Nova Scotia Power filed its 2026 Emergency Services Restoration Plan Drill Report, documenting a wildfire-focused tabletop exercise and updated ESRP Revision 5.3

M13052 · Nova Scotia Power - Emergency Services Restoration Plan - 2026 Drill Report

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The 2026 ESRP drill, conducted May 11, 2026, simulated a three-phase Emergency Response wildfire scenario involving up to 45,000 customer outages, participation from over 60 employees and external stakeholders including the NS Department of Natural Resources, Halifax EMO, and Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency (Section 3.0).
The drill generated three new action items: an Energy Delivery Operations best-practices working session (In Progress), circulation of an EOC Lead Orientation Checklist via SharePoint workflow (In Progress), and advancement of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) discussions, which was reassigned to the EAM resiliency team and removed from ESRP tracking (Figure 3).
Of four outstanding action items from the 2023 and 2025 drills directed by the NSEB's November 5, 2025 decision, three are now complete; one item — updating STORM300 to embed Damage Assessment within Energy Delivery Operations node structures — remains in progress (Figure 2, Section 4.0).
Nova Scotia Power filed ESRP Revision 5.3, which rebrands 'Regional Operations/ROPs' to 'Energy Delivery Operations/EDO' throughout, shifts EOC daily shifts from 7am–7pm to 6am–6pm to align with field mobilization, and clarifies Financial Lead responsibilities to include 'storm readying' versus 'storm response' cost tracking (Appendix A).
NS Power disclosed five EOC activations at Level 3 since the 2025 Drill Report (December 5, 2025; December 19, 2025; January 19, 2026; February 1, 2026; February 23, 2026), and noted ongoing development of wildfire risk maps, satellite imagery analytics, and expanded vegetation management as part of its wildfire mitigation program (Sections 2.0, 3.0).

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N-1 2026 Drill Report exhibits