than 1 local network area.

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