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Value of Lost Load - Review

Tender ID: 609446


Tender Details

Organisation:
Tender #:
EA00495  
Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
27 March 2026
Closing Date:
15 May 2026
Closing Time:
05:00 PM (NZ)

Tender Description

⁠⁠⁠The Value of Lost Load (VOLL) puts an economic value on an amount of electricity that people plan to consume, but do not receive because of an outage or interruption.

The current VOLL is set in Schedule 12.2 of the EIPC (Electricity Industry Participation Code) at $20,000/MWh and was inserted there in 2005.

Because of changes since that time (inflation, and new technology) this figure may no longer be fit-for-purpose.

The Electricity Authority seeks to understand the technical capability of qualified economic and energy-sector consultancies to undertake an economic study of Value of Lost Load (VOLL).

The main deliverable of any study to be commissioned by the Authority in future will be an updated set of VOLL figures. These new figures should address our concerns that:

1) The current $20,000/MWh figure is out-of-date, and

2) A single average value for the entire country is unrealistic.


Location

New Zealand   :   Wellington  

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