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Nova Scotia Power Incorporated Performance Standards Regulations

made under

Section 52A of the

Public Utilities Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 380

O.I.C. 2022-274 (effective November 15, 2022), N.S. Reg. 256/2022

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Citation

Definitions

Power quality

Customer reliability

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Nova Scotia Power Incorporated Performance

Standards Regulations .

Definitions

2 In these regulations, “transmission customer” means a connected customer that receives

service of 69 kV or higher.

Power quality

(1) Nova Scotia Power Incorporated must do all of the following:

(

a) deliver stable voltage to a transmission customer under standard operating

conditions and during any transient disruptions;

(

b) maintain voltage on the low side bus of the substation transformer serving a

transmission customer within a range of 0.7 and 1.2 pu for the period of

0.02 to 1.0 s following a disruption.

(2) If a transmission customer provides evidence to Nova Scotia Power Incorporated

and the Board that the transmission customer’s operations have been impacted by

receiving power quality less than the range specified in subsection (1), Nova Scotia

Power Incorporated must undertake mitigation measures to provide the

transmission customer with the power quality specified in clause (1)(b).

(3) Any expenses reasonably incurred by Nova Scotia Power Incorporated in ensuring

compliance with subsection (1) will be allocated across all customer classes as a

transmission network resource.

(4) The penalty for failing to provide power quality specified in subsection (1) within

18 months of a transmission customer providing evidence of impacts is $25 000

per month until the power quality specified in clause (1)(

b) is provided.

(5) The Board must appoint a third party to confirm that Nova Scotia Power

Incorporated provides the power quality specified in subsection (1).

Customer reliability

4 The Board must establish performance standards for customer reliability that consider

geographic analyses of outages and reliability, including using customer level data and

impact of aggregate data related to the frequency and duration of outages.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Nova Scotia Power Incorporated Performance Standards

Regulations

N.S. Reg.

256/2022

Public Utilities Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Nova Scotia Power Incorporated Performance Standards Regulations made

under the Public Utilities Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

256/2022

Nov 15, 2022

date specified

Dec 2, 2022

The following regulations are not

yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

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Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.