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· Application · 01/15/2026
Industrial Group, Small Business Advocate, and Consumer Advocate file intervenor submissions supporting IESO-NS's initial $6.75M revenue requirement while urging stronger financial controls, deferral account guardrails, and an expedited IRP schedule
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- All three intervenors — the Industrial Group Industrial Group, Small Business Advocate Small Business Advocate, and Consumer Advocate Consumer Advocate — do not oppose IESO-NS's initial Revenue Requirement revenue requirement of $6.75M (net $5.3M to ratepayers after provincial grant funding) for the test year ending March 31, 2026, but each urges the Board to attach binding conditions to approval (Exhibits N-1, N-1(i)).
- The Industrial Group and Consumer Advocate both endorse Doane Grant Thornton Board Counsel consultant Doane Grant Thornton's recommendations (Exhibit N-10) for the proposed Net OM&A Cost Deferral Deferral and Variance Account, specifically a 10% per-category cost-overrun threshold triggering a prudence review — analogous to the Alberta Electric System Operator — along with defined eligibility criteria and time limits to prevent indefinite cost accumulation.
- Intervenors call for minimum Standardized Filing filing requirements in future Revenue Requirement RR applications, including actual financial results, formal quotes or market data supporting budget items, stakeholder and Indigenous engagement records, and detailed justification for any deferral amounts, noting IESO-NS did not explicitly commit to these standards in its Rebuttal Evidence (Exhibit N-13, p. 2).
- The Industrial Group flags the absence of a public Integrated Resource Plan IRP timeline, noting Synapse Energy Economics (Exhibit N-11, pp. 5, 10) urged expedition given IRP's role in near-term procurement; the Group requests IESO-NS publish a detailed IRP schedule — including stakeholder technical sessions — by March 1, 2026, after IESO-NS confirmed only that consultant Dunsky Energy + Climate was retained following an October 2025 RFP (Exhibit N-13, p. 4).
- The SBA raises concern that IESO-NS's acknowledgment of rising costs over its first three fiscal years, combined with vague commitments to establish financial controls "in 2026" and a requested extension to file its 2026-2027 RR application (matter M12663), leaves ratepayers exposed to escalating and poorly defined charges without adequate oversight mechanisms.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 100594 Submission - IG
- 100595 Submission - SBA
- 100597 Submission - CA