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· Application · 07/10/2026
IESO Nova Scotia filed responses to eleven undertakings from its 2026/2027 Revenue Requirement oral hearing, covering compensation benchmarking, financial statements, accounting policies, and interregional transmission capability.
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- IESO Nova Scotia responded to Undertakings U-1 through U-11 (filed July 10, 2026), with several attachments withheld in full or in part as confidential under categories of commercially sensitive cost information, third-party proprietary information, and personal compensation information (per Board Rule 12).
- U-1 and U-10 disclose that two consultants — HUB International and Timbar Consulting — conducted market-based compensation analyses for non-CEO and CEO roles respectively, using the Economic Research Institute's Executive Compensation Assessor benchmarked to the Canadian electric services sector at a $1 billion revenue scale; CEO base salary comparable ranges were identified at $370,500–$435,000 for the Maritimes/Manitoba/Saskatchewan region and $405,000–$480,000+ nationally.
- U-3 corrects an error in NSEB IR-7(a), confirming actual spend at December 31, 2025 was $5.48M (not $5.05M as previously stated), while noting full-year spend for fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 is expected to remain below the NSEB-approved $5.3M net revenue requirement.
- U-5 provides draft unaudited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2026, showing total gross expenditures of approximately $7.67M against a budgeted $7.98M (4% under budget), with salaries and NSP/CPI employee transfers both significantly under budget (-33% and -55% respectively), while legal/regulatory and governance costs exceeded budget.
- U-6 discloses IESO Nova Scotia's weighted average cost of capital as 3.923% (as at May 31, 2026) based on a $6M provincial line of credit at 2.234% and $3.8M in NSPI interim fees at 6.590%, with an annualized hypothetical WACC of 4.554% assuming full utilization of a $10M LOC; U-7 provides draft IFRS-based accounting policies; and U-11 files the NERC Interregional Transfer Capability Study (ITCS) Canadian Analysis (April 2025), which identifies 500 MW of additional transfer capability from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia as needed to address energy deficiencies identified in all 12 weather years studied under 2033 load and resource projections.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-18 Response to Undertakings - Redacted
- N-18(C) Response to Undertakings - Confidential
- 102715 Letter IESO re: Undertakings and confidential request