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· Application · 07/10/2026
Small Business Advocate and Consumer Advocate submit that NS Power's 2025 Decarbonization Deferral Account Annual Report lacks substantive progress on securitization legislation
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- The Nova Scotia Power 2025 DDA Annual Report (M12833, Exhibit N-1, filed April 30, 2026) discloses unrecovered costs of $784 million as of December 31, 2025, associated with thermal assets scheduled for retirement by 2030 under provincial Decarbonization requirements.
- The Small Business Advocate acknowledges that the Report fulfills baseline compliance requirements and responds to its prior request for securitization savings analysis — NS Power's Report quantifies a $28 million financing cost advantage and a $207 million NPV benefit of Securitization over conventional DDA recovery — but notes that legislative authorization for securitization remains outstanding with no firm timeline.
- The Consumer Advocate similarly finds the Report responsive to Sections 2.1–2.7 of the DDA Manual but raises concern that NS Power provided no substantive update on legislative progress, with NS Power responding to NSEB IR-2 only that there were "no additional updates since the time the report was filed."
- The CA requests a more detailed explanation from NS Power as to why the scope of a 2027 securitization transaction could not be expanded beyond the December 31, 2025 unrecovered net book value, given CA IR-1(3) confirms a 2027 transaction would leave the same $156 million unrecovered balance at December 31, 2029 on current assumptions.
- Both the SBA and CA call for greater transparency and more frequent reporting: the SBA requests clarity on timing sensitivity if securitization occurs in 2027 rather than 2026, while the CA proposes NS Power commit to quarterly securitization progress updates given the 2030 federal and provincial decarbonization deadline.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 102709 Submission - SBA
- 102716 Submission - CA