Nova Scotia Power handed $750,000 fine for failing to meet performance standards – Halifax | 24CA News
Nova Scotia’s electrical utility has been handed a $750,000 superb for failing to satisfy 2022 efficiency targets set by the provincial regulator.
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board issued an announcement immediately saying privately owned Nova Scotia Power Inc. failed to completely fulfill 5 of 14 efficiency targets coping with reliability, restoring energy after opposed climate and repair installations.
The board discovered that though the utility has elevated investments in its transmission and distribution infrastructure to cope with more and more highly effective and extra frequent storms, it has failed to realize sure reliability targets in annually because the requirements have been established in 2016.
In 2020, the board ordered Nova Scotia Power to pay a $250,000 penalty, and in 2022 the penalty rose to $375,000.
In May, Nova Scotia Power filed a response to the board’s newest findings, saying the utility’s failure on seven events to satisfy the usual for restoring energy inside 48 hours of extreme climate was the results of the widespread injury attributable to post-tropical storm Fiona final September.
As a outcome, the board agreed to take away some Fiona-related outage knowledge, as they did after post-tropical storm Dorian prompted widespread outages in 2019. But it concluded a penalty of $750,000 for the utility’s 2022 efficiency was warranted.
“The board recognizes that the inclusion of hurricane Fiona (would have) a significant impact on … NS Power’s performance standards reporting,” the board mentioned in its assertion.
“However, the increasing intensity, severity and frequency of adverse weather events are not new phenomena …. It is incumbent upon NS Power to appropriately address the challenges of climate change and adverse weather events.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 16, 2023.
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