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Vector: Auckland's Trust-Owned Power Network and the Smart Meters It Does Not Own

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Auckland's power lines belong to a consumer trust. The network company says it owns zero of the meters on them, and in 2025 still got their readings only once a month.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byVector Ltd (electricity distribution), 75.1% owned by the Entrust consumer trust; meters owned by retailer-appointed metering providers
Scale🗺️ Regional
CostPRISMED NZ$1,518,000 (2023 application), half recovered through the Commerce Commission's innovation allowance
FundingVector's regulated network revenue; the Commerce Commission's innovation allowance covered $759,000 (50%) of PRISMED and approved $237,000 for a local flexibility-market platform in October 2025

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Vector runs the electricity lines in the Auckland region, more than 600,000 connections, and is 75.1% owned by Entrust, a trust holding the shares for 372,000 households and businesses in central, east and south Auckland; North Shore and West Auckland customers on the same lines sit outside its district. Through its PRISMED project (2023) Vector gathers half-hourly readings from customers' smart meters into a curated data store dating back to January 2017, used to model transformer loads, detect unregistered solar panels and electric cars and, in trials, spot low-voltage outages before customers report them. The counterweight is ownership. A 2022 Vector slide reads "Number of meters we own… Zero", and the data, as of October 2025, still arrived only monthly.

Live 📅 since 2023

📊 Impact

Vector's key-findings report to the Commerce Commission (February 2024) reports no measured savings: it says half-hour load profiles had been built for every distribution transformer for the past three years and that the data made new-connection site investigations quicker and less costly, without giving a figure. Its meter-ping outage trial reached up to 95% accuracy in the best run, with many trials lower, and only about 180,000 of its 600,000-plus connections have meters that can be pinged. In October 2025 Vector told the Electricity Authority that a significant share of the ageing meter fleet on its network cannot send operational data such as voltage, so coverage of the whole network is unlikely before 2030. Approving $237,000 that month for a local flexibility-market platform, the Commerce Commission recorded Vector's own view that the scale of available flexible resource is uncertain.

🎓 Lesson

Owning the lines is not owning the data. A consumer trust controls Vector, yet the network company cannot appoint the metering providers on its own lines and reads its customers' consumption only through contracts with each retailer and metering provider. Vector's own metering arm is a separate business: half of Vector Metering was sold to QIC Private Capital in June 2023. Progress came from rule changes, not ownership: the Electricity Authority let distributors combine consumption data with other datasets only from 25 November 2024. What a meter can report is fixed when someone other than the network buys it.

