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· Application · 03/31/2026
Nova Scotia Power filed its 2025 Net Metering Annual Report, disclosing 116.3 MW of cumulative legacy program capacity and responding to a deferred Board directive on payout decline analysis delayed by a 2024 cybersecurity incident.
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- NS Power filed the 2025 Legacy Net Metering (LNM) and Self-Generating Option (SGO) Report (Appendix A, electronic) on March 31, 2026, showing 1,943 new interconnections in 2025 and total cumulative installed capacity of 116,271.6 kWac — well exceeding all scenarios in the 2019 Dunsky forecast of 39–44 MW by end-2025 (p. 9).
- Annual excess generation payouts to LNM customers rose 27% year-over-year to $646,146 in 2025, reversing a prior-year decline; cumulative payouts since program inception reached $2,565,838 (Table 1, p. 8).
- In response to the Board's directive from M12165 (July 9, 2025), NS Power provided Appendices B–D analyzing the 2023–2024 payout decline ($569,245 → $508,722); the company attributed the drop primarily to accelerating customer electrification — EV ownership among LNM customers nearly doubled (6.4% to 11.9%) and heat pump adoption rose from 44.3% to 60.0% — with solar panel degradation (~250,000 kWh annual loss) as a secondary factor (Appendix D, pp. 2–4).
- Source data for payout years 2020–2024 could not be recovered due to the cybersecurity incident; NS Power provided available data for 2011–2019 and 2025 in Appendix B, and flagged that 'Total Active Customers' figures for pre-2025 participants remain subject to revision in the 2026 Report (p. 7).
- NS Power noted it is developing a Distributed Energy Resource Integration Roadmap per Board direction from the Smart Grid Nova Scotia proceeding (M11621), to address cost-shifting concerns as non-participating ratepayers bear fixed grid costs not recovered from net metering customers who reduce energy purchases without reliably reducing peak demand (p. 10).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-1 2025 Report
- N-1-(i) 20260331 NSPI to NSEB 2025 Annual Net Metering Report Appendix A EO
- N-1-(ii) 20260331 NSPI to NSEB 2025 Annual Net Metering Report Appendix B EO