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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20240919IPC to Staff 120-121.pdf LISA D. NORDSTROM Lead Counsel lnordstrom@idahopower.com September 19, 2024 VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Commission Secretary Idaho Public Utilities Commission 11331 W. Chinden Blvd., Bldg 8, Suite 201-A (83714) PO Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Re: Case No. IPC-E-24-07 Application of Idaho Power Company for Authority to Increase Rates for Electric Service to Recover Costs Associated with Incremental Capital Investments and Certain Ongoing Operations and Maintenance Expenses Dear Commission Secretary: Attached for electronic filing, please find Idaho Power Company’s Response to the Fifteenth Production Request of the Commission Staff to Idaho Power Company. Due to the collectively voluminous confidential and non-confidential information provided in response to data requests in this case, the Company is posting the attachments to these requests to the secure FTP site to allow parties to view the requested information remotely unless otherwise noted in the response. Because certain attachments contain confidential information, the FTP site is divided between confidential and non-confidential information. The login information for the non-confidential portion of the FTP site has been provided to all parties that have intervened to date. The login information for the confidential portion of the FTP site will be provided to the parties that execute the Protective Agreement in this matter. If you have any questions about the attached filing, please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Lisa D. Nordstrom LDN:sg Attachments ' a1DA11> POWER . RECEIVED Thursday, September 19 2024 IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION CERTIFICATE OF ATTORNEY ASSERTION THAT INFORMATION CONTAINED IN AN IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION FILING IS PROTECTED FROM PUBLIC INSPECTION Case No. IPC-E-24-07 Idaho Power Company’s Application for Authority to Increase Rates for Electric Service to Recover Costs Associated with Incremental Capital Investments and Certain Ongoing Operations and Maintenance Expenses The undersigned attorney, in accordance with Commission Rules of Procedure 67, believes that the attachments to Request Nos. 120 and 121 to Idaho Power Company’s Response to the Fifteenth Production Request of the Commission Staff dated September 19, 2024, contains information that Idaho Power Company and/or a third party claim are trade secrets, business records of a private enterprise required by law to be submitted to or inspected by a public agency, as described in Idaho Code § 74-101, et seq., and/or § 48-801, et seq. As such, it is protected from public disclosure and exempt from public inspection, examination, or copying. DATED this 19th day of September 2024. Lisa D. Nordstrom Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 1 LISA D. NORDSTROM (ISB No. 5733) DONOVAN E. WALKER (ISB No. 5921) MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN (ISB No. 7623) Idaho Power Company 1221 West Idaho Street (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-5825 Facsimile: (208) 388-6936 lnordstrom@idahopower.com dwalker@idahopower.com mgoicoecheaallen@idahopower.com Attorneys for Idaho Power Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY TO INCREASE RATES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE TO RECOVER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREMENTAL CAPITAL INVESTMENTS AND CERTAIN ONGOING OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE EXPENSES. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO. IPC-E-24-07 IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company (“Idaho Power” or “Company”), and in response to the Fifteenth Production Request of the Commission Staff (“Commission” or “Staff”) to Idaho Power Company dated September 5, 2024, herewith submits the following information: IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 2 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 120: Please provide the following data in Excel format for each individual expense for the projects listed in the Confidential attachment labeled “Capital Project Data Request July 2024”: a. Transaction Date; b. Transaction Number; c. Transaction Amount; and d. Transaction Purpose (Services performed and/or material purchased, etc.) RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 120: Please see Response to Staff Request No. 120 – Confidential Attachment. Idaho Power does not have a Transaction Number for each transaction. Instead, Idaho Power has numbered each row. The response to this Request is sponsored by Matthew Larkin, Revenue Requirement Senior Manager, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 3 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 121: Please provide invoices for the sample selected in the confidential attachment titled “June Capital Project Transaction Sample”. For selections not linked to specific invoices, please explain the accounting method used to determine the amount and provide calculations that determine the amount in Excel format. RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 121: Please see Response to Request for Production No. 121 - Confidential Attachments 1 through 12 providing supporting documentation for the expenses selected in Staff’s sample, “June Capital Project Transaction Sample”. The response to this Request is sponsored by Matthew Larkin, Revenue Requirement Senior Manager, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 4 DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 19th day of September 2024. LISA D. NORDSTROM Attorney for Idaho Power Company DONOVAN E. WALKER Attorney for Idaho Power Company MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 5 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 19th day of September 2024, I served a true and correct copy of Idaho Power Company’s Response to the Fifteenth Production Request of the Commission Staff to Idaho Power upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Commission Staff Chris Burdin Deputy Attorney General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 11331 W. Chinden Blvd., Bldg No. 8 Suite 201-A (83714) PO Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0074 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email Chris.Burdin@puc.idaho.gov Industrial Customers of Idaho Power Peter J. Richardson Richardson Adams, PLLC 515 N. 27th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email peter@richardsonadams.com Dr. Don Reading 280 Silverwood Way Eagle, Idaho 83616 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email dreading@mindspring.com Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association, Inc. Eric L. Olsen ECHO HAWK & OLSEN, PLLC 505 Pershing Avenue, Suite 100 P.O. Box 6119 Pocatello, Idaho 83205 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email elo@echohawk.com Lance Kaufman, Ph.D. 2623 NW Bluebell Place Corvallis, OR 97330 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email lance@aegisinsight.com IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 6 Idaho Conservation League Brad Heusinkveld 710 N. 6th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email bheusinkveld@idahoconservation.org Micron Technology, Inc. Austin Rueschhoff Thorvald A. Nelson Austin W. Jensen Kristine A.K. Roach Holland & Hart LLP 555 17th Street, Suite 3200 Denver, CO 80202 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email darueschhoff@hollandhart.com tnelson@hollandhart.com awjensen@hollandhart.com karoach@hollandhart.com aclee@hollandhart.com mamcmillen@hollandhart.com Jim Swier Micron Technology, Inc. 8000 South Federal Way Boise, ID 83707 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email jswier@micron.com City of Boise Ed Jewell Deputy City Attorney Boise City Attorney’s Office 150 N. Capitol Blvd. P.O. Box 500 Boise, Idaho 83701 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email BoiseCityAttorney@cityofboise.org ejewell@cityofboise.org IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIFTEENTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER - 7 Steven Hubble Boise City Dept. of Public Works 150 N. Capitol Blvd. P.O. Box 500 Boise, Idaho 83701-0500 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email shubble@cityofboise.org Federal Executive Agencies Peter Meier Emily W. Medlyn U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20585 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email peter.meier@hq.doe.gov emily.medlyn@hq.doe.gov Stacy Gust Regulatory Administrative Assistant ~ ~