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· Application · 10/21/2024
Nova Scotia Power filed rebuttal evidence responding to Small Business Advocate and Consumer Advocate submissions on its 2024 10-Year System Outlook Report
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- NS Power rebuts the Small Business Advocate's four flagged risks — resource development delays, load growth, peaking plant regulations, and a projected Integrated Resource Plan reserve margin deficiency after 2031 — characterizing them as manageable and subject to ongoing annual monitoring rather than requiring immediate plan changes.
- On Integrated Resource Plan Evergreen IRP progress, NS Power confirms the Hybrid Peak scenario study is being led by the Province through Net Zero Atlantic, with NS Power providing resource planning modelling support and a Q2 2025 completion target, arguing no Board direction is needed.
- Regarding Ns Nb Reliability Intertie Project icing risks raised by the Consumer Advocate, NS Power details ice-accretion studies (2022–2023), Dynamic Line Rating devices planned for the L8006 intertie, and confirms existing dual-outage operating guidelines will be updated once the Reliability Tie is in service.
- On Energy Storage, NS Power clarifies that its 150 MW BESS project was directed under Section 4D of the Electricity Act and is separate from additional Provincial Section 4D (150 MW) and Section 4B (100 MW) procurements, totalling 400 MW of 4-hour battery storage capacity anticipated by 2030.
- NS Power acknowledges geothermal as an emerging technology with limited Nova Scotia applicability given local bedrock constraints and inconclusive provincial studies, but commits to contacting the Fervo Energy Nevada demonstration project developer and reporting updates through the IRP Action Plan and Roadmap process.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-6 Rebuttal Evidence - NSPI