20250410Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER LODGE
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSIONER HARDIE
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: ERIKA K. MELANSON
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: APRIL 10, 2025
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S 2024 VARIABLE
ENERGY RESOURCE STUDY AND PROPOSED UPDATE TO
SCHEDULE 87; CASE NO. IPC-E-25-07.
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.
On February 18, 2025, the Commission issued Order No. 36466 in Case No. IPC-E-24-08
ordering a new docket be opened to consider the Company's proposed update to Schedule 87 rates.
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On March 14, 2025, the Commission issued a Notice of Filing and Notice of Intervention
Deadline, setting a deadline for interested parties to file a petition to intervene. Order No. 36510.
No petitions to intervene were filed.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure, establishing a
May 14, 2025, initial comment deadline, and a May 21, 2025, Company reply deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure, establishing a May
14, 2025, initial comment deadline, and a May 21, 2025, Company reply deadline?
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