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

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

3 (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.

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.

ad. = added am. = amended	fc. = fee change ra. = reassigned		rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted
Provision affected		How affected
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Nova Scotia Power Incorporated Performance Standards Regulations	N.S. Reg. 256/2022
Public Utilities Act
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	Note	Effective date