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DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER LODGE
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSIONER HARDIE
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: JEFF LOLL
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: AUGUST 12, 2025
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN
POWER FOR AUTHORITY TO IMPLEMENT CHANGES TO NON-
LEGACY CUSTOMER GENERATORS; CASE NO. PAC-E-25-02.
On February 7,2025,Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp ("Company") filed
an application ("Application") with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission ("Commission")
requesting an order approving the Company's proposed changes to its onsite self-generation
Electric Service Schedule 136 ("Schedule 136") tariff beginning October 1, 2025, and approving
the Company's proposed export credit rate methodology. Application at 1.
On June 17, 2025, the Commission issued a Notice of Modified Procedure setting an
August 14, 2025, deadline for initial comments and a September 3, 2025, deadline for the
Company's reply comments. Order No. 36482 at 1-2. The Commission also issued a Notice of
Virtual Customer Hearing setting a customer hearing date of August 19, 2025. Id. at 4.
On July 30, 2025, the Company filed an amended application with the Commission
("Amended Application"). Within the Amended Application, the Company made changes to
inputs used to calculate the export credit rate of the Company's Schedule 136 customers.Amended
Application at 2-3.
At the Commission's August 5, 2025, decision meeting, Commission Staff ("Staff')
recommended the Commission vacate and reset the comment deadlines to provide adequate time
for public comments on the Amended Application. Additionally, Staff recommended the
Commission issue an Amended Notice of Virtual Customer Hearing vacating the hearing currently
scheduled for August 19, 2025, and scheduling a new customer hearing at a date that would allow
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the hearing to be more practical under the new comment deadlines. Having reviewed Staff's
request, the Commission found at the August 5, 2025, decision meeting that it is reasonable to
grant additional time to file comments and reply comments and to reset the previously scheduled
customer hearing.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Considering the extended comment deadlines and the Company's request for an October
1, 2025, effective date, Commission Staff recommends the Commission suspend the Company's
proposed effective date for 30 days plus five months pursuant to the Commission's authority under
Idaho Code § 61-622(4).
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to suspend the Company's proposed effective date?
Jeffrey . Loll
Deputy Attorney General
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