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    • Consumers
    • What is electricity?
    • What does the Electricity Authority do?
    • How does electricity get to my house?
    • What are smart meters?
      • What are smart meters?
      • Does my meter need to be recertified?
    • What are my rights as an electricity consumer?
      • What are my rights as an electricity consumer?
      • What are my rights as a medically dependent consumer?
      • What are my rights around disconnections?
      • What happens if the hydro lakes are low?
    • I want to make a complaint
    • How do I switch electricity companies?
      • How do I switch electricity companies?
      • What happens if my retailer goes out of business?
      • Will switching affect the reliability of my electricity?
      • Will I still get my local energy trust rebate if I switch electricity retailer?
    • How do I generate my own electricity?
      • How do I generate my own electricity?
      • What do I need to know about solar panels?
    • Your power data in your hands
      • Your power data in your hands
      • My usage
      • My meter
      • My plan
    • My power bill
      • My power bill
      • Is my electricity bill too high?
      • Why is my electricity bill higher in winter?
      • Is a spot price contract right for me?
    • The Electricity Price Review (EPR)
  • Development
    • Development
    • Why we work on developing the electricity market
    • Our work programme
      • Our work programme
      • Evolving technologies and business models
      • Consumer choice and competition
      • Pricing and cost allocation
      • Risk and risk management
      • Operational efficiencies
    • Advisory and technical groups
      • Advisory and technical groups
      • Innovation and Participation Advisory Group (IPAG)
      • Market Development Advisory Group (MDAG)
      • Security and Reliability Council (SRC)
      • Standing Data Formats Group (SDFG)
      • Settlement and Prudential Security Technical Group (SPSTG)
      • Switch Technical Group (STG)
      • Proposal to amend requirement for advisory group Chairs to be independent
      • Disestablished groups
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    • Market performance and analysis
      • Market performance and analysis
      • Why we monitor market performance
      • What we monitor in the industry and market
    • EMI
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      • Enquiries, reviews and investigations
      • Our three-stage process
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
      • 2011
      • 2010
    • Retail market snapshot
      • Retail market snapshot
      • New Zealand's retail electricity market
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    • Wholesale market
      • Wholesale market
      • Spot pricing
      • Hedge market
      • Security of supply
      • Information disclosure
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      • Transmission system
      • Transmission agreements
      • Transmission pricing
      • Grid management
      • Grid reliability standards
    • Distribution
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      • Distributors
      • Distribution pricing
      • Losses
      • Distributed generation
      • Connecting and electrically connecting NSPs and ICPs
    • Retail market
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      • Retailers
      • Metering
      • The registry
      • Electricity information exchange protocols (EIEPs)
      • Audits, approvals and certification
      • Reconciliation
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      • Participant register
      • How to register as a participant
      • Participant identifiers
      • Participant events and education
      • Electricity Education portal
    • Market operation service providers
      • Market operation service providers
      • Clearing manager
      • FTR manager
      • Pricing manager
      • Reconciliation manager
      • Registry manager
      • System operator
      • WITS manager
    • Consumer services
      • Consumer services
      • Provide a service with electricity data
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      • Part 3 of the Act
      • Regulations
    • The Code
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      • Documents incorporated into the Code by reference
      • Historical versions of the Code
      • Amendments
      • Code exemptions
      • How the Code maps to the Electricity Governance Rules
      • Approved Systems Document
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      • Undesirable trading situation (UTS)
      • What is an undesirable trading situation?
      • How to make a claim
      • UTS claims and decisions
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      • Transparency statement
      • About compliance
      • Compliance monitoring
      • Compliance education and information
      • Compliance framework
      • Compliance database
      • How to allege a breach
      • Code breach process
      • Current investigations
      • Decisions
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      • Prosecution policy
      • Breach statistics and analysis
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      • Who we are
      • Board members
      • Chief Executive
      • Management team
      • Responsible Minister
    • What we do
      • What we do
      • Working with other agencies
      • Our role in the electricity industry
      • How we are funded
      • Vision, values, mission
      • History of government involvement in electricity
      • What's My Number
    • Strategic planning and reporting
      • Strategic planning and reporting
      • Statement of Intent
      • Statement of Performance Expectations
      • The Authority Work Programme
      • Annual Report
      • Year in review
      • Foundation documents
      • Memoranda of understanding
    • Media & publications
      • Media & publications
      • Speeches and presentations
      • Media releases
      • Market Brief
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SRC meeting - 24 October 2019

The Security and Reliability Council met on 24 October 2019 to discuss transmission and generation capacity security, performance of the system operator, the Electricity Price Review, Waikato voltage stability, gas industry information disclosure, the tree regulations and a power system event in South Australia in August 2018 that included implications for inverter standards.

In this section:

  • Why we work on developing the electricity market
  • Our work programme
  • Advisory and technical groups
    • Innovation and Participation Advisory Group (IPAG)
    • Market Development Advisory Group (MDAG)
    • Security and Reliability Council (SRC)
      • SRC membership
      • Meeting papers
        • 2019
        • 2018
        • 2017
        • 2016
        • 2015
        • 2014
        • 2013
        • 2012
        • 2011
      • Charter and terms of reference
    • Standing Data Formats Group (SDFG)
    • Settlement and Prudential Security Technical Group (SPSTG)
    • Switch Technical Group (STG)
    • Proposal to amend requirement for advisory group Chairs to be independent
    • Disestablished groups

  • Download a ZIP file containing all documents

  • Agenda

    00-Agenda.pdf (PDF, 21 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Minutes of the previous meeting

    04-Minutes-of-the-previous-meeting.pdf (PDF, 43 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Correspondence

    05-Correspondence.pdf (PDF, 442 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Register of top security and reliability risks

    06-Register-of-top-security-and-reliability-risks.pdf (PDF, 56 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Action list updated

    07-Action-list-updated.pdf (PDF, 204 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Grid security governance

    08-Grid-security-governance.pdf (PDF, 1 MB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Update on Waikato UNI voltage stability

    09-Update-on-Waikato-UNI-voltage-stability.pdf (PDF, 760 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Review of October 2019 NZGB report

    10-Review-of-October-2019-NZGB-report.pdf (PDF, 831 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • SO performance for 2018-19

    11-SO-performance-for-2018-19.pdf (PDF, 4.3 MB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • EPR

    12-EPR.pdf (PDF, 98 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Lessons for NZ from 25 August 2018 Australian event

    13-Lessons-for-NZ-from-25-August-2018-Australian-event.pdf (PDF, 769 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • GIC update on information disclosure

    14-GIC-update-on-information-disclosure.pdf (PDF, 754 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • Review of Electricity Hazards from Trees Regulations

    15-Review-of-Electricity-Hazards-from-Trees-Regulations.pdf (PDF, 63 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • 2020-23 Work programme

    16-2020-23-Work-programme.pdf (PDF, 311 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

  • 2020 meeting schedule

    17-2020-meeting-schedule.pdf (PDF, 45 KB)

    Last updated: 29th November 2019

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