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Electricity subsidies to pulp and paper mills to continue, despite NB Power's rising debt
Utility forced to pay $9.7 million in mill subsidies last year despite its financial troubles
An effort to fix NB Power's struggling finances that is supposed to involve a look at "all options" will not include a review of the policy that requires the utility to subsidize electricity prices for six New Brunswick pulp and paper mills, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development.
The program is meant "to enable New Brunswick's pulp and paper companies have access to competitive priced electricity," said the department's communications officer Nick Brown in an email Monday
"Keeping our large industries competitive with other Canadian jurisdictions is important," he wrote, knocking down the idea the subsidy program might be scrutinized for shortcomings like other NB Power expenses.
Figures released last week show NB Power paid out $9.7 million in rate subsidies to the mills under the program in the fiscal year ended in March 2021, even though the utility was losing $4 million for the year and falling deeper into debt.
Subsidies went to three mills owned by J.D. Irving Ltd. including two in Saint John and one in Lake Utopia, two owned by the AV group in Nackawic and Atholville and the Twin Rivers pulp mill in Edmundston.
The New Brunswick government has made NB Power subsidize pulp and paper mills like Twin Rivers Paper Company since 2012, and is requiring the program to continue despite financial problems at the utility. (CBC)
It was NB Power's second year in a row of financial losses, while it is supposed to pay down $500 million of its $4.9 billion debt load in the next five years to prepare for the refurbishment of the Mactaquac dam, under a directive issued by the province
NB Power president Keith Cronkhite said he was "very disappointed" with debt increasing last year instead of falling and senior vice president and chief financial officer Darren Murphy said everything would be under the microscope this year to turn the utility's finances around.
"We need to do better," said Murphy on Thursday
"We need to step back and make sure we're considering all options to achieve that objective because the objective is quickly closing in on us."
However, reviewing the subsidy program for the six pulp and paper mills is apparently off limits.
The subsidy program requires NB Power to buy down the cost of "firm" electricity bought by pulp and paper mills to a national average that is calculated by the Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development.
Last year the province declared the price mills in New Brunswick pay to be an average of 7.536 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh). It is higher than rates in five other provinces that have mills, which the province points to as justification for the subsidies, although the true significance of that difference is not entirely clear.
In British Columbia, the large forest products company Paper Excellence operates five pulp and paper mills which are charged 17.2 per cent less for firm electricity than the six mills in New Brunswick.
he
Paper Excellence Paper Mill in Port Alberni, B.C. pays lower
electricity prices than mills in New Brunswick, a benefit largely offset
by higher property taxes. It's a factor New Brunswick does not count in
calculating subsidies NB Power must pay. (Paper Excellence)
However, local property taxes on the five BC mills are a combined $7.8 million higher than the six New Brunswick plants, negating much of that difference.
The province's subsidy formula does not account for differences like that or for the fact New Brunswick mills buy a high percentage of their electricity at cheap non-firm prices.
Not counting the subsidies, NB Power already sells high volumes of what it calls interruptible and surplus power to industry at deep discounts on the understanding it can be cut off and redeployed elsewhere on short notice when needed.
Actual interruptions in service are rare. Last year there were none, but NB Power sold 837 million kilowatt hours of the discounted power to industry at an average price of 4.9 cents per kwh.
NB Power does not disclose how much of the $22 million or more in savings went to the six mills, but the price was 35 per cent below NB Power's posted rate for the plants and rivaled firm prices big mills receive anywhere in Canada, including Quebec.
Asked why the subsidy program ignores large amounts of discounted interruptible power used by New Brunswick mills in making comparisons between provinces, Brown said regulations governing the program require a comparison of firm prices only.
"The New Brunswick average rate is based on NB Power's published large industrial rate for firm energy, as required by the Electricity from Renewable Resources regulation," he wrote.
The subsidy program itself was imposed on NB Power by the province in 2012 to aid companies suffering after years of poor markets for forest products following the 2008 financial collapse and recession.
Providing subsidies has cost NB Power $100 million so far and has continued even as markets for pulp products improved significantly and NB Power's own finances worsened.
Report warned against subsidies
NB Power has never directly criticized the program, but in a matter currently in front the of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board looking at how NB Power might restructure its rates, an independent consultant hired by the utility suggested rate subsidies to large export oriented manufacturing facilities, like pulp and paper mills, is generally a poor idea.
"We do not recommend offering subsidies to exporters," says the report by Christensen Associates Energy Consulting of Madison, Wis.
Bruce
Chapman is with Christensen Associates in Madison, Wis. and is one of
two authors of a support that recommended against NB Power providing
rate subsidies to industrial exporters. (Christensen Associates)
"There are two serious economic problems with subsidizing exports. The first is that the benefits may be less than the costs. The second problem is that subsidies tend to last forever, even if the circumstances that initially justified the subsidies have disappeared."
The Christensen report did not directly assess the merits of the current subsidy for pulp and paper mills but it addressed the issue because it said in the design of new rates "one NB Power business customer has raised the possibility that their electricity-intensive business ought to be granted subsidies because of the potential to generate extra benefits for the Province through increases in their exports"
That, said Christensen, rarely benefits the public.
"The direct costs of the subsidies are the subsidies themselves, a part of which ends up in the pockets of out-of-province consumers of the exported goods," said the report.
"But there are also indirect costs due to the fact that the subsidies are financed through higher electricity prices, which means that other electricity customers have less money to spend on services provided by local businesses, thus putting a drag on the local economy."
The province does not agree.
Asked whether it has any studies or cost-benefit reviews that show the subsidy program is a net benefit to New Brunswick, the department cited none but maintained it is an important initiative.
"The program was designed to give large industrial businesses the ability to compete on a level energy field," wrote Brown.
Bruce Chapman
Vice President
Christensen Associates
MA, University of Wisconsin–Madison
800 University Bay Dr., Suite 400
Madison, WI 53705-2299
608.231.2266
info@lrca.com
Bruce Chapman specializes in the design and pricing of retail
electricity pricing products that improve the efficiency of pricing
relative to traditional rates. He also conducts utility rate
case-related assignments such as cost-of-service studies and rate
design assignments, including the evaluation of costing and pricing
methodologies. Additionally, he undertakes load research sample
design. Bruce has managed and participated in many projects,
developing such innovative products as critical-peak pricing,
real-time pricing, and fixed-bill products. In his work with
electricity pricing projects, he has led all phases of program
development: product design, implementation, and statistical
evaluation of customer response. Bruce also has supervised the design
of PC-based software that facilitates innovative retail product design
and supports rate applications via cost-of-service and rate design
models.
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 14:22:35 +0000
Subject: RE: Report Outline Slides
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To Brattle and stakeholder session participants
The following comment was provided by Bruce Chapman who is
participating remotely:
“You might pass on a query to Ahmad about his slides that I’m sure he
has covered. He spoke yesterday about differences in price
responsiveness of customers, citing small business customers as the
least responsive. Yet I didn’t see rate class identification in his
presentation at slide 18. It might be useful for his report if he
were to characterize the rows by type of customer. ( I suspect that
these are mostly residential in the table, though.) That might guide
the Board in reviewing NB Power’s innovative rate design plans by
giving the utility the opportunity to focus its pilots on the customer
classes that it views as most price responsive.”
Stephen
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Natural and man-made troubles push NB Power finances further off course
'We need to do better,' utility CFO says of sixth straight year of weak financial results
"We need to ensure we're looking at any and all options," Darren Murphy said about fixes required for NB Power's finances after it posted a $4 million loss in the fiscal year ended on March 31.
It's the second straight year of negative earnings for the utility and sixth year in a row it has failed to reach budgeted profit targets, a result NB Power president Keith Cronkhite is not glossing over.
"We are very disappointed with these negative financial results," he said in a statement released alongside the company's annual report.
In his own terse statement, Mike Holland, the New Brunswick natural resources and energy development minister, said he too is displeased.
"NB Power's year-end results are disappointing," said the statement.
"There is an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed."
NB Power has been under intense pressure to lower its debt level in advance of undertaking a multiple-billion-dollar refurbishment of its Mactaquac hydro electric generating station but has made almost no progress toward that goal in recent years.
A plan to cut its debt $750 million, to $4.16 billion, between 2015 and 2021 has fallen apart completely with its debt rising $14 million in those years instead, to $4.929 billion, including a $9 million increase in the most recent year.
NB
Power vice-president Darren Murphy says the utility needs to look at
any and all options available to break the cycle of poor financial
performance. (CBC)
"We need to do better," said Murphy.
"We need to step back and make sure we're considering all options to achieve that objective because the objective is quickly closing in on us."
NB Power was hit by a series of expensive natural and man-made problems during the last year, the worst of which was a dead-of-winter breakdown of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station that knocked the plant offline for 40 days in the peak consumption months of January and February.
The
Point Lepreau nuclear plant is NB Power's most important generating
station, but a series of breakdowns at the plant last winter brought
down the utility's revenues. (Submitted by NB Power)
Buying and generating replacement electricity for the idle nuclear plant cost $65 million.
Low water levels in New Brunswick rivers during a scorching 2020 summer was another blow, slashing expected production by NB Power's network of hydroelectric dams that eventually cost it up to $9 million.
In addition the COVID-19 pandemic cut overall demand for power and reduced sales by a further $19 million.
In the middle of those troubles, the Progressive Conservative government, which has been pushing the utility to reduce debt, encouraged a plan to delay the implementation of a 1.8 per cent rate increase from April 2020 to March 2021 that had been applied for from the Energy and Utilities Board.
That moved the rate hike from hitting consumers before the September 2020 provincial election until after, a delay that cost NB Power $27 million in revenue. The utility and the province both said it was NB Power's idea and done for economic, not political reasons.
The government has expressed ongoing concern about NB Power's debt and nearly two years ago instructed the utility to make paying it down by up to $500 million by 2027 a top priority.
Premier
Blaine Higgs called out NB Power during his last state of the province
address, saying he'd asked the utility to develop a plan to reduce its
unacceptable debt level without impacting rates. (CBC)
"This target should come first and foremost in utility planning," Holland wrote in a mandate letter to NB Power in November 2019.
Two months later, in January 2020, Premier Blaine Higgs reinforced that directive during his televised state of the province address.
"I have asked NB Power to immediately develop a plan to reduce their unacceptable debt level without impacting rates," he said.
Since then, however, the utility has posted back-to-back losses, and Murphy said plans to pay down debt gradually over time have not been working and another approach may be needed.
"We've been on a path of trying to achieve these through incremental rate increases and subsequent cost reductions and we just haven't made the progress we'd like to make," he said.
Holland said he expects a workable plan to reduce debt soon.
"I'm not prepared to wait any longer," he said.
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. Welcome to the circus. Maybe we should look at how industrial subsidies are structured. The taxpayer is getting fleeced by these high paid insiders.
.Justin Gunther
It's a very good thing :-|
.
BTW the very first dude to comment wrote "quelle surprise" but the nasty little CBC minions deleted his words before I could record who it was
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Methinks Trudeau the Younger, the RCMP and CBC are well aware of why Katie Telford's buddy Jesse Moeinifar CEO of Viafoura and his evil moderators should be sued BIGTIME N'esy Pas?
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#Corruption
NB Power's missed financial targets are longstanding issue, says Liberal leader
Auditor general says utility failed to meet targets 'year after year'
CBC News · Posted: Feb 25, 2021 11:07 AM AT
In her report released this week, Auditor General Kim Adair-Macpherson said the utility failed to meet financial targets "year after year." (CBC News file photo)
Interim Liberal Leader Roger Melanson says from his own experience in cabinet, he knows issues the New Brunswick auditor general raised about NB Power in her latest report are longstanding.
Melanson, a former finance minister, said that during his time in government it was sometimes difficult to deal with the Crown corporation.
"t was probably one of the most frustrating pieces, where on a yearly basis, when NB Power actually submitted their forecasts in terms of net income contribution to the provincial government, which impacts the provincial yearly budget," said Melanson, who held a variety of cabinet posts in the Brian Gallant government.
"They were never on target. They were always behind."
The auditor general's report was the topic of this week's New Brunswick Political Panel podcast, with a focus on what the report said about NB Power.
In her report, released on Tuesday, Auditor General Kim Adair-Macpherson said the utility failed to meet financial targets "year after year."
She said debt reduction is "not a top priority" for the utility and its liabilities constitute "the largest contingent risk to the province."
Melanson said the government needs to be serious about getting NB Power to focus on their financial situation.
Green Party Leader David Coon said the legislature's public accounts committee holds some responsibility for keeping the utility in check, but the Energy Act should be amended to give the Energy and Utilities Board the authority to approve the utility's 10-year plans and not just rate increases.
"Without that, you know, they've got one arm tied behind their back and you're not getting the accountability necessary," said Coon.
Adair-Macpherson questioned the business sense of keeping New Brunswick's electricity rates some of the lowest in Atlantic Canada.
