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    NS Power provides information about power outages that occurred on December 10, 2019 in response to a request from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board. Over 52,000 customers lost power due to high winds exceeding 80 km/h that caused significant damage across the province. NS Power restored power to most customers within 3-5 hours on average. The utility is willing to provide more details to stakeholders about its response and reliability programs.

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    NS Power provides information about power outages that occurred on December 10, 2019 in response to a request from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board. Over 52,000 customers lost power due to high winds exceeding 80 km/h that caused significant damage across the province. NS Power restored power to most customers within 3-5 hours on average. The utility is willing to provide more details to stakeholders about its response and reliability programs.

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    NS Power provides information about power outages that occurred on December 10, 2019 in response to a request from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board. Over 52,000 customers lost power due to high winds exceeding 80 km/h that caused significant damage across the province. NS Power restored power to most customers within 3-5 hours on average. The utility is willing to provide more details to stakeholders about its response and reliability programs.

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    December 13, 2019

    Doreen Friis
    Regulatory Affairs Officer/Clerk
    Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board
    1601 Lower Water Street, 3rd Floor
    P.O. Box 1692, Unit “M”
    Halifax, NS B3J 3S3

    Re: December 10, 2019 Outages

    NS Power is in receipt of the letter from the Consumer Advocate (CA) to Nova Scotia Utility
    and Review Board (NSUARB) dated December 10, 2019 in which the CA requested the
    NSUARB initiate a review of the outages experienced on December 10, 2019.

    NS Power was not previously made aware of the CA’s concerns; however, if the NSUARB or
    any stakeholder would like any information with respect to these recent outages, the
    Company would welcome the opportunity to provide it as it has done with prior storm
    events.

    The weather that caused the outages on December 10, 2019 was significant. NS Power
    received weather warnings from its third party weather service provider that there would
    be sustained winds of 50-65 km/h with gusts as high as 80-95 km/h and prepared
    accordingly. Based on the damage prediction model a Level 2 storm was declared and 60
    contractor PLTs and 78 tree contractors were pre-staged throughout the province.

    The actual winds were accurate to forecast and caused damage across the Province. Ferries
    were cancelled. There were reports of buildings sustaining structural damage, and trees
    falling onto streets and parked cars. The MacKay Bridge was closed to high-sided vehicles
    and a crane mounted on a barge in Sydney Harbour collapsed. Attached as Appendix A are
    photos from around the Province which highlight some of the damage caused by the storm.

    The Environment Canada screenshots of the wind conditions in Halifax and Lunenburg
    provided by the CA are not reflective of the overall wind data that is publicly available.
    Seventeen weather stations across the Province reported peak gusts over 80 km/h and in
    some instances over 100 km/h. In Halifax, wind gusts exceeded 80 km/h for three hours.
    December 13, 2019
    D. Friis

    At the peak of the storm there were approximately 52,000 customers without power. The
    majority of these customers were in the Halifax Regional Municipality and Sydney areas.
    On average it took 3.2 hours to restore customers in Dartmouth, 4.3 hours in Halifax and
    5.4 hours in Sydney.

    Area Peak Peak Time Average Event


    Customers Duration
    Dartmouth 8,314 12/10/19 11:30 AM 3.20
    Halifax 19,048 12/10/19 9:45 AM 4.31
    Sydney 6,250 12/10/19 9:45 AM 5.44

    In addition, the amount of hours with wind gusts greater than 80 km/h in the Province is
    much higher in 2019 then any year since 2005.

    NS Power understands the impact outages have on customers and hopes the above
    clarification and information responsds to the CA’s letter. However, the Company is
    always prepared to engage with the NSUARB, the CA or any other stakeholder regarding
    the Company’s reliability program and what more can be done to storm harden the
    electrical system, particularly given the increasing strength and frequency of storms
    impacting the Province.

    Yours truly,

    Judith Ferguson
    Executive Vice President Regulatory, Legal
    & Bus Planning, Corporate Affairs

    c. Wayne O’Connor
    Mark Sidebottom
    Paul Casey

    Encl.

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    APPENDIX A

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