Prescribed Projects Regulations
made under Section 118 of the
Public Utilities Act
R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 380
O.I.C. 2024-401 (effective October 24, 2024), N.S. Reg. 234/2024
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Citation
Definitions
Prescribed project under Section 21B of Act
Citation
1 These regulations may be cited as the Prescribed Projects Regulations.
Definitions
2 In these regulations,
“Act” means the Public Utilities Act.
Prescribed project under Section 21B of Act
3 (1) The NS-NB Reliability Intertie Project is prescribed as a project under Section 21B
of the Act.
(2) The project includes all of the following:
(a) designing, developing, engineering, procuring, constructing, owning,
operating and maintaining a new 345 kV transmission line, and the
associated station upgrades, which will traverse from Onslow, Nova Scotia,
to the New Brunswick border, and includes, without limitation, all
associated works, activities, infrastructure and rights of way;
(b) funding the construction of and, in co-operation with New Brunswick
Power Corporation, designing, developing, engineering and procuring a new
345 kV transmission line, and the associated station upgrades, that New
Brunswick Power Corporation will own, operate and maintain at no
additional cost to Nova Scotia Power Incorporated and which will traverse
from the New Brunswick border to Salisbury, New Brunswick, and
includes, without limitation, all associated works, activities, infrastructure
and rights of way.
(3) Nova Scotia Power Incorporated is authorized to enter into an ownership
arrangement for the prescribed project with the Canada Infrastructure Bank through
which the Canada Infrastructure Bank may partially own and/or invest in the
ownership arrangement.
(4) In determining an ownership arrangement’s revenue requirement, the Energy
Board must consider all costs, charges and fees incurred by the ownership
arrangement in connection with the prescribed project.
The following regulations are not
yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation: