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· Application · 05/05/2026
Consumer Advocate, Industrial Group, and Small Business Advocate file Round 1 Information Requests to Nova Scotia Power on the 2025 Commercial Net Metering Program Annual Report
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- Three intervenors — the Consumer Advocate (CA), Industrial Group (IG), and Small Business Advocate (SBA) — filed a combined 13 information requests (CA IR-1 to IR-4, IG IR-1 to IR-4, SBA IR-1 to IR-5) on May 5, 2026, with responses due May 26, 2026, directed to NS Power's Manager of Regulatory Affairs.
- All three intervenors probe the status and timeline of pending revisions to Commercial Net Metering Regulation 3.6, including whether NS Power has drafted amendments to Regulations 3.6 and 2.12, when those amendments will be filed for Board approval, and how distribution network upgrade costs are being recorded and recovered from non-participating ratepayers in the interim (CA IR-1; IG IR-1).
- The Cybersecurity incident's continuing impact on Commercial Net Metering program administration is a central concern: intervenors seek to know whether disrupted functions (CNMP Participant Agreement timestamps, bi-directional meter configuration, hosting capacity map) have been restored, what incremental costs were incurred, whether those costs are being recovered from ratepayers, and whether alternative service-level methodologies were considered given the lost 2024 data (CA IR-2, IR-4; IG IR-2; SBA IR-1).
- The IG requests a full cost breakdown of the CNMP to the system for 2025 — covering administrative costs, distribution network upgrade costs, and cost recovery mechanisms by customer class — and seeks clarification on Appendix A data showing zero actual upgrade costs for all Class 2 projects that reached in-service status despite preliminary estimates up to \$25,000 (IG IR-3, IR-4).
- The SBA raises detailed questions about the restoration of Advanced Metering Infrastructure and GIS/CYME software integration, the status of planned CNMP improvements tied to prior Synapse recommendations and Board directives, the treatment of battery energy storage applications in the interconnection review process, and the exclusion of certain Class 2 interconnection requests from RES contribution data (SBA IR-1 through IR-5).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 101867 CA (NSPI) IR-1 to IR-4
- 101870 IG (NSPI) IR-1 to IR-4
- 101871 SBA (NSPI) IR-1 to IR-5