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N.B. Power has been criticized by its regulator for not asking enough questions about $158 million in potential savings on a major generator repair at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station that customers are now responsible to pay.
EUB grants retroactive approval to major N.B. Power repairs at Point Lepreau
Sam Farley · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 21, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago
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N.B. Power’s regulator criticized the utility for a “lack of fulsome analysis” on major repairs at Point Lepreau, the timing of which might have cost customers millions. (Submitted by N.B. Power)
N.B. Power has been criticized by its regulator for not asking enough questions about $158 million in potential savings on a major generator repair at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station that customers are now responsible to pay.
The New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board issued a decision on Friday, signed by chairperson Christopher Stewart and members John Logan and Michael Pickup, retroactively approving the 2025 refurbishment of Lepreau’s main electrical generator.
The board did agree repairs to the one-million-horsepower unit were urgent and N.B. Power was not acting in bad faith by undertaking them without permission,
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