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Topic:"Planned Outage" in M12558

Matter: Review of NS Power's Five-Year Reliability Plan 2025-2029
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N-3NSPI (Synapse) RIR 1 to 65 8 passages
1 Request IR-1: p. p. 10
1 Request IR-1: 2 3 Please provide NS Power's planned SAIDI and SAIFI, with and without major events, from 4 2015-2025 on an annual basis. Please provide in Excel with all supporting data and 5 calculations. 6 7 Response IR-1: 8 9 Please r...

AI summary The document requests and provides NS Power's planned SAIDI and SAIFI metrics from 2015 to 2025, with and without major events, in Excel format with supporting data and calculations. Two tables are presented, one including major events and one excluding them.

in the Reliability Plan is completed under four capital routines shown in the table below: p. p. 10
in the Reliability Plan is completed under four capital routines shown in the table below: Reactive Work 2025 2026 D005 – Unplanned Replacement Deteriorated Equipment $21.5M $22.4M D008 – Storm Routine $3.6M $6.9M T001 – Provincial Transmi...

AI summary The Reliability Plan outlines four capital routines for 2025 and 2026, including unplanned replacement of deteriorated equipment, storm routine, provincial transmission line replacement, and provincial transmission substation primary equipment. The total costs for these routines are estimated at $29.7M for 2025 and $35.1M for 2026.

This includes 147 projects presented in ACE 2025 categorized as reliability investments p. p. 10
This includes 147 projects presented in ACE 2025 categorized as reliability investments Section Investment Category 2025 53,134 2,712,540 141,455 299,538 12,761,769 21,439,047 511,683 1,481,242 191,663 410,003 4,091,892 3,862,555 36,345 78...

AI summary The text presents data on 147 reliability investment projects from the ACE 2025 plan, categorized under various investment categories and reliability factors. The data includes figures related to outages, interruptions, and percentages attributed to different causes such as adverse weather and tree contacts.

p. p. 48
1 Request IR-20: 22 detail on outage cause is available, please provide (e.g. tree fall-in vs. tree contact, 23 specific equipment failure, etc.); 24 25 (i) Condition score or indicator; 26 27 (j) Number of residential customers; 28 29 (k)...

AI summary The document contains a request for detailed information on outage causes, customer numbers, load data, and reliability plan investments. It also includes a response referring to Attachment 1 and noting that all distribution feeders are considered distribution-level.

2025 Performance Standards Report Appendix I Page 8 of 10 p. p. 48
2025 Performance Standards Report Appendix I Page 8 of 10 2019 CKAIFI 2020 CKAIFI 2021 CKAIFI 2022 CKAIFI 2023 CKAIFI 2024 CKAIFI 2025 CKAIFI 2019 CKAIDI 2020 CKAIDI 2021 CKAIDI 2022 CKAIDI 2023 CKAIDI 2024 CKAIDI 2025 CKAIDI 113H-443 Fore...

AI summary The table presents data on various causes of power outages and interruptions from 2019 to 2025, including factors like adverse weather, defective equipment, foreign interference, tree contacts, and unknown causes. It provides quantitative metrics for each cause across multiple years.

Preamble p. pp. 182-185
- 2 to provide the Board and Stakeholders with: - 3 - 4 An update on the completed progress on the Plan to date in 2025, - 5 A forecast of work anticipated to be complete before year end, and - 6 Notable updates to the Plan for future year...

AI summary The document outlines NS Power's Plan to improve system reliability, aiming for a 20% improvement in outage performance by 2029. Tree contacts are identified as the leading cause of outages, with adjustments made to account for their contribution from adverse weather. Grid modernization efforts, such as RTUs and remote connectivity, are highlighted as key strategies to reduce outage impacts.

The primary goal of FLISR is to reduce the impact and duration of outages. The following table demonstrates how FLISR augments traditional technologies to provide the most benefits to customers. p. p. 187
The primary goal of FLISR is to reduce the impact and duration of outages. The following table demonstrates how FLISR augments traditional technologies to provide the most benefits to customers. Method Customers Impacted Speed to Restorati...

AI summary FLISR aims to minimize outage impact and duration by improving restoration speed compared to manual and conventional automated methods. The text explains how FLISR provides faster service restoration by precisely locating faults and reconfiguring feeders, unlike traditional methods that rely on time-current coordination with inherent delays.

Section 921 p. p. 193
7 13 8 As further described in IR-4 Attachment 1, the estimated directional reduction in duration 9 of outages conservatively ranges from 12-25 percent. Using the average avoided outage 10 duration, PLT Labour, and Administrative and Vehic...

AI summary The text discusses the estimated reduction in outage duration from FLISR installation, with potential annual avoided operational costs estimated at approximately $16,500. This information is part of NSPI's responses to NSEB Information Requests related to FLISR implementation.

N-4NSPI (Synapse) RIRs 66-97 - Redacted 1 passage
Five Year Reliability Plan 2025-2029 (NSEB M12558) NSPI Responses to Synapse Energy Economics Information Requests p. p. 29
Five Year Reliability Plan 2025-2029 (NSEB M12558) NSPI Responses to Synapse Energy Economics Information Requests 1 Request IR-73: 2 3 Please refer to NS Power's response to IR-19 (c) (ii). Does NS Power have any plans to more 4 accuratel...

AI summary NS Power has no plans to more accurately characterize and quantify tree contacts in outage tracking, citing consistency with prior reporting and challenges in attributing weather-related tree contacts. The 2025 ransomware attack's impact on reliability in 2025 and 2026 is being requested, with details on when and how reliability was compromised.

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