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· Application · 08/25/2026
NSEB Board Staff issued parallel Round 1 Information Requests to both Nova Scotia Power and the Fitzpatricks in the M12982 DRO appeal over disputed electricity billing
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- The Nova Scotia Energy Board issued five Information Requests each to Nova Scotia Power Inc and to appellants Ralph and Dennita Fitzpatrick on August 25, 2026, with responses due from both parties by September 15, 2026 (Documents 332638 and 332641).
- IRs directed to the Fitzpatricks probe whether they requested an independent Industry Canada meter test under NS Power's regulations (IR-1), challenge their characterization of 2024 consumption as a baseline rather than an outlier itself (IR-2 and IR-3), and ask whether manual meter reads were feasible during the disputed period when NS Power's computer system was impaired (IR-4).
- IRs directed to NS Power seek the detailed calculation behind a $107.77 credit adjustment noted in Exhibit F-4, including how usage was allocated between summer and regular rates over 209 and 216 days respectively (IR-1), and the Billing Procedures policy governing estimated bills — specifically why the customer's estimates appear to have been based on only the prior year rather than a multi-year average (IR-4).
- Board Staff also requested that NS Power provide all available daily usage data going back to 2021, including pre-cyber-attack records, and clarify whether the 19,338 kWh figure cited by the appellants represents 2021 annual consumption or seven billing cycles from April 2025 to June 2026 (IR-2 and IR-3).
- IR-5 to NS Power requests daily high and low temperature data from April 2022 to July 2026, signalling that weather normalization may be a factor in assessing whether the disputed consumption is genuinely anomalous.
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- 103329 NSEB (FITZPATRICK) IR-1 to IR-5
- 103331 NSEB (NSPI) IR-1 to IR-5