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· Rir · 07/14/2026
Nova Scotia Power refiled IR-1 storm cost response for the January 18–19, 2026 winter storm, disclosing $4.23 million in total restoration costs and detailed outage cause and vegetation data across four information requests.
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- IR-1 (refiled July 14, 2026) reveals total storm costs of $4,234,118 as of June 30, 2026, with contracts ($2.43M) and overtime labour ($870K) as the largest cost drivers; capital costs totalled $1,176,243 and operating costs $3,057,875, partially offset by $214,424 in Bell contributions (Exhibit N-3, IR-1 table).
- IR-2 identifies road access, heavy snow-driven vegetation load, and cold temperatures as the primary factors behind the South Shore's materially worse restoration performance (48.68% restored within 24 hours, average 29.0 hours); Bridgewater and Liverpool depots scaled from 86 to 176 field resources over Days 1–3, with out-of-province crews mobilized from January 19 onward (Exhibit N-3, IR-2).
- IR-3 discloses 101 feeders with at least one tree-contact event during the storm; circuit 73W-411 recorded the highest single-feeder impact (20 events, 72,615 customer-hours of interruption), while several feeders had last trim dates of 2022 or earlier — including 108H-412 (prior to 2015) and 62H-302 (prior to 2015) — though all feeders were inspected in 2024 (Exhibit N-3, IR-3 table).
- IR-4 explains that NS Power applies Electricity Canada cause-code guidelines to distinguish 'Adverse Weather – Wet Snow' from 'Tree Contacts – Falling Trees'; where field crews cannot identify the specific tree after the fact (due to intermittent contacts or rebounding vegetation), Adverse Weather is used as a catch-all, and post-storm SME review is conducted to identify classification discrepancies (Exhibit N-3, IR-4).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-3 NSPI (NSEB) RIR 1 to 4 - Refiled
- 102759 Email NSPI re: Refiled IR 1