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Kia ora Nicky

 

Thank you for your request, received by the Electricity Authority on 1
June 2026, under the Official Information Act 1982, for the following
information:

 

"please supply the data for the omitted data series. [Metered data
datasets from March 2026]

 

The presumption is that the associated entities continue to operate rather
than vanish with March, and so data for their operation should continue to
be supplied. It would be good to have definite identification of these
entities, thereby facilitating searches of news media for reports of
changes, for example. If there are changes.

   Alternatively, data for them are being supplied, but under different
name codes and possibly in different data files. If so, what might they
be?

   Or, data for those omitted series might be assimilated into the data
being supplied  for other series: if so, which?

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 29 June 2026, being 20 working days after the day
your request was received. 

 

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Ngā mihi nui,

 

Simon Skews-Poole ([2]he/him)
Senior Ministerial Advisor

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nicky McLean <[FOI #34829 email]>
Sent: Monday, 1 June 2026 10:30 pm
To: OIA <[Electricity Authority request email]>
Subject: [External] Official Information request - Please supply omitted
half-hourly data for April 2026

 

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Dear Electricity Authority,

   Via your organisation's web site
[7]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
some seven sub-directories give links to files containing data on the
half-hourly generation and consumption of electricity at many places
across the country, all grouped into monthly files. These data files
contain hundreds of data series, with identifying name codes for each.

 

But suddenly, the data files for April no longer contained data for series
that had been supplied in March, and for many months previously:

 

File 202604_Reactive_power.csv omitted data for names

LTN2201.MRPL.GG.MRPL.kVArh.N.F   (e.g. March 1-17)

LTN2201.MRPL.GG.MRPL.kVArh.N.I     (e.g. March 18-31)

 

File 202604_Grid_export.csv omitted data for names
STK0331.NELS.GN.TPNZ.kWh.X.F STK0331.TASM.GN.TPNZ.kVArh.N.F

 

File 202604_Embedded_generation.csv omitted data for names
ATI2201.MRPL.HNET.DEF.X MAT1101.BOPD.HNET.DEF.X WKM2201.TUAR.HNET.DEF.X
STK0661.TASM.CNIR.COBB.I STK0661.TASM.CNIR.COBB.X MHO0331.ELEC.KING.MHO1.I
MHO0331.ELEC.KING.MHO1.X And by contrast, some three dozen new data series
appeared, with names from MHO0331.ELEC.CTCS.1.X to MHO0331.ELEC.WISE.1.X,
all featuring the new name code part of 1 (the digit one, not I nor l) of
unknown significance. For instance, guesswork: MHO0331.ELEC.KING.1.I and
MHO0331.ELEC.KING.1.X might be related to the last two in the above list,
but, all their values for April are zero.

 

My request is that you please supply the data for the omitted data series.

 

The presumption is that the associated entities continue to operate rather
than vanish with March, and so data for their operation should continue to
be supplied. It would be good to have definite identification of these
entities, thereby facilitating searches of news media for reports of
changes, for example. If there are changes.

   Alternatively, data for them are being supplied, but under different
name codes and possibly in different data files. If so, what might they
be?

   Or, data for those omitted series might be assimilated into the data
being supplied  for other series: if so, which?

 

Yours faithfully,

Nicky McLean

 

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