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December 27,2010
Richardson & O'Lear, PLLC
515 N. 27th St.
Boise, il. 83702
Re: Production Request of the Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition
(NIPPC) in Case No. GNR-E-1O-04
Dear Mr. Richardson and Mr. Adams,
Enclosed are an original of Avista's responses to NIPPC production requests in the above
referenced docket. Included in this mailng are Avista's responses to production requests 05
through 12.
If there are any questions regarding the enclosed information, please contact me at (509) 495-
4584 or via e-mail atpaul.kimabll(favistacorp.com
~A
Paul Kimball
Regulatory Analyst
Enclosures
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have served Avista Corporation's Responses to NIPPC's
Production Requests 05 thr 12 in GNR-E-I0-04, by electronic mail to the following:
Daniel E. Solander
PacifiCorp/ dba Rocky Mountain Power
201 S., Main St., Suite 2300
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
daniel. solanderßYacificorp. com
Donald 1. Howell, II
Krstine A. Sasser
Deputy Attorneys General
Idaho Public Utilties Commission
472 W. Washington
Boise, il 83702-0074
don.howell(fuc.idaho. gov
kris.sasser(fuc.idaho.gov
Donovan E. Walker
Lisa D. Nordstrom
Idaho Power Company
POBox 70
Boise, il 83707-0070
dwalker(fidahopower.com
lnordstrom(fidahopoer .com
Peter J. Richardson
Gregory M. Adams
Richardson & O'Lear, PLLC
PO Box 7218
Boise, il 83702
peter(frichardsonandoleary.com
greg(frichardsonandoleary. com
Robert D. Kah
Executive Director
Northwest and Intermountain Power
Producers Coalition
117 Minor Ave., Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98101
rkahn(fnippc.org
Robert A. Paