Key information – distribution
Current determinations, reports and supporting information.
Electricity default price-quality path
Electricity distribution businesses, as suppliers of electricity lines services, are subject to default price-quality paths set by the Commission.
Customised price-quality paths
A supplier that is, or is likely to be, subject to a default price-quality path may make a proposal to the Commission for a customised price-quality path.
Electricity transmission
Transpower is regulated under Part 4 of the Commerce Act 1986 by way of individual price-quality regulation. This took effect on 1 April 2011. The individual price-quality path governs Transpower's revenues for each pricing year, with the paths being reset either every four or five years. The individual price-quality path was reset for the 2015-2020 regulatory period on 1 April 2015.
Transpower input methodologies support the individual price-quality regulation.
Under subpart 9 of the Part 4 of the Commerce Act, Transpower is also subject to information disclosure regulation.