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Sources

↗ Entrust — Who we areThe trust's own account: established in 1993 out of the Auckland Electric Power Board; acts for 372,000 households and businesses in central, east and south Auckland; its key asset is a 75.1% shareholding in Vector, with two trustee directors on Vector's board; Vector acquired UnitedNetworks (North Shore and Waitakere lines) in 2002 and floated 24.9% of its shares in 2005.
↗ Entrust — Information on Entrust (dividend FAQ)Explains why the Entrust dividend goes only to people in the Entrust district, not the whole of Auckland: in the former Waitemata Electric Power Board area (North Shore, West Auckland, Orewa, Whangaparoa), now part of Vector, consumers were given shares instead of a trust.
↗ Vector (Chris Franks) — Vector's consumption data journey: Towards 100% coverage, AIMF presentation (25 Nov 2022)Vector presentation to the Advanced Industry Metering Forum. States 600k ICPs on the network and 'Number of meters we own… Zero'; 99% of ICPs under contract with data received for 82%; historic data back to 2017; half-hourly consumption data delivered monthly; power-quality data received on a trial basis; and the history of restrictive retailer data terms since 2013.
↗ Vector — Application for the Innovation Project Allowance: PRISMED (May 2023)Published May 2023Vector's application for the Commerce Commission's innovation allowance. States total PRISMED costs of $1,518,000 and a drawdown of $759,000 (50%); contracts with retailers covering 99% of ICPs and over 87% of the kWh data received; a curated data store updated monthly, dating back to January 2017; describes the new process as giving 'near real-time' access, while its own phasing table lists a future move from monthly to daily delivery.
↗ Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)Vector's required key-findings report. States approval of the allowance on 23 November 2023; the models built (unregistered PV, EV detection, transformer peak demand); half-hour load profiles for all distribution transformers for the past 3 years; quicker and less costly connection investigations (no figure); +600k ICPs in the Auckland region, of which approximately 180k can be pinged; best ping trial up to 95% accuracy with many trials lower.
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↗ iStart — Vector big data project scoops $750,000 ComCom fundingPublished 16 January 2024Trade press (Heather Wright). Reports Vector as the first recipient of the Commerce Commission's innovation project allowance, $759,000 as a 50 percent claw-back of a $1.5 million investment, and data from smart meters covering 87 percent of the network; relies on Vector's statements.
↗ Vector — Completion of sale of 50% interest in Vector Metering (30 Jun 2023)Market release: the sale of a 50% interest in Vector's New Zealand and Australian metering business (Vector Metering) to vehicles managed by QIC Private Capital Pty Limited, announced 21 December 2022, was completed on 30 June 2023; Entrust's voting rights are 75.1%.
↗ Electricity Authority — Electricity Industry Participation Code Amendment (Distributor Agreement Amendments) 2024Published 11 October 2024The regulator's record of the amendment (made 11 October 2024, in force 25 November 2024): distributors may combine consumption data with other data or databases without the relevant trader's prior agreement, subject to requirements.
↗ Commerce Commission — Approval of Vector's application for the Innovation and Non-traditional Solutions Allowance (6 Oct 2025)The regulator approves recovery of $237,000 for Vector's local flexibility market platform with Our Energy and other distributors, and records that it is not yet clear there is enough flexibility to defer investment, 'with Vector indicating that the scale of available flexible resource is uncertain'.
↗ Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)Vector's submission to the Electricity Authority. States that the default agreement only provides monthly access to consumption data; that monthly delivery is too late for operational uses; that data comes from retailers, their metering providers, or not at all from smaller retailers; that distributors do not appoint metering providers; and that much of the ageing meter fleet cannot provide operational data, so full-network coverage is unlikely before 2030.

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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2023. 8 of 10 sources carry a publication date, from 25 November 2022 to 17 October 2025.

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  1. Vector · utilityVector (Chris Franks) — Vector's consumption data journey: Towards 100% coverage, AIMF presentation (25 Nov 2022)
  2. Vector · utilityVector — Application for the Innovation Project Allowance: PRISMED (May 2023)
  3. Vector · utilityVector — Completion of sale of 50% interest in Vector Metering (30 Jun 2023)
  4. iStart · pressiStart — Vector big data project scoops $750,000 ComCom funding
  5. Vector · utilityVector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
  6. Electricity Authority · oversight bodyElectricity Authority — Electricity Industry Participation Code Amendment (Distributor Agreement Amendments) 2024
  7. Commerce Commission · oversight bodyCommerce Commission — Approval of Vector's application for the Innovation and Non-traditional Solutions Allowance (6 Oct 2025)
  8. Vector · utilityVector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)

