Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 General Rate Application - Application for Variance
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Dear Ms. Mitchell: In relation to the Board’s Order of September 29, 2023, in Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 General Rate Application, NB Power respectfully submits the following documents pertaining to the filing deadline:
Kind regards, Laura Gordon
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N.B. Power says intervention by Higgs government blew up months of budgeting
Utility asks for 7 more weeks to work on overdue rate-increase request
Instead it is asking the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board for permission to delay the matter further until sometime just before Christmas.
"I estimate that NB Power will be able to file the GRA [General Rate Application] by no later than December 15, 2023," N.B. Power's chief financial officer Darren Murphy swore in an affidavit submitted to the board on Wednesday.
Citing the chaotic accounting effect of a fundamental change in N.B. Power's debt target made by the New Brunswick government in late September, upending months of budget planning at the utility, Murphy said it will take several weeks of review and recalculation to develop a new plan.
"The entire GRA filing package, which was largely complete as of September 27, 2023 when the Directive was received, must be updated and/or revised to reflect the Directive," said Murphy's affidavit.
N.B.
Power's chief financial officer and senior vice president Darren Murphy
filed an affidavit with the Energy and Utilities Board saying it will
take weeks more to redo the utility's budget, after a surprise change in
its debt targets made by the provincial government. (CBC)
N.B. Power has been under a standing order since 2019 by the EUB to submit its rate increase applications "no later than the first Wednesday of October, each and every year."
At the time, the board said applications submitted later than that had been contributing to N.B. Power's financial problems by making it impossible to have rate increases fully reviewed and approved by the start of its fiscal year on April 1.
In 2019, N.B. Power did not apply for its April rate increase until early January, and final approvals from the utilities board did not occur until mid July. That delayed the start of the rate increase by more than 100 days and cost the utility an estimated $7.7 million in revenue that year, according to the board.
This year the deadline to file the application was Oct. 4, but on Sept. 25, with N.B. Power's months-long budgeting process all but finished, Premier Blaine Higgs signed a cabinet directive suspending a debt target his government had established for the utility back in 2019.
The directive was sent to N.B. Power two days later, on Sept. 27.
Premier
Blaine Higgs signed an order in late September suddenly releasing N.B.
Power from a hard 2027 debt-reduction target. That has forced the
utility to tear up next year's budget and postpone an October rate
increase announcement indefinitely. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
The original target required N.B. Power to generate sufficient profits to lower its debt level to 80 per cent of the utility's total worth, by March 31, 2027. The new directive cancelled that four-year-old deadline and moved it out two more years to March 31, 2029.
As of March 31 of this year, N.B. Power's net debt had reached a record $5.4 billion, about 94 per cent of the utility's total worth.
For its size, reaching a debt level of 80 per cent at N.B. Power would require the equivalent of $800 million in debt reduction from current levels. Having five-and-a-half years to reach that goal, rather than three-and-a-half, has essentially forced the utility to rip up years of planning and months of budgeting.
Internal scramble triggered
In his affidavit, Murphy details how the province's surprise order triggered an internal scramble at N.B. Power by multiple parties to understand how the change should be dealt with.
He describes "numerous meetings" organized to discuss how to proceed and the delegation of tasks to a group of internal accounting and planning experts to develop revisions and proposals for senior managers to consider
Ideas, he said, are being developed and then tested for "pros and cons" before a new rate increase application is drafted.
"The filing package must then be reviewed internally for accuracy and is subject to review and revision at various levels within N.B. Power before it is finalized and presented to N.B. Power senior management for approval," said Murphy.
"Much of the package is also required to be translated for filing in English and French. This overall process normally takes several weeks of intense effort by many N.B. Power staff, management, and consultants."
Murphy said for those reasons, N.B. Power is unable to file a rate application by the new deadline of Oct. 31, set by the EUB when the utility missed the original Oct. 4 date. It has requested a mid-December deadline instead.
Natural
Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland has said a
decision made by cabinet in late September to release N.B. Power from a
four-year-old debt-reduction target had nothing to do with a potential
early election call (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Earlier this month, New Brunswick's Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland acknowledged the reason the provincial government changed N.B. Power's debt target was to try to lessen what was expected to be the unveiling of a major rate increase request by the utility on Oct. 4th.
However, he denied the timing of the change was designed to derail the announcement of a rate increase in the event Higgs decided to call a fall election.
"Not politicking at all, not so, said Holland, when asked whether that was a motive for the decision.
A Dec. 15 application deadline would give N.B. Power seven more weeks before having to reveal how much of a rate increase it wants for next year. That is still plenty of time to fit in a four-week provincial election campaign, if the government chooses.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David R. Amos
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Perhaps Holland should review my many comments over the past year
"Earlier this month, New Brunswick's Natural Resources and Energy
Development Minister Mike Holland acknowledged the reason the
provincial government changed N.B. Power's debt target was to try to
lessen what was expected to be the unveiling of a major rate increase
request by the utility on Oct. 4th.