Green Party Leader David Coon, Liberal Leader Roger Melanson, and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin responded to the auditor general's report on this week's political panel. (CBC)
"While maintaining a consistently low annual rate may be advantageous to NB Power consumers, it is likely contributing to its failure to meet the debt to equity target and ever-increasing debt level," said Adair-Macpherson.
Coon said the province should look at amending the Energy Act to deal with industry rates.
"Right now [the act allows] NB Power … to deliver power for less than their cost to heavy industry. So they're losing on revenues there," said Coon.
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said he believes the utility would benefit from narrowing its focus to providing electricity to customers.
"I've seen lately that NB Power seems to be branching out into other areas, such as, you know, investment in research and development, which I understand there has to be a certain element of," said Austin.
"You go back to, you know, things like Joi Scientific, where you see money literally just, you know, thrown down the drain here for these whimsical ideas."
The Progressive Conservatives were unable to provide someone to take part in the panel this week.
Dea Vu Anyone?
COVID-19 roundup: 1 new case in N.B. as Edmundston enters orange recovery phase
7 workers at Edmundston Regional Hospital have been diagnosed with COVID-19
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David Amos
Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it.
David Amos
Did David Amos get another account, or did his old one get banned?
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Look in the comments for Tony Mcalbey.
Hopefully he isn't inspiring more nutjobs lol.
Methinks ethical people folks should review what was really said by mean old me and my noname political foes warts and all Everybody and his dog now I am not Tony Baby N'esy Pas?
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Only a nomind no name chickens**t would pretend to be me CORRECT JOHN GREEN???
Methinks you know as well as I that the RCMP know you just proved my point again in Spades while stealing my name again N'esy Pas pervert???
Not even Johnny “Never Been Good” Green is that dumb. Everybody and his dog knows that I ALWAYS post in my name unlike you shills who steal my name and work for reasons I will never understand.
YOU
are most likely the whacko from Seattle who has been threatening my
daughter. Rest assured I have many friends in your neck of the woods who
ride Harleys and don’t take kindly to fake gang members N’est Pas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qbIw6E3iTw&t=204s
THE CAPITOL CHAOS WAS A KINDERGARTEN RIOT..QUIT BEING SKARED OF LOW IQ REDNECKS 😆
Well one Troll using my name came and went like the chickenshit he truly is EH?
yeah he's an odd one isn't he? Ahh well, seems harmless and I hope he remains that way.
I believe the catchphrase was first used to mock someone who said "n'est-ce pas?"
What a jerk.
Cringey seems to be a prereq for cbc comment sections.
Makes reddit look like the height of discourse.
Half that comment section needs a ban. It's basically just the same 8 angry old people yelling at each other. Surely other than David no one is actually using their real names...
Nope, david just posted. I thought the same thing too that the CBC NB comment section was waaayyy too quiet lately.
I did not know the name, but I immediately knew the commenter you were posting about LOL
That comment section is a garbage fire. I was pretty active in it about 8 or 9 years ago. It has gotten so much worse during that time.
Comment sections seem to bring out the worst of the right-winged thinking. I swear if you only read comment sections you would think PANB was winning elections in landslides.
I enjoy having a laugh at the nutters in the comment sections, heck, it’s fun to egg them on.
That Amos guy is such clutter, it’s not even worth reading.
CBC already limits comments on 90% of the topics, I have no idea how the guy can turn a comment section about puff pieces into some conspiracy theory about MLA’s ignoring him.
His election campaign was hilarious.
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What about them?
They either pay attention and follow the rules, or they break the law, and hopefully they get charged.
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#Corruption
NB Power management at fault for missed debt targets, says auditor general
Debt reduction is "not a priority" at Crown corporation, said Kim Adair-Macpherson
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 23, 2021 5:07 PM AT
Auditor General Kim MacPherson says NB Power failed to meet financial
targets "year after year" by engaging in "optimistic" and "inaccurate
forecasting" of utility expenses. (Michel Corriveau/Radi
Wishful thinking and poor forecasting have led NB Power to consistently miss profit and debt reduction targets in recent years with major new expenditures on the horizon, according to an unflattering assessment of the utility's financial management by New Brunswick Auditor General Kim Adair-MacPherson.
"It is ultimately management's decision to reduce debt," said Adair-MacPherson, in a 65-page review of the utility she presented to MLAs on Tuesday.
NB Power ended the 2020 fiscal year with $4.9 billion in net debt, about $700 million higher than targets set for it by the Legislature in 2013. That's a concern, according to the auditor general, because the province guarantees what NB Power owes and significant new spending requirements are approaching.
"It's the largest contingent risk to the province," she told MLAs, about NB Power's liabilities.
Debt reduction, her report said, is "not a top priority" of utility management, who she said failed to meet financial targets "year after year" by engaging in "optimistic" and "inaccurate forecasting" of utility expenses.
The report notes how in 2016 the utility projected $549 million in profits for itself over the following four years in its planning but managed to achieve actual profits over the period of just $54 million, less than 10 per cent of what it had suggested.
Damaging storms, spotty performance by the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station, low hydro production during dry summers and other problems have all taken turns upsetting the utility's financial plans, but Adair-MacPherson said those risks need to be better accounted for in corporate planning.
An ice storm that hit the Acadian Peninsula in 2017 downed dozens of power lines and cost NB Power a record-setting $30 million in cleanup expenses. (Jerome Luc Paulin/Twitter)
She also expressed concern about whether the utility will be able to significantly improve its finances before 2027, when up to $4 billion in major expenditures will be needed for a rebuild of the Mactaquac Dam and other projects.
"NB Power does not have a definitive plan to do this," she wrote about the need for significant short term debt reduction.
Although NB Power charges some of the lowest rates for electricity in Atlantic Canada, Adair-MacPherson questioned whether that makes business sense given its financial position.
"While maintaining a consistently low annual rate may be advantageous to NB Power consumers, it is likely contributing to its failure to meet the debt to equity target and ever-increasing debt level," she said.
Adair-MacPherson's report comes as NB Power is coping with yet another major unbudgeted cost, the unexpected breakdown of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station last month.
The Point Lepreau nuclear generating station appeared to
have its reliability issues resolved in the last two years, until the
utility had a surprise problem with its turbines in January. (Submitted by NB Power)
Turbine problems forced a shutdown of the plant in mid January and more than a month later it remains offline at an approximate cost to the utility of $1 million per day.
In its response to the report, NB Power defended its forecasting practices and expressed confidence it will get its debt level down to the required 80 per cent level by 2027. However, it also promised to do better budgeting for trouble.
"NB Power agrees to evaluate additional means to quantify the impact of significant future cost uncertainties outside management's control and to include this information in its planning process," said the utility's response.
Industry big winner in NB Power sale
CBC News · Posted: Nov 05, 2009 8:31 PM AT
"New Brunswick industry would get about $200 million more than residents during the first five years of the proposed deal between NB Power and Hydro-Québec, CBC has learned.
The province's Liberal government has repeatedly asserted that the deal would benefit big business and ordinary ratepayers equally.
Now the province's auditor general has weighed in on the issue, calling on the government to provide more information.
"I would hope the government would provide as much information as they can about what the financial impact of the transaction is going to be and also provide some clear information about what the impact on rates is going to be after Year 5," Mike Ferguson said Thursday.
Under the proposed deal, Hydro-Québec would take over most of New Brunswick's generating stations for $4.8 billion, which represents the equivalent of NB Power's debt, Premier Shawn Graham has said."
NB Power first full rate hearing gets questions about big paper mills
The utility has applied for a two per cent rate hike beginning on July 1
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Jun 15, 2015 9:43 PM AT
Multi million dollar subsidies NB Power is forced to provide the province's big paper mills took centre stage at the utility's rate hearing Monday with a retired NB Power engineer criticizing the practice as thinly veiled corporate welfare.
"I'd like to understand the program and I would like all the documentation that's available on the program that will explain it to people," said Gregory Hickey as he questioned a panel of NB Power executives about the practice of buying renewable energy from paper mills and reselling it back to them at a substantial loss.
"I think the people of this province deserve to know,"
NB Power is in front of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board for its first full rate hearing, where all of its operations are open to scruitny, since 1993.
The utility has applied for a modest two per cent rate hike beginning on July 1, but for the first time in 22 years the application requires full disclosure and that is subjecting the utility to some tough questioning.
Hickey registered to participate as a concerned citizen and was given wide latitude by EUB Chairman Ray Gorman to ask NB Power any questions he had, with the same standing as the corporate lawyer for Enbridge who went before him and the corporate lawyer for JD Irving who came after.
Hickey made the most of his chance.
I think the people of this province deserve to know.
- Gregory Hickey
He was especially curious about NB Power's Large Industrial Renewable Energy Purchase Program which was unveiled by the Alward government in 2011.
It requires NB Power to buy renewable electricity generated by paper mills at a high price - mostly hydro and biomass - and then sell it back to the companies at a low price to help bring their power costs down.
NB Power says in the first 27 months of the program it bought 858.9 thousand megawatt hours (mwh) of electricity from the mills for $81.6 million and then sold it back to the mills at $57.2 million.
NB Power lost $24.2 million on those transactions and Hickey told the hearing if the utility is rich enough to subsidize industry, it should be denied a rate increase.
Forestry company JD Irving Ltd. is one of the biggest users of the program and its lawyer at the hearing Gary Lawson tried to argue the $95 per mw/h mills are paid for power is the going rate - and a fair price - for renewable energy.
But NB Power has already disclosed in the hearing it only pays $84 for wind energy and NB Power's director of strategic planning and regulatory affairs, Neil Larlee, hinted current renewable prices are much lower than that.
"The price has actually come down in the last couple of years," said Larlee.
Opting out smart meter program could cost NB Power customers
Power customers in British Columbia, Quebec have faced fees for refusing the installation of smart meters
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 10, 2018 8:00 AM AT
"Smart meter opponent Roger Richard, right, leads a group worried about human health problems caused by long term exposure to the devices. (Robert Jones/CBC NEWS)"
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Harsh words, disallowed expenses greet NB Power in rate increase decision
‘The utility must stop overspending,’ Energy and Utilities Board says
· CBC News · Posted: Oct 02, 2020 8:44 PM AT
NB
Power has been told by its regulator, the Energy and Utilities Board,
it is not doing enough to control costs or reduce debt. (Radio-Canada)
New Brunswick's Energy and Utilities Board has finally approved part of NB Power's year-old request for a rate increase but not before stripping out $1.4 million in expenses it called unjustified and chastising the utility for not controlling its costs.
"The utility must stop overspending on items … that are within its control," wrote the board.
"It does not appear there has been any meaningful changes taken by NB Power in its approach to control costs or reduce debt. Only modest improvements have been seen on debt repayment."
In the decision released Friday, the EUB ordered NB Power's to recalculate its rate request after subtracting disallowed portions. That will likely lead to a 1.85 per cent power rate increase to customers, although potentially not until next spring.
"With these changes, NB Power is directed to provide the Board, for review, its calculation for a revised rate increase across all customer classes," wrote the Board in its 21-page decision.
NB Power originally applied to the EUB for a two per cent rate hike one year ago on Oct. 2, 2019. It was hoping to have the increase approved and in place for April 1, 2020.
Hearings were conducted last February, but on March 19, with a ruling imminent, the utility requested an indefinite suspension of the application in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Energy and Utilities Board acting chairperson Francois
Beaulieu led a three-person panel reviewing NB Power's request for a
rate increase back in February. The decision finally came on Friday. (CBC)
"Many businesses are closed or at reduced operation for an unknown time frame and many employees of those businesses have been affected as a result," said then NB Power president Gaëtan Thomas in a letter to the EUB.
"NB Power has concluded that a rate increase implemented on April 1, 2020, would be counterproductive."
In August, NB Power finally asked the EUB to issue its decision but requested whatever increase it approved to be moved to March 31, 2021, to minimize disruption to the economy.
The EUB has not yet ruled on that request.
Although focused mostly on the current rate increase, the EUB also turned its attention to a string of poor financial results and missed debt reduction targets posted by NB Power over the last half-decade.
The utility lost $16 million in the last fiscal year, the fifth year in a row it has missed its own profit target, and the EUB called on the organization to look internally for solutions.
"NB Power must find a way to stay within its budget and reduce its costs," wrote the board.
The board did approve most of NB Power's budget request with exception of $1.1 million in inflated costs for buying electricity from the Pokeshaw wind farm in northeastern New Brunswick after NB Power negotiated lower prices than it included in its budget documents.
Maritime Iron study
The EUB also disallowed $300,000 the utility had earmarked to study the potential of integrating the proposed Maritime Iron development in Belledune with its nearby coal-fired generating station.
NB Power has since ceased its investigation of how it might help the Maritime Iron project, and the board said it heard nothing at hearings to justify the utility charging customers anything to investigate the feasibility of a development proposed by an outside party.
