Connecting customer-owned batteries to the grid
Nova Scotia Power’s proposed DERMS is a step toward coordinating batteries, solar and flexible electricity demand.
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Battery storage in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada
Battery storage raises questions about capacity, flexibility, customer participation and electricity costs. These articles connect utility-scale projects with distributed batteries and the systems needed to coordinate them.
Explore project announcements alongside analysis of storage costs, demand response and grid planning. Announced capacity and projected benefits should be read in the context of each article’s date.
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Falling battery costs change the planning picture
Lower storage cost assumptions and higher gas costs are reshaping the relative economics of Nova Scotia’s resource options.
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Solar Nova Scotia’s five priorities for solar and batteries
Five priorities for net-metering certainty, distributed energy integration, beneficial electrification and regional collaboration.
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What Ireland’s renewable curtailment can teach Nova Scotia
Ireland’s experience shows why renewable generation needs to grow alongside electricity demand, flexibility and storage.
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A Maritime grid needs distributed energy
Regional electricity planning should include rooftop solar, batteries, efficiency and flexible demand from the start.
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What Nova Scotia’s 10-year electricity outlook tells us
A planning snapshot outlines major generation changes while the next Integrated Resource Plan takes shape.
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Nova Scotia’s roadmap for distributed energy resources
A roadmap sets out a path for customer-sited resources to provide more value to customers and the electricity system.
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What Ontario’s battery procurement means for electricity planning
Ontario’s latest capacity procurement offers a Canadian market benchmark for storage, with an important distinction between capacity payments and equipment costs.
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Batteries versus gas: lessons from PEI’s capacity review
An independent review makes the case for comparing proposed gas capacity directly with a battery alternative.
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Inside the White Rock Battery Project
A site visit to a 50 MW project highlights the role of storage, financing and Mi’kmaw ownership in the energy transition.
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How battery cost assumptions shape electricity planning
Long-term storage cost assumptions can influence procurement, renewable integration and the role of customer-owned resources.
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Getting New Brunswick’s net-metering transition right
Principles for evaluating solar compensation, customer investment and the role of batteries.
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What Wind West means for Atlantic Canada’s transmission system
Preliminary offshore wind analysis highlights the scale of transmission upgrades and the complementary role of solar and storage.
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Why the next batteries need to do more than the first
Declining marginal capacity value makes storage duration, customer benefits and multiple uses increasingly important.
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SR&ED: an opportunity for Atlantic Canadian energy innovators
Research and development incentives can help Atlantic Canadian businesses advance storage, microgrids, heat pumps and energy software.
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Unlocking behind-the-meter solar in Atlantic Canada
Reflections from Smart Energy Halifax on homeowner financing, customer-sited batteries and the role of strategic electrification.
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From energy audits to ongoing home energy advice
Could energy advisors support households over time as their decisions expand to solar, batteries, EVs and flexible demand?
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Nova Scotia’s first grid batteries are online
Waverley and Bridgewater mark a major step for utility-scale battery storage in Nova Scotia.
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The investment opportunity in Nova Scotia’s energy transition
A dated planning snapshot explores the scale of potential investment in heat pumps, solar, electric vehicles and batteries.
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Nova Scotia’s Solar Surge: an Insights Podcast conversation
A conversation with Don Mills and David Campbell about solar, battery storage and the economic opportunity emerging across Atlantic Canada.
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Wind West and the opportunity for regional electricity planning
A historical proposal links Atlantic wind development with transmission and neighbouring electricity systems.
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Building Nova Scotia’s grid-responsive future
How building design, controls and flexible loads can support electrification while limiting peak demand.
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Mobile battery storage: lessons from Vermont
Transportable batteries offer a different approach to temporary power and grid support.
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Heat batteries and the opportunity for industrial electrification
Rondo’s thermal storage concept illustrates a different way to match electricity supply with industrial heat demand.
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Demand response: lessons from the Smart Synergy pilot
An archived pilot illustrates how businesses can be compensated for providing short-duration demand flexibility.
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Battery production growth and the cost outlook
An archived production-growth chart provides context for expectations about battery costs.
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Elmsdale’s Intelligent Feeder: an early storage example
A municipal energy group visit explored how utility and household batteries could support renewable integration.
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