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· Rir · 05/26/2026
NS Power filed responses to four information requests in the 2025 Net Metering Report proceeding, disclosing a 30.9% drop in new customers, cybersecurity-related billing disruptions, and an estimated $8.8M annual cost reallocation to the broader customer base.
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- NS Power attributed the 30.9% decrease in new Residential Solar Pv Program net metering participants and the 26% decline in net new nameplate capacity to reduced costs, available incentives, and financing access; program registration was not suspended at any point in 2025 (IR-1).
- Anomalous dips in May–June 2025 energy payouts and spikes in August–November are directly linked to Nova Scotia Power's late-April 2025 cybersecurity incident, which disabled meter-read-based generation settlement for Legacy Net Metering customers; NS Power hired manual meter readers to recover missing generation data, with customers ultimately compensated on true readings (IR-2, referencing M12600 NSEB IR-2).
- The estimated total cost reallocation from domestic net metering participants to the broader customer base reached $8,778,924 in 2025—up from $6,873,682 in 2024—driven by growing exported generation (85,025,901 kWh) and now including a new Storm Cost Recovery Rider component of $317,997 (IR-3, Table 1).
- A representative-customer avoided-cost analysis (IR-4) found that the 2025 incremental cost of serving energy offset by bill credits was $16.3M, while the avoided cost of exported net metering energy was only $7.1M, yielding a net gap of approximately $9.2M; total avoided cost of behind-the-meter displaced energy was estimated at $3.5M (IR-4, Table 1).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-2 NSPI (NSEB) RIR 1 to 4