Nova Scotia Power filed a capital project work order seeking approval for its 2010 RTU Replacement Program at a revised project estimate of $512,974 (CI# 38142).

M03625 · CI# 38142 - P-128.10 - NSPI WO - RTU Replacement Program - $512,974

AI summary

NSPI's work order (CI# 38142) covers replacement of 10 Asset Management Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) at sites including Big Falls, Lequille, NewPage, and others, under a five-year phased retirement strategy for approximately 90 obsolete units out of 129 in service.
The revised project estimate of $512,974 represents a $267,163 reduction from the original ACE 2010 budget of $780,137, driven primarily by lower-than-budgeted material costs ($181,210 actual vs. $377,500 budgeted for account 012-Materials).
Cost components include materials ($181,210 for 10 RTUs), labour ($149,302 combined T&D and COPS), administrative overheads and interest ($141,566), software ($11,000), and other costs ($29,896).
NSPI justified capitalization under its Accounting Policy Section 6000 — the expenditures create physical assets with service lives exceeding one year — and noted that one of the originally identified 9 RTUs had already failed in December 2009, underscoring urgency.
The UARB information request (IR-GP10) from the P-128.09 proceeding probed justification, failure history, multi-year phasing options, and cost breakdowns; NSPI confirmed it began capturing RTU failure data only in 2009, making a five-year failure history unavailable.

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