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· Rir · 09/19/2024
Nova Scotia Power filed responses to Round 1 Information Requests from the Board, Consumer Advocate, Small Business Advocate, and intervenors in the 2024 10-Year System Outlook proceeding
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- NS Power confirmed that Ns Nb Reliability Intertie Project detailed design remains on schedule for Q4 2024 completion, with preliminary construction possible in early 2025 and in-service targeted for 2028; a capital application to the Nsuarb is now expected in Q1 2025 (NSUARB IR-14).
- NS Power disclosed that the first 300 MW tranche of combustion turbine capacity for Winter 2027/2028 is in early engineering and siting, while a new capacity value study examining the interactive ELCC of wind, solar, Energy Storage BESS, and demand response will be scoped with stakeholders by year-end before significant work on the 2029/2030 tranche begins (NSUARB IR-2).
- The Integrated Resource Plan resource build-out reconciliation table (SBA IR-2) documents project-level delays and a capacity reduction in the Rate Base Procurement (373 MW reduced to 306 MW after one withdrawal), with the shortfall assumed to be absorbed by the Green Choice Program, raising its ceiling from 350 MW to 416 MW (NSUARB IR-9).
- The Manitoba Hydro International large-scale Grid Modernization inverter-based resources study (NSUARB IR-15 Attachment 1) finds no hard limit on IBR penetration if adequate inertia and system-strength support is maintained, but flags significant RoCoF and short-circuit-level concerns as thermal plants retire, recommending synchronous condensers, BESS fast-frequency response, and updated interconnection requirements.
- NS Power declined to expand the 10-Year System Outlook to cover distribution planning, citing the pending creation of a Nova Scotia Independent Energy System Operator under Bill 404 / the Energy Reform 2024 Act as the appropriate forum for defining those responsibilities (NSUARB IR-16).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-2 NSPI (CA) RIR-1 to RIR-6 - Redacted
- N-2(C) NSPI (CA) RIR1 - RIR-6 Confidentail
- N-3 NSPI (NSUARB) RIR-1 - RIR-18
- N-4 NSPI (SBA) RIR-1 to RIR-6
- N-5 NSPI (SWEB) RIR-1 to RIR-5
- 95366 Confidential Undertaking
- 95367 Letter NSPI re: Filing IR responses and Confidential Undertaking