"This project is speculative. The Board is not satisfied as to the prudence of this spending," it wrote in its decision.
The disallowance by the EUB of $1.4 million budgeted for those two items in NB Power's budget was in addition to money NB Power itself dropped from its request early in proceedings.
At the start of hearings in February, utility executives, including new president Keith Cronkhite, declared $1.4 million in planned spending to support a hydrogen-from-seawater partnership with Florida-based Joi Scientific inappropriate to bill customers for and withdrew the amount from its budget.
Former NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas, centre, with Joi Scientific executives Robert Koeneman, left, and Traver Kennedy on a beach in Cape Canaveral, Fla., promoting the company's hydrogen-from-seawater research. NB Power's spending on that project and other items is being deducted from its rate increase. (Joi Scientific)
Those three changes combined total $2.8 million and are all to be deducted from the original two per cent increase requested by the utility.
EUB board member John Herron wrote a dissenting opinion, arguing NB Power should be able to keep the rate increase portions tied to disallowed expenses to boost its bottom line, but that position was rejected by EUB acting chairperson Francois Beaulieu and board member Michael Costello, who made up the balance of the three-person panel.
The EUB will likely rule next week on when the rate increase will take effect, after NB Power recalculates the amount without the disallowed expenses.
d. Cost Control
[109] During the hearing, several parties questioned NB Power on its efforts to control its costs.
[110] Particular attention was made to the most recent mandate letter from the Minister of Natural Resources and Energy Development dated November 27, 2019, which specifically directs NB Power to achieve an equity target of at least 20% by 2027 through cost reductions and other appropriate mechanisms that will maintain low and stable rates for New Brunswickers
David Amos
Methinks over the course of the next four years it may become commonly known as Higgy's Police Sate N'esy Pas?
i think i have plenty but i'll put the challenge out there...can you come up with a worse run one
Besides being the biggest power generator in NB & supplying renewable electricity, many people live down stream of Mactaquac. I don't believe letting it deteriorate is an option.
"[4] Members of the public were invited to submit letters of comment by January 31, 2020. The Board received 46 letters of comment with the vast majority expressing concerns about the proposed rate increase. The Board has reviewed these letters. During the hearing, NB Power was provided with the opportunity to respond to these concerns.”
The only letter in favour of a rate increase is from the unions. Please do not get me wrong, I certainly know the importance of unions. But with a median income of $30,000 a year in NB how can we justify incomes of over $100,000?
Your $30,000/year median income includes a lot of people who don't actually work; many working-age adults in this province are on gov't assistance. Tradesmen often make $100,000/yr but they earn it. I can easily justify the difference in compensation: one group builds our society & the other lives off it.
Gov't pensions were never meant to be a retiree's only source of income. We all had 45 years to position ourselves to be able to live as comfortably in retirement as we did during our working years. But many squandered that opportunity thru conspicuous consumption & not saving for that rainy day. Poor planning is rarely rewarded. My father often told me a story about an ant & a grasshopper that ended " you sang all summer, you can dance all winter". If you thought the gov't would give you a good retirement, you are the grasshopper.
Why is it up to the EUB to reign these guys in?
Why is the government not fixing this disaster?
Higgy et al know that nobody should be surprised what law firm the EUB picked to stand in and assist in the cover up of smart meters and rate increase Hence they went about their malicious nonsense in secrecy and folks are only partially informed after the dirty deeds were done N'esy Pas?
NB Power has squandered public trust, Until that trust is restored, such projects will always be viewed with resistance and skepticism.
Also with all the ongoing high profile data breaches, there's other factors where trust will need to be rebuilt.
Trust has been lost for many very good reasons though. Nothing has changed either.
Absolutely correct,
Fix the problems, clean house and I don't just mean the CEO it the entire management team. Nothing wrong with NB Power, it's the people that is the problem.
Changing a CEO and his assistants, is not change. You need to change the workers who are developing policy and initiatives.
Like most companies, and governments, the boss has little impact. They broadly lay out direction and wishes. It's the departments thst do the grunt work and develop how those wishes will come to fruit.
Just read any of the city council or provincial news articles. They sell tsoinsbout hoe it is staff sent to their offices to develop a plan and bring it back for a vote.
Thanks for doing far more that your fair share in protecting our interests. Trust that the fat lady ain't sung yet on this issue. Enjoy your weekend away from this madness and take care.
You don't need to sell it to clean house.
Power is an essential thing, you should always control your essential necessities.
FYI in 2009 I supported the sale of NB Power to Quebec and would do so again in a heartbeat. However I would oppose its sale to any Yankees in a bigtime fashion particularly the dudes who bought Nova Scotia Power. Methinks you can trust the fact that the Yankees on NB Power's board and Higgy et al know why N'esy Pas?
Who gets to decide what's essential and what's not?
Free market solutions always do things and make things better, faster and cheaper. Always. Every single time.
Why would a Quebec monopoly be better than an NB monopoly? Didn't Quebec turn down the deal?
I would have supported it myself if HQ would have provided NBers the same residential rates as their Quebec counterparts.
I don't see how the vast majority of NBers would have benefited. It also seemed that HQ was mostly interested in owning the transmission lines, to block NFLD Muscat Falls from NB access to New England energy market. It was the bad state of major NB energy generation infrastructure that scared HQ off...if I understand it right.
Dan Short
Yes they do. I also think we've seen the result of thst during the pandemic. Lots of products unavailable for months. Especially cleaning based ones.
While an open market might give me cheaper power, I like to know my power will be there when it's thriry below. That I don't have to worry about some private business deciding to sell it instead to the highest bidder.
How much equity do you think NB Power had in 2009?
Mactaquac Dam is in bad shape and needs billions to refurbish. Point Lepreau has been refurbished and is, hopefully, like brand new. But, I think the utility was something like 12 Billion in debt, if I remember right.
Seemed kind of sneaky the sweet deal for a few big local outfits with everyone else stuck with high rates, though.
Start by breaking up the monopoly and allowing unsubsidized, free market solutions to handle the energy sector.
Notice how they don't mention where they meet.
Wonder what our transportation industry would look like if it weren't monopolized by the eub. Not surprising that they require secrecy.
"Hard telling not knowing for sure"
Name the date/time and location of just one meeting. Covid related zoom meetings notwithstanding.
Btw, I have researched and sent an email asking this to the eub with no response.
Rule 2 Hire knowledgeable people on WHAT they know , NOT WHO they know !!!
All those patronage positions and boondoggles...not to mention the secretive price control scheme by the eub...nothing to see here, eh?
Try getting away with all this in a real free market, where journalists actually did their jobs.
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 19:23:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Higgy Methinks I have huge bone to pick
Minister Mikey Holland NB Power their buddie the EUB and Johnny "Never
been Good Herron in paricular N'esy Pas???
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:22:47 -0300
Subject: YO Higgy Methinks I have huge bone to pick Minister Mikey
Holland NB Power their buddie the EUB and Johnny "Never been Good
Herron in paricular N'esy Pas???
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Anderson-Mason, Andrea Hon. (JAG/JPG)" <Andrea.AndersonMason@gnb.ca>
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 16:54:11 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: YO Higgy Methinks whereas there is no
> transcript available that supports the EUB decision about "Not So
> Smart" Meters folks are entitled to know what my friend Roger Richard
> before the election N'esy Pas???
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
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> From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 16:35:06 +0000
> Subject: RE: YO Minister Mikey Holland RE The Not So Smart Meter Games
> I trust that your lawyer or Ellen Desmond can explain what the EUB has
> acknowledged before I take you people to a REAL COURT
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: August 6, 2020 12:29 PM
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> Subject: YO Minister Mikey Holland RE The Not So Smart Meter Games I
> trust that your lawyer or Ellen Desmond can explain what the EUB has
> acknowledged before I take you people to a REAL COURT
>
> These are the EUB published words not mine CORRECT?
>
> These documents can be sourced from the records of the 375 Matter
>
> http://www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/
>
> 02/07/2018 Hearing - Day 1 / Audience - 1ier jour
>
> Page 295
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Thank you. So there is the two interveners or two
> participants in the proceeding that have no legal counsel. One is Mr.
> Richard and the other one is Mr. Bourque. So I just want to provide --
> yes, Mr. Rouse?
>
> MR. ROUSE: I guess I don't have legal counsel either.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: True. So you are -- NCFS doesn't have legal counsel?
>
> MR. ROUSE: That's correct.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So I will address the three of you then. So Mr. Bourque
> and Mr. Rouse -- I think, Mr. Rouse, you know how the proceeding
> proceeds. So Mr. Bourque, essentially when it comes and you have a
> panel, they are subject to cross-examination. And if you do have any
> questions specifically to the panel, you will be asked to come in
> front and ask your question to whomever your questions you want to ask
> to. Now if there is an objection to your questioning I would ask you
> to stop and at that point what I will do is I will hear the person
> who was objecting to your question and afterwards I will hear if you
> have any other comments to make regarding the objection and we will
> deal with those -- with the objection as it comes. So do you
> understand that?
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Yes, I do and thanks for explaining it.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you. Monsieur Richard, essentiellement
> qu’est ce qui va arriver, pis quoi je mentionnais en anglais, c’est
> que vous êtes non-représenté par un avocat donc vous – peut-être que
> vous connaissez pas toute la façon que les procédures fonctionnent.
> Donc, l’Énergie Nouveau-Brunswick a différent panel qui – qui vont
> introduire pour – pour – pour contre-interrogatoire, donc si vous avez
> des questions a demandé aux personnes, donc, vous allez poser vos
> questions à ces personnes-là. Et puis si y’a une partie qui s’objecte
> à votre question, j’vous demanderais juste d’arrêter. Et puis quoi ce
> que la Commission va faire c’est qu’elle va entendre la partie qui
> s’objecte. Et puis à ce moment-là j’vas vous demandez si vous avez
> aucun commentaire à regarder l’objection et puis on – on va – on va
> rendre une décision à ce point-là relativement à l’objection. Est-ce
> que vous comprenez ceci.
>
> DR. RICHARD: Oui. Oui, Monsieur Vice-président.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN : Pis je comprends aussi que, Monsieur Richard, que vous
> êtes un professionnel, donc durant la procédure vous serez pas ici à
> tous les jours. J’pense que vous avez autorisé un Monsieur LeBlanc de
> – d’être ici à – pour vous représenter lorsque vous serez dans votre
> clinique. Je ne sais pas où votre clinique est, donc ce que je
> comprends bien que cette personne-là va vous représentez lorsque vous
> serez pas disponible.
>
> DR. RICHARD : Oui c’est bien ça
>
> Page 322
>
> CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. BOURQUE:
>
> Q. - Mr. Murphy, as Chief Financial Officer, do you agree with 13 the
> accounting of KPMG?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Sorry, do I understand the question, do I agree with the
> accounting of KPMG?
>
> Q. - Yes.
>
> MR. MURPHY: Yes, I do.
>
> Q. - Do you know the account -- the KPMG auditor, and if so who are they?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Sorry, I am having a little difficult time 21 hearing up
> here, did you say the owner or the author?
>
> Q. - The auditors, sorry about that.
>
> MR. MURPHY: Yes, I do. I know the primary partner on our particular audit
> file.
>
> Q. - Do you have a name for them?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Our primary audit partner is Jamie O'Neil.
>
> Q. - Jamie O'Neil. And I was a bit surprised that when I asked the
> question earlier and there was -- the audit was not signed and any
> business I have ever been involved with before, the auditors always
> came and made the presentation of the audit and this didn't appear to
> happen. Is there a reason for that?
>
> MR. MURPHY: So I am not exactly sure of the reference that's being
> made, but our audit statements are signed every year. As described, we
> have a very traditional process in terms of the auditors coming in and
> making a final presentation to the boards of directors. It's at that
> time that we do sign off on the audited statements and they are
> available online for anybody to go in and view them.
>
> Q. - Mr. Murphy, are you familiar with David Amos and Greg Hickey and
> their concerns about the payout to pulp mills by the NB Power Large
> Industrial Renewable Energy Purchase programs and the fact that the
> U.S. Department of Commerce consider it corporate welfare affecting
> the American interest and with trade with Canada?
>
> MR. FUREY: Mr. Chair, we have been down this road before in previous
> hearings. Mr. Hickey addressed this in at least one, and if I am not
> mistaken, two hearings. And I
> believe where we objected to certain questions of Mr. Hickey in the
> past like this, the Board concluded that relevant questioning -- that
> it would be a relevant question to ask questions related to compliance
> by NB Power with provisions of the Electricity Act and the LIREPP
> regulation, the renewable regulation, which includes the LIREPP
> program, but debate about policy, as to whether or not LIREPP is a
> desirable policy is not a matter for this Board and I think we have
> had that resolved in previous hearings.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Mr. Bourque, Mr. Furey is right. We did have -- when
> Mr. Hickey was here last year, and I think at other hearings, we had
> that debate and so it's a policy issue. If you have questions
> regarding LIREPP, regarding compliance, I think you are permitted to
> ask those questions, but if it's questions regarding policy, regarding
> the LIREPP program, it's not relevant and it's in the legislation so
> --
>
> MR. BOURQUE: I wasn't aware of what took place last year.
