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· Ir · 11/12/2010
Nova Scotia Power filed responses to 22 information requests on its $4.3M Load Control Demonstration Project capital work order application (P-510).
AI summary
- NSPI confirmed the project's total Nova Scotia cost is $9.3M, with $5.7M in contributions (including $3.2M from Natural Resources Canada under a Fairness Formula allocation) and a $700K contingency embedded in account 066, leaving a net capital work order request of $4.3M (IR-4, IR-6, IR-19).
- The project's scope expanded from an original 750 combined customers to up to 1,500 residential and 150 commercial customers for NSPI alone, after industrial customers were removed from scope during the NRCAN application process; NB Power, Saint John Energy, and Maritime Electric also participate (IR-1, IR-14).
- NSPI justified the expenditure as capital rather than shareholder-funded R&D on the basis that the telecommunications, metering, hardware, and software infrastructure is expected to remain in service beyond the project's demonstration phase, consistent with Accounting Policy 6000 (IR-5).
- The project's governance structure comprises an Executive Oversight Committee (quarterly in-person, monthly by teleconference) with five voting members (NSPI, NB Power, MECL, SJE, UNB), a Program Director housed at NB Power, a bi-weekly Working Group, a Project Management Office (Stantec), and weekly Project Managers; member names were filed confidentially (IR-2, IR-3).
- The demonstration is designed to test customer load control as an ancillary service—specifically regulation, voltage control, energy imbalance, and operating reserve—to offset wind generation intermittency on the NSPI system, with Efficiency Nova Scotia not participating due to differing primary objectives (IR-12, IR-22).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-2 Responses to Information Requests (Non-Confidential)