Operational Performance for the year ended 30 June 2017

Market Releases

	Year ended 30 June
	2017	2016	% change
Electricity
Customers^{1, 6}	555,100	550,053	0.9%
New connections Net movement in customers²	9,138 5,047	8,526 5,540	7.2% (8.9%)
Volume distributed (GWh)³	8,332	8,372	(0.5%)
SAIDI (minutes) – 3 months to 30 June⁴
Normal operations	57.5	28.7	100.3%
Extreme events	0.0	0.0	0.0%
Total	57.5⁵	28.7	100.3%

Gas Distribution⁷
Distribution customers^{1, 6}	106,670	104,322	2.3%
New distribution connections Net movement in distribution customers²	3,515 2,348	3,323 2,757	5.8% (14.8%)
Distribution volume (PJ)	14.3	13.9	2.9%

Gas Trading
Natural gas sales (PJ)⁸	17.8	16.7	6.6%
Gas liquid sales (tonnes)⁹	73,119	76,144	(4.0%)
9kg LPG bottles swapped¹⁰ Liquigas LPG tolling (tonnes)¹¹	604,391 169,046	549,998 172,695	9.9% (2.1%)

Technology
Electricity: smart meters^{1, 12}	1,280,889	1,126,258	13.7%

As at 30 June.
Net number of customers added during the period, includes disconnected, reconnected and decommissioned ICPs.
Volumes were impacted by the partial closure of a significant industrial customer in October 2015.
The SAIDI audited value for normal operations for the regulatory year ended 31 March 2017 was 174.0 minutes.
SAIDI (minutes) for the 3 months ended 30 June 2017 is an unaudited value and subject to change.
Billable ICPs.
The group’s gas transmission and non-Auckland gas distribution business (Vector Gas) was sold to First Gas on 20 April 2016. The operating statistics for the period to 30 June 2017 relate only to the Auckland network, and the prior period comparatives have been adjusted accordingly.
Excludes gas sold as gas liquids. These sales are included within the gas liquids sales tonnages.
Total of retail and wholesale LPG and natural gasoline.
Number of 9kg LPG bottles swapped and sold during the year.
Includes product tolled in Taranaki and further tolled in the South Island.
The number of smart meters deployed as at 30 June 2017 includes 102,808 meters managed but not owned by Vector (30 June 2016: 55,775).

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