>
> Q. - Mr. Murphy, are you aware of my friend, David Amos and the
> concerns with the NB Power since 2006?
>
> MR. MURPHY: I would not say that I am aware of any detailed concerns
> that Mr. Amos has expressed.
>
> Q. - Have you read the filings that NB Power filed into the record of
> this matter since -- on October 30th of 2017?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Yes, generally I have read all the documents.
>
> Q. - Have you read the transcript of the hearing on October 2 31st?
>
> MR. MURPHY: I did not read the transcript.
>
> Q. - And have you read the emails that Mr. Amos sent since then?
>
> MR. MURPHY: I did not read the emails. If there is something in
> particular that's filed on evidence that you would like to bring up on
> the screen for me to review, I am happy to review it and answer
> questions on it, but I have not read the emails.
>
> Q. - Ms. Clark, why does NB Power consider the smart meter it wished
> to attach to my home a federal matter? If I get sick, or because of
> an injury to my home or property, do I sue the federal or do I sue NB
> Power?
>
> MS. CLARK: So with respect to the smart meters, the AMI installation,
> we would be complying with all of Health Canada's Guidelines with
> respect to the meter installation.
>
> Q. - So if there is a problem NB Power is responsible for it or the
> federal, if you are complying by the federal regulations?
>
> MR. FUREY: Mr. Vice-Chair, I don't think that's a fair question to
> address to this panel.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Is there going to be another panel that can address his
> question, Mr. Furey?
>
> MR. FUREY: Well to be asked to comment in advance on circumstances in
> which liability might arise, you know, certainly if there is a
> specific fact circumstance presented, maybe the question could be
> answered, but this is very broad.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So are you suggesting that if he rephrases his
> question that this panel could answer the question?
>
> MR. FUREY: I guess I would have to hear the question, but I -- what I
> am saying is the question as framed is I think impossible to answer.
> And it's unfair to ask any witness to commit to liability around a
> question as broad as if something goes wrong.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Mr. Bourque, can you reframe your question?
>
> Q. - Well my -- my concern is the spending of a lot of money for the
> smart meters. And as we heard earlier this morning, the temperature
> has a big temp' -- a big effect on the use of power. Well do we need
> to spend millions of dollars to tell us when the temperature gets
> colder and that? NB Power knows that. When the temperature goes down,
> they are going to have to start producing, you know, more power to
> supply the demand. And I think it's really -- wonder if it's worth
> sending that. The other thing is I have received some videos off the
> internet of smart meters where they literally caught the side of the
> house on fire. There was pictures of just around the meter and that.
> So if that happens to my house, who is responsible?
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Panel?
>
> MS. CLARK: I will address your question in two parts. The first part
> of it is with respect to the installation of smart meters or the AMI
> project. The example that was given would be a perfect reason for NB
> Power to install advanced metering infrastructure. During the times
> when the utility or when the province is facing very cold
> temperatures, having the advanced metering infrastructure in place
> would allow customers to have more information readily available
> during the month. So when we are dealing with high bill complaints,
> like we have been this last month due to the extremely cold
> temperatures, customers would actually be able to see their usage
> throughout the month and not be subject to receiving a final bill at
> the end of the month and being surprised by their consumption because
> of the cold weather. So this would be a perfect example of why the
> advanced metering infrastructure would be in the -- it would be in the
> benefit of our customers.
> The second piece, I think with reference to the safety of meters, we
> will be following Measurement Canada safety standards, Health Canada
> safety standards. All of our meters will be tested. And during the
> install, we will actually be able to look at customers' premises to
> see if there are any issues related to safety that we should be
> addressing at the time. There are specific incidents where there have
> been some issues with meters being installed, but those are very
> specific to either the geographical location where they were being
> installed or the customers' equipment itself. But again when we are
> actually installing the meters, as we are installing 355,000 meters
> across the province, we will actually be able to visually inspect
> each one of those locations to see if there is any issues with respect
> to the meter itself or the installation that's on the customers'
> premises. But it would depend on what exactly it is we find as to how
> it would be handled.
>
> Q. - I got one final question. If a customer decides he doesn't want a
> smart meter at his place, can he opt out?
>
> MS. CLARK: Yes, absolutely. We will have an opt out policy.
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Thank you.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Is that all your questions, Mr. 20 Bourque?
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Yes.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you.
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Thank you.
>
>
> 02/09/2018 Hearing - Day 3/ Audience - 3ième jour
>
>
> Page 590
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: That is a pretty broad statement. If you could be a
> little bit more specific on restrictions you are referring to.
>
> Q. - Well for an example, Mr. Cronkhite, would be the LIREPP program
> restricts how your generation assets are used. Would you agree with
> that?
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: The LIREPP program is simply a input of renewable
> resources into the system. It does not, in my opinion, for the size of
> the contribution, restrict our operations in any way.
>
> Q. - Okay. You have purchase power agreements. Do they mot also
> dictate or indicate how your generation assets can be used?
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: Certainly we do have power purchase arrangements when
> energy would be an example where we need to incorporate that wind when
> it's generated. As a result of that, we do position, so I think maybe
> Ms. Desmond may be asking this that we do need to position our
> remaining fleet to accommodate or adjust and follow that wind
> variation as it operates today. Not unlike that we would have with
> embedded generation assets, and to a much smaller degree obviously,
> home generation around solar and different items such as that.
>
> Q. - If we were to maximize the benefits of AMI in our smart grid,
> isn't it also true that we should maximize the use of our generation
> supply assets that we currently have, and wouldn't that mean
> revisiting some of these existing constraints?
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: We are always mindful of the existing commitments that
> we have on our system today. When we look forward with respect to the
> time frames, and as I mentioned earlier, that this is a managed
> transition not over five years, but over 15, 20 and 25 years, we are
> always mindful and that's why we have looked at power purchase
> arrangements that are coming due in the mid-20s and beyond that we
> allow the freedom and flexibility for us to make the correct
> adjustments, as we move towards those particular milestones.
> With respect to new generation coming on line, that's why we do the
> modelling, that's why we do sensitivities around various scenarios to
> ensure that we are optimizing to the best of our ability. One of the
> foundational items around our Energy Smart NB plan is being able to
> connect with customers to connect to intermittent generation that we
> know is coming onto the system in the near term and medium term and
> having more visibility on that. So that exactly we can optimize our
> generation fleet more effectively today through visibility on this
> distributed generation resources so that we can synchronize it much
> more effectively with the system moving forward.
>
> Q. - I wasn't specifically asking about new generation. It really was
> the existing constraints that you have to work around and deal with in
> terms of generation dispatch.
>
> MS. DESMOND: Okay. I think those are all of our questions though.
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> BY THE BOARD:
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Ms. Desmond. So I think we do have -- as
> Board members we do have a couple of questions to ask. So I will
> start. I am looking at your current business case that you have
> before us with your total project contribution of minus $1.3 million.
> And from the evidence that we have heard the last couple of days, is
> that you consider this as a breakeven number, and I think that that's
> what you were telling us, Ms. Clark.
> So the normal individual, your rate customer, would you not think
> that he would not perceive your $1.3 million as a breakeven number?
>
> MS. CLARK: I guess in the context in which I was using breakeven is
> it is an investment rationale document and it's intended to cover the
> life cycle costs of the program, and those are assumptions and it's
> hovering very close to zero when you look at it over the life cycle.
> I think in the last few days of the hearing, we have indicated that
> it's more than breakeven and would even say that if we were to
> incorporate the adjustments, and the undertaking we just took from Ms.
> Desmond to provide the adjustments that were recommended in the
> Synapse report, we are looking at an investment rationale that is
> leaning closer to probably $10 million or 8 or $9 million. And if we
> were to quantify some of those non-quantifiable benefits and be less
> conservative in some of the estimates that we put in the investment
> rationale document, I think we could easily get to a $10 million
> improvement.
> Again, and I know you have heard this before, the intention was to
> come in as conservative as possible, and know that we had all the
> potential upside. In hindsight, perhaps we should have taken a
> different approach, but I do believe that we can demonstrate that we
> have a positive investment rationale as well.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So there was discussion around -- and I think it was
> brought forward by Mr. Bourque and Dr. Richard, all about -- and Ms.
> Desmond regarding the option of option in and option out. Have you
> surveyed your current residential customers to see who will opt in and
> who will opt out before making $123 million investment?
>
> MS. CLARK: Customer engagement is a big part of this project, and
> we are as concerned as you would be about making that sort of an
> investment. So we will be doing, as part of our customer engagement,
> but part of it is the focus group that we did early on is people don't
> understand what the smart meter is, so part of it would be around
> education of what the smart meter is and the benefits it can provide
> to customers. So we need to educate our customers first and then
> allow them to make an informed decision. So that will be part of the
> roll-out plan and we will check and adjust along the way. If there
> are issues concerning the social engagement or a customer's uptake,
> you know, this is very similar to what has been done in other
> jurisdictions and they haven't had those challenges, but if we did, we
> certainly wouldn't be looking at making an investment of this size
> without having the customer with us.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Well don't you think, Ms. Clark, that you should
> have your educational piece before the Board approves $123 million
> spend?
>
> MS. CLARK: I recognize the challenge. The commitment the utility
> would make is, as part of the project itself, we would be doing --
> undertaking the engagement process with our customers again starting
> with the education piece.
> Assuming that was positive, we would proceed and we are prepared
> to give the Board updates, as we come forward, either through the general
> rate application or through any other process including the quarterly
> updates we are providing at this point in time on our infrastructure, so
> that
> can be done and conditional with the approval of the project.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So I am trying to understand the objective of the
> AMI, and there was discussion, so can -- and I am having a little bit
> of difficulty understanding what is the objective or objectives that
> you are trying to do with AMI?
>
>
> Page 601
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: I was a bit surprised when I heard this morning and
> yesterday that you are entering into a contract at the end of February
> and is that with respect to the purchase of the smart meters?
>
> MS. CLARK: That's correct.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So how can you enter into a contract without the
> firm approval of this Board, if we are going to approve or not the
> AMI? How prudent is that?
>
> MS. CLARK: So we are at the end stages of the contract in terms of
> just the final terms and conditions, but we have been very clear that
> we -- with the vendor -- and they recognize that, because we also have
> Nova Scotia Power, who is part of our consortium, who also needs Board
> approval. So should we not get -- this is conditional on EUB
> approval. So should we not get EUB approval, the contract would not
> proceed.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Now there was discussion yesterday, I think it was
> with Mr. Stoll regarding time of use and time based pricing, and so I
> went through the evidence this morning, and in your main evidence, and
> I think one of the objective of having the AMI going forward to a time
> of use price structure -- rate structure. So am I understanding that
> correctly?
>
> MS. CLARK: That is correct. And in the evidence, we did answer an
> interrogatory on that and you will see that AMI is an enabler for time
> varying rates in the Energy Smart NB Plan. And we did have time
> varying rates included in our investment rationale. We took it out,
> because we couldn't -- we couldn't pinpoint without more detail as to
> what those time varying rates may be and the benefit of those, so we
> took them out of the investment rationale at this point in time, but
> certainly it's something that we are looking at in the future.
>
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So the fundamental question here is that the Board
> should heard -- or hear Matter 357 before approving the AMI? So if we
> don't approve time of use, that basically what will happen with your
> AMI, I mean it's -- if we don't approve the time of use, which we are
> going to hear next year, how can we proceed in approving the AMI
> before we look at the rate structure?
>
> MS. CLARK: As we have talked about in our investment rationale,
> there are a number of other benefits to both the customer and to the
> utility over and above time varying rates that we believe are
> important for the utility and for the movement forward of our Energy
> Smart New Brunswick plan. Many of those benefits accrue to the
> customer. And many of those benefits accrue to the utility and
> ultimately the customer. So even if we were not to move in the
> direction of time varying rates, we believe that the investment
> rationale supports the AMI installation based on the other investment
> -- or based on the other benefits that it provides.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 11:00:12 +0000
> Subject: RE: YO Minister Mikey Holland RE EUB Matter 452 and NB
> Power's VERY sneaky Application for Approval of an Advanced Metering
> Infrastructure Capital Project
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
>
>
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> Subject: YO Minister Mikey Holland RE EUB Matter 452 and NB Power's
> VERY sneaky Application for Approval of an Advanced Metering
> Infrastructure Capital Project
>
> Methinks questionable lawyer Mr Furey wishes to forget many rather
> important emails I sent him and his bosses over the years but one I
> sent on the 12th of February of 2018 should be of great importance to
> mon ami Roger Richard today N'esy Pas?
