This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned energy spending for the 2011/12 budget year.
Actual spending for the previous four years is on the left and includes, for the sake of comparison, the previous Labour Government's final spending in 2008.
The numbers are drawn together from the Vote Energy and Vote Climate Change.
Links to the primary sources used, from Treasury's website, can be found at the bottom of the page.
Please note that some of the allocation titles have been shortened for the sake of space.
Figures for each allocation are in millions of NZ$.
| Actual 2007/08 | Actual 2008/09 | Actual 2009/10 | Forecast 2010/11 | Energy and Climate Change: | Budget 2011/12 | % |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.323 | 0.000 | Refund of Energy Resources Levy | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 4.132 | 5.946 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Enforcement of Electricity Sector Regulation | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 0.170 | 0.030 | 0.000 | Reserve Electricity Generation Capacity | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 1.911 | 1.616 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Control of Natural Gas Services | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 4.239 | 0.000 | 38.659 | 0.000 | Asset Impairment Writedown | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 2.934 | 5.697 | 0.026 | 0.000 | Acquisition of Petroleum Exploration Data - Extension | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 6.251 | 9.122 | 8.223 | 0.000 | Carbon Monitoring Programme | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.210 | 0.294 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Projects to Reduce Emissions Agreements | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.296 | 0.070 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Policy Advice - Energy Efficiency and Conservation | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 20.582 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Energy Efficiency and Conservation | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 9.845 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Assistance | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 2.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Crown Energy Efficiency | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.044 | 0.025 | 0.026 | 0.050 | International Energy Agency Contribution | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.301 | 0.326 | 0.000 | 0.148 | Electricity Commission Litigation Fund | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 45.558 | 14.019 | 5.721 | Acquisition of Petroleum Exploration Data | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 9.011 | Electricity Authority Capital | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 12.478 | 11.876 | 11.344 | 12.739 | Policy Advice - Climate Change | 0.000 | 0.0% |
| 0.093 | 0.227 | 0.227 | 0.127 | Framework Convention on Climate Change | 0.127 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.297 | Admin of NZ Units held on trust | 0.177 | 0.0% |
| 0.093 | 0.098 | 0.018 | 0.199 | Ministry of Energy Residual Liabilities | 0.199 | 0.0% |
| 0.300 | 0.295 | 0.300 | 0.300 | Climate Change Development Fund | 0.300 | 0.0% |
| 0.125 | 0.146 | 0.161 | 0.170 | International Energy Agency Subscription | 0.320 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.296 | Electricity Litigation Fund | 0.444 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Admin of the ETS | 0.487 | 0.0% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.687 | Ratana Housing Repairs | 0.687 | 0.1% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | Purchase of Units under the NZ ETS | 1.000 | 0.1% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | Impairment of Debt Realting to ETS | 1.000 | 0.1% |
| 0.000 | 30.212 | 37.600 | 2.000 | Renewable Energy Grants and Assistance | 1.038 | 0.1% |
| 1.130 | 1.265 | 0.903 | 1.157 | Energy and Resource Information Services | 1.106 | 0.1% |
| 0.000 | 0.140 | 1.065 | 0.600 | Purchase of PRE Units | 1.231 | 0.1% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.114 | 0.668 | Deployment of Marine Energy Devices | 1.328 | 0.1% |
| 1.305 | 1.199 | 1.443 | 1.336 | Climate Change Unit Register and Information | 1.559 | 0.1% |
| 1.328 | 1.600 | 1.392 | 5.179 | Energy and Resource Information Services | 1.827 | 0.1% |
| -3.448 | 0.883 | 2.000 | 2.000 | Reserve Energy and Emergency Measures | 2.000 | 0.2% |
| 0.000 | 2.000 | 2.000 | 2.000 | Crown Energy Efficiency | 2.000 | 0.2% |
| 50.263 | 18.629 | 19.754 | 10.000 | Maintenance and Operation of Whirinaki | 2.000 | 0.2% |
| 9.358 | 4.820 | 2.061 | 3.000 | Management of IEA Oil Stocks | 3.000 | 0.2% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | International Climate Change Program | 3.443 | 0.3% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.500 | Admin of Customer Switching | 3.500 | 0.3% |
| 1.148 | 2.095 | 2.510 | 4.163 | Emissions Trading Implementation | 4.847 | 0.4% |
| 0.000 | 4.350 | 4.654 | 4.835 | Admin of energy Acts | 5.680 | 0.5% |
| 26.094 | 29.636 | 27.476 | 23.981 | Reserve Energy and Emergency Measures | 6.245 | 0.5% |
| 5.293 | 6.263 | 7.663 | 7.417 | Policy Advice on Energy and Resource Issues | 6.619 | 0.5% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Domestic Climate Change Programme | 7.487 | 0.6% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.250 | 1.000 | Biodiesel Grants | 9.000 | 0.7% |
| 30.269 | 0.896 | 2.247 | 10.000 | Generating Reserve Electricity At Whirinaki | 9.045 | 0.7% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 2.889 | 6.098 | Issue of NZ Permanent Forest Sink Initiative | 10.000 | 0.8% |
| 0.000 | 0.144 | 0.000 | 6.500 | Land Use and Carbon Analysis System | 12.300 | 1.0% |
| 10.203 | 9.193 | 9.233 | 10.326 | Management of the Crown Mineral Estate | 14.871 | 1.2% |
| 5.955 | 8.179 | 11.000 | 13.000 | Electricity Efficiency | 17.519 | 1.4% |
| 0.000 | 24.674 | 29.321 | 27.954 | Energy Efficiency and Conservation | 25.424 | 2.1% |
| 46.095 | 0.000 | 55.093 | 38.181 | Electricity Governance and Market Operations | 62.535 | 5.1% |
| 0.000 | 0.000 | 45.758 | 110.000 | Warm Up New Zealand | 101.067 | 8.2% |
| 0.000 | 16.277 | 139.648 | 1,231.799 | Allocation of New Zealand Units | 909.005 | 73.9% |
| 250.8 | 243.9 | 479.4 | 1,577.20 | Totals | $1,230.40 | 100.0% |
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Sources:
Energy: http://treasury.govt.nz/budget/2011/estimates/est11ener.pdf
Climate Change: http://treasury.govt.nz/budget/2011/estimates/est11clicha.pdf
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