Please supply the data missing in file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv
Nicky McLean made this Official Information request to Electricity Authority
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From: Nicky McLean
Dear Electricity Authority,
Via your organisation's web site https://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Wholesale/Dat... (one of seven similar sub-directories), monthly files such as 202309_Embedded_generation.csv supply half-hourly data on electrical generation and consumption at various locations. Oddly, this file is noticeably smaller than the files for the previous and following months - and it is not for February. Although there are other differences, both those files contain data with the code sequence ASB0661,EASH,CNIR,H01,I (with records for thirty-one days in each case) but the file for September has no records with that code name. We are now in November, and the file for September shows no sign of having been updated since it was first issued in October.
Could you please supply the missing data for September (all thirty days) for that code, or, if the data have been given a different code name sequence just for that month, identify what it is and where the records are to be found.
Correcting the web site's file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv would mean that this problem would not spread further.
Just out of curiosity, Has anyone else noticed?
Yours faithfully,
Nicky McLean
From: OIA
Electricity Authority
Kia ora Nicky,
Thank you for your request of 17 November 2023, under the Official Information Act 1982, for the following information:
Via your organisation's web site https://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Wholesale/Dat... (one of seven similar sub-directories), monthly files such as 202309_Embedded_generation.csv supply half-hourly data on electrical generation and consumption at various locations. Oddly, this file is noticeably smaller than the files for the previous and following months - and it is not for February. Although there are other differences, both those files contain data with the code sequence ASB0661,EASH,CNIR,H01,I (with records for thirty-one days in each case) but the file for September has no records with that code name. We are now in November, and the file for September shows no sign of having been updated since it was first issued in October.
Could you please supply the missing data for September (all thirty days) for that code, or, if the data have been given a different code name sequence just for that month, identify what it is and where the records are to be found.
Correcting the web site's file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv would mean that this problem would not spread further.
Just out of curiosity, Has anyone else noticed?
You can expect a response by 15 December 2023, being 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact [email address].
Kind regards,
Lisa Duff (she/her)
Senior Advisor - Communications and Engagement
Level 7, AON Centre, 1 Willis Street
PO Box 10041, Wellington 6143, New Zealand
www.ea.govt.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicky McLean <[FOI #24777 email]>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 11:22 PM
To: Info Electricity Authority <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Please supply the data missing in file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv
Dear Electricity Authority,
Via your organisation's web site https://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Wholesale/Dat... (one of seven similar sub-directories), monthly files such as 202309_Embedded_generation.csv supply half-hourly data on electrical generation and consumption at various locations. Oddly, this file is noticeably smaller than the files for the previous and following months - and it is not for February. Although there are other differences, both those files contain data with the code sequence ASB0661,EASH,CNIR,H01,I (with records for thirty-one days in each case) but the file for September has no records with that code name. We are now in November, and the file for September shows no sign of having been updated since it was first issued in October.
Could you please supply the missing data for September (all thirty days) for that code, or, if the data have been given a different code name sequence just for that month, identify what it is and where the records are to be found.
Correcting the web site's file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv would mean that this problem would not spread further.
Just out of curiosity, Has anyone else noticed?
Yours faithfully,
Nicky McLean
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Electricity Authority
Kia ora Mr Mclean,
Thank you for your request of 17 November 2023, under the Official Information Act 1982.
Please find attached the Authority's response. If you have any questions regarding our response, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Tessa Ballinger (she/her)
Ministerial Advisor
Level 7, AON Centre, 1 Willis Street
PO Box 10041, Wellington 6143, New Zealand
www.ea.govt.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicky McLean <[FOI #24777 email]>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 11:22 PM
To: Info Electricity Authority <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Please supply the data missing in file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv
Dear Electricity Authority,
Via your organisation's web site https://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Wholesale/Dat... (one of seven similar sub-directories), monthly files such as 202309_Embedded_generation.csv supply half-hourly data on electrical generation and consumption at various locations. Oddly, this file is noticeably smaller than the files for the previous and following months - and it is not for February. Although there are other differences, both those files contain data with the code sequence ASB0661,EASH,CNIR,H01,I (with records for thirty-one days in each case) but the file for September has no records with that code name. We are now in November, and the file for September shows no sign of having been updated since it was first issued in October.
Could you please supply the missing data for September (all thirty days) for that code, or, if the data have been given a different code name sequence just for that month, identify what it is and where the records are to be found.
Correcting the web site's file 202309_Embedded_generation.csv would mean that this problem would not spread further.
Just out of curiosity, Has anyone else noticed?
Yours faithfully,
Nicky McLean
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From: Nicky McLean
Dear Ms. Ballinger
Thank you for the response of the 14'th December, arriving one day short of the allowed limit. I see from the timestamp of the revised data file that it was created on the afternoon of the 22'nd of November, the day after the date of the acknowledgement of my request that was sent by Ms. Lisa Duff on the 21'st. I would have thought that communicating this event need not be the effort of weeks, but I suppose there are other matters being dealt with besides mine.
And nobody else noticed the missing data, or saw fit to make a remark? Oh well.
Anyway, thanks for the missing data: a hole will shortly be filled.
Yours faithfully,
Nicky McLean
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