20240916AVU to Staff 12.pdf

RECEIVED
Monday, September 16, 2024
AVISTA CORPORATION IDAHO PUBLIC
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UTILITIES COMMISSION
JURISDICTION: IDAHO DATE PREPARED: 09/10/2024
CASE NO: AVU-E-24-09/AVU-G-24-03 WITNESS: N/A
REQUESTER: IPUC RESPONDER: Kim Boynton
TYPE: Production Request DEPARTMENT: Energy Efficiency
REQUEST NO.: Staff-12 TELEPHONE: [phone]
REQUEST:
For NEEA's 2025-2029 Business Cycle, please provide the expected cost for the Company and
how that funding amount was determined. Additionally, please identify any cost associated with
ad hoc requests(i.e., cost to implement recommendations or measures for Avista specifically) and
provide a breakdown of costs associated with the Business Plan to the greatest extent possible(i.e.,
administration, codes, standard changes, measure support, etc.).
RESPONSE:
While Avista considers the above request to be outside of the scope of this proceeding — as the
future 2025-2029 Business Cycle bears no relevance to the Company's request for a determination
of prudence for its prior 2022-2023 program years — the Company provides the following
information in response to the request.
For the 2025-2029 Business Cycle, the proposed cost shares for Avista are $1,350,048 for natural
gas programs and$4,627,723 for electric programs. Proposed funding allocations are based on the
funding share methodology,which are 3.82%of the total NEEA gas budget and 2.18%of the total
NEEA electric budget.
Please see Staff-PR-10 Attachment A for the costs associated with the 2025-2029 Business Plan
(page 55,Table 4). Based on conversations between NEEA and the Company,NEEA noted that its
Board of Directors(Board)did discuss the possibility that updated methodologies connected to the
Evaluation recommendations may require additional investment.To accommodate this possibility,
the Board approved up to $500,000 of funding within the Cycle 7 budget to support any required
adjustments to NEEA's evaluation methodologies. Please see Staff-PR-09-Attachment B (slides
73-83) for additional detail on NEEA's response to the Evaluation recommendations and the
direction provided by NEEA's Board. Costs to implement recommendations from the ADM
evaluation of NEEA have been absorbed into this budget, therefore, the Company does not
anticipate any ad hoc requests related to implementation of recommendations resulting from the
ADM evaluation of NEEA.