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NSUARB approved NSPI's 2011 DSM Cost Recovery Rider charges by rate class, effective January 1, 2011, following an uncontested filing.

M03579 · P-884(3) - NSPI - Demand Side Management ("DSM") Cost Recovery Rider - January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION by NOVA SCOTIA POWER INCORPORATED for Approval of its Demand Side Management Plan for 2011 and Demand Side Management Cost Recovery Rider for 2011
AI summary
  • On October 1, 2010, Nova Scotia Power Incorporated filed proposed Demand Side Management Cost Recovery Rider charges by rate class for 2011 on behalf of Efficiency Nova Scotia, totalling $41.9 million in program costs allocated across rate classes per the Board-approved DSM Settlement Agreement methodology (Appendix A, Table 3).
  • The cost allocation splits total DSM expenditures 75%/25% between participant benefits (directly assigned to participating rate classes) and system benefits (allocated via cost-of-service methodology), with residential customers bearing the largest share at 40.7% of system benefit costs and $15.7 million in directly assigned participant costs.
  • Per-class DCRR charges range from 0.035 cents/kWh (Gen. Replacement & Load Following) to 0.721 cents/kWh (Small General), with domestic service set at 0.466 cents/kWh; several real-time pricing and wholesale market classes carry no applicable charge (Schedule A, Appendix B).
  • The Board invited party comments by October 20, 2010; no comments were received, and Members Dhillon and Doehler issued an order on November 2, 2010 approving the charges without modification (Order dated 2 November 2010).
  • The DCRR formula includes a Balance Adjustment (BA) component to reconcile annual differences between billed PCR revenues and actual approved program costs, ensuring full cost recovery on a calendar-year basis.

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What was filed

Documents filed on this day

  • N-1 DSM Cost Recovery Rider for January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 10/1/2010 exhibits
  • 05646 Board Order approving the DSM Cost Recovery Rider Charges by rate class, effective January 1, 2011. 11/2/2010 key_documents
  • 05441 Letter to P-884(3) Participants 10/6/2010 other_documents
  • 05646 Board Order approving the DSM Cost Recovery Rider Charges by rate class, effective January 1, 2011. 11/2/2010 other_documents