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Operational Performance for the year ended 30 June 2017

28 July 2017




 

 

Year ended 30 June

 

 

2017

2016

% change

Electricity

 

 

 

Customers1, 6

555,100

550,053

0.9%

New connections
Net movement in customers2

9,138
5,047

8,526
5,540

7.2%
(8.9%)

Volume distributed (GWh) 3

8,332

8,372

(0.5%)

SAIDI (minutes) – 3 months to 30 June4

 

 

 

  Normal operations

57.5

28.7

 100.3%

  Extreme events

0.0

0.0

0.0%

  Total

  57.55

28.7

100.3%

 

 

 

 

Gas Distribution7

 

 

 

Distribution customers1, 6

106,670

104,322

  2.3%

New distribution connections
Net movement in distribution customers2

3,515
2,348

3,323
2,757

5.8%
(14.8%)

Distribution volume (PJ)

14.3

13.9

2.9%

 

 

 

 

Gas Trading

 

 

 

Natural gas sales (PJ)8

17.8

16.7

   6.6%

Gas liquid sales (tonnes)9

73,119

76,144

(4.0%)

9kg LPG bottles swapped10
Liquigas LPG tolling (tonnes)11

604,391
169,046

549,998
172,695

9.9%
 (2.1%)

 

 

 

 

Technology

 

 

 

Electricity: smart meters1, 12

1,280,889

1,126,258

 13.7%


 

  1. As at 30 June.
  2. Net number of customers added during the period, includes disconnected, reconnected and decommissioned ICPs. 
  3. Volumes were impacted by the partial closure of a significant industrial customer in October 2015.
  4. The SAIDI audited value for normal operations for the regulatory year ended 31 March 2017 was 174.0 minutes.
  5. SAIDI (minutes) for the 3 months ended 30 June 2017 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) was sold to First Gas on 20 April 2016.  The operating statistics for the period to 30 June 2017 relate only to the Auckland network, and the prior period comparatives have been adjusted accordingly.
  8. Excludes gas sold as gas liquids.  These sales are included within the gas liquids sales tonnages.
  9. Total of retail and wholesale LPG and natural gasoline. 
  10. Number of 9kg LPG bottles swapped and sold during the year.
  11. Includes product tolled in Taranaki and further tolled in the South Island.
  12. The number of smart meters deployed as at 30 June 2017 includes 102,808 meters managed but not owned by Vector (30 June 2016: 55,775).  

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