Overview

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) received submissions on the Gas Transition Plan issues paper (the issues paper) from 78 different individuals and organisations.

The submissions reflect the views of:

• Energy suppliers, including 3 upstream gas producers, 4 electricity generators, and 5 gas and/or electricity system operators
• Industries and businesses, including 5 major energy users, 2 commercial gas users, 7 other energy-related businesses and 11 industry associations
• Community and interest groups, including 3 iwi, 5 environmental groups, and 9 other interest groups
• Government entities, including 1 Crown Entity, 1 regulator and 5 local councils
• Experts and specialists, including 2 consultancies and 3 academics
• 12 individual members of the general public.

View the list of submitters

The issues paper explored the key issues and opportunities facing the gas sector in the transition to a low emissions future. It considered how we can lower emissions, including by using options like carbon capture utilisation and storage, and renewable gases like biomethane and hydrogen.

This document is a summary of the submissions MBIE received, including the key themes and issues raised by submitters. It draws on the comments made by submitters but does not reflect every comment made by each submitter.

For the purposes of this summary, where appropriate, we refer to the number or proportion of submissions that shared a similar view. However, it should be noted that:

• Submitters did not always answer every question.
• Some submissions include the views of multiple organisations or individuals (eg a collective or industry association). As such, the number of submitters does not perfectly reflect the volume of the submitters engaged in this consultation and makes it more challenging to quantify the level of support for the proposals.

Numerical values of the terminology used in the document are outlined in Table 1 below.

Due to the nature of this document, some submissions have been directly quoted or referenced. All submitters consented to the use of their submission in this summary which would become publicly available.

Note that submitters have used a mixture of terms including “fossil gas” and “natural gas” when referring to methane gas obtained from underground petroleum reserves. In this submissions summary we use the term “natural gas”.

Table 1 Definitions of numerical terminology

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