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· Application · 07/06/2026
Multiple parties filed cross-examination Information Requests on intervenor evidence in EfficiencyOne's 2027–2031 DSM Plan proceeding, targeting cost-effectiveness methodology, demand response strategy, and strategic electrification.
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- The Small Business Advocate (Blackburn Law) issued seven IRs to Solar Nova Scotia (Exhibit E-24) probing the evidentiary basis for SNS recommendations on Energy Manager-style delivery for the Small Business Energy Solutions program, demand response integration of DSM-funded devices, and strategic electrification pathway development (SBA IRs 1–7 to SNS, due July 17, 2026).
- Efficiencyone filed cross-IRs to the Consumer Advocate's consultant (Green Energy Economics Group) questioning the Standardized Filing Framework's role in setting DSM savings targets relative to the IRP, and challenging the cost-benefit rationale for pre-weatherization barrier funding under the low-income program (E1 CA IRs 1–2).
- EfficiencyOne issued nine IRs to Nova Scotia Power's consultant (Brattle Group), sharply contesting the adequacy of Brattle's APEX peer-group critique, the comparability of Ontario's Peak Perks program to EcoShift given Nova Scotia's winter-peaking system, and Brattle's residential DR cost-per-kW benchmarks and scale assumptions (E1 NSPI IRs 1–9).
- The Industrial Group (Stewart McKelvey) filed the largest IR sets: 13 IRs to the Consumer Advocate's expert (T. Love/GEEG) challenging mid-course adjustment trigger design, IRP-aligned savings feasibility at \$464M, DCRR impacts by rate class, incentive-level methodology, and Smart Synergy eligibility and cost allocation for Large Industrial Interruptible customers; 15 IRs to Brattle questioning DR funding reallocation, ELCC study currency, Otter Tail Power benchmark applicability, and Solar PV double-compensation; and 10 IRs to Synapse contesting the interpretation of the M12282 BCA Decision, the portfolio-level PAC cross-subsidy argument for strategic electrification, and mid-cycle adjustment threshold design (IG IRs to Love/GEEG 1–13, Brattle 1–15, Synapse 1–10).
- EfficiencyOne confirmed it has no objection to virtual appearances by expert witnesses, and its counsel (McInnes Cooper) transmitted a companion set of four IRs to Synapse (Board Counsel's consultant) questioning the modified-PAC score for Round 2 SE resources (0.7), the NB Power statutory framework comparator for LMI electrification, DR capacity data in IRP Table 1, and the incremental cost of Synapse's recommended process evaluation.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 102616 SBA (SNS) IR 1 to 7
- 102617 SBA (Synapse) IR 1 to 3
- 102620 Letter E1 re: IRs
- 102621 E1 (CA) IR 1 to 2
- 102622 E1 (NSPI) IR 1 to 9
- 102623 E1 (Synapse) IR 1 to 4
- 102626 Email E1 re: no objection to the requests of virtual appearances of expert witnesses.
- 102631 CA (Brattle Group - NSPI) IR 1 to 10
- 102633 CA (Synapse) IR 1 to 9
- 102635 IG (Posterity Group - EE) IR 1 to 5
- 102637 IG (T. Love - CA) IR 1 to 13
- 102638 IG (SNS) IR 1 to 6
- 102639 IG (Brattle Group - NSPI) IR 1 to 15
- 102640 IG (Synapse) IR 1 to 10