What is the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)?
At its core, the IRP outlines our commitment to supporting provincial decarbonization and providing a clean, reliable energy system while focusing on customer affordability — in both the near and long term.
Together with our partners, stakeholders, the energy community, and our regulator, our shared priorities are:
- Safety: To provide safe electric service throughout the province.
- Reliability: To meet reliability requirements that ensure supply adequacy.
- Affordability: To find the lowest long term cost option to supply electricity to Nova Scotians
- Clean Energy: To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support economy-wide decarbonization.
- Robustness: To develop a plan that can withstand realistic potential changes to key assumptions.
The IRP outlines how we can shift towards a cleaner electricity system and support the growth of a clean and green economy by enabling the electrification of other sectors like transportation and heating.