Six parties filed Round 1 Information Requests to EfficiencyOne in Matter M12249, probing cost-effectiveness, performance targets, low-income program design, and cybersecurity across 93 information requests due June 25, 2025.

M12249 · EfficiencyOne - 2026 DSM Extension ApplicationIN THE MATTER OF An Application by EfficiencyOne for Approval of the 2026 DSM Extension for Demand-Side Management Activities between EfficiencyOne and Nova Scotia Power Inc., and for Approval of the Amendment to the 2023-2025 Demand-Side Management Purchase Agreement between EfficiencyOne and Nova Scotia Power Inc.

AI summary

The Nova Scotia Energy Board Board Staff (Document 321929) issued 17 IRs covering Cybersecurity risk assessments and insurance, complaint resolution policies, organizational expenditures including bonuses, and the critical question of whether 2026 Demand Side Management performance targets must be revised jointly with 2023–2025 targets or set independently (IR-7), as well as scrutiny of deteriorating Cost Effectiveness TRC ratios for Residential EE (0.9) and Demand Response (0.7) programs compared to prior-plan values above 1.0 (IR-16, IR-17).
Board consultant Synapse Energy Economics (Document 322014) filed 36 detailed technical IRs requesting Excel workbooks reproducing program savings and investment tables by year (IR-8), avoided cost comparisons between the 2022 Evergreen IRP and prior IRP inputs (IR-5), measure-level justification for all components failing cost-effectiveness testing (IR-11), and AMI data usage strategies for demand response marketing (IR-26, IR-35, IR-36).
The Industrial Group (Document 97920, 26 IRs) challenged E1's decision to defer Board directives (e) and (f) from Matter M10473 requiring individual justification of cost-ineffective measures and payback disclosure, questioned whether lower 2026 performance targets are justified given higher prescribed investment of \$63.75 million (IR-2), and sought detailed rate-class expenditure histories from 2016–2024 and inter-class true-up mechanics (IR-4, IR-14).
The Small Business Advocate (Document 97919, 4 IRs) focused on Rate Design impacts, noting that Small General and Small Industrial rate classes face the highest average rate impacts under Figure 2 of Appendix B and requesting explanation of E1's justification and marketing plans to increase small business Participant Costs Benefits participation (IR-1, IR-4).
The Municipal Electric Utilities (Document 97918, 2 IRs) and Consumer Advocate (Document 97923, 7 IRs) respectively sought forward-looking expenditure ranges for the 2027–2031 DSM Plan by rate class including Municipal Rate Class 24 (MEU IR-1, IR-2), and year-over-year comparisons of 2026 program savings goals and budgets versus 2025 forecasts with supporting formulas and evaluation citations (CA IR-2, IR-3, IR-6).

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What was filed

Documents filed on this day

97914 NSEB (EOne) IR 1 to 17 other_documents
97916 Synapse (EOne) IR 1 to 36 other_documents
97918 MEU (EOne) IR 1 to 2 other_documents
97919 SBA (EOne) IR 1 to 4 other_documents
97920 IG (EOne) IR 1 to 26 other_documents
97923 CA (EOne) IR 1 to 7 other_documents