20241008Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSIONER LODGE
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: CHRIS BURDIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: OCTOBER 8, 2024
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATIONS OF AVISTA CORPORATION
FOR A DETERMINATION OF 2022-2023 ELECTRIC AND NATURAL
GAS ENERGY EFFICIENCY EXPENSES AS PRUDENTLY INCURRED;
CASE NOS. AVU-E-24-09 AND AVU-G-24-03.
On August 1, 2024, Avista Corporation, doing business as Avista Utilities ("Company"),
filed two applications with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission ("Commission") requesting
prudence determinations of its 2022-2023 Electric and Gas Energy Efficiency Expenses
(collectively"Applications").
The Company requests an order designating its electric energy efficiency expenditures
from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2023, funded through the Company's Schedule 91
Energy Efficiency Rider Adjustment in the amount of$15,972,882, as prudently incurred.
The Company also requests an order designating its natural gas energy efficiency
expenditures from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2023, funded through the Company's
Schedule 191 Energy Efficiency Rider Adjustment in the amount of $4,149,757, as prudently
incurred.
On September 6, 2024, the Commission issued a Notice of Applications and Notice of
Intervention Deadline. Order No. 36303. No parties intervened. On October 2, 2024, a Notice of
Parties was issued.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Commission Staff recommends that the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure
establishing a December 19,2024,initial comment deadline,and a January 9,2025,reply comment
deadline.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 1

COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a
December 19, 2024, initial comment deadline, and a January 9, 2025, reply comment deadline?
Chris Burdin
Deputy Attorney General
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