If you made a payment to build a power line extension in order to receive electric service, you may be eligible to receive a rebate for a portion of your installation cost when a new customer is permanently connected to that power line.
To be eligible for a rebate, your application must be made within 10 years of the installation of the original power line.
To apply, please select the form that best suits your rebate type:
If you paid to install a line extension to service your property and additional customers connect to the portion of the line you paid to install. Please complete the following form:
INDIVIDUAL FORMIf you paid for a developer line and did not receive a free service allowance up-front. Please complete the following form:
DEVELOPER FORMIf you are a residential customer receiving power for the first time and are being fed by an underground secondary service from an existing pole. Please complete the following form:
UNDERGROUND FORM
Once submitted, you will be directed to the confirmation page advising your form has been submitted successfully. If you have any questions about your eligibility for a line rebate or the status of your application, please contact linerebates@nspower.ca
The Developer is required to provide the number of lots that will require service. If any additional customers connecting to a developer line/service extension, they will not be required to contribute to the shared portion of the line and will be responsible for the cost of any service extensions in excess of their service allowance.
For each additional customer connected to a contributed portion of line within 10 years from when the line was made available, the person who made the contribution will be entitled to 46 metres of equivalent line cost minus a 10% administration fee to a maximum of 90% of the total contribution.
Customers will be provided up to 92 metres of overhead line/service extension allowance at no cost, as provided for under Regulation 2.6. Any line/service extensions in excess of the allowance above will be at the cost of the customer. If any additional customers are connected to a contributed line/service extension, they will be expected to contribute to the cost of any shared line plus contribute the cost of any dedicated line minus a credit for overhead service allowance.
Customers who have paid a capital contribution will be entitled to a refund each time additional customers are connected to the line within ten years of the date of the customer's capital contribution. The refund will be the difference between the net capital contribution paid or adjusted to date and what would have been required if the additional customers had attached at the time the contribution was paid. Each refund will be reduced by 10% as an administration fee. The maximum refund a customer can receive is 90% of the latest contribution. Notwithstanding the above, no refunds of capital contributions associated with any line/service extension will be made after such line/service extension is more than 15 years old.
