20250805Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER LODGE
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSIONER HARDIE
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: JEFFREY R. LOLL
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: AUGUST 5, 2025
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO UPDATE ITS OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE CHARGES APPLICABLE TO SCHEDULE 72,
GENERATOR INTERCONNECTIONS TO PURPA QUALIFYING
FACILITY SELLERS; CASE NO. IPC-E-25-22.
On May 8,2025,Idaho Power Company("Company"),applied to the Idaho Public Utilities
Commission ("Commission") requesting authority to update its operation and maintenance
charges applicable to Schedule 72,generator interconnections to Public Utility Regulatory Policies
Act ("PURPA") qualifying facility sellers effective January 1, 2026 ("Application"). The
Company requests that the Application be processed under modified procedure. Application at 5.
On June 9,2025,the Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of Intervention
Deadline. Order No. 36631. The Commission granted intervention to Idaho Hydroelectric Power
Producers Trust, an Idaho Trust, d/b/a IdaHydro ("IdaHydro") and the Renewable Energy
Coalition("REC"). Order Nos. 36629 and 36668.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Commission now issue a Notice of Modified Procedure, establishing
a September 2, 2025, initial comment deadline; a September 23, 2025, all-party reply comment
deadline; and a September 30, 2025, Company reply comment deadline.
IDAHYDRO'S REQUEST FOR HEARING
Within its petition to intervene, IdaHydro objected to the Company's request for modified
procedure. IdaHydro's Petition to Intervene at 2. The petition to intervene states in relevant part:
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[IdaHydro] objects to use of the Modified Procedure in processing the pending
Application and requests a full hearing process. This matter,as reflected by the pre-
filing of testimony by the Applicant, is fact-specific and thus deserving of the
development of a full record to assist the Commission in accurate resolution.
Further, the magnitude of both the requested increase in the operation and
maintenance charges proposed to be levied against the Public Utility Regulatory
Policy Act of 1978 on the Applicant's Schedule 72 was, as explained in the
Application, originally a rate case component, which necessitates a hearing
pursuant to Commission rules.
Id.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to:
1. Process the case through modified procedure and issue a Notice of Modified Procedure
establishing a September 2, 2025, initial comment deadline; a September 23, 2025, all-
parry reply comment deadline; and a September 30, 2025, Company reply comment
deadline?
2. Establish a different procedural schedule to process the case?
3. Anything else?
Jeffrey`R. toll
Deputy Attorney General
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