>
> Vertias Vincit
> David Raymmod Amos
>
>
> P.S.Trust that I published the emails found beloe on the Internet just
> like I always do
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
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>
> Tuesday, 30 January 2018
> RE: Matter 375 - NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate Application This
> should prove the sneaky Yankees such as Wilbur Ross that I know how to
> read N'esy Pas Premier Gallant and and Bill Morneau?
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:40:39 +0000
> Subject: RE: Matter 375 - NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate Application
> This should prove the sneaky Yankees such as Wilbur Ross that I know
> how to read N'esy Pas Premier Gallant and and Bill Morneau?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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> De: "Furey, John" <JFurey@nbpower.com>
> Objet: RE: Matter 452 - NB Power Application for Approval of an
> Advanced Metering Infrastructure Capital Project /
> Date: 5 août 2020 14:59:11 UTC−3
> À: "Mitchell, Kathleen" <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>,
> "Colleen.Mitchell@
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> <NbdotCa@hotmail.com>, "Paul.Volpe@libertyutilities.
> <Paul.Volpe@libertyutilities.
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> "Crawford, Brad" <BCrawford@nbpower.com>, "Clark, Lori"
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> "Gagnon, Jessica Lynn" <JGagnon@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB
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> Ellen" <ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>, "Dickie, Michael"
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>
> Dear Ms. Mitchell,
>
> In relation to the above noted Matter, please find attached a Notice
> of Motion and supporting documentation.
>
> All parties to Matter 452 are being served with this documentation.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> John G. Furey
> Senior Legal Counsel
> New Brunswick Power Corporation
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> From: "Greg H."
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:36:10 -0400
> Subject: Re: Hey Greg say Hey to two good friends whom I call the
> other two stooges Curly and Moe
> To: David Amos , rrichard , Gerald Bourque
> Cc: David Amos
>
> I hear this morning that Canada has made application to take the
> US/Cdn softwood lumber dispute before the NAFTA Chapter 19 dispute
> resolution panel. They interviewed some trade expert from Queens
> University(if my memory has not failed me here) on the CBC NB morning
> show...he thought it would be a "touchy situation" regards outcome
> this time around.
> We know the NB saw-mills are being hit with countervailing and dumping
> duties but I am asking myself about the pulp-mills which are receiving
> the fraudulent LIREPP subsidy...*we are even subsidizing a US based
> pulp-mill with NB Pwr ratepayers $s !*...that being the one on the US
> side(Madawaska) being fed from the Edmundston pulp-mill switch-yard as
> they feed its electrical supply for that US operation from the
> Canadian Edmundston mill side...all supplied via NB Pwr at
> multi-million $ discounts each year. There is no "renewable energy"
> received onto the NB Pwr electrical grid...the whole thing is a
> fraudulent subsidy scam!
> **G.*
> *
>
> On 16/11/2017 10:00 AM, David Amos wrote:
>> Methinks Mr Furey is gonna regret having an ethical computer N'esy Pas
>> Moe?
>>
>> Enjoy your day fellas. If don't wake up tommorrow please know it is
>> because I died laughing in my sleep.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Dave
>
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> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:51:03 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - Attn Hon.Rick Doucet Are you aware of
> what transpired at eh NBEUB on Oct, 31, 2017 and these documents with
> regards the U.S .Commerce Dept concerns about NB Power and its Large
> Industrial Renewable Energy Purchase Program (LIREPP)?
> To: David Amos
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> Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - Re The news NB Power payola and a
> little Deja Vu about my indignation towards Gaëtan Thomas and Ed
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> Tuesday, 30 January 2018
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> RE: Matter 375 - NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate Application This
> should prove the sneaky Yankees such as Wilbur Ross that I know how to
> read N'esy Pas Premier Gallant and and Bill Morneau?
>
>
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> Subject: RE: Re Round 2 of the NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate
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> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:03:28 -0400
> Subject: Re Round 2 of the NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate Application
> This weekend after I read the Transcript of the Hearing - Day 3 I
> opted to attend Day 4
> To: dhebert@npcc.org, charles.berardescof@nerc.net,
> mpopowich@nbpower.com, ecdesmond@nbeub.ca, newsroom
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> Tuesday, 30 January 2018
>
> RE: Matter 375 - NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate Application This
> should prove the sneaky Yankees such as Wilbur Ross that I know how to
> read N'esy Pas Premier Gallant and and Bill Morneau?
>
>
> Hey
>
> Clearly I have some serious issues to dispute with Darren Murphy the
> CFO of NB POWER and the rest of his cohorts within a Crown
> Corporation. This is as brief as I can make an argument in support of
> the need of my testimony in the 375 Matter about what occured within
> it and the 357 Matter etc. In a nutshell I have every right to be an
> Intervenor and to testify as a witness under oath. NB POWER and its
> cohorts in NBEUB failed to prove why I have no right to do so. However
> they certainly proved to anyone who knows how to read what has been
> published why they should be prosecuted libel ASAP. Section 300 of the
> Canadian Criminal Code applies to lawyers too. If you don't think I
> was libeled then introduce me to your lawyer.
>
> The public shows that NBEUB did bar me for malicious reasons on
> October 31st yet permitted me to attend the public hearings this month
> in order to advise my friends Gerald Bourque and Roger Richard. On
> February 7th Gerald Bourque did manage to ask Darren Murphy and his
> associates on NB Power's 1st panel of witnesses a few questions that I
> had asked him to. Need I say that I enjoyed their responses? The
> NBEUB also allowed me to speak for 21 minutes during the Public
> Session that evening but the transcript of the aforesaid session has
> not been filed in the NBEUB records as of yet.
>
> My friends Gerald Bourque and Roger Richard as Intervenors in this
> matter have every right to say and do what they wish which also
> includes paying heed to my advice or ignoring it altogether. The
> filings of Roger Richard in this matter easily attest to the fact that
> initially he wished for me to testify on his behalf in this matter.
> However after Daniel Leblanc appeared in the matter in order to speak
> on my friend's behalf I was removed as a witness. So be it. The NBEUB
> and all the other Intervenors know the truth of my concerns anyway
> byway of many filings within the 357 and 375 Matters. More importantly
> I stated my opinion of this fancy little circus in no uncertain terms
> of the evening of February 7th and I look for to reviewing what I said
> in the heat of the moment.
>
> This weekend after I read the transcript of the 3rd day of the hearing
> I ried to convince my friend Roger Richard to ignore Leblanc's advice
> and put me in his witness list again. However he did not wish to, so I
> respectfully backed away again and will not interfere with my friend's
> plan to stop smart meters going to NB. Methinks the key to it will be
> the media N'esy Pas Mr Jones?
>
>
>
>
> These documents can be sourced from the records of the 375 Matter
>
> http://www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/
>
> 02/07/2018 Hearing - Day 1 / Audience - 1ier jour
>
> Page 295
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Thank you. So there is the two interveners 6 or two
> participants in the proceeding that have no legal counsel. One is Mr.
> Richard and the other one is Mr. Bourque. So I just want to provide --
> yes, Mr. Rouse?
>
> MR. ROUSE: I guess I don't have legal counsel either.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: True. So you are -- NCFS doesn't have legal counsel?
>
> MR. ROUSE: That's correct.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So I will address the three of you then. So Mr. Bourque
> and Mr. Rouse -- I think, Mr. Rouse, you know how the proceeding
> proceeds. So Mr. Bourque, essentially when it comes and you have a
> panel, they are subject to cross-examination. And if you do have any
> questions specifically to the panel, you will be asked to come in
> front and ask your question to whomever your questions you want to ask
> to. Now if there is an objection to your questioning I would ask you
> to stop and at that point what I will do is I will hear the person
> who was objecting to your question and afterwards I will hear if you
> have any other comments to make regarding the objection and we will
> deal with those -- with the objection as it comes. So do you
> understand that?
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Yes, I do and thanks for explaining it.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you. Monsieur Richard, essentiellement
> qu’est ce qui va arriver, pis quoi je mentionnais en anglais, c’est
> que vous êtes non-représenté par un avocat donc vous – peut-être que
> vous connaissez pas toute la façon que les procédures fonctionnent.
> Donc, l’Énergie Nouveau-Brunswick a différent panel qui – qui vont
> introduire pour – pour – pour contre-interrogatoire, donc si vous avez
> des questions a demandé aux personnes, donc, vous allez poser vos
> questions à ces personnes-là. Et puis si y’a une partie qui s’objecte
> à votre question, j’vous demanderais juste d’arrêter. Et puis quoi ce
> que la Commission va faire c’est qu’elle va entendre la partie qui
> s’objecte. Et puis à ce moment-là j’vas vous demandez si vous avez
> aucun commentaire à regarder l’objection et puis on – on va – on va
> rendre une décision à ce point-là relativement à l’objection. Est-ce
> que vous comprenez ceci.
>
> DR. RICHARD: Oui. Oui, Monsieur Vice-président.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN : Pis je comprends aussi que, Monsieur Richard, que vous
> êtes un professionnel, donc durant la procédure vous serez pas ici à
> tous les jours. J’pense que vous avez autorisé un Monsieur LeBlanc de
> – d’être ici à – pour vous représenter lorsque vous serez dans votre
> clinique. Je ne sais pas où votre clinique est, donc ce que je
> comprends bien que cette personne-là va vous représentez lorsque vous
> serez pas disponible.
>
> DR. RICHARD : Oui c’est bien ça
>
> Page 322
>
> CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. BOURQUE:
>
> Q. - Mr. Murphy, as Chief Financial Officer, do you agree with 13 the
> accounting of KPMG?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Sorry, do I understand the question, do I agree with the
> accounting of KPMG?
>
> Q. - Yes.
>
> MR. MURPHY: Yes, I do.
>
> Q. - Do you know the account -- the KPMG auditor, and if so who are they?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Sorry, I am having a little difficult time 21 hearing up
> here, did you say the owner or the author?
>
> Q. - The auditors, sorry about that.
>
> MR. MURPHY: Yes, I do. I know the primary partner on our particular audit
> file.
>
> Q. - Do you have a name for them?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Our primary audit partner is Jamie O'Neil.
>
> Q. - Jamie O'Neil. And I was a bit surprised that when I asked the
> question earlier and there was -- the audit was not signed and any
> business I have ever been involved with before, the auditors always
> came and made the presentation of the audit and this didn't appear to
> happen. Is there a reason for that?
>
> MR. MURPHY: So I am not exactly sure of the reference that's being
> made, but our audit statements are signed every year. As described, we
> have a very traditional process in terms of the auditors coming in and
> making a final presentation to the boards of directors. It's at that
> time that we do sign off on the audited statements and they are
> available online for anybody to go in and view them.
>
> Q. - Mr. Murphy, are you familiar with David Amos and Greg Hickey and
> their concerns about the payout to pulp mills by the NB Power Large
> Industrial Renewable Energy Purchase programs and the fact that the
> U.S. Department of Commerce consider it corporate welfare affecting
> the American interest and with trade with Canada?
>
> MR. FUREY: Mr. Chair, we have been down this road before in previous
> hearings. Mr. Hickey addressed this in at least one, and if I am not
> mistaken, two hearings. And I believe where we objected to certain
> questions of Mr. Hickey in the past like this, the Board concluded
> that relevant questioning -- that it would be a relevant question to
> ask questions related to compliance by NB Power with provisions of the
> Electricity Act and the LIREPP regulation, the renewable regulation,
> which includes the LIREPP program, but debate about policy, as to
> whether or not LIREPP is a desirable policy is not a matter for this
> Board and I think we have had that resolved in previous hearings.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Mr. Bourque, Mr. Furey is right. We did have -- when
> Mr. Hickey was here last year, and I think at other hearings, we had
> that debate and so it's a policy issue. If you have questions
> regarding LIREPP, regarding compliance, I think you are permitted to
> ask those questions, but if it's questions regarding policy, regarding
> the LIREPP program, it's not relevant and it's in the legislation so
> --
>
> MR. BOURQUE: I wasn't aware of what took place last year.
>
> Q. - Mr. Murphy, are you aware of my friend, David Amos and the
> concerns with the NB Power since 2006?
>
> MR. MURPHY: I would not say that I am aware of any detailed concerns
> that Mr. Amos has expressed.
>
> Q. - Have you read the filings that NB Power filed into the record of
> this matter since -- on October 30th of 2017?
>
> MR. MURPHY: Yes, generally I have read all the documents.
>
> Q. - Have you read the transcript of the hearing on October 2 31st?
>
> MR. MURPHY: I did not read the transcript.
>
> Q. - And have you read the emails that Mr. Amos sent since then?
>
> MR. MURPHY: I did not read the emails. If there is something in
> particular that's filed on evidence that you would like to bring up on
> the screen for me to review, I am happy to review it and answer
> questions on it, but I have not read the emails.
