20260113Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER LODGE
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSIONER HARDIE
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: ERIKA K. MELANSON
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: JANUARY 13, 2026
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S 2025 VARIABLE
ENERGY RESOURCE INTEGRATION STUDY AND PROPOSED
UPDATE TO SCHEDULE 87; CASE NO. IPC-E-25-36.
On December 26, 2025, Idaho Power Company ("Company") applied to the Idaho Public
Utilities Commission ("Commission") requesting approval of the Company's proposed Schedule
87,Intermittent Generation Integration Charges("Schedule 87"),updated rates,effective February
1, 2026, for which the Company's 2025 Variable Energy Resource ("VER") Integration Study
("2025 VER Study")was the basis of, and acknowledgement that the Company complied with the
Commission's directives in Order No. 36661.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Commission Staff ("Staff') recommends that the Commission issue a Notice of
Application and Notice of Intervention Deadline establishing a twenty-one (21) day intervention
period.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Application and Notice of Intervention
Deadline establishing a twenty-one (21) day intervention period?
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