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Claim 1 clm-2ecac5ed0783c4e1 quantitative
Vector runs the electricity lines in the Auckland region, more than 600,000 connections
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What the mapping says
Vector's report to the Commerce Commission counts more than 600,000 installation control points (connections) in the Auckland region; its 2022 presentation gives the same figure for the network.
Caveat
Operator figure.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
  2. Vector (Chris Franks) — Vector's consumption data journey: Towards 100% coverage, AIMF presentation (25 Nov 2022)
Claim 2 clm-88d90aa98d848e21 quantitative
is 75.1% owned by Entrust, a trust holding the shares for 372,000 households and businesses in central, east and south Auckland
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What the mapping says
The trust states that its key asset is a 75.1% shareholding in Vector and that it acts for 372,000 households and businesses in central, east and south Auckland; Vector's 2023 market release gives Entrust 75.1% of the voting rights. The remaining shares are listed on the NZX.
Caveat
The beneficiary count is the trust's own and is not dated on the page.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Entrust — Who we are
  2. Vector — Completion of sale of 50% interest in Vector Metering (30 Jun 2023)
Claim 3 clm-5ef6441816bb62e0 descriptive
North Shore and West Auckland customers on the same lines sit outside its district
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What the mapping says
Entrust explains that its dividend goes only to people in the Entrust district: in the old Waitemata power-board area (North Shore, West Auckland, Orewa, Whangaparoa), now part of Vector, consumers were given shares instead. Vector bought those lines (UnitedNetworks) in 2002.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Entrust — Information on Entrust (dividend FAQ)
  2. Entrust — Who we are
Claim 4 clm-6e737b7bfd48a28d quantitative
Through its PRISMED project (2023) Vector gathers half-hourly readings from customers' smart meters into a curated data store dating back to January 2017
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What the mapping says
Vector's May 2023 application describes a curated store of half-hourly consumption data, updated monthly and reaching back to January 2017; its October 2025 submission confirms that it still receives this data, from retailers or their metering providers.
Caveat
Vector received consumption data before PRISMED (for 82% of connections in November 2022); 2023 is the year of the funding application, not of the first data.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Application for the Innovation Project Allowance: PRISMED (May 2023)
  2. Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)
Claim 5 clm-933c2ea48fae5e01 descriptive
used to model transformer loads, detect unregistered solar panels and electric cars and, in trials, spot low-voltage outages before customers report them
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The key-findings report lists an unregistered PV detection model, an EV detection model and a transformer peak-demand model, and describes outage trials (meter pings and fibre-modem signals) that detected outage clusters previously found only after a customer called.
Caveat
Operator report; the outage detection was a trial.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
Claim 6 clm-910d54e67e55d951 quantitative
A 2022 Vector slide reads "Number of meters we own… Zero"
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What the mapping says
Slide 3 of Vector's November 2022 presentation lists the network's assets (600k ICPs, 23k distribution substations, 111 zone substations) and ends with the line 'Number of meters we own… Zero'. Meters are owned by metering providers appointed by retailers.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector (Chris Franks) — Vector's consumption data journey: Towards 100% coverage, AIMF presentation (25 Nov 2022)
Claim 7 clm-9768d038ea1f2456 quantitative
the data, as of October 2025, still arrived only monthly
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What the mapping says
In October 2025 Vector told the Electricity Authority that the default distributor agreement only provides monthly access to consumption data and that monthly delivery is too late for practical operational uses such as dynamic flexibility; the February 2024 report already described monthly delivery.
Caveat
Vector's 2023 application called the same process 'near real-time'.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)
  2. Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
Claim 8 clm-29759fd7669c898d quantitative
Vector's key-findings report to the Commerce Commission (February 2024) reports no measured savings: it says half-hour load profiles had been built for every distribution transformer for the past three years and that the data made new-connection site investigations quicker and less costly, without giving a figure
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The report states that half-hour load profiles have been built for all distribution transformers for the past 3 years and that connection site investigations became quicker and less costly; it gives no cost, time or reliability figure.
Caveat
Operator self-report without a method or figure.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
Claim 9 clm-1c69fb8bb0526b28 quantitative