>
> Q. - Ms. Clark, why does NB Power consider the smart meter it wished
> to attach to my home a federal matter? If I get sick, or because of
> an injury to my home or property, do I sue the federal or do I sue NB
> Power?
>
> MS. CLARK: So with respect to the smart meters, the AMI installation,
> we would be complying with all of Health Canada's Guidelines with
> respect to the meter installation.
>
> Q. - So if there is a problem NB Power is responsible for it or the
> federal, if you are complying by the federal regulations?
>
> MR. FUREY: Mr. Vice-Chair, I don't think that's a fair question to
> address to this panel.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Is there going to be another panel that can address his
> question, Mr. Furey?
>
> MR. FUREY: Well to be asked to comment in advance on circumstances in
> which liability might arise, you know, certainly if there is a
> specific fact circumstance presented, maybe the question could be
> answered, but this is very broad.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So are you suggesting that if he rephrases his
> question that this panel could answer the question?
>
> MR. FUREY: I guess I would have to hear the question, but I -- what I
> am saying is the question as framed is I think impossible to answer.
> And it's unfair to ask any witness to commit to liability around a
> question as broad as if something goes wrong.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Mr. Bourque, can you reframe your question?
>
> Q. - Well my -- my concern is the spending of a lot of money for the
> smart meters. And as we heard earlier this morning, the temperature
> has a big temp' -- a big effect on the use of power. Well do we need
> to spend millions of dollars to tell us when the temperature gets
> colder and that? NB Power knows that. When the temperature goes down,
> they are going to have to start producing, you know, more power to
> supply the demand. And I think it's really -- wonder if it's worth
> sending that. The other thing is I have received some videos off the
> internet of smart meters where they literally caught the side of the
> house on fire. There was pictures of just around the meter and that.
> So if that happens to my house, who is responsible?
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Panel?
>
> MS. CLARK: I will address your question in two parts. The first part
> of it is with respect to the installation of smart meters or the AMI
> project. The example that was given would be a perfect reason for NB
> Power to install advanced metering infrastructure. During the times
> when the utility or when the province is facing very cold
> temperatures, having the advanced metering infrastructure in place
> would allow customers to have more information readily available
> during the month. So when we are dealing with high bill complaints,
> like we have been this last month due to the extremely cold
> temperatures, customers would actually be able to see their usage
> throughout the month and not be subject to receiving a final bill at
> the end of the month and being surprised by their consumption because
> of the cold weather. So this would be a perfect example of why the
> advanced metering infrastructure would be in the -- it would be in the
> benefit of our customers.
> The second piece, I think with reference to the safety of meters, we
> will be following Measurement Canada safety standards, Health Canada
> safety standards. All of our meters will be tested. And during the
> install, we will actually be able to look at customers' premises to
> see if there are any issues related to safety that we should be
> addressing at the time. There are specific incidents where there have
> been some issues with meters being installed, but those are very
> specific to either the geographical location where they were being
> installed or the customers' equipment itself. But again when we are
> actually installing the meters, as we are installing 355,000 meters
> across the province, we will actually be able to visually inspect
> each one of those locations to see if there is any issues with respect
> to the meter itself or the installation that's on the customers'
> premises. But it would depend on what exactly it is we find as to how
> it would be handled.
>
> Q. - I got one final question. If a customer decides he doesn't want a
> smart meter at his place, can he opt out?
>
> MS. CLARK: Yes, absolutely. We will have an opt out policy.
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Thank you.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Is that all your questions, Mr. 20 Bourque?
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Yes.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you.
>
> MR. BOURQUE: Thank you.
>
>
> 02/09/2018 Hearing - Day 3/ Audience - 3ième jour
>
>
> Page 590
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: That is a pretty broad statement. If you could be a
> little bit more specific on restrictions you are referring to.
>
> Q. - Well for an example, Mr. Cronkhite, would be the LIREPP program
> restricts how your generation assets are used. Would you agree with
> that?
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: The LIREPP program is simply a input of renewable
> resources into the system. It does not, in my opinion, for the size of
> the contribution, restrict our operations in any way.
>
> Q. - Okay. You have purchase power agreements. Do they mot also
> dictate or indicate how your generation assets can be used?
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: Certainly we do have power purchase arrangements when
> energy would be an example where we need to incorporate that wind when
> it's generated. As a result of that, we do position, so I think maybe
> Ms. Desmond may be asking this that we do need to position our
> remaining fleet to accommodate or adjust and follow that wind
> variation as it operates today. Not unlike that we would have with
> embedded generation assets, and to a much smaller degree obviously,
> home generation around solar and different items such as that.
>
> Q. - If we were to maximize the benefits of AMI in our smart grid,
> isn't it also true that we should maximize the use of our generation
> supply assets that we currently have, and wouldn't that mean
> revisiting some of these existing constraints?
>
> MR. CRONKHITE: We are always mindful of the existing commitments that
> we have on our system today. When we look forward with respect to the
> time frames, and as I mentioned earlier, that this is a managed
> transition not over five years, but over 15, 20 and 25 years, we are
> always mindful and that's why we have looked at power purchase
> arrangements that are coming due in the mid-20s and beyond that we
> allow the freedom and flexibility for us to make the correct
> adjustments, as we move towards those particular milestones.
> With respect to new generation coming on line, that's why we do the
> modelling, that's why we do sensitivities around various scenarios to
> ensure that we are optimizing to the best of our ability. One of the
> foundational items around our Energy Smart NB plan is being able to
> connect with customers to connect to intermittent generation that we
> know is coming onto the system in the near term and medium term and
> having more visibility on that. So that exactly we can optimize our
> generation fleet more effectively today through visibility on this
> distributed generation resources so that we can synchronize it much
> more effectively with the system moving forward.
>
> Q. - I wasn't specifically asking about new generation. It really was
> the existing constraints that you have to work around and deal with in
> terms of generation dispatch.
>
> MS. DESMOND: Okay. I think those are all of our questions though.
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> BY THE BOARD:
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Ms. Desmond. So I think we do have -- as
> Board members we do have a couple of questions to ask. So I will
> start. I am looking at your current business case that you have
> before us with your total project contribution of minus $1.3 million.
> And from the evidence that we have heard the last couple of days, is
> that you consider this as a breakeven number, and I think that that's
> what you were telling us, Ms. Clark.
> So the normal individual, your rate customer, would you not
> think that he would not perceive your $1.3 million as a breakeven
> number?
>
> MS. CLARK: I guess in the context in which I was using breakeven is
> it is an investment rationale document and it's intended to cover the
> life cycle costs of the program, and those are assumptions and it's
> hovering very close to zero when you look at it over the life cycle.
> I think in the last few days of the hearing, we have indicated that
> it's more than breakeven and would even say that if we were to
> incorporate the adjustments, and the undertaking we just took from Ms.
> Desmond to provide the adjustments that were recommended in the
> Synapse report, we are looking at an investment rationale that is
> leaning closer to probably $10 million or 8 or $9 million. And if we
> were to quantify some of those non-quantifiable benefits and be less
> conservative in some of the estimates that we put in the investment
> rationale document, I think we could easily get to a $10 million
> improvement.
> Again, and I know you have heard this before, the intention
> was to come in as conservative as possible, and know that we had all
> the potential upside. In hindsight, perhaps we should have taken a
> different approach, but I do believe that we can demonstrate that we
> have a positive investment rationale as well.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So there was discussion around -- and I think it was
> brought forward by Mr. Bourque and Dr. Richard, all about -- and Ms.
> Desmond regarding the option of option in and option out. Have you
> surveyed your current residential customers to see who will opt in and
> who will opt out before making $123 million investment?
>
> MS. CLARK: Customer engagement is a big part of this project, and
> we are as concerned as you would be about making that sort of an
> investment. So we will be doing, as part of our customer engagement,
> but part of it is the focus group that we did early on is people don't
> understand what the smart meter is, so part of it would be around
> education of what the smart meter is and the benefits it can provide
> to customers. So we need to educate our customers first and then
> allow them to make an informed decision. So that will be part of the
> roll-out plan and we will check and adjust along the way. If there
> are issues concerning the social engagement or a customer's uptake,
> you know, this is very similar to what has been done in other
> jurisdictions and they haven't had those challenges, but if we did, we
> certainly wouldn't be looking at making an investment of this size
> without having the customer with us.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Well don't you think, Ms. Clark, that you should
> have your educational piece before the Board approves $123 million
> spend?
>
> MS. CLARK: I recognize the challenge. The commitment the utility
> would make is, as part of the project itself, we would be doing --
> undertaking the engagement process with our customers again starting
> with the education piece.
> Assuming that was positive, we would proceed and we are
> prepared to give the Board updates, as we come forward, either through
> the general rate application or through any other process including
> the quarterly updates we are providing at this point in time on our
> infrastructure, so that can be done and conditional with the approval
> of the project.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So I am trying to understand the objective of the
> AMI, and there was discussion, so can -- and I am having a little bit
> of difficulty understanding what is the objective or objectives that
> you are trying to do with AMI?
>
>
> Page 601
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: I was a bit surprised when I heard this morning and
> yesterday that you are entering into a contract at the end of February
> and is that with respect to the purchase of the smart meters?
>
> MS. CLARK: That's correct.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So how can you enter into a contract without the
> firm approval of this Board, if we are going to approve or not the
> AMI? How prudent is that?
>
> MS. CLARK: So we are at the end stages of the contract in terms of
> just the final terms and conditions, but we have been very clear that
> we -- with the vendor -- and they recognize that, because we also have
> Nova Scotia Power, who is part of our consortium, who also needs Board
> approval. So should we not get -- this is conditional on EUB
> approval. So should we not get EUB approval, the contract would not
> proceed.
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: Now there was discussion yesterday, I think it was
> with Mr. Stoll regarding time of use and time based pricing, and so I
> went through the evidence this morning, and in your main evidence, and
> I think one of the objective of having the AMI going forward to a time
> of use price structure -- rate structure. So am I understanding that
> correctly?
>
> MS. CLARK: That is correct. And in the evidence, we did answer an
> interrogatory on that and you will see that AMI is an enabler for time
> varying rates in the Energy Smart NB Plan. And we did have time
> varying rates included in our investment rationale. We took it out,
> because we couldn't -- we couldn't pinpoint without more detail as to
> what those time varying rates may be and the benefit of those, so we
> took them out of the investment rationale at this point in time, but
> certainly it's something that we are looking at in the future.
>
>
> VICE-CHAIRMAN: So the fundamental question here is that the Board
> should heard -- or hear Matter 357 before approving the AMI? So if we
> don't approve time of use, that basically what will happen with your
> AMI, I mean it's -- if we don't approve the time of use, which we are
> going to hear next year, how can we proceed in approving the AMI
> before we look at the rate structure?
>
> MS. CLARK: As we have talked about in our investment rationale,
> there are a number of other benefits to both the customer and to the
> utility over and above time varying rates that we believe are
> important for the utility and for the movement forward of our Energy
> Smart New Brunswick plan. Many of those benefits accrue to the
> customer. And many of those benefits accrue to the utility and
> ultimately the customer. So even if we were not to move in the
> direction of time varying rates, we believe that the investment
> rationale supports the AMI installation based on the other investment
> -- or based on the other benefits that it provides.
>
>
> 10/31/2017 Pre-Hearing / Conférence préalable à l'audience
>
>
> Page 84
>
> CHAIRMAN: All right. I will now give the decision of the Board on this
> matter.
>
> Mr. Amos seeks intervenor status in Matter 375. NB Power objects to
> his intervention claiming his conduct during the hearing of a motion
> in Matter 357 was confrontational and that his arguments lacked any
> connection to the issues before the Board. The Board agrees with that
> assessment.
>
> In the present matter, Mr. Amos was given ample opportunity to put
> forward a case that would support a respectful and responsible
> intervention. He failed to do so, rolling forward issues raised in
> Matter 357 and not addressing the issue before us today.
>
> Mr. Amos states that the interests he would bring before the Board
> are those raised by Mr. Bourque and Mr. Richard. The Board is
> satisfied that those two intervenors can adequately represent those
> issues. In addition, those issues will undoubtedly be addressed by
> the Public Intervenor and others.
>
> Page 85
>
> The Board finds on a balance of probability that Mr. Amos will not
> participate in this matter in a respectful and responsible manner. As
> a result, the Board will exercise its discretion and refuse
> intervenor status to Mr. Amos. Intervention is encouraged but it must
> be responsible.
>
> Mr. Amos may participate in the public session which date will be
> announced shortly. But again he is reminded that any presentation
> must be done in a respectful and responsible manner.
>
> Finally, Mr. Amos had indicated that he wished to assist his two
> colleagues that are sitting with him today. And certainly the Board
> has no issue with that at all. But Mr. Amos will have no status at the
> hearing in terms of cross-examination or making any argument.
> So that is the decision of this Panel with respect to the status of Mr.
