Initial public consultation was open until 14 February 2025 on the short-list of preferred options.
We have since conducted further consultation on this short-list of options to reflect our more detailed understanding of the project. This consultation closed on 5 May 2025 and included an overview document and multiple attachments that give additional detail on aspects of our short-list:
Consultation documents for further consultation:
- Upper South Island - further consultation document
- USI Attachment 1 - Need for Investment, Demand and Generation Scenarios
- USI Attachment 2 - Short-list of investment options
- USI Attachment 3 - Benefit modeling
- USI Attachment 4 - Options analysis
- USI Attachment 5 - Indicative starting BBI customer allocations
Consultation response:
Ngā mihi (thank you) to those who responded to our initial consultation.
Please reference the USI - initial short-list summary of submissions for a summary of the key points raised and Transpower's responses. Individual submissions on the short-list options are published below:
- Mercury response
- Alpine Energy response
- Orion response
- Fonterra response
- Meridian response
- NewPower response
- Westpower response
- Epsilon Advanced Conductors response
Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.