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Nova Scotia Power

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www[.]nspower[.]ca
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Nova Scotia Power is an electric utilitythat generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to customers primarily in Nova Scotia, Canada. The company also maintains operations in the United States and the Caribbean, as noted in incident reports indicating those regions were unaffected during a recent cyber event. It provides power to residential, commercial, and industrial consumers within its service territory. As a power provider, it is responsible for the physical infrastructure of generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

Headquartered in Canada, Nova Scotia Power's headquarters location reflects its Canadian operational base. The utility's incident response to a 2025 cyber intrusion involved activating formal protocols, engaging external cybersecurity experts, containing affected systems, and notifying law enforcement, while confirming that there was no disruption to power generation, transmission, distribution, or customer service reliability. The incident summary also noted that operations in the United States and the Caribbean remained unaffected and that the event is not expected to materially affect financial performance.

Nova Scotia Power's organizational focus includes maintaining the reliability of its electricity supply and managing cybersecurity risks, as demonstrated by its coordinated response to the 2025 breach. The utility continues to monitor and protect its IT networks and business application servers to safeguard operational continuity. No further details on ownership, parent company, or specific size metrics are provided in the source material.

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