> Amos.
>
> Are there any other issues to deal with today? There being no other
> issues, then we will adjourn.
>
>
> This exhbit was filed by NB Power along with many others to support my
> barring from the 375 Matter
>
> NB Power Notice of Objection - Appendix I 10/30/2017
>
> For the benefit of my fellow stakeholders I wish to explain all of the
> transcript found above of under oath
>
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/nb-powers-rate-hike-plan-for-april-1.html
Friday, 31 July 2020
NB Power's rate hike plan for April 1 has been caught in pandemic limbo
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks Nick Brown should fess up and admit that his latest boss Higgy don't care about NB Power raising rates. He is merely trying to inspire the narrative before he has the writ dropped N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/nb-powers-rate-hike-plan-for-april-1.html
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-planned-rate-hike-pandemic-limbo-1.5669716
NB Power's rate hike plan for April 1 has been caught in pandemic limbo
'Increasing electricity prices at the wrong time may slow the economic recovery'
· CBC News · Posted: Jul 31, 2020 7:00 AM AT
NB Power has long struggled to fulfill two competing goals: keeping rates for customers low and its own finances healthy. (Radio-Canada)
A rate increase NB Power was hoping to have in place April 1 to help boost its troubled finances is still in limbo heading toward next month as the province and utility both ponder when customers and the economy might be ready to absorb higher prices.
In January's State of the Province address Premier Blaine Higgs said NB Power had to 'immediately' come up with a plan to deal with its 'unacceptable debt.' Two months later the utility's finances were being battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Stephen MacGillivray/Canadian Press)
NB Power lawyer John Furey guided the utility's application for an April 1 rate increase through a seven day hearing in February only to have the company suspend the request in March. (CBC)
Expensive delay
Energy and Utilities Board vice-chair Francois Beaulieu said in March a decision on NB Power's application for a 1.9 per cent rate increase on April 1 was "imminent" before the utility applied for a pandemic related suspension. Four months later the increase is still pending. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
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David Amos
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Methinks Nick Brown should fess up and admit that his latest boss Higgy don't care about NB Power raising rates. He is merely trying to inspire the narrative before he has the writ dropped.
Some folks must recall Gallant promising to freeze NB Power's rates during the last election then he took it back in order to get support from the Greens as he tried to remain the boss. Now Higgy is playing the same game. This is particularly egregious to me after watching Higgy support the NB Power late filing for a rate increase as soon as the PANB allowed him to have the mandate.However the second bid for "Not So Smart" Meters and another rate increase took the cake N'esy Pas?
David Amos
When exactly, and where exactly was the last eub meeting?
Good afternoon,
It is my recollection that the Brattle presentation session originally scheduled for December 2019 included the opportunity for parties to make a presentation at that session after the Brattle Group presentation had concluded. Can the Board please confirm whether this is still the case for the May 12 session, or are parties limited to providing a written submission per the letter distributed today? Thank you,
Steve
__________________________________
Stephen A. Waycott
Director, Corporate Regulatory Affairs
New Brunswick Power Corporation
...and when you write in a question and the eub doesn't bother to answer?
These meetings are done secretly. Why?
How is that in NB's best interest?
Price controls are socialism, and only benifits a very few at the top.
It's a thinly veiled cash cow, patronage appointment scheme, imo
Imagine being able to enter the energy generation sector as a small business...or to be able to invest in a well run local energy production business.
A few ppl have taken this away from NBers and stuck them with a massive bill.
How do you know that eub even bothers to answer email submissions?
Is that why the eub meetings timings and locations are kept secret, to avoid having to answer questions?
Ray Oliver
Ray Oliver
Making the moral of the story: don't gamble other people's money.
Only because the management team reads like a list of the who is who of patronage appointments.
Why sell? It's a business owner's dream. A product everyone wants and needs, and a captive customer base, what could possibly go wrong?
What, in this case, "goes wrong", is the patronage appointments to upper management of a bunch of "do nothings/know nothings", who, out of boredom, get the idea in their heads, that gambling the slush fund is a "good idea".
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: I disagree However NB Power should finally be audited and a lot of people need to be held accountable\
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/nb-power-finances-suffered-657m-hit-in.html
Saturday, 18 July 2020
NB Power finances suffered $65.7M hit in March from COVID-19
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others
Methinks its high time folks thank Dr. Roger Richard who has been working very diligently and at great expense before the EUB defending our interests against NB Power's nonsense N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/nb-power-finances-suffered-657m-hit-in.html
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-earning-report-covid-19-1.5654175
NB Power finances suffered $65.7M hit in March from COVID-19
Utility missed earnings target for 5th straight year after markets tumbled days before its fiscal year ended
· CBC News · Posted: Jul 17, 2020 5:59 PM AT
NB Power's loss of $16 million in its latest fiscal year is the fifth year in a row the utility has seen its earnings fall below expectations. (CBC)
NB Power is reporting it lost $16 million in its latest fiscal year, a victim of the COVID-19 economic meltdown in March that ravaged its finances in a matter of days.
The utility had told the province to expect a $49.7-million profit for the fiscal year ending on March 31 — a figure New Brunswick Finance Minister Ernie Steeves used in his March 10 budget — but 21 days later, $65.7 million had evaporated and NB Power's accounts suddenly tumbled into the red.
"It was the instability of the financial markets in February and March 2020, largely as a result of the pandemic, that drove this reduction," said new NB Power president Keith Cronkhite in a statement in the utility's annual report released Friday.
Cronkhite was only named president on March 30, succeeding former president Gaëtan Thomas one day before the fiscal year ended.
Finance Minister Ernie Steeves announced on March 10 the province was headed for a $97.7-million budget surplus for the fiscal year ended March 31, but that depended on NB Power turning a $49.7-million profit. The utility's $16-million loss will show up when Steeves issues final financial statements later this summer. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
NB Power chair Ed Barrett was philosophical about the unfortunate turn of events in his own statement.
"It is remarkable that what we may remember most about 2019/20 are the events that surfaced just as NB Power's fiscal year was drawing to a close."
It's the fifth year in a row NB Power has failed to meet its earnings target although the problem this time was financial, not operational.
The money is managed by Vestcor, the Fredericton investment entity that handles New Brunswick government employee pension funds, and a steep collapse in global financial markets that began in late February was behind most of NB Power's losses, according to the account in its annual report.
NB Power's loss was caused by a March meltdown in financial markets, not operational problems, as its nuclear decommissioning investments were hammered. (Richard Drew/The Associated Press)
"The instability of the financial markets largely as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, led to a significant decrease in the gains on the investments year-over-year and was the primary driver of this unfavourable variance."
No one from the utility was made available to speak about the financial results Friday, but the loss will have a significant impact on New Brunswick's own fiscal year financial results which will be reported later this summer.
The province had projected a $97.7-million budget surplus for the year ended March 31, 2020, but the setback at NB Power will spill onto its books and erase two thirds of that.
A budget surplus the province had been projecting for 2021 has already been downgraded to a $343-million deficit.
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David Amos
Methinks everybody knows why KPMG and I are not surprised N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Cronkhite was only named president on March 30, succeeding former president Gaëtan Thomas one day before the fiscal year ended."
Methinks Higgy et al forgot to inform folks that one of the last things Gaëtan Thomas did was write a letter to the EUB in order to beg them not to come to a decision about NB Power's second bid for Not So Smart Meters anytime soon Now you know why N'esy Pas?
Do you think it's a good idea to have a secretive 'board' controlling huge swathes of NB's economy, like the eub does?
Don't forget that they oversee the transportation industry as well.
David Amos
Methinks its high time that folks thank my friend Roger Richard who has been working very diligently and spending a lot of his own money for nearly 3 years appearing before the EUB defending our interests against NB Power's nonsense N'esy Pas?
Roger Richard
Reply to @David Amos: Right now Emera is asking for TOU rates in Nova Scotia.
David Amos
Roger Richard
Reply to @David Amos: Yes, in several publications.
Fred Dee
how many employees were PAID to stay home and not work?? How many are still getting this FULL pay with benefits for staying home and doing nothing!!???
Here is a way that $$ should have been saved!!
David Amos
Lou Bell
Love these people stating " Tesla stocks are up " or " Gold is up " ! Did THEY put all their money in either ? Quit lookin' back at your MISSED OPPORTUNITIES and intimating it's only others that missed them !
David Amos
Ben Haroldson
I'll bet the executive bonuses didn't take a hit, in fact they were probably topped up by the feds.
David Amos
Corrie Weatherfield
"LOSS" only occurs in an investment account when you sell at a lower price than the price at which you bought . . . how does this show up as a "loss" ? If a $700 million investment account waiting to be used some years in the future goes down in market value, what sort of accountant records that as a loss in the current year? Let us not expect an answer . . . the sort of accountants that manage the finances of NBPower and of the govt have proven themselves many times to be better with words than with numbers.
Ben Haroldson
Terry Tibbs
Buckle up buttercups, we have been publicly given "the BIG excuse", for a total and thorough hosing.
David Amos
janice small
Wheres Kevin Cormier when you need him ????
Fred Brewer
Carroll Cameron
This shortfall is rather easy to overcome for now and the future, and quell the resident whiners n detractors of the power commision that live on CBC forums, and that is remove the EUB and leave the power commision alone. Allow it to turn a profit by charging the people of NB what the real cost of power is. Then they'll have the money to make a real dent in their accumulated debt as the years go by.
Sounds like a good plan to get the comm. into the black. It should satisfy everyone that craves the comm turning a profit and it.....Oh Wait!
David Peters
How can we possibly know what the real cost of energy is, with the way this sector has been regulated and monopolized?
Seems like you are begrudging citizens ability to voice their opinions on this vital file.
Is that why the eub meetings timings and locations are kept secret?
While in principle, I like the idea of trustworthy folks being given free reign to properly operate NB power, the reality is that "trustworthy" does not exist within the confines of NB Power.
Can you answer when and where the last eub meeting was, and provide a link to your source? Because, you didn't the last time I asked you this...
-sound of crickets-
There is no reasonable justification for manipulating sectors, like the way the eub does, imo. Would be much more beneficial for the vast majority of New Brunwickers if the marketplace set commodity prices and the consumer picked winners and losers in the business world.
You say I'm begrudging the citizens their voice, but, that wasnt my intention although I can see how one could come to that conclusion.
A few of the voices are always vindictive and the rest issue nothing positive or constructive. All I did was offer one way to eliminate the power comm thorn in their what ever part of their body they choose
Maybe I should've included that the power comm should be sold outright into private hands that absolutely need to make a profit. Wouldn't matter what citizens said then, about the cost of their electricity. The gov(we) would have no control over them either and, but, they wouldnt be a burden on the prov's bottom line either.
I disagree with you Terry. You're painting everyone with the same brush and that is just wrong.
Maybe you should've defined what group you are referring to b/c it sounds as if you're including the power comm middle and frontline workers.
I dont actually know David, but, I think we could start to get an idea if the EUB was removed and the other option I added to a reply to you below.
As of late NB Power has not missed one single opportunity to disappoint.
Anyone with investments took a financial hit, be it investments in stocks and bonds, or a simple bank balance. Thinking they are "special", this simple story is fair warning of upcoming rate increases by these "honest" people.
They say the answer to bad speech is more speech, but on this file there is virtually no public discussion...and on the transportation file, there is absolutely no discussion...no sound at all, like the void of space.
These sectors are keystones to NB's economy and they are way, way over-regulated and monopolized. There needs to be transparency and accountability, imo. Freer markets tend to roar back quickly...to most everyone's benefit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-smart-meters-eub-hearings-1.5425284
Fred Brewer
NB Power's investment losses began in February. Well, if they had invested in Tesla on Jan 31, they would have more than doubled their money. The future is in electric vehicles and renewable energy but none are so blind as those who do not want to see.
David Peters
This file gets uglier the closer you look at it.
Gold is up a SOLID 25% since November.
That's because Trudeau is printing $ out of thin air like crazy.
It's a double gamble, gambling on the value of the Canadian dollar, and gambling our oil based economy collapses.
Bill Henry
"It was the instability of the financial markets in February and March 2020“ wait, what? So it is a paper loss on an investment that is not expected to be used until years from now?
eddy watts
If people thought being shut-down for as long as NB has been, (trying to keep it's death by covid below .001).........that any "opening" would be painless, you are in for a huge shock; and don't expect the feds to throw $$$ at the province, as there are others, who in many cases have been open longer, needing help.
David Amos
Ottawa provides N.B. with $200M to restart economy during COVID-19
There are still 3 active cases of the respiratory illness in New Brunswick
Elizabeth Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Jul 17, 2020 3:38 PM AT
Wouldn't it be nice to have a detailed accounting of that $200M?
Don Smith
Sounds more like we have been put on notice for a rate hike or worse SMART METERS!
