20080721AVU to Staff 2, 171, 194, etc.pdf

Avista Corp.
1411 East Mission P.O. Box 3727
Spokane. Washington 99220-0500
Telephone [phone]
Toll Free 800-727-9170
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July 18, 2008
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
472 W. Washington St.
Boise, ID 83720-0074
Attn: Scott Woodbur
Deputy Attorney General
Re: Production Request of the Commission Staff in Case Nos. A VU-E-08-01 and
A VU-G-08-01
Dear Mr. Woodbur,
Enclosed are an original and three copies of Avista's responses to IPUC Staffs production
requests in the above referenced docket. Included in this mailing are Avista's responses to
production requests 002, 171, 194, 199, 202 and 203. The electronic versions of the responses
were emailed on 7/18/08 and are also being provided in electronic format on the CDs included in
this mailing.
_ If there are any questions regarding the enclosed information, please contact me at (509) 495-
8620 or via e-mail at pat. ehrbar(Ðavistacorp. com
Sincerely,Q~~
Patrick Ehrbar
Regulatory Analyst
Enclosures
CC: Brad Purdy, CAP AI (Paper and Email)
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
IDAHO
A VU-E-08-01 / A VU-G-08-01
IPUC
Production Request
Staff-002-Supplemental #2
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
07/17/08
Elizabeth Andrews
Craig Bertholf
State & Federal Reg.
[phone]
Please provide copies of the monthly tral balances from Januar 2004 though the most curent
month available. Please provide the monthly tral balances for 2008 though April and for each
month in 2008 as they become available.
RESPONSE:
Please see StafCPR _ 002S-Attachment B.xls for the Trial Balance as of June 30, 2008. Per Staffs
request, this is being provided in electronic format only.
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
A VU-E-08-01 / A VU-G-08-01
IPUC
Production Request
Staff-171 Supplemental
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
07/14/08
Don Kopczynski
Greg Paulson
Customer Servce
[phone]
Please provide the reasons for and number of instances in 2007 where the Company had to rebil
customers due to metering equipment failure, e.g., failure of an ERT or index or mechancal failure
of the meter itself.
RESPONSE:
There are a total of 1,800 Customer AccoÚTt Entr's (CAE's) in 2007. Ofthose CAE's, 1,509 had
meters which tested fast, and 291 were stopped meters. A CAE is created for each read that is
adjusted.
When the CAE's are grouped by individual account, 324 accounts were adjusted due to one ofthe
reasons noted above in 2007. If the CAE's are grouped by account and by serice, then there were
335 accounts in 2007. This means that 11 accounts had both electrc and natual gas reads adjusted
and the other 324 had only 1 service adjusted.
The break down of the adjustments by serice is below. Please note that if both serces were
adjusted, only one CAE would be placed on the accounts, slightly skewing the overall results.
Meter tested Fast
Meter tested Fast
Stopped Meter
Stopped Meter
Stopped Meter
5 Electric
1504 Gas
23 Demand
181 Electric
87 Gas
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AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMENT:
TELEPHONE:
07/16/08
Malyn Malquist
Jeane Pluth
State & Federal Reg.
[phone]
IDAHO
AVU-E-08-01 / AVU-G-08-01
IPUC
Production Request
Staff-194
REQUEST:
Please descrbe the 2007 budget car forward to 2008 identified in Avista's response to
Production Request No. 70. Please include within your response which projects were dropped and
if they were abandoned (money is now available for new projects) or whether projects were simply
moved from 2007 to 2008 expected dates in serce. Please include within your response the
pattern of budget car forwards from 2004 to date.
RESPONSE:
Budget carovers for the past few years have been as follows:
2004 to 2005 - $0
2005 to 2006 - $3.3M2006to 2007 - $6.8M iL
2007 to 2008 - $4.2M
As one might expect, it is very difficult to spend exactly what is budgeted when dealing with both
the number of projects and the dollar amounts in Avista's capital budget. Avista manages the
over/under spend as follows:
If excess capital dollars have been spent, the excess dollars may be deducted from the
upcoming year's budget. This does not tyically occur since the budget is managed ver
closely.
