You may receive an annual discount payment, and a distribution payment from Marlborough Lines Limited (MLL) and the Marlborough Electricity Power Trust (MEPT) respectively.

Marlborough Lines Limited (MLL) owns and operates the electricity distribution network supplying Marlborough electricity consumers. The Marlborough Electricity Power Trust (MEPT) is a consumer elected trust and the owner of Marlborough Lines Limited (MLL).

What is it?

Marlborough Lines Limited Discount Payment

The discount payment is a share of the success from MLL’s network operations that is returned to eligible consumers connected to the network. The amount that an ‘average’ domestic consumer receives, based on the 2025 regulatory year prices and for a twelve-month consumption period would be approximately $245 (incl. GST).

The discount payment varies for each consumer and is related to the revenue recovered.

Marlborough Electric Power Trust Distribution Payment

The success of investments outside of Marlborough Lines (e.g., Nelson Electricity Limited) is returned to the MEPT, who then determine an amount to be made payable to eligible consumers.

The distribution payments are typically the same amount for each eligible consumer.

Are you eligible?

Marlborough Lines Limited Discount Payment

The installation must be actively connected on the qualification date and hold an active consumer account with an electricity retailer. Connections that are ‘vacant’ on the prescribed qualification date, i.e., active and with no consumer (as notified by the retailer), or a consumer located in a designated remote part of MLL’s network, are ineligible for the discount payment. 

Remote consumers are ineligible because of the higher ongoing costs to supply these connections. 

The connection must have been connected at some stage during the calculation period. 

Marlborough Electric Power Trust Distribution Payment

The installation must be actively connected on the qualification date and hold an active consumer account with an electricity retailer. Connections that are ‘vacant’ on the prescribed qualification date, i.e., active and with no consumer (as notified by the retailer) are ineligible for the distribution payment.

How is it paid?

Payment is made to consumers’ electricity retailers. The retailer then applies the payment as a credit to consumers’ electricity accounts. There may be a delay in time from when MLL makes the payment to retailers, until when the discount payment is applied as a credit by retailers to consumers’ accounts.

For more information, please visit the Marlborough Lines website.