20160906AVU to Staff 121.doc

AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

JURISDICTION: IDAHO DATE PREPARED: 08/29/2016
CASE NO.: AVU-E-16-03 WITNESS: Scott Kinney
REQUESTER: IPUC RESPONDER: Heide Evans
TYPE: Production Request DEPARTMENT: Hydro Licensing
REQUEST NO.: Staff - 121 TELEPHONE: [phone]

REQUEST:

Please provide a table that lists each project associated with each expense and type (i.e., capital investments, labor, maintenance, etc.) of the funded appendixes of the CFSA for the following general rate cases: AVU E-11-01, AVU E-12-08, AVU E-15-05, and AVU E-16-03. Within this table please provide the test year and proforma amounts allowed in to rates, and the actual expenditures for each test year and proforma.

RESPONSE:

A reconciliation between test year and proforma amounts allowed into rates and the actual expenditures for each test year and proforma, related to the Clark Fork Settlement Agreement (CFSA) costs for each of the listed GRCs, is not available.

The table below provides the filed historical test period included in each GRC referenced docket between 2011 and 2016, as well as the year in which capital additions (or net plant) were approved through, by year, per GRC.

Please see Staff_PR_121 Attachments A-L for available details of project costs (expenses) associated with each appendices of the CFSA for the years 2010 – 2015. See Staff_PR_121 Attachments M for CFSA available details of capital costs for the period 2010-2015. This information is not reconciled by each GRC it is included in, however, the table above shows the year in which expenses and capital would have been included in each of the above referenced dockets.

See Company witness Ms. Schuh filed exhibits in this proceeding: Exhibit No. 10, Schedule 3 (for proposed CFSA capital project amounts for 2016 and 2017) and Schedule 4 (2016 and 2017 capital project business cases) in support of the 2016 and 2017 capital additions proposed in the Company’s filing. Company witness Mr. Kinney discusses 2016 and 2017 generation capital additions within his testimony starting at page 11.

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