If there are capital dollars that have not been spent, then those dollars are cared forward to the
upcoming year (and added to that year's budget). This can occur on projects for a variety of
reasons, such as not getting a permit in time, or if work crews are not available to complete the
job. Typically, if dollars are being cared forward for specific jobs, those dollars are spent on
those jobs.
For the 2007 projects that were cared over to 2008, a sumar follows:
ER#Description Amount
6101 Forest Srvc Rqmts $ 200,000
5000 Softare $1,000,000
5001 Hardware $ 250,000
5107 Backup Control Center $ 700,000
7000 Tranporttion Equip $ 803,000
7001 Strctues & Improve $50,000
2105-2108 WOH projects $1,010,000
2223 Sandpoint 115 upgrade $75,000
2360 Lol0 230 Rebuild $125,000
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
AVU-E-08-01 / AVU-G-08-01
IPUC
Production Request
Staff-199
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
07/18/08
Dave DeFelice
Jeane Pluth
State & Federal Reg.
[phone]
In response to Production Request No. 189, Avista identified that Cabinet Gorge Wastewater
project costs were written off to operating expenses in 2007. Please identify the FERC account
and subaccount to which the expenses were wrtten off and the corresponding amounts allocated to
Idaho contained within the Company's general rate case.
RESPONSE:
$6,288.34 was wrtten off to FERC Account No. 535 - Supervsion & Engineering Hydraulic
Power Generation. The amount allocated to Idaho was $2,226.70. An additional $771.21 of
AFUDC that had been accrued was also reversed to FERC Account 419 - AFC.
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
AVU-E-08-01 / AVU-G-08-01
IPUC
Production Request
Staff-202
DATE PREPARD:WISS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMENT:
TELEPHONE:
07/18/08
Elizabeth Andrews
Jeane Pluth
State & Federal Reg.
[phone]
Please provide the account transaction detail for FERC account 923 by month in an Excel
spreadsheet format with formulas activated, and including all sub accounts. Provide the name of
the vendor, voucher number, expenditue type, transaction description, and jursdictional
allocation of the transaction. Please provide a print out as well as an electronic copy of the Excel
spreadsheet.
RESPONSE:
Per discussion with IPUC Staff, the FERC account requested should have been 921. The data
requested is provided in Staff_PR_202-Attachment A.xls. A summar of the account transaction
detail is attached.
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
AVU-E-08-0l / AVU-G-08-0l
IPUC
Production Request
Staff-203
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
07/16/08
Denns Vermilion
John Lyons
Energy Resources
[phone]
Please provide a description of expenses reflected in the rate case filing for the Chicago Climate
Exchange (CCX) and Carbon Financial Instrent (CFn. Please provide dollar amounts and
accounts where they have been booked.
RESPONSE:
The 2007 costs incurred for CCX membership were $200,000. The breakdown of costs is:
Phase I Enrollment Fee
Phase II Enrollment Fee
2003 Anual Dues
2004 Anual Dues
2005 Anual Dues
2006 Anual Dues
2007 Anual Dues
Tota
$15,000
$10,000
$35,000
$35,000
$35,000
$35,000
$35,000
$200,000
Phase I covered the period 2003 - 2006 and Phase II covers 2007 - 2010. Avistawas allowed by
the CCX to join Phase I after it had ended because of our discussions with joining CCX durng that
period. This allowed the Company to receive Phase I credits to sell. No sales of credits were made
in the test period because the baseline audit was not completed until the second quarer of 2008.
These membership fees were recorded in FERC Account 186-Miscellaneous Suspense Account
and therefore were not reflected in the Company's rate case fiing. Avista fied a petition for an
order authorizing deferral of the fees/revenues related to these credits with the IPUC on May 21,
2008, Docket A VU-E-08-02.