Topic:"Compliance Legislation" in M12782

17 Table 1 – Summary of 2025 Class 1 Service Levels Task Group Task Service Standard 2025 Avg. Service Levels Met Review & Pre Interconnection Request Review 10 business days 2 business days Y Approval Electrical Plans Review 15 business d...

AI summary Table 1 summarizes the 2025 Class 1 service levels for various tasks related to electrical service in Nova Scotia. While some tasks are meeting or exceeding their service standards, others such as the execution of CNMP Participant Agreement and account setup are not meeting the required standards.

1 Request IR-1: 22 NS Power received completed or amended CNMP Participant Agreements. As such, the 23 average service levels for 2024 cannot be accurately calculated without this time and date 24 information. 1 Request IR-3: 2 3 4 Referen...

AI summary NS Power received CNMP Participant Agreements, but the average service levels for 2024 cannot be accurately calculated without time and date information. In 2025, NS Power met four of six Class 1 service standards, but two were not met. The Board directed a revision to the 'Execution of CNMP Participant Agreements' service standard. The request asks whether the unmet standards caused additional costs and if a cybersecurity incident impacted NS Power.

(c) Not confirmed. The cost allocation and refund methodology described in NS Power's Annual Interconnection Processes Proceeding Report (M12778) reflects the cost allocation straw proposal for distribution network upgrades that was provid...

AI summary NS Power's cost allocation and refund methodology for distribution network upgrades has not been accepted by the Board and is not currently under approval by NSEB. NS Power has not filed revisions to Regulation 2.12 and considers it premature to discuss recommendations related to distribution network upgrades, citing confidentiality under the SSGIA.

M12782 – Nova Scotia Power Incorporated – 2025 Annual Report for the Commercial Net Metering Program In its decision in Matter M10872, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board directed Nova Scotia Power Incorporated to file an annual repor...

AI summary Nova Scotia Power Incorporated filed its 2025 Annual Report for the Commercial Net Metering Program with the Nova Scotia Energy Board, as directed by the Utility and Review Board in Matter M10872. The report includes updates on service standards, hosting capacity analysis, and interconnection processes, but NS Power could not fully recover data related to the timing of CNMP Participant Agreements due to a cybersecurity incident.

Board Findings The SBA requested that NS Power host a webinar to demonstrate the functionality of the hosting capacity map. However, this request appears intended primarily to confirm that the map has been restored and updated, rather than...

AI summary The Board found that NS Power's tracking of CNMP service standards was beneficial and directed it to provide a similar analysis in the 2026 report. It also directed NS Power to host a technical session with interested parties. The 2025 CNMP Annual Report was accepted.