Operational Performance for the year ended 30 June 2019

Market Releases
  Year ended 30 June  
  2019 2018 % change
Electricity      
Customers1, 6 571,125 563,076 1.4%
New connections 11,000 11,135 (1.2%)
Net movement in customers2 8,049 7,976 0.9%
Volume distributed (GWh) 8,410 8,442 (0.4%)
SAIDI (minutes) – 3 months to 30 June3        
  Normal operations 46.24 62.0 (25.5%)
  Extreme events 3.05 347.3 (99.1%)
  Total 49.2 409.36 (88.0%)
       
Gas Distribution      
Distribution customers1, 7 111,642 109,229 2.2%
New distribution connections 3,322 3,165 5.0%
Net movement in distribution customers2 2,413 2,559 (5.7%)
Distribution volume (PJ) 14.4 14.5 (0.7%)
       
Gas Trading      
Natural gas sales (PJ)8 16.1 18.3 (12.0%)
Gas liquid sales (tonnes)9 79,170 77,656 1.9%
9kg LPG bottles swapped10 658,159 652,859 0.8%
Liquigas LPG tolling (tonnes)11 152,206 183,540 (17.1%)
       
Technology      
Electricity: smart meters1, 12 1,558,291 1,405,936 10.8%





























1. As at 30 June.
2. Net number of customers added during the period, includes disconnected, reconnected and decommissioned ICPs.
3. SAIDI (minutes) for the 3 months ended 30 June 2019 is an unaudited value and subject to change. 
4. Normal Operations SAIDI includes the impact of 1 Major Event Day (MED) at the cap of 3.37 SAIDI minutes for each event. 
5. This is the amount over and above the MED cap. 
6. The prior year included the April 2018 storm event.
7. Billable ICPs.
8. Excludes gas sold as gas liquids.  These sales are included within the gas liquids sales tonnages.
9. Total of retail and wholesale LPG and natural gasoline. Includes wholesale volumes from Kapuni and retail volumes via OnGas. Product sold from Kapuni to OnGas is counted twice for the purpose of this metric.
10. Number of 9kg LPG bottles swapped and sold during the year.
11. Product tolled in Taranaki and further tolled in the South Island is counted twice for the purposes of this metric.
12. The number of smart meters deployed as at 30 June 2019 includes 156,713 meters managed but not owned by Vector (30 June 2018: 135,284). 

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