20250204Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER LODGE
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: CHRIS BURDIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: FEBRUARY 4, 2025
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S PETITION TO
MODIFY A COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENT RELATED TO UPDATING
SCHEDULE 87; CASE NO. IPC-E-24-08.
On February 27, 2024, Idaho Power Company ("Company") filed a petition ("Petition")
with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission ("Commission") requesting to modify a compliance
requirement in Commission Order No. 36048,issued in Case No. IPC-E-23-14,regarding updating
the Company's Schedule 87, Intermittent Generation Integration Charges ("Schedule 87").
The Company requested that the Commission modify the Company's compliance
requirement to: (1) authorize the Company to update Schedule 87 integration costs based on the
forthcoming 2024 Variable Energy Resource("VER") Study, instead of the 2020 VER Study; and
(2)authorize the Company to file both the forthcoming 2024 VER Study and updated Schedule 87
no later than December 31, 2024.
On June 10, 2024, the Commission issued Order No. 36219, granting the Company's
request to modify the compliance requirement in Order No. 36048, and directing the company to
file both the 2024 VER Study and updated Schedule 87 proposed rates no later than December 31,
2024. Order No. 36219 at 2.
On December 31, 2024, the Company submitted a compliance filing with its 2024 VER
Study and Updated Schedule 87 proposed rates.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Because, among other things, the proposed rates affect all future Public Utility Regulatory
Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA") rates in new and renewed PURPA contracts, Staff recommends
that the Commission open a new docket for this matter and that the Commission issue a Notice of
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Filing and Notice of Intervention Deadline establishing a 21-day intervention period in the new
docket.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to open a new docket for this matter and issue a Notice of Filing
and Notice of Intervention Deadline establishing a 21-day intervention period in the new docket?
0, , � A-
Chris Burdin
Deputy Attorney General
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