Resilience principles for investment decision-making
The Commission is intending to take a greater role in seeking assurance that regulated infrastructure providers’ resilience activities follow best practice.
In June 2025 the Commission engaged ResOrgs to develop principles and frameworks for evaluating infrastructure resilience investments across regulated utilities in New Zealand. The Commerce Commission has commenced a project to build on the report and develop a draft guidance document for infrastructure providers.
The purpose of the guidance is to outline the key principles for infrastructure investment decisions that infrastructure providers should consider when building a resilience business case and set expectations on the level of analysis required under each principle. It also provides infrastructure providers with a range of decision-making frameworks to use and additional resources to suit different investment needs and maturity.
We have now published the submissions we received on our draft guidance document. The submissions can be found in the documents tab below. For ease of access, a zip file containing all submissions received is also available for download.
Please note that there will not be a cross-submissions process.
Online stakeholder workshop
We received a significant number of submissions on the Resilience Principles draft guidance. To allow sufficient time to review and consider the feedback received, the stakeholder workshop has been rescheduled.
Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2026 (previously 9 September 2026)
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm
Format: Online only
The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the key themes emerging from submissions and hear views from across the range of interested stakeholders.
A stakeholder email with a registration link and further information will be circulated in due course.