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· Application · 09/18/2020
Envigour Policy Consulting filed a letter on behalf of QUEST and Marine Renewables Canada recommending an annual stakeholder workshop process to keep Nova Scotia Power's IRP evergreen
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- Envigour, retained by Quest and Marine Renewables Canada, submitted comments on the IRP Draft Findings, Action Plan, and Roadmap in M08929, acknowledging the process as comprehensive but identifying notable gaps.
- The letter flags that the Integrated Resource Plan IRP did not evaluate full benefits of fuel-switching to electricity, supply risks from natural gas import dependence, environmental compliance implications of backup diesel, customer battery opportunities, or early decarbonization policy benefits.
- Envigour notes the IRP generated unusually high stakeholder interest — approximately 170 peak online registrations — including significant municipal participation seeking alignment with local policy goals.
- The letter criticizes the absence of a clearly defined process to keep the plan evergreen, calling for explicit principles of inclusion, science-based conclusions, and broad expert input tested for practicability in the Nova Scotia environment.
- Envigour proposes an annual or semi-annual workshop model featuring a broad public-facing session on clean technology trends (wind, solar, offshore wind, storage, RNG, hydrogen) followed by a technical session to assess impacts on IRP assumptions, potentially managed by a not-for-profit coalition on a cost-recovery basis.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 81854 Letter from Envigour re. IRP Findings stakeholder workshop