Notice of Regulatory Exemption

Electricity price regulations called 'Electricity (Low Fixed Charge Tariff Option for Domestic Consumers) Regulations 2004' came into effect on 1 October 2004. These regulations require retailers to offer a low fixed charge pricing option (which meets certain rules) to customers that meet the following criteria:

The property is the customers primary place of residence (excludes holiday homes, shearer's quarters, etc).
The property is not used for commercial activities.
The property is not used for club or society activities.

In addition to these criteria, further customer exclusions and exemptions to some of the pricing rules may be granted by The Minister of Energy under certain circumstances.

The Minister of Energy has granted TrustPower the following exemptions from Electricity (Low Fixed Charge Tariff Option for Domestic Consumers) Regulations 2004:

Homes on 3-phase supply, homes with greater than 15kVA supply, and homes on 3-phase supply and with greater than 15kVA supply. Homes on 3-phase supply, homes with greater than 15kVA supply, and homes on 3-phase supply and with greater than 15kVA supply.

Supply Area	Tariff Option	Nature of Exemption	Date of expiry of exemption
Tauranga	Domestic Friends A	Exemption under regulation 27 in regard to a closed tariff option, to allow time for transition of existing customers to new tariff option.	30 September 2006
Bay of Plenty	Special supply arrangement to two customers	Exemption under regulation 27 in regard to a closed tariff, with very few customers.	30 September 2009
Eastland (not Wairoa)	Special supply arrangement to two customers	Exemption under regulation 27 in regard to a closed tariff, with very few customers.	30 September 2009
Hawke's Bay - Unison	Special supply arrangement to four customers	Exemption under regulation 27 in regard to a closed tariff, with very few customers.	30 September 2009
King Country	Special supply arrangement to three customers	Exemption under regulation 27 in regard to a closed tariff, with very few customers.	30 September 2009
Dunedin and Timaru	Domestic 8kVA closed tariff	Exemption under regulation 27 in regard to a closed tariff, with very few customers.	31 March 2006
Thames Network	Customers changed from Tauranga Network to Thames Network between December 2003 and April 2004	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	30 September 2005
Buller	Domestic Standard 24 Hour Only and Friends 24 Hour Only options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	30 September 2005
Central Otago	Domestic Night Owl and Kiwi Power for Hot Water options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	31 March 2005
Network Tasman	Domestic standard ( 0-15kVA) options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	30 June 2005
Otago	Domestic Standard and Friends 7-hour Controlled Water Heating options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	30 April 2004
Taranaki (Zone A), Taranaki / Wairarapa (Zone B), Hawera (Zone D)	Domestic Standard options, with a fixed daily charge of 30.74 cents excluding GST and after prompt payment discount.	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	30 September 2005
Taupo	Domestic Standard Prices options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow for full compliance at the time of the next price change.	30 April 2005
Auckland Central	Domestic Standard option	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error.	31 August 2005
Buller	Domestic Standard and Friends Single Meter options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error.	30 September 2005
Dunedin	Domestic Friends option	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error	30 September 2005
Marlborough	Domestic standard (0-20kVA) option and Friends (0-20kVA) option	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error.	31 August 2005
Otago	Domestic Standard and Friends options where the cross over between the low user and standard options is above 7990 kWh/year but below 8000 kWh/year	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error.	30 April 2005
Rotorua	Domestic Standard option	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error.	30 April 2005
Timaru	Domestic 3 Phase Supply greater than 15kVA	Exemption under regulation 31 corresponding to an exemption granted to Alpine Energy Limited.
West Coast	Domestic standard (0-15kVA0 option	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 required because of non-material price rounding error.	31 August 2005
Central Otago, Dunedin, Marlborough, Network Tasman, Tauranga, Timaru, Rotorua, Taupo	Domestic 3 phase over 15kVA options	Temporary exemption under regulation 30 to allow time for full compliance.	31 March 2006
Marlborough	Customers in the remote areas of: - Kaiuma Bay - Pelorus and Queen Charlotte Sounds -Curious Cove, Point Underwood and Arapawa Island - French Pass and D'Urville Island -Maungatapu -Upper Waihopai Valley -Upper Wairau Valley -Cape Campbell -Southern East Coast, and -Upper Awatere Valley	Exemption under regulation 31 corresponding to an exemption granted to Marlborough Lines Limited.	1 October 2014
Marlborough	Homes on 3-phase supply, homes with greater than 15kVA supply, and homes on 3-phase supply and with greater than 15kVA supply.	Exemption under regulation 31 corresponding to an exemption granted to Marlborough Lines Limited.