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· Closing_evidence · 10/14/2025
Parties filed closing submissions in EfficiencyOne's M12282 proceeding seeking approval of a new societal Benefit-Cost Analysis test to replace the Total Resource Cost test for evaluating DSM plans in Nova Scotia.
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- Efficiencyone requested Board approval of a portfolio-level Demand Side Management Benefit-Cost Analysis test developed using Energy Futures Group guidance and the National Standard Practice Manual, incorporating utility system, other fuel, host customer non-energy, GHG, and criteria air pollutant impacts, supported by a Partial Consensus Agreement (PCA) with the Consumer Advocate, Small Business Advocate, and East Coast Environmental Law (Exhibits E-32, E-33).
- The PCA adjusted proxy values for host customer non-energy impacts downward from E1's original application — notably setting amenity, empowerment, and pride to zero for the 2027–2031 DSM Plan — and committed E1 to a structured evergreen review process through the DSMAG ahead of the 2032–2036 plan (PCA Appendix A, subsections c, d, f).
- The Industrial Group opposed the Proposed BCA, arguing the Board lacks jurisdiction under the Cost Effectiveness framework of the Public Utilities Act to incorporate broad non-energy and societal impacts, and recommended the Program Evaluation Program Administrator Cost (PAC) test as the primary screen at the measure and program levels, with the Proposed BCA relegated to secondary informational use (E-14, Bowman evidence).
- Nova Scotia Power recommended a modified TRC test that adds other fuel impacts and net-tonnage GHG assessment for strategic electrification but excludes host customer non-energy proxy adders and the 2% social discount rate, citing the Board's continuing obligation to ensure cost reduction for ratepayers under s. 79I of the Public Utilities Act (NSPI Closing, Appendix A).
- Eastward Energy requested Board direction that it be admitted to the DSMAG, that E1 prioritize hybrid heating measures in the 2027–2031 plan, that marginal rather than average emissions rates be used in modelling, and that beneficial electrification proxy adders be reduced if the PCA is accepted, citing uncontroverted evidence of \$2.3 billion in potential electric ratepayer savings from hybrid peaking resources (E-11; Eastward Closing).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 99637 Letter E1 re: Closing submissions
- 99638 Closing Submission - E1
- 99640 Closing Submission - IG
- 99641 Closing Submission - EE
- 99642 Closing Submission - ECEL
- 99643 Closing Submission - NSPI
- 99644 Closing Submission - CA
- 99645 Closing Submission - SBA