Media Release: Risk of winter electricity shortages
Published: 25 Nov 2022Media release about the Electricity Authority's investigation into power shortages
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Media release about the Electricity Authority's investigation into power shortages
PDF, 89KB, 1 page
An MBIE-commissioned report by PwC to review the regulatory frameworks required to support a future hydrogen economy in New Zealand and potential reform pathways needed.
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Provides an update on developing thinking about short-stay MIQ (short stay) for meeting with Reconnecting NZ Ministers on Thursday, 30 September.
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Provides the draft LEG paper: COVID-19 Public Health Response (Managed Isolation and Quarantine Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2021.
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This briefing recommends providing a pathway back via red flights from Australia while Quarantine-Free travel (QFT) remains suspended and seeks agreement to urgently release vouchers in September and October from 17-29 August to respond to high and growing demand for MIQ places.
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Seeks in-principle agreement as Border Exception Ministers that an amended Polynesian Gateway border class exception be referred to Cabinet for approval; provides an update on MIQ capacity, and incoming requests for class exceptions and out of-cycle MIQ group allocation; and provides an overview of the cohorts that have been approved for border exceptions through the border exception regime over the past year.
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Advises proposed approach to civilianise a small number of NZDF leadership roles within the MIQ operating model, in response to a key recommendation in the Rapid Assessment of MIQ.
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Provides an update on the scoping work undertaken on the possible establishment of a new managed isolation facility in Rotorua; seeks agreement to not progress bringing online an additional Rotorua MIQ facility, given community feedback and wider health workforce constraints in the region; and seeks agreement that officials do not undertake any further work on identifying any additional hotels to add to the MIQ network.
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Regulatory stewardship is a responsibility of both regulatory policy and operational functions.
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This is Consumer Protection’s quarter four (Q4) report covering data from 1 April – 30 June 2022. The report presents information on the issues that consumers contacted the MBIE service centre about, and any change from the previous quarter. Consumer enquiries reported to the Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) are also presented in this report.
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