However, he denied the timing of the change was designed to derail the
announcement of a rate increase in the event Higgs decided to call a
fall election."
"Not politicking at all, not so, said Holland, when asked whether that
was a motive for the decision."
N.B. Power turned down for 8.9% rate increase
Utility has been ordered to recalculate its numbers
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Mar 17, 2023 3:15 PM ADT
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Nevertheless, she issued a statement Tuesday applauding the two-year extension granted by government to get its debt down to target levels.
"We welcome this directive from the province as it will lessen the short-term rate impact on customers," said the statement from Clark.
"Our financial health remains a priority, and we are continuing to look at all aspects of our operations to ensure we are doing everything we can to improve our bottom line."
A year ago Holland rejected calls from opposition MLAs to intervene in N.B. Power's request for an 8.9 per cent rate increase because it would be hard on consumers. He called that idea irresponsible.
"From the time we took office in 2018, we said that the political games with the utility
had to stop," said Holland.
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RE: Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 General Rate Application - Application for Variance
David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> | Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:03 AM |
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/ N.B. Power says intervention by Higgs government blew up months of budgeting Utility asks for 7 more weeks to work on overdue rate-increase request Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Oct 26, 2023 2:23 PM ADT Company's name on the side of a stone building. N.B. Power is asking to postpone filing for an April 2024 rate increase, that was due on Oct. 4, until mid December. (Michael Heenan/CBC) N.B. Power says it is unable to meet an extended deadline of Oct. 31 to file an application for an April rate increase, after missing its original filing date of Oct. 4. Instead it is asking the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board for permission to delay the matter further until sometime just before Christmas. "I estimate that NB Power will be able to file the GRA [General Rate Application] by no later than December 15, 2023," N.B. Power's chief financial officer Darren Murphy swore in an affidavit submitted to the board on Wednesday. Citing the chaotic accounting effect of a fundamental change in N.B. Power's debt target made by the New Brunswick government in late September, upending months of budget planning at the utility, Murphy said it will take several weeks of review and recalculation to develop a new plan. "The entire GRA filing package, which was largely complete as of September 27, 2023 when the Directive was received, must be updated and/or revised to reflect the Directive," said Murphy's affidavit. A man in a dark suit is speaking. N.B. Power's chief financial officer and senior vice president Darren Murphy filed an affidavit with the Energy and Utilities Board saying it will take weeks more to redo the utility's budget, after a surprise change in its debt targets made by the provincial government. (CBC) N.B. Power has been under a standing order since 2019 by the EUB to submit its rate increase applications "no later than the first Wednesday of October, each and every year." At the time, the board said applications submitted later than that had been contributing to N.B. Power's financial problems by making it impossible to have rate increases fully reviewed and approved by the start of its fiscal year on April 1. N.B. Power rate increase announcement cancelled, province retracts debt reduction target N.B. Power leaping into new ventures to tackle debt In 2019, N.B. Power did not apply for its April rate increase until early January, and final approvals from the utilities board did not occur until mid July. That delayed the start of the rate increase by more than 100 days and cost the utility an estimated $7.7 million in revenue that year, according to the board. This year the deadline to file the application was Oct. 4, but on Sept. 25, with N.B. Power's months-long budgeting process all but finished, Premier Blaine Higgs signed a cabinet directive suspending a debt target his government had established for the utility back in 2019. The directive was sent to N.B. Power two days later, on Sept. 27. A man in a blue suit and tie shrugs as he answers questions before an array of journalists' microphones. Premier Blaine Higgs signed an order in late September suddenly releasing N.B. Power from a hard 2027 debt-reduction target. That has forced the utility to tear up next year's budget and postpone an October rate increase announcement indefinitely. (Jacques Poitras/CBC) The original target required N.B. Power to generate sufficient profits to lower its debt level to 80 per cent of the utility's total worth, by March 31, 2027. The new directive cancelled that four-year-old deadline and moved it out two more years to March 31, 2029. As of March 31 of this year, N.B. Power's net debt had reached a record $5.4 billion, about 94 per cent of the utility's total worth. For its size, reaching a debt level of 80 per cent at N.B. Power would require the equivalent of $800 million in debt reduction from current levels. Having five-and-a-half years to reach that goal, rather than three-and-a-half, has essentially forced the utility to rip up years of planning and months of budgeting. Internal scramble triggered In his affidavit, Murphy details how the province's surprise order triggered an internal scramble at N.B. Power by multiple parties to understand how the change should be dealt with. He describes "numerous meetings" organized to discuss how to proceed and the delegation of tasks to a group of internal accounting and planning experts to develop revisions and proposals for senior managers to consider Ideas, he said, are being developed and then tested for "pros and cons" before a new rate increase application is drafted. "The filing package must then be reviewed internally for