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· Application · 07/27/2026
Consumer Advocate's consultant raises fundamental concerns about NS Power's Year 4 CEM EM&V Report, citing cybersecurity incident and data limitations
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- Green Energy Economics Group (GEEG), on behalf of the Nova Scotia Consumer Advocate, reviewed NS Power's Year 4 Demand Side Management Customer Energy Management (CEM) Program Evaluation Report (prepared by Econoler, filed June 29, 2026), finding that the April 2025 Cybersecurity incident has 'fundamentally compromised' what the report can tell stakeholders.
- Because the CEM platform and Advanced Metering Infrastructure data were unavailable after April 2025, every impact metric except paperless billing was evaluated over a three-month window (January–March 2025) only, capturing the CEM at its most favorable seasonal period and omitting periods that historically drag annual savings down.
- GEEG flagged that commercial impact results are effectively inconclusive — only 4–5% of commercial customers logged in during the evaluation period, and statistically significant negative savings are attributed by Econoler itself to residual electrification rather than CEM behaviour (Report p. 19).
- The consultant challenges the report's treatment of Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) peak-load reductions, arguing that savings are at least as plausibly driven by the CPP rate signal (~169 ¢/kWh during critical events) as by the CEM platform itself.
- GEEG recommends suspending future CEM evaluations until AMI data access is restored and customers have had at least nine months — ideally a full year — of uninterrupted CEM access before a new evaluation is conducted.
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- 102953 Comments from Green Economics, on behalf of CA