Its meter-ping outage trial reached up to 95% accuracy in the best run, with many trials lower, and only about 180,000 of its 600,000-plus connections have meters that can be pinged
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The report states that of more than 600k ICPs approximately 180k can be part of a meter-ping solution, that the best trial achieved up to 95% accuracy, and that many trials had lower accuracy.
Caveat
Trial result reported by the operator; the report gives no accuracy figure for the other trials.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
Claim 10 clm-c7be4422f543cd0a quantitative
In October 2025 Vector told the Electricity Authority that a significant share of the ageing meter fleet on its network cannot send operational data such as voltage, so coverage of the whole network is unlikely before 2030
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The submission states that a significant percentage of the meter fleet on the Vector network is ageing and not capable of providing operational data until replaced, and that Vector is therefore unlikely to obtain coverage across the full network before 2030 under the status quo.
Caveat
Vector's own estimate, made in a submission arguing for regulatory change.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)
Claim 11 clm-51c00c3ce0538d10 quantitative
Approving $237,000 that month for a local flexibility-market platform, the Commerce Commission recorded Vector's own view that the scale of available flexible resource is uncertain
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impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The Commission's approval letter of 6 October 2025 allows Vector to recover $237,000 for a local flexibility market platform and notes that it is not yet clear there is enough flexibility to defer investment, with Vector indicating that the scale of available flexible resource is uncertain.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Commerce Commission — Approval of Vector's application for the Innovation and Non-traditional Solutions Allowance (6 Oct 2025)
Claim 12 clm-8aec0f7b7b0e4031 descriptive
A consumer trust controls Vector, yet the network company cannot appoint the metering providers on its own lines and reads its customers' consumption only through contracts with each retailer and metering provider
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
Vector's 2025 submission says distributors do not appoint metering providers or enter into metering deployment contracts and that data arrives from retailers, their metering providers, or not at all from smaller retailers; the 2024 report describes the retailer and metering-provider agreements needed. Entrust describes its controlling 75.1% stake.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)
  2. Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024)
  3. Entrust — Who we are
Claim 13 clm-113161989592f4af quantitative
half of Vector Metering was sold to QIC Private Capital in June 2023
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What the mapping says
Vector's market release confirms that the sale of a 50% interest in its New Zealand and Australian metering business to vehicles managed by QIC Private Capital was completed on 30 June 2023.
Caveat
The metering business, since renamed Bluecurrent, is a separate company from the regulated network; the sources do not say how many meters on Vector's own network it owns.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Completion of sale of 50% interest in Vector Metering (30 Jun 2023)
Claim 14 clm-ae47e560eaa5299e quantitative
the Electricity Authority let distributors combine consumption data with other datasets only from 25 November 2024
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The amendment, in force on 25 November 2024, permits distributors to combine consumption data with other data or databases without the trader's prior agreement; Vector's 2022 presentation listed the earlier ban on combining data as a major limitation.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Electricity Authority — Electricity Industry Participation Code Amendment (Distributor Agreement Amendments) 2024
  2. Vector (Chris Franks) — Vector's consumption data journey: Towards 100% coverage, AIMF presentation (25 Nov 2022)
Claim 15 clm-868716fb1a8d4401 descriptive
What a meter can report is fixed when someone other than the network buys it.
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Vector's submission says most meters can measure voltage and power factor but were not designed to capture and send that data, and that distributors have limited ability to influence these requirements because they do not appoint the metering provider.
Caveat
This is Vector's argument in a submission seeking regulatory change.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Vector Ltd (electricity distribution), 75.1% owned by the Entrust consumer trust; meters owned by retailer-appointed metering providers
Actor types
utility, private
Funding model
utility
Funding description
Vector's regulated network revenue; the Commerce Commission's innovation allowance covered $759,000 (50%) of PRISMED and approved $237,000 for a local flexibility-market platform in October 2025
Cost
PRISMED NZ$1,518,000 (2023 application), half recovered through the Commerce Commission's innovation allowance
Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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10 source dossiers

Entrust — Who we are entrustnz.co.nz · 3 linked claims

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The trust's own account: established in 1993 out of the Auckland Electric Power Board; acts for 372,000 households and businesses in central, east and south Auckland; its key asset is a 75.1% shareholding in Vector, with two trustee directors on Vector's board; Vector acquired UnitedNetworks (North Shore and Waitakere lines) in 2002 and floated 24.9% of its shares in 2005.

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Entrust — Information on Entrust (dividend FAQ) entrustnz.co.nz · 1 linked claim

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Explains why the Entrust dividend goes only to people in the Entrust district, not the whole of Auckland: in the former Waitemata Electric Power Board area (North Shore, West Auckland, Orewa, Whangaparoa), now part of Vector, consumers were given shares instead of a trust.

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Vector (Chris Franks) — Vector's consumption data journey: Towards 100% coverage, AIMF presentation (25 Nov 2022) papers.conference.eea.co.nz · 3 linked claims

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2022-11-25
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Vector presentation to the Advanced Industry Metering Forum. States 600k ICPs on the network and 'Number of meters we own… Zero'; 99% of ICPs under contract with data received for 82%; historic data back to 2017; half-hourly consumption data delivered monthly; power-quality data received on a trial basis; and the history of restrictive retailer data terms since 2013.

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Vector — Application for the Innovation Project Allowance: PRISMED (May 2023) blob-static.vector.co.nz · 1 linked claim

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Vector's application for the Commerce Commission's innovation allowance. States total PRISMED costs of $1,518,000 and a drawdown of $759,000 (50%); contracts with retailers covering 99% of ICPs and over 87% of the kWh data received; a curated data store updated monthly, dating back to January 2017; describes the new process as giving 'near real-time' access, while its own phasing table lists a future move from monthly to daily delivery.

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Vector — Key findings of Vector's innovation project PRISMED, submission to the Commerce Commission (5 Feb 2024) blob-static.vector.co.nz · 6 linked claims

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Vector's required key-findings report. States approval of the allowance on 23 November 2023; the models built (unregistered PV, EV detection, transformer peak demand); half-hour load profiles for all distribution transformers for the past 3 years; quicker and less costly connection investigations (no figure); +600k ICPs in the Auckland region, of which approximately 180k can be pinged; best ping trial up to 95% accuracy with many trials lower.

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iStart — Vector big data project scoops $750,000 ComCom funding istart.co.nz · background

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Trade press (Heather Wright). Reports Vector as the first recipient of the Commerce Commission's innovation project allowance, $759,000 as a 50 percent claw-back of a $1.5 million investment, and data from smart meters covering 87 percent of the network; relies on Vector's statements.

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Vector — Completion of sale of 50% interest in Vector Metering (30 Jun 2023) vector.co.nz · 2 linked claims

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Market release: the sale of a 50% interest in Vector's New Zealand and Australian metering business (Vector Metering) to vehicles managed by QIC Private Capital Pty Limited, announced 21 December 2022, was completed on 30 June 2023; Entrust's voting rights are 75.1%.

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Electricity Authority — Electricity Industry Participation Code Amendment (Distributor Agreement Amendments) 2024 ea.govt.nz · 1 linked claim

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The regulator's record of the amendment (made 11 October 2024, in force 25 November 2024): distributors may combine consumption data with other data or databases without the relevant trader's prior agreement, subject to requirements.

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Commerce Commission — Approval of Vector's application for the Innovation and Non-traditional Solutions Allowance (6 Oct 2025) comcom.govt.nz · 1 linked claim

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The regulator approves recovery of $237,000 for Vector's local flexibility market platform with Our Energy and other distributors, and records that it is not yet clear there is enough flexibility to defer investment, 'with Vector indicating that the scale of available flexible resource is uncertain'.

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Vector — Response to Exploring network visibility discussion paper (17 Oct 2025) ea.govt.nz · 5 linked claims

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Vector's submission to the Electricity Authority. States that the default agreement only provides monthly access to consumption data; that monthly delivery is too late for operational uses; that data comes from retailers, their metering providers, or not at all from smaller retailers; that distributors do not appoint metering providers; and that much of the ageing meter fleet cannot provide operational data, so full-network coverage is unlikely before 2030.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Vector: Auckland's Trust-Owned Power Network and the Smart Meters It Does Not Own” — Auckland, New Zealand. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/auckland-vector-smart-meter-data/ (last verified 2026-10-15). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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