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· Application · 07/31/2025
NSERB Board Staff, Industrial Group, and Synapse Energy Economics issue Round 1 Information Requests to expert witnesses in EfficiencyOne's DSM Benefit-Cost Analysis test proceeding
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- Board Staff issued IR-1 to Daymark Energy Advisors (Small Business Advocate witness Melissa Whitten) challenging whether non-energy benefits such as "amenity," "empowerment," and "pride" can be independently quantified, and why the evidentiary burden for doing so was placed on non-applicant parties (Exhibit 323301, p. 2).
- Board Staff issued IR-1 through IR-4 to Bowman Economic Consulting (Industrial Group witness Patrick Bowman) seeking clarification on the Program Administrator Cost (PAC) test as a preferred primary Cost Effectiveness screening tool versus EfficiencyOne's proposed societal BCA test, including requests for tabular comparisons incorporating non-energy benefits under "Option 1" (Exhibit 323302, p. 2).
- The Industrial Group issued IRs to both the Small Business Advocate (Whitten, IR-1 to IR-2) and Synapse Energy Economics (Lane, IR-1 to IR-2), pressing witnesses on whether the proposed BCA test's inclusion of comfort, amenity, empowerment, and pride aligns with utility ratemaking principles and the statutory "best interests of customers" standard under Public Utilities Act s. 79L(4).
- East Coast Environmental Law issued IR-1 to Bowman challenging his assertion that societal-level DSM analysis "is uncommon in Canada," asking whether other Canadian regulators face analogous statutory obligations to consider sustainable development and sustainable prosperity under provisions comparable to s. 6(2)(d) of Nova Scotia's Energy and Regulatory Boards Act, SNS 2024, c. 2.
- Synapse Energy Economics (as Board Counsel consultant) issued IR-1 through IR-3 to Bowman probing the internal consistency of the PAC test, including whether accounting for increased utility revenues from electrification measures effectively mirrors a Ratepayer Impact Measure (RIM) test that Bowman's own evidence characterizes as inappropriate for Demand Side Management screening.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 98791 NSEB (Daymark - SBA) IR 1
- 98792 NSEB (Bowman - IG) IR 1 to 4
- 98794 IG (SBA) IR 1 to 2
- 98795 IG (Synapse) IR 1 to 2
- 98796 ECEL (IG) IR 1
- 98801 Synapse (IG) IR 1 to 3