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NSEB approved Nova Scotia Power's $1,063,981 capital expenditure for 10 Class 3 light work vehicles after reducing the original $1,151,049 estimate by $87,068 due to an interest calculation input error.
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- Nova Scotia Power Incorporated filed Work Order CI# 34582 (dated April 30, 2010) seeking approval to purchase 10 Class 3 light work vehicles (F550s, IHC 4300/4400 series, and an E350) at a total cost of $1,063,981, down from the $1,151,049 originally included in the approved 2010 ACE Plan; NSPI attributed the $87,068 variance to an input error in which 2011 interest (AFUDC) charges were erroneously included in the cost profile.
- Board staff issued two rounds of Capital Expenditures information requests (February 5 and June 30, 2010), with NSPI responses on March 5 and July 15, 2010; responses disclosed fleet details including vehicle types, retirement candidates (ranging from a 1993 platform body to a 2001 cube van), maintenance histories, and a life-cycle costing model supporting replacement at approximately year 9–10 based on Equivalent Annual Cost minimization.
- The Board noted a significant discrepancy between forecasted (14) and actual (4) light work vehicles purchased in the 2007–2009 period and flagged concerns about prior-year forecast accuracy, but ultimately accepted the project as necessary to meet NSPI's service level commitments, approving $1,063,981 in a July 26, 2010 decision letter signed by Member Kulvinder S. Dhillon.
- Individual vehicle purchase costs were withheld as confidential on the grounds that disclosure of supplier pricing would harm NSPI's and its suppliers' ability to negotiate competitive terms; the Board accepted this redaction in the context of the broader review.
- Related capital items CI# 34583 (Transportation Vehicle Replacements, reduced from $3,446,332 to $1,723,031 by removing 2011 purchases to a new routine capital program) and CI# 38852 (Work Vehicle Replacement) were addressed in the same July 15 IR response package, clarifying that retired aerial vehicles are sold to Altec Industries Ltd. under a liability-transfer agreement and subsequently auctioned.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-1 Redacted Work Order 4/30/2010
- N-2 Responses to Information Requests 7/15/2010
- 04914 Board Decision Letter 7/29/2010
- 04914 Board Decision Letter 7/29/2010