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· Application · 08/12/2026
NSEB Board Staff issue six Information Requests to Nova Scotia Power on the March 17, 2026 Storm Outage Analysis Report
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- NSEB Board Staff issued IRs 1–6 to Nova Scotia Power Incorporated on August 12, 2026, with responses due September 2, 2026, directed to Jennifer Ross, Director, Regulatory Planning & Compliance.
- IR-1 challenges two classification issues in the storm report: the inclusion of a Halifax forced switching event as a scheduled outage in storm totals (page 7), and the characterization of a Cape Breton East distribution fault as a transmission-line loss-of-supply event.
- IR-2 seeks clarification on the criteria used to attribute outages to the storm event, specifically those beginning after peak weather conditions had passed.
- IR-3 targets the largest tree-related outages by customer hours of interruption, requesting circuit-level data, vegetation management cycle details, recency of right-of-way work, and prior outage history.
- IR-4 and IR-5 expand comparative and cost analysis: IR-4 requires a detailed comparison with Tropical Storm Elsa across nine metrics including restoration costs and resource hours, while IR-5 breaks down restoration costs by labour, contracts, vegetation management, materials, travel, and other categories; IR-6 probes estimated restoration time issuance rates and accuracy.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 103177 NSEB (NSPI) IR-1 to IR-6