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· Application · 08/12/2026
Nova Scotia Power filed reply comments on the CEM 2025 EM&V Year 4 Report, defending the limited three-month evaluation scope caused by the April 2025 cybersecurity incident and proposing to defer the next full EM&V report to May 2028
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- Ns Power responded to comments from the Consumer Advocate (via Green Energy Economics Group) and the Small Business Advocate regarding the CEM 2025 EM&V Year 4 Report, which was constrained to January–March 2025 data due to the April 2025 Cybersecurity incident that took the CEM portal and My Energy Insights platform offline (Report, Attachment 1, page 6).
- NS Power and Econoler rejected GEEG's assertion that the Report intentionally understated its limitations, citing multiple sections of the Report that explicitly caveat the three-month evaluation window and characterize 'estimated unrealized impacts' for April–December 2025 as directional only; NS Power confirmed those estimates will not appear in future reports (GEEG Comments, July 24, 2026, page 1).
- On Commercial Industrial Programs engagement, NS Power defended year-over-year login comparability by normalizing to the January–March window (0.07 and 0.06 logins per customer vs. 0.07 and 0.05 in 2024) and committed to prioritizing commercial customer activation once the platform is restored; it also committed to adding a survey question on customer electrification to address concerns about negative energy savings in commercial rate codes (Report, Attachment 1, page 18 and page 27).
- NS Power clarified the Program Evaluation methodology for Critical Peak Pricing customers, explaining that the difference-in-differences approach uses non-logging CPP customers as the control group, thereby controlling for the CPP price signal itself, contrary to GEEG's concern that price incentives rather than CEM engagement drove peak reductions (GEEG Comments, July 24, 2026, page 2).
- NS Power proposed deferring the next Advanced Metering Infrastructure-dependent CEM EM&V report to May 1, 2028 (covering calendar year 2027), with a status update on platform restoration and commercial engagement initiatives to be filed May 1, 2027, and ongoing updates through Monthly Update Reports in M12273.
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- 103189 Reply Comments - NS Power