accuracy and is subject to review and revision at various levels within N.B. Power before it is finalized and presented to N.B. Power senior management for approval," said Murphy. "Much of the package is also required to be translated for filing in English and French. This overall process normally takes several weeks of intense effort by many N.B. Power staff, management, and consultants." Murphy said for those reasons, N.B. Power is unable to file a rate application by the new deadline of Oct. 31, set by the EUB when the utility missed the original Oct. 4 date. It has requested a mid-December deadline instead. A man wearing a suit standing in front of a brown building Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland has said a decision made by cabinet in late September to release N.B. Power from a four-year-old debt-reduction target had nothing to do with a potential early election call (Jacques Poitras/CBC) Earlier this month, New Brunswick's Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland acknowledged the reason the provincial government changed N.B. Power's debt target was to try to lessen what was expected to be the unveiling of a major rate increase request by the utility on Oct. 4th. However, he denied the timing of the change was designed to derail the announcement of a rate increase in the event Higgs decided to call a fall election. "Not politicking at all, not so, said Holland, when asked whether that was a motive for the decision. N.B. Power turned down for 8.9% rate increase Downward turn in N.B. Power finances stuns the utility's rate hearing A Dec. 15 application deadline would give N.B. Power seven more weeks before having to reveal how much of a rate increase it wants for next year. That is still plenty of time to fit in a four-week provincial election campaign, if the government chooses. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert Jones Reporter Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of price regulation in 2006. CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices 76 Comments David R. Amos Content Deactivated The plot thickens David R. Amos Awaiting review Perhaps Holland should review my many comments over the past year "Earlier this month, New Brunswick's Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland acknowledged the reason the provincial government changed N.B. Power's debt target was to try to lessen what was expected to be the unveiling of a major rate increase request by the utility on Oct. 4th. However, he denied the timing of the change was designed to derail the announcement of a rate increase in the event Higgs decided to call a fall election." "Not politicking at all, not so, said Holland, when asked whether that was a motive for the decision." N.B. Power turned down for 8.9% rate increase Utility has been ordered to recalculate its numbers Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Mar 17, 2023 3:15 PM ADT David R. Amos Awaiting review https://www.cbc.ca/news/ ---------- Original message ---------- From: "Chiasson, Alain (OAG/CPG)"<Alain.Chiasson2@gnb.ca> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:59:03 +0000 Subject: RE: Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 General Rate Application - Application for Variance To: Melissa Curran <Melissa.Curran@nbeub.ca>, NBP Regulatory <NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>, "louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib. <louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib. <frederic.gionet@cfib.ca>, "David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail. <David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail. <David.Sollows@gnb.ca>, "Daly, Gerard"<daly@nbnet.nb.ca>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "Brandy.Gellner@ <Brandy.Gellner@ "dave.lavigne@ <dave.lavigne@ "Gilles.volpe@ <Gilles.volpe@ <JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>, "Murray, Leanne"<LMurray@nbpower.com>, "Petrie, Jamie"<JPetrie@nbpower.com>, "Murphy, Darren" <DaMurphy@nbpower.com>, "Porter, George"<George.Porter@nbpower.com>, "Gibson, Kevin"<KevGibson@nbpower.com>, "Gordon, Laura" <LGordon@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave" <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com <Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Mitchell, Kathleen" <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, Veronique Otis <Veronique.Otis@nbeub.ca>, Susan Colwell <Susan.Colwell@nbeub.ca>, "tyler.rajeski@ <tyler.rajeski@ "darcy.ouellette@ <darcy.ouellette@ <Len.Hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "paul.black@twinriverspaper. <paul.black@twinriverspaper. <tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper. <jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com" <shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com" <dan.dionne@perth-andover.com> <pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "rburgoyne@coxandpalmer.com" <rburgoyne@coxandpalmer.com>, "gzacher@stikeman.com" <gzacher@stikeman.com> Received! 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The Board acknowledges receipt of NB Power's application dated October 25th, 2023, and the affidavit of Darren Murphy sworn October 25th, 2023, as attached. The Board advises that it will hear NB Power's application on Monday, October 30th, at 10:00 a.m. by Zoom videoconference. Please see below the Zoom link information: Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/ La Commission accuse réception de la demande d'Énergie NB datée du 25 octobre 2023 et de l'affidavit de Darren Murphy fait sous serment le 25 octobre 2023, ci-joint. La Commission avise qu'il entendra la demande d'Énergie NB le lundi 30 octobre à 10 h 00 par vidéoconférence Zoom. 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Yea Right
Mr Jones must have read the email I sent him his morning containing the invitation to the hearing about this matter
"The Board acknowledges receipt of NB Power’s application dated October 25th, 2023, and the affidavit of Darren Murphy sworn October 25th, 2023, as attached.
The Board advises that it will hear NB Power’s application on Monday, October 30th, at 10:00 a.m. by Zoom videoconference.
Please see below the Zoom link information:"