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Nova Scotia Power filed responses to UARB information requests on the $959,107 Opsym-Incumbent Generation Dispatch Modeling Tool capital project, confirming the replacement software will benefit NSPI exclusively.
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- Nova Scotia Power sought UARB approval for CI #38900 (Project P813), a $959,107 capital expenditure to replace the legacy Opsym/Prosym generation dispatch tool with Ventyx Energy Portfolio Management Generation Operations (EPM Gen Ops) software, with an original budget estimate of $988,123 (Response IR-GP19, Table 1).
- A March 2008 Asset Management Technology Asset Review rated Opsym's overall risk as High, citing crash-prone local workstations, an end-of-maintenance application, no business continuity plan, and inability to accurately model transmission constraints or meet emerging Fuel Adjustment Mechanism and renewables accountability requirements (TAR, Sections 2 and 4.7).
- Key regulatory risks identified in the TAR included inability to produce the daily NPCC adequacy report required by NERC and failure to determine hourly Real Time Prices for industrial customers Stora and Bowater, both described as UARB requirements (TAR, Section 5).
- As of September 20, 2010, $433,091 had been spent with commitments covering approximately 75% of the forecasted budget; training on the new software was scheduled for late October 2010, with ~$50,000 carry-over into early 2011 for software optimization (Response IR-1).
- NSPI confirmed that the Ventyx EPM Gen Ops tool will be used by and provide benefits to NSPI only, with no cost allocation to Emera or its affiliates; certain cost line items (software licence, hardware, consulting rates) were withheld as confidential to protect procurement negotiations (Response IR-2; Response IR-GP19(b)).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-1 Non-Confidential Work Order 7/30/2010
- N-2 Responses to Information Requests (IR-1 tp IR-2) 9/28/2010
- 05280 Confidential IR-1 to IR-2 9/20/2010