Alternate coverage, for the less prepaid amongst us https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/126782/resources-minister-shane-jones-has-asked-advice-whether-government-could
But yeah, this dissuasion was a feature if the previous law change IMO, and this is an incredibly blatant response. I can’t imagine they’ll be taking proper bonds for reinstatement after, either
I believe a portion of it is quite a low forecast for wind generation coinciding pretty closely with the morning peak.
The peak-trough consumption difference seems to be about 2GW, and wind generation averages about 400MW but can hit 900MW
If you wanna poke around with some historical data yourself, I scrape a lot of it for my own curiosity, and have opened up my dashboard