Disputed transmission pricing proposals on slow track

Disputed transmission pricing proposals on slow track
By Pattrick Smellie June 5 (BusinessDesk) – Controversial proposals to overhaul how to share the costs of the national electricity grid will no longer be pursued with such urgency, although they remain one of the Electricity Authority’s top 10 priorities. EA chief executive Carl Hansen told a media briefing the transmission pricing methodology project would now extend beyond 2013. When first announced last October, the regulator thought it had cracked a two decade-long argument over how the costs of the grid, which are rising owing to recent...