Review

Date Published: Fri, 12/11/2010 - 11:11 Author: Tim Herbert

Gas Industry Co has completed its review of transmission pipeline interconnection arrangements. Our advice to the Minister is that regulation is unnecessary at this stage. The TSOs have made efforts to improve their processes to align with the Guidelines and objectives of the Gas Act and GPS. Although we think dispute resolution processes can be improved further, we believe this can be achieved without regulation.

We propose that, once the TSOs' new arrangements are in place, Gas Industry Co will review how well they perform in practice by evaluating the next interconnections to the Vector and MDL pipelines. We will then make the appropriate recommendations.

2009 review material

Material from the 2009 review of TSO interconnection arrangements against the Guidelines on Interconnection to Transmission Pipelines is presented below.

Letter to MDL regarding Interconnection Review, July 2009

Letter to Vector regarding Interconnection Review, July 2009

Letter to MDL regarding Interconnection Guidelines Review, August 2009

Letter to Vector regarding Interconnection Guidelines Review, August 2009

2009 Review of MDL Interconnection Arrangements, December 2009

2009 Review of Vector Interconnection Arrangements, December 2009

2009 Advice to the Minister

2010 review material

Material from the 2010 review of TSO interconnection arrangements against the objectives of the Gas Act and GPS is presented below.

Letter to MDL regarding the 2010 Gas Act-GPS Interconnection Review and review questions, May 2010

Letter to Vector regarding 2010 Gas Act-GPS Interconnection Review and review questions, May 2010

Evaluation criteria for the 2010 Interconnection Review, May 2010