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· Application · 08/27/2024
NSUARB Board Staff issued 18 information requests to Nova Scotia Power regarding its 2024 10-Year System Outlook Report, probing capacity assumptions, combustion turbine planning, grid reliability, and the NS-NB Reliability Tie project.
AI summary
- Board Staff (IR-1) asked NS Power to explain why the Evergreen scenario CE1-E1-R2 (net-zero 2035, no Atlantic Loop) was selected over lower-cost evaluated plans, given the report's claim it was "among the lowest cost plans" meeting decarbonization targets (Report pp. 6, 15).
- IR-2 follows up on the Board's May 2024 direction in Matter M11307 requiring updated battery energy storage ELCC analysis and portfolio ELCC work before committing to the 300 MW combustion turbine additions shown in Figure 6 for 2027/2028 and 2029/2030.
- IR-3 through IR-6 scrutinize capacity and ELCC assumptions for specific hydro assets — the Nova Scotia Block (145.4 MW vs. 153 MW nameplate), Wreck Cove (201.4 MW vs. 212 MW nameplate), and Mersey Hydro (a numeric discrepancy between an 82% ELCC-adjusted value of 37.6 MW and the reported 34.9 MW in Figure 3).
- IR-14 requests an update on the Ns Nb Reliability Intertie Project, where NS Power had previously anticipated a Q3 2024 capital application filing and 2025–2027 construction window; IR-13 and IR-15 address inverter-based resource (IBR) integration challenges, including a request to file the Manitoba Hydro International large-scale IBR study report (Report p. 59).
- IR-17 directly questions Nova Scotia Power Inc's confidence in meeting the 20% planning reserve margin for Winter 2024/2025, asking whether load interruptions are anticipated and what "positioning the thermal fleet for high reliability" entails beyond normal operations (Report p. Section 6.4).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 95171 NSUARB (NSPI) IR-1 to IR-18