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QUARTER: VCT: Operational performance for nine months ended 31 March 2016
Operational performance for nine months ended 31 March 2016
Nine months ended 31 March
% change
2016 2015
Electricity
Customers1, 2, 6 548,279 542,826 1.0%
New connections
Net movement in customers3 5,855
3,766 5,626
3,672 4.1%
2.6%
Volume distributed (GWh) 6,273 6,266 0.1%
SAIDI (minutes) - 12 months to 31 March4
Normal operations 117.6 155.3 (24.3%)
Extreme events 7.9 341.0 (97.7%)
Total 125.55 496.2 (74.7%)
Gas Transportation7
Distribution customers1, 6 165,838 162,252 2.2%
New distribution connections
Net movement in distribution customers3 2,993
2,373 2,905
2,514 3.0%
(5.6%)
Distribution volume (PJ) 17.4 16.8 3.6%
Transmission volume (PJ)8 77.0 84.3 (8.7%)
Gas Trading
Natural gas sales (PJ)9 12.6 16.0 (21.3%)
Gas liquid sales (tonnes)10 56,835 52,095 9.1%
9kg LPG bottles swapped11
Liquigas LPG tolling (tonnes)12 427,723
130,912 380,210
141,278 12.5%
(7.3%)
Technology
Electricity: smart meters1, 13 1,086,508 913,566 18.9%
1. As at 31 March.
2. The electricity customer number as at 31 March 2015 has been restated to
remove 4,799 ICPs following a data cleanse by retailers. There was no
consumption for any of these ICPs in the current period.
3. Net number of customers added during the period, includes disconnected,
reconnected and decommissioned ICPs.
4. Regulatory year - 12 months to 31 March.
5. SAIDI (minutes) for the 12 months ended 31 March 2016 is an unaudited
value and subject to change.
6. Billable ICPs.
7. The group's gas transmission and non-Auckland gas distribution business
(Vector Gas) were sold to First Gas on April 20, 2016. This will be the last
operating statistics release that includes statistics from the Vector Gas
businesses.
8. Based on billable volumes.
9. Excludes gas sold as gas liquids as these sales are included within the
gas liquids sales tonnages.
10. Total of retail and wholesale LPG and natural gasoline.
11. Number of 9kg LPG bottles swapped and sold during the nine month period.
12. Includes product tolled in Taranaki and further tolled in the South
Island.
13. The number of smart meters deployed as at 31 March 2016 includes 45,080
meters managed but not owned by Vector. The number of smart meters disclosed
as deployed at 31 March 2015 has been restated to include 1,605 meters
managed but not owned by Vector.
The Excel version can be found at: http://vector.co.nz/news
End CA:00281148 For:VCT Type:QUARTER Time:2016-04-21 08:39:03
