Topic:"Operating Expenses" in M12784

1 continuity. Regardless, NS Power engages with customers and stakeholders 2 through community meetings, elected official meetings, and reliability 3 roadshows to address customer reliability concerns. 4 5 • Decreased Operating Costs 6 7 •...

AI summary NS Power emphasizes community engagement to address reliability concerns but admits it lacks comprehensive analysis showing reliability investments reduce operating costs. While individual projects like FLISR show avoided costs, no enterprise-wide aggregation exists. Reliability, not cost-cutting, is the primary goal of the Five-Year Reliability Plan, focusing on future cost prevention rather than current budget reductions.

1 • Additionally, the Five-Year Reliability Plan explicitly increases vegetation 2 management operating expenditures (an additional $45 million annually in 3 distribution and transmission tree trimming and right-of-way work planned 4 for 2...

AI summary NS Power's Five-Year Reliability Plan includes increased vegetation management costs ($45M annually) and acknowledges external factors (labor, weather, inflation) drive operating costs. The company admits it has not conducted formal statistical analysis to link reliability investments to performance metrics like SAIDI/SAIFI, relying instead on qualitative risk assessments.

which NS Power completed vegetation management work in those years (exclusive of 31 any outages associated with MEDs and EEDs) please provide a table identifying the 32 following: Date Filed: May 29, 2026 NSPI (NSEB) IR-9 Page 1 of 4 2025...

AI summary NSPI responds to NSEB's information request regarding performance standards and vegetation management expenditures. The request includes data on customer interruptions, interruption hours, CAIDI/SAIDI/SAIFI indices, and annual O&M and capital vegetation management costs from 2019-2025.

2025 Annual Performance Standards Report (NSEB M12784) NSPI Responses to NSEB Information Requests NON-CONFIDENTIAL 1 (d) Period Year 1 CHI Year 2 CHI % Change 2020-2025 265,629 330,618 -24% 2023-2024 421,160 408,063 3% 2024-2025 408,063 3...

AI summary NSPI provides data on vegetation management performance metrics and spending (2019-2025), noting inconsistencies in year-over-year comparisons due to varying line work volumes. Tables show O&M and capital expenditures, with NS Power questioning the relevance of the analysis to vegetation management effectiveness.

Document: 330133 Date Filed: May 7, 2026 Page 1 1 Request IR-1: 2 Please provide data on all outage events in 2025, as an Excel file, including the same information 3 provided for planned outages in Appendix K, and noting which outages wer...

AI summary The document contains four regulatory information requests (IR-1 to IR-4) directed at a utility, seeking data on outage events, transmission reliability evaluation methods, statistical analysis of investment impacts on customer satisfaction and operating costs, and clarification on SAIFI metric calculations. The requests aim to assess system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.