Operational Performance for the year ended 30 June 2019

19 July 2019

 

Year ended 30 June

 

 

2019

2018

% change

Electricity

 

 

 

Customers1, 6

571,125

563,076

1.4%

New connections

11,000

11,135

(1.2%)

Net movement in customers2

8,049

7,976

0.9%

Volume distributed (GWh)

8,410

8,442

(0.4%)

SAIDI (minutes) – 3 months to 30 June3  

 

 

 

  Normal operations

46.24

62.0

(25.5%)

  Extreme events

3.05

347.3

(99.1%)

  Total

49.2

409.36

(88.0%)

 

 

 

 

Gas Distribution

 

 

 

Distribution customers1, 7

111,642

109,229

2.2%

New distribution connections

3,322

3,165

5.0%

Net movement in distribution customers2

2,413

2,559

(5.7%)

Distribution volume (PJ)

14.4

14.5

(0.7%)

 

 

 

 

Gas Trading

 

 

 

Natural gas sales (PJ)8

16.1

18.3

(12.0%)

Gas liquid sales (tonnes)9

79,170

77,656

1.9%

9kg LPG bottles swapped10

658,159

652,859

0.8%

Liquigas LPG tolling (tonnes)11

152,206

183,540

(17.1%)

 

 

 

 

Technology

 

 

 

Electricity: smart meters1, 12

1,558,291

1,405,936

10.8%





























1. As at 30 June.
2. Net number of customers added during the period, includes disconnected, reconnected and decommissioned ICPs.
3. SAIDI (minutes) for the 3 months ended 30 June 2019 is an unaudited value and subject to change. 
4. Normal Operations SAIDI includes the impact of 1 Major Event Day (MED) at the cap of 3.37 SAIDI minutes for each event. 
5. This is the amount over and above the MED cap. 
6. The prior year included the April 2018 storm event.
7. Billable ICPs.
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. Includes wholesale volumes from Kapuni and retail volumes via OnGas. Product sold from Kapuni to OnGas is counted twice for the purpose of this metric.
10. Number of 9kg LPG bottles swapped and sold during the year.
11. Product tolled in Taranaki and further tolled in the South Island is counted twice for the purposes of this metric.
12. The number of smart meters deployed as at 30 June 2019 includes 156,713 meters managed but not owned by Vector (30 June 2018: 135,284). 

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