20250320Notice of Withdrawal of Compliance Filing.pdf

-HIQAHO POWERO
DONOVAN WALKER
Lead Counsel RECEIVED
dwalkerCcD_idahopower.com March 20, 2025
IDAHO PUBLIC
UTILITIES COMMISSION
March 20, 2025
Commission Secretary
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
11331 W. Chinden Boulevard
Building 8, Suite 201-A
Boise, Idaho 83714
Re: Case No. IPC-E-24-22
In The Matter of Idaho Power Company's Compliance Filing to Update the
Customer Surcharge to Collect Incremental Costs of Distribution
Undergrounding of the New 138 kV Transmission Line in the Wood River
Valley and Establish Necessary Regulatory Accounting Treatment
Dear Commission Secretary:
Attached for electronic filing is Idaho Power Company's Notice of Withdrawal of
Compliance Filing in the above-entitled matter. If you have any questions about the attached
filing, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Donovan Walker
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Enclosures
1221 W. Idaho St(83702)
P.O. Box 70
Boise, ID 83707

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: [phone]
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Attorneys for Idaho Power Company
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER )
COMPANY'S IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO ) CASE NO. IPC-E-24-22
POWER COMPANY'S COMPLIANCE )
FILING TO UPDATE THE CUSTOMER ) IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S
SURCHARGE TO COLLECT ) NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF
INCREMENTAL COSTS OF DISTRIBUTION ) COMPLIANCE FILING
UNDERGROUNDING OF THE NEW 138 KV )
TRANSMISSION LINE IN THE WOOD )
RIVER VALLEY AND ESTABLISH )
NECESSARY REGULATORY )
ACCOUNTING TREATMENT )
Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or"Company") hereby respectfully provides
this Notice of Withdrawal of the compliance filing submitted by the Company on May 31,
2024, pursuant to Idaho Public Utilities Commissions ("Commission") Rule of Procedure
68, which provides: "A party desiring to withdraw a pleading must file a notice of
withdrawal of the pleading with the Commission and serve all parties with it. Unless
otherwise ordered by the Commission, the notice is effective fourteen (14) days after
filing."
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1. The Company's compliance filing in this case was intended to address
certain compliance requirements stemming from the Commission's previous order
associated with the Wood River Valley Reliability Project ("WRV Project") including
updates to the customer surcharge as well as the customer communications
requirements prescribed by the Commission. With respect to the customer surcharge, the
Company proposed a two-phase approach to surcharge collection to align with the
staggered WRV Project construction schedule for the transmission and distribution
portions of the WRV Project, which would entail implementing the distribution portion of
the surcharge first followed by the surcharge for the transmission portion of the line based
on the actual in-service timing for those portions.
2. Subsequently, the Company requested that the Commission suspend the
procedural schedule in this case when it became clear that, due to circumstances outside
of the Company's control, the distribution portion of the line would not be fully completed
by the time initially anticipated by the Company. As a result, on November 1, 2024, the
Commission stayed this case for up to six months from the issuance of the Order or until
the Company files a motion to initiate a new case schedule—whichever comes first-- and
further directed the Company to resume the case as soon as practical once the
distribution line is energized.
3. In the meantime, the Company has engaged in discussions with the
Commission Staff regarding next steps, and based on those discussions, have aligned
on pursuing a procedural path that will provide for a single surcharge to be implemented
at the conclusion of the project versus the two-phase implementation proposal in the 2024
Case. To that end, the Company intends to initiate a separate docket requesting
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authorization to delay placing the incremental distribution undergrounding cost of the
WRV Project into utility plant in service for accounting purposes and instead retain those
amounts in CWIP until the transmission portion of the project is completed. This will
eliminate the need for a separate distribution surcharge until the transmission portion is
complete and placed in service, allowing for a single surcharge.
4. Because the instant case was specifically associated with implementation
of the distribution-only portion of the surcharge, which is no longer the approach being
pursued, the Company provides this Notice of the Withdrawal of its compliance filing in
Case No. IPC-E-24-22 pursuant to Commission Rule of Procedure 68, and respectfully
asks that this docket be closed.
Respectfully submitted this 20th day of March 2025.
DONOVAN WALKER
Attorney for Idaho Power Company
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 20th day of March 2025, 1 served a true and correct
copy of the within and foregoing IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S NOTICE OF
WITHDRAWAL OF COMPLIANCE FILING upon the following named parties by the
method indicated below, and addressed to the following:
Michael Duval Hand Delivered
Deputy Attorneys General U.S. Mail
Idaho Public Utilities Commission Overnight Mail
11331 W. Chinden Blvd., Bldg. No. 8, FAX
Suite 201-A (83714) X Email - michael.duval(c)_puc.idaho.gov
PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0074
MVIV-
Christy Davenport, Legal Assistant
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