David Amos
Terry Tibbs
We have a situation where most folks are sitting home entertaining themselves, so somehow, we are to believe usage is down, and it's not like one single residential user gets any special deals. Yet losing money is supposedly what happened? Right.
David Amos
Norman Albert Snr
Guess that would have something to do with the call I got today not allowing incentive grants for upgrade during a Pandemic
David Amos
Lou Bell
So really , the loss should already be mostly made up by now if one understands the markets and where they stand today . I have a suspicion there's more to this than just those investments !
James Vander
Commercial power usage would be down so far that residential rates would never cover off. I'm not defending NB Power by any means, but this is their latest excuse for missing the numbers....Not sure which one they'll use next time.
Not everyone bought Tesla and gold stocks..../ We are in a recession.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-point-lepreau-nuclear-plant-running-like-newborn-1.5652829
Aging Point Lepreau nuclear plant is running like a newborn
New Brunswick plant has operated trouble-free for one year
· CBC · Posted: Jul 17, 2020 5:00 AM AT
The Point Lepreau nuclear generating station is a 705 mega watt Candu-6
reactor. It has been a fixture at the edge of the Bay of Fundy for
nearly four decades. (Submitted/NB Power)
New Brunswick's 37-year-old nuclear plant at Point Lepreau
quietly completed a full year of uninterrupted power generation earlier
this week, the first since its pre-teen years in the early 1990s.
It's a significant development that, if sustainable, holds the potential to alter the financial fortunes of NB Power.
"This
accomplishment, especially through the COVID-19 pandemic, is something
the station is proud of," the utility said in a statement about the
milestone.
Former premier Richard Hatfield loved large modern economic development projects and pushed for the adoption of nuclear power in New Brunswick. After years of construction and controversy, Lepreau went into commercial production in 1983. (CBC NEWS)
Over the last year, Lepreau has generated close to 5.8 terawatt hours of electricity for distribution, about $400 million worth depending on market prices, and close to 100 per cent of its maximum capacity.
NB Power believes it is the longest the plant has run without shutting down since at least 1994, and perhaps ever, since earlier records are not easily accessed.
The flawless year of operation for Lepreau follows the investment of several hundred million dollars in the plant to solve serious performance problems that emerged following its $2.4 billion refurbishment that ended in 2012.
It produced only 90 per cent of the electricity expected of it during the first seven and a half years after refurbishment due to a number of malfunctions in non nuclear equipment that had not been upgraded during the effort to replace nuclear components.
$500 million in repairs
Lepreau began what was supposed to be an 18-month, $1.4 billion refurbishment of its nuclear components in 2008. The renovation finished three years late and $1 billion over budget, and the plant performed below expectations until recently. (Photo submitted)
Multiple unscheduled shutdowns caused by the malfunctions between 2012 and last July cost NB Power more than $200 million in lost electrical production and pushed the cost of capital repairs and upgrades to improve reliability at Lepreau to more than $500 million.
That has been weighing down NB Power's bottom line and undermining plans to pay down debt.
NB Power has been unable to pay down its multi-billion dollar debt as planned since 2013 in part because of production problems and maintenance costs at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station. (Submitted/NB Power)
It has and NB Power now expects Lepreau to fuel an increase in its profitability.
"If we think about what have been the primary drivers that have led to subpar (financial) performance the last number of years, we can point to Point Lepreau's performance coming out of the refurbishment," NB Power's chief financial officer, Darren Murphy, said at hearings in February during Lepreau's current mistake-free run.
"Unfortunately, it did not perform as we would have liked. However … we have been able to substantially improve the performance of Point Lepreau, therefore, reducing the risk that Lepreau will be the (cause) of subpar performance."
Originally, Lepreau was scheduled to be taken offline in April for annual maintenance but COVID-19 restrictions in the province derailed those plans until September. Instead it has kept running and setting production records.
David Amos
Methinks folks should consider how much power we need N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk
Let's not forget that running for extended periods and deferring maintenance to do so is part of what got that plant into trouble in the 1st place. It is too valuable an asset to suffer such abuse. Deferral of a necessary maintenance shutdown -- even if that deferral was made necessary by the pandemic -- is a poor excuse for a celebration.
David Amos
Morgan Brown
Reply to @Roy Kirk: Point Lepreau is not suffering abuse; the planned maintenance shutdown in April was the preferred target for the outage (i.e., Spring lower demand period). Delaying the outage until the Fall (another lower-demand period) is well within the safe capability of the unit, but utilities prefer to perform maintenance when scheduled (It's a huge effort to plan all the activities and coordinate the crews, contractors and supplies). Bruce-1 (also a CANDU, in Ont) just completed a 694-day continuous run, and Darlington-1 (also an Ont CANDU) passed the 903-day mark (still going), setting a new North American record for a continuous run (passing 894 days set in 1994).
Fred Brewer
Gilles Villeneuve
We need to invest heavily in nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate change. Clean, emission free electricity from nuclear fired power plants is the future for our planet and is the only viable energy source that can take over from oil when it runs out.
Morgan Brown
In addition, electricity is only a portion of a country's energy consumption - fossil fuels power most transportation and a lot of heating. If these are going to be made less carbon-intensive, then much more clean electricity is needed. Hence the need for nuclear.
Good grief! It would be nice if articles about energy were written by people with some grasp of the subject they are writing about. A terawatt is a measure of power, not energy. The term that the writer should have used is terawatt hour, the unit of energy. This error is akin to saying the distance between two places is 100 km per hour or that a container holds a certain number of litres per minute. Unfortunately, such a blunder in discussing the topic displays a lack of knowledge of the subject matter and diminishes the trust one should place in the rest of the article, even if the rest is competently written. A basic science education should prevent such a lack of understanding of the subject matter.
Only if you are sure it's on it's last gasp and ALL downhill from here.
"Things" can change quicker than that...............
The truth is: we can't ever stop attempting to use that reactor. The clean-up, if it was ever decommissioned, would likely bankrupt Canada, never mind New Brunswick.
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No 'Smart Meter" for me !!!
And I'm hoping The PUB won't give permission
for their use !!!
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/consumers-will-pay-for-nb-powers-debt.html
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Consumers will pay for NB Power's debt one way or another, intervener says
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-pay-debt-1.5008165
Consumers will pay for NB Power's debt one way or another, intervener says
Public intervener says storms and other unforeseen costs have thwarted utility's debt-reduction plan
NB Power has a responsibility to pay down its debt, something it has been trying to do since 2011, Black said on Information Morning.
In 2011, the utility said it would pay down $1 billion in debt by 2025.
Black said that goal was achievable in 2011, but it became more difficult to realize as time went on.
Black cited a mixture of reasons for missing income targets, including unforeseen costs related to buying electricity, the Point Lepreau nuclear station, and storms.
Commodity prices, climate change
"As those prices change we see significant changes in our underlying costs," Murphy said.
Murphy told the committee that climate change has also played a role in the utility's ability to pay down its debt.
"We certainly did not have, built into those long-range plans, the idea that storm frequency and magnitude of the impacts would be as great as they are," said Murphy.
NB Power has asked permission from the Energy and Utilities Board for a yearly average rate increase of 2.5 per cent until 2029 to help the utility reduce the debt.
But documents NB Power filed with the board also point to a more drastic option to reduce the debt: a 22.3 per cent rate increase over five years.
Positives and negatives
The 2025 plan would have the unwanted effect of implementing a seep rate increase but would reduce the debt faster.
The 2029 plan would see a more subdued rate increase, but the utility would have to keep its debt longer.
"Until that reduction is achieved, rate payers still bear the risk of NB Power not having that cushion of equity to be able to be prepared for unforeseen things that happen or future expenditures," Black said.
This could lead to more erratic rate increases, she said, since NB Power will be reacting to unforeseen events without being able to absorb the costs.
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David Amos
"New Brunswickers will feel pain no matter how NB Power pays off its debt, and the only questions are how severe and how long-lasting the pain will be, says public intervener Heather Black."
Methinks that may be true Howeverer the lady said those words on the car radio and they made me laugh as I was heading to Saint John to argue her and her cohorts in the EUB as NB Power was trying to boot me out of another hearing about their rate hikes Obviously the transcript o the hearing yesterday easily proves that the Powers That Be in NB and elsewhere know that the fat lady ain't sung yet over that issue yet N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Robert G. Holmes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hydro-deferral-accounts-at-5-5-billion-1.5008308
Remember Enron and Anderson Accounting, among other nefarious schemes to hid true costs.
Nope Political interference is the problem
I could not agree more! Point Lepreau construction and refit both went way over budget and were years late in delivery. Coleson Cove refit and re-refit were the same. Why would we expect the Mactaquac refit to be any different? This utility has demonstrated that all of its mega-projects go way over budget and are delivered late.
Wouldn't it be ill advised to hold off replacing or removing a crumbling dam?
Tobin Hamilton
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/tb-ct/pdf/OC/PA15Emp.pdf
Paul Bourgoin
Fred Brewer
Wally Manza
Wally Manza
Repair Guy
Greg Smith
Libertarian platform regarding Energy:
"2.3 Energy and Resources
While energy is needed to fuel a modern society, government should not be subsidizing any particular form of energy. We oppose all government control of energy pricing, allocation, and production."
https://www.lp.org/platform/
Mais Oui
Harold Benson
Mark (Junkman) George
Samual Johnston
Perhaps we could stand to lose a few?
Not to defend NB power but the infrastructures and land to cover is 4 time the size of NS.
"Not to defend NB power but the infrastructures and land to cover is 4 time the size of NS."
Marc, you need a new calculator. NB has 72,908 sq/kms while NS has 55,284 sq/kms. How is that 4 times the size of NS? Or did you forget that Cape Breton is part of NS?
Aaron Lagendyk
Marguerite Deschamps
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-crown-corporations-committee-1.4980763
As your cohort admitted yesterday my Roger Richard and I took the Watermelon Party's advice and did so. All government employees such as Mr Martin should know that the transcript of the first hearing will be available and downloadable from the EUB website shortly N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ambulance-lack-bilingual-staff-anb-1.5006740?__vfz=profile_comment%3D3305300018323
@David Amos "Methinks I should ask why nobody showed up at the EUB hearing today N'esy Pas"
@Marc Martin "You badgered us all week you where going, we placed all our fates in you...."
Ray Bungay
As I see it, charging a much higher charge to the majority of those in NB is not possible when you are demanding seniors and the working poor to pay more, those who are firm fixed incomes. Not easy to balance I am sure but the corp users must share in the pain not just home owners or apartment dwellers who cannot qualify for help to make their "homes" more air tight but are expected to pay the lion's share of the cost to fix the problem.
Shawn Graham had the right idea during his term in Government....SELL IT TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR!! This idea must and should be revisited ASAP!
You think the service/ cost that NBPower provides is bad now, you haven't seen it when given by the private sector
Dan Flanagan
I think their debt stands around $5 billion. That's about $6,500 for every man, woman & child. For a family of 4, that's $26,000. We are in a hole deep
YUP
Johnny Jakobs
NBPower aka NB mafia.
White collar crime.
Excuses for failed targets.
Pay someone 150k plus a year and they forget all about climate change?
What a joke!
NBers need to wake up and start speaking their voice.
If you think you are poor now, wait until your rates double within 5 years... that's what is coming.
Welcome back to the circus
Joe Gallant
Sorry I missed a zero in my number
YUP
John Pokiok
John Smit
I see the logo of the Liberals and PC in mine.LOL
Methinks most folks would enjoy a photo of them battling over control of the pork barrel N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk
Came across this from a while ago, no date: NB Power – Debt Management Plan... Province will eliminate the payments in lieu of income taxes and Transco dividend payments that NB Power is currently required to pay to government to further reduce its debt burden. https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/erd/energy/content/energy_blueprint/content/debt_management_plan.html
Shawn McShane
"This partnership will be truly ground-breaking. Together with NB Power and Nova Scotia Power, we will develop and implement a powerful cloud-based Energy System Platform (ESP), allowing everyone to participate in the energy market," says Faisal Kazi, President and CEO of Siemens Canada.
says Gaëtan Thomas
Which customers?
Not residentials....
Ron harvey Harvey
philippe m martin
Methinks many would agree that it still is N'esy Pas?
Alex Butt
Fred Brewer
Why would she question the actions of her employer?
The public intervenor is more a title than anything else. She doesn't represent all those she suppose too equally.
If she is not truly independent then it is time for her to be fired. I am beginning to think that is the first step that is needed.
Yes, she isn't really independent when she defends the interests of the private sector (which is overly represented) over that of residentials customers who are used has sacrificial lambs.
Methinks you should ask yourself why she offered no comment after I raised some serious hell at the EUB hearing yesterday Anyone can download the transcript N'esy Pas?
Shawn Tabor
Shawn McShane
cheryl wright
Shawn McShane
Paul Bourgoin
June Arnott
It's the political plan, screw NBPower up badly to "sell it".
Murray Brown
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