1. PEA meeting material 15 March 2013

2. PEA’S FURTHER ADVICE TO GIC ON TRANSMISSION ACCESS AND CAPACITY PRICING Gas Industry Co2

3. From February 2013 meeting… Gas Industry Co3 Proposed that: o PEA give further advice to GIC by mid-year o GIC consult on further advice by the end of the calendar year Action: o GIC to bring a suggested outline structure of that report to the March PEA meeting

4. Suggested outline of ‘further advice from PEA’ Gas Industry Co4 Short term improvements o Transparency (may simply record that this has passed to GIC to progress) o Demand management  Vector interruptibility arrangements  MDL AQ arrangements Options for longer term changes o Straw man: auctioning some capacity when commercial capacity is scarce o Maui style arrangement for Vector: move from point-to-point towards common carriage o Victoria style arrangement for Vector and Maui: integrated transmission and gas o Descriptions would include implementation options

5. Suggested outline (continued) Gas Industry Co5 Evaluation of options o Probably a rough, traffic light type evaluation to identify arrangements to develop Appendices o Review of July 2012 preliminary advice from PEA to GIC, submissions and PEA response

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8. Suggested Work Plan Gas Industry Co8

9. Suggested resources Gas Industry Co9