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· Application · 08/28/2025
Nova Scotia Power filed its 2025 Emergency Services Restoration Plan Drill Report, detailing a cyber-incident-focused exercise and near-complete resolution of prior action items.
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- The 2025 ESRP drill was conducted on June 5, 2025 with over 30 participants and simulated a Level 3 or 4 storm response under concurrent Cybersecurity cyber incident conditions, testing scalability of business continuity plans and assessing customer experience impacts (Drill Report, pp. 5–8).
- The three-phase drill scenario escalated from pre-storm planning (140,000 customers without power mid-storm) to post-storm conditions with 200,000 customers out and nine transmission lines down with confirmed wood pole structures on the ground (Drill Report, pp. 6–7).
- Four new action items were identified, including ensuring Control Centre technology (SCADA, ADMS, telecommunications) is scalable for Level 3/4 staffing, confirming business continuity plans are cyber-resilient, updating the STORM300 subplan to embed Damage Assessment within Regional Operations node structures, and reconciling ESRP roster overlaps (Figure 3, p. 12).
- Nova Scotia Power reported near-full completion of prior-cycle action items: nine of ten 2023–2024 items are now closed, with crew tracking technology procurement via RFP targeted for Q4 2025 remaining in progress; the outstanding 2021 action item regarding EMO critical infrastructure coordination via WebEOC is now complete following June 2025 training (Figure 2, pp. 9–11).
- ESRP Revision 5.2 includes two minor administrative updates: terminology changed from 'Coordinator' to 'Lead' throughout the EOC command structure, and the title 'Sr. Director, TD&D Operations' updated to 'Sr. Director, Energy Delivery' to reflect current organizational nomenclature (Appendix A, p. 13).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-1 2025 Drill Report