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· Application · 07/28/2026
Board Staff, Consumer Advocate, Industrial Group, and Small Business Advocate file first-round information requests in NSPML's 2027/2028 revenue requirement and cost assessment proceeding (M12914)
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- Four parties — NSEB Board Staff, the Consumer Advocate, the Industrial Group, and the Small Business Advocate — issued a combined 42 information requests to NSP Maritime Link on July 28, 2026, with responses due August 20, 2026
- A central area of scrutiny is the marine survey cost recovery approach, including NSPML's proposed placeholder amount, the analogy to NS Power's Fuel Adjustment Mechanism, WACC comparisons between NSPML and NS Power, and multiple smoothing/recovery scenarios requested by the Industrial Group (IG IR-8)
- Intervenors challenge NSPML's inclusion of depreciation for the Station Control and Monitoring (SCM) system upgrade — a project not yet placed in service and without a capital application filed — with the Consumer Advocate and Industrial Group both questioning the regulatory appropriateness of approving such costs (CA IR-6, IG IR-12)
- The Industrial Group probes the two-year assessment structure, asking NSPML to justify its forecasting confidence for 2028 relative to prior single-year filings and to quantify regulatory cost savings from the multi-year approach (IG IR-1)
- Labour cost inflation assumptions (3% annually vs. the Bank of Canada 2% mid-point target), IGBT spare inventory adequacy, FLG borrowing constraints, vegetation management planning, and the status of the Long-Term Asset Management Plan (LTAMP) with NLH are also canvassed across the four sets of IRs
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 102962 NSEB (NSPML) IR 1 to 12
- 102966 CA (NSPML) IR 1 to 7
- 102976 IG (NSPML) IR 1 to 17 - Redacted
- 102977 IG (NSPML) IR 1 to 17 - Confidential
- 102979 SBA (NSPML) IR 1 to 6