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· Application · 05/08/2026
NRStor Incorporated filed seven information requests to EfficiencyOne in M12780, focusing heavily on residential battery storage eligibility and avoided cost methodology in the proposed 2027–2031 DSM Plan
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- NRStor's IRs 1 and 3 challenge Bca methodology, asking whether EfficiencyOne evaluated the Total Resource Cost and Societal Cost Tests (in addition to the Program Administration Cost Test) and whether carbon pricing, GHG reductions, and grid resilience were quantified within avoided cost assumptions (Appendix B, Attachment 5, Section 5).
- IR-2 and IR-4 probe why new behind-the-meter residential batteries are excluded as eligible measures under the Residential Demand Response Program (Eco Shift), requesting modeling inputs including battery sizes, durations, capital/operating costs, and bulk versus local capacity benefit treatment.
- IR-5 asks whether Efficiencyone has conducted a jurisdictional scan on the interaction of Time Varying Pricing with demand response programs (citing Ontario's Peak Perks precedent) and studied the combined affordability effect of batteries and heat pump electrification on customer bills.
- IR-6 raises whether Mi'kmaw communities were consulted on battery installations under the new Mi'kmaw New Home Construction and solar-PV offer introduced in the Preferred Plan following completion of Mikmaw Home Energy Efficiency Project Mheep in 2027.
- IR-7 asks whether residential batteries—including Virtual Power Plants—will be eligible under the Innovation Framework's Demand Flexibility and Locational DSM focus areas, which carry a combined 2027–2031 budget of approximately $1.38 million (Appendix A, Attachment 5, Table 1).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 101917 NRStor (E1) IR 1 to 7