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Regulatory intelligence · Nova Scotia Energy Board proceedings

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Almost none of it is findable.

Thousands of pages, spread across dozens of matters, in a database built for filing documents — not for finding them. DocketWatch reads all of it, every day, and turns it into one record with three ways in.

What DocketWatch does to every filing

The same document, before and after.

Every document that arrives at the Board gets read, summarized in plain language, and connected to the topics, parties, and matters it touches. That happens daily, automatically, for the whole record.

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M12780_E-1_2027-2031_DSM_Plan_Application.pdf
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2027–2031 DSM Plan — the Preferred Plan and five-year budget

EfficiencyOne asks the Board to approve a five-year plan held flat at $63.75 million a year — frozen at 2026 levels to protect affordability, targeting 435 GWh of energy savings and 85 MW of peak demand reduction.

topic · affordability topic · demand response party · EfficiencyOne matter · M12780
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One document is easy. DocketWatch does this for every page of every filing in every matter it follows — which is what makes the three ways in below possible.

The shape of the product

One record. Three ways in.

However you prefer to work — browsing, being briefed, or asking questions — you're drawing on the same daily-updated record of the Board's proceedings.

The Board's public record

Thousands of pages

Dozens of matters, in a database built for filing — not finding.

One record

Every document, summarized

Searchable by meaning, with topic and party pages linking matters together.

1The portal

Browse the whole record — better than the Board's site.

The portal holds everything the Board holds, organized the way a person actually looks for things.

  • Search by meaning. Ask for "commercial demand response programs" — not just the exact words in a filename.
  • Topic pages. One page per issue, gathering every mention across every matter.
  • Party pages. Everything a utility, intervenor, or consultant has filed or argued, in one place.
  • Plain-language summaries. Every document, explained before you commit to hundreds of pages of reading.
  • Cross-links between matters. The same issue rarely lives in one proceeding — the record shows you where else it's alive.

The topic page for "demand response" — one issue, traced across two matters.

2The digest

Or let the record come to you.

Follow the matters you care about. When something is filed, a short email arrives: what happened, why it matters, and links to deep-dive articles when you want more than the gist.

It's written to be read in about a minute — enough to decide, before your first meeting, whether today's filing changes anything for you. No filing, no email.

One filing, one email. Follow a matter and this is what shows up.

3Your AI

Your AI assistant sounds confident about the Board. It's guessing.

On its own, ChatGPT or Claude cannot look things up on the Board's website — it answers from general knowledge and fills the gaps. DocketWatch gives your own assistant a direct line to the real record: when you ask, it pulls the actual filed documents and answers from them. Same assistant, same chat window — real filings behind every answer.

Any AI assistant — on its own
What has EfficiencyOne proposed for demand response in its 2027–2031 DSM Plan?
I don't have access to the specific filing, but DSM plans of this kind typically include demand response pilots, load-shifting incentives, and seasonal peak programs. The 2027–2031 plan likely continues earlier approaches…
✕  Plausible, generic, unverifiable — no access to the record, so it generalizes.
The same assistant — connected to DocketWatch
What has EfficiencyOne proposed for demand response in its 2027–2031 DSM Plan?
In its 2027–2031 DSM Plan (M12780, Exhibit E-1, Appendix A), EfficiencyOne proposes to grow demand response to about 29 MW of available capacity by 2031 — the business and institutional stream rising from 17.0 to 25.5 MW on a $18.8 million investment, while residential demand response is held flat with no new enrollments. "The level of available demand response capacity proposed for 2027–2031 remains within, not exceeding, the optimal level identified in NS Power's 2022 IRP." docketwatch.ca · M12780 · Exhibit E-1, Appendix A
✓  Answered from the filed document — every fact carries its source link.

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