HomeMy WebLinkAbout20161115AVU to Staff 18.docAVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
JURISDICTION: IDAHO DATE PREPARED: 11/10/2016
CASE NO.: AVU-E-16-06 WITNESS: Dan Johnson
REQUESTER: IPUC RESPONDER: Mike Dillon
TYPE: Production Request DEPARTMENT: DSM
REQUEST NO.: Staff-18 TELEPHONE: (509) 495-4260
REQUEST:
How does the Company monitor CAP Health and Safety expenditures to ensure they do not exceed 15% of the overall program allocation? Please explain why 26% of the program funds were allocated to Health and Safety in 2014.
RESPONSE:
As shown in the spreadsheet detailing 2014 expenses provided in Staff_PR_01, total CAP Health and Safety expenditures amounted to $104,542.51, or 14.9 percent of the total expenses for the Low Income program of $700,170.
The 26% referenced in this request comes from Table 3.12 of the Idaho 2014 DSM Annual Report. In this table Nexant did not use actual expenses by functional category, but rather allocated total expenses to the various categories based on the relative incentives provided by each category. Approximately 26% of the incentives for both Washington and Idaho electric low income program were generated by Health and Safety measures, and therefore 26% of the costs were allocated to this category. Avista has requested further information from Nexant on their analysis and will supplement this response when we receive it.
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