N-1Distributed Energy Resource Integration Roadmap Cover Letter and Attachments
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Pillar 1: Planning for DERs This pillar focuses on establishing the foundations required for effective DER integration. Key priorities include strengthening governance and stakeholder coordination, building institutional capacity, developi...
AI summary This section outlines the priorities for Pillar 1, which focuses on planning for DERs. It emphasizes the need to strengthen governance, improve forecasting, develop valuation frameworks, and identify future regulatory needs to enable effective DER integration.
LOOKING AHEAD The DERIR represents an important first step. Implementation will require sustained commitment, collaboration, and clear accountability. Regulatory clarity and direction regarding leadership roles, responsibilities, and decis...
AI summary The DERIR is a significant initiative requiring commitment and collaboration. Regulatory clarity and stakeholder engagement are essential to ensure the roadmap reflects technological and market changes and meets customer needs.
FIGURE 2: DERIR DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
AI summary This figure outlines the development approach for the Distributed Energy Resources Integration Roadmap (DERIR), which involves key components such as stakeholder engagement, data collection, and integration planning for distributed energy resources.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: KEY DERIR INPUT Stakeholder engagement was a core component of the DERIR development process and directly informed the final roadmap. More than 30 stakeholders from 14 organizations were engaged through three worksh...
AI summary Stakeholder engagement was central to the DERIR development, involving over 30 participants from 14 organizations through workshops and interviews. Their insights informed the roadmap but are not necessarily reflected in final recommendations, as Dunsky also considered NS context, jurisdictional scans, and professional expertise.
Guiding Principles The goal of the DERIR is to provide a path that unlocks both grid and customer benefits from DERs, to support a more affordable, reliable, and clean electricity system for Nova Scotia. The following principles will guide...
AI summary The DERIR aims to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) in a way that delivers grid and customer benefits, ensuring affordability, reliability, equity, adaptability, and collaboration with stakeholders like E1 and IESO-NS.
TABLE 1: DERIR PILLAR, STRATEGY, AND INITIATIVE PRIORITIZATION PILLAR 1: PLANNING FOR DERS STRATEGY INITIATIVE PRIORITY 1.1 Stakeholder 1.1.1 Governance Model FOUNDATIONAL Coordination 1.1.2 Stakeholder Coordination Framework FOUNDATIONAL...
AI summary The table outlines the DERIR (Distributed Energy Resources Integration Roadmap) pillars, strategies, and initiatives for integrating DERS (Distributed Energy Resources) in Nova Scotia. It emphasizes foundational and evolving strategies across planning, enabling, and integrating pillars, including governance, customer engagement, DER valuation, and grid modernization.
TABLE 2: DERIR GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND HOW THE ROADMAP ALIGNS WITH THEM DERIR Guiding Principles How The Roadmap Aims to Align with the Guiding Principles Beneficial The DERIR identifies actions with potential to unlock system, customer, an...
AI summary The DERIR guiding principles focus on ensuring that DER integration is beneficial, affordable, reliable, equitable, adaptable, and collaborative. The roadmap outlines initiatives aimed at aligning with these principles, including DER valuation tools, integrated planning, equity frameworks, and stakeholder engagement.
Qualitative Assessment / Rationale for Inclusion Criteria Assessment Rationale Description The coordination framework is designed to align planning, enabling, and integrating initiatives, supported by coordinated customer engagement, educa...
AI summary The coordination framework aims to align planning, enabling, and integrating initiatives through stakeholder engagement and outreach. It involves technical working groups, advisory committees, and public workshops to ensure DERIR strategies are informed by diverse perspectives and aligned with regulatory frameworks and community needs.
Qualitative Assessment of Compensation Frameworks Criteria Assessment Rationale Strategic Fit ● LOW DER compensation frameworks involve a high degree of coordination. Adjustments to the existing compensation framework will require careful...
AI summary The qualitative assessment evaluates DER compensation frameworks, noting that while they offer benefits like clear price signals, they require stakeholder collaboration, may involve administrative and IT costs, and must align with legislative parameters to manage risks effectively.
Qualitative Assessment Criteria Assessment Rationale Prerequisites / Triggers Initiative 1.1.1 (Governance Model); Initiative 1.2.1 (Institutional Capacity and Capability Assessment and Plan), Initiative 1.3.1 (BCA Framework), Strategy 2.1...
AI summary The document outlines qualitative assessment criteria for initiatives related to governance models, institutional capacity assessments, and customer engagement strategies, with a focus on DER participation frameworks. Dependencies are noted as none, and the assessment includes a framework for utility-owned DER participation.
Qualitative Assessment Criteria Assessment Rationale While a registry can increase visibility and benefit the system, collaboration with appropriate stakeholders is needed to strike the right balance of visibility, accessibility, privacy,...
AI summary The text discusses the importance of stakeholder collaboration in implementing a registry for Distributed Energy Resources (DER), emphasizing the balance between visibility, accessibility, privacy, and security. It also references strategies and examples from Con Edison and Portland General Electric regarding DER integration and visibility.
"WHAT WE HEARD" Stakeholders stressed that the roadmap timelines reflect the urgency of 2030 targets and the impending coal phase-out . It was suggested that assessment phases may need to be shortened and implementation accelerated to achi...
AI summary Stakeholders emphasized the urgency of meeting 2030 targets and the coal phase-out, suggesting that assessment phases may need to be shortened and implementation accelerated. They supported the roadmap concept but expressed concerns about governance, accountability, and funding. Clear leadership and defined roles among NS Power, E1, IESO-NS, and NSEB were highlighted as essential for effective implementation.
INDICATIVE TIMELINES AND INITIATIVE STAGING The three pillars, 12 strategies and 28 initiatives provide a strategic foundation for coordinated action prioritized within an indicative timeline: Foundational (in less than 5 years), Evolving...
AI summary The document outlines an indicative timeline and initiative staging for a strategic roadmap, divided into foundational, evolving, and emerging phases. It emphasizes that the roadmap is directional and subject to change based on jurisdictional reviews, stakeholder input, and external factors such as policy developments and regulatory matters.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Ongoing and regular stakeholder engagement will be key to successfully implementing the DERIR. Stakeholder involvement will help maintain roadmap accountability and ensure that implementation reflects diverse perspec...
AI summary Ongoing stakeholder engagement is emphasized as crucial for the successful implementation of the DERIR, ensuring accountability, transparency, and the inclusion of diverse perspectives and expertise.
Spotlight: Highlights from Con Edison's Distributed System Implementation Plan Con Edison's Distributed System Implementation Plan is a comprehensive plan to achieve its future vision for its Distributed System Platform (that will forecast...
AI summary Con Edison's Distributed System Implementation Plan outlines key DER integration components, including NWA programs, utility-owned DERs, market integration, data sharing initiatives, grid modernization efforts, and stakeholder outreach. These strategies aim to support the integration of DERs into the grid and enhance system reliability and efficiency.
Key Findings and Next Steps The findings of the current situation and gap analysis will be used to inform priority areas for further investigation through additional research and stakeholder engagement , to produce a long list of roadmap i...
AI summary The findings from the situation and gap analysis will guide future research and stakeholder engagement to identify priority areas for investigation and develop a long list of roadmap initiatives, which will be prioritized based on specific criteria.
100338Letter re: Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Integration Roadmap Report Update
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September 26, 2025 Crystal Henwood Clerk of the Board Nova Scotia Energy Board 1601 Lower Water Street, 3rd Floor Halifax, NS B3J 3S3 Re: M12177 – Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Integration Roadmap Report Update Dear Ms. Henwood: In its...
AI summary The Nova Scotia Energy Board directed NS Power to submit a DER Integration Roadmap report by September 30, 2025, following a series of procedural updates and stakeholder engagement activities. NS Power has engaged a third-party consultant and plans to hold stakeholder sessions from May to July 2025.
Update and Progress Work to develop the DERIR began early in 2025 and continues. Notably: - NS Power engaged Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors (Dunsky) in May 2025 to assist in the following activities: - Jurisdictional research - The DERIR...
AI summary The DERIR development began in 2025 with NS Power engaging Dunsky for research, framework development, and stakeholder engagement. Initial research and planning were completed in June 2025, followed by stakeholder workshops. Additional engagement and report drafting are planned for completion by the end of 2025.
Stakeholder Engagement Plan An important aspect of this initiative is to ensure a broad range of stakeholder voices inform the roadmap recommendations. Multi-stakeholder engagement is foundational in the development of a Nova Scotia DERIR...
AI summary This Stakeholder Engagement Plan outlines the importance of involving a broad range of stakeholders in developing Nova Scotia's DERIR. The plan details timelines, objectives, and methods for engaging key stakeholders, with the first round of engagements occurring after initial research and the completion of the DERIR Framework.
Stakeholder Engagement Round 1 Targeted interviews and the first stakeholder workshop were used to share the DERIR context, scope, and process; gather preliminary stakeholder input and alignment on preliminary DERIR goals, objectives and g...
AI summary Stakeholder Engagement Round 1 involved targeted interviews and a workshop to discuss the DERIR's context, scope, and process. Stakeholders provided input on goals, objectives, and potential initiatives like rate design and demand response programs. No major changes to DERIR goals are anticipated based on initial feedback.
Stakeholder Engagement Round 2 The same stakeholder groups are planned to be re-engaged to present the recommended initiatives before finalizing the DERIR. Work on the DERIR and engagement with stakeholders will now shift to discussion of...
AI summary Stakeholder groups will be re-engaged to discuss the recommended initiatives under the DERIR before finalizing it. NS Power expects the final DERIR to be submitted to the NSEB by year-end 2025.