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 2024 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 The Commerce Commission has commenced a project to build on the report and develop a draft guidance document for infrastructure providers.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We are seeking feedback on our draft guidance document
We are seeking stakeholder views on our draft guidance on resilience principles which can be found in the documents tab below. The submission period will close at 5pm, Friday, 31 July 2026.
Submissions can be sent to infrastructure.regulation@comcom.govt.nz with ‘Submission: Draft Resilience Guidance Feedback’ included in the subject line. For more detailed information about how to make a submission, please see Chapter 6 at the bottom of the draft guidance document.
Consultation workshop
After the close of submissions, we will also be hosting a stakeholder consultation workshop. The purpose of this workshop will be to discuss the key themes raised in submissions and hear views across the range of interested stakeholders.
We will update this webpage closer to the time with more information, but at this stage we expect this workshop to take place in August.