A submissions workshop was held on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at Gas Industry Co's office in Wellington. The purpose of the workshop was to enable stakeholders and Gas Industry Co to consider submissions on the Preliminary Assessment Paper and to ask questions about those submissions.
This section contains open letters received from stakeholders on the GTAC, and Gas Industry Co's responses to those.
First Gas has agreed to allow parties a further opportunity to comment on five areas of the Second Revised Draft GTAC that are being amended in response to comments raised at the November workshops (and subsequently in parties’ submissions and mark-ups).
On 11 September 2017, First Gas released a revised draft of the Gas Transmission Access Code (GTAC) following engagement and feedback on the complete draft released in August.
The table below outlines First Gas's proposed steps for engaging on the draft Gas Transmission Code (GTAC).
Date
Milestone
Thursday, 10 August
Draft GTAC released
Thursday, 17 August
(10. 00am – 4.
In February 2017, First Gas proposed a set of directions and next steps for the new code development process, building on submitter views in their document Gas Transmission Access Code Development: Proposed Decisions and Next Steps.
Gas industry Co and First Gas held a workshop on Wednesday 24 August 2016 in Wellington.
Some submissions on Gas Industry Co's November 2010 Retail Competition and Transmission Capacity: Statement of Proposal expressed a strong preference for a non-regulated approach to improving competition in the retail market supplied by Vector's North Pipeline.
Individual industry participants say that the need for new investment is a significant issue for the industry, possibly even the most pressing and important issue. Yet there is no forum in which key stakeholders are frankly discussing the issue.
The Gas Transmission Investment Programme (GTIP) was a set of projects aimed at addressing industry concerns over the long-term outlook for gas transmission capacity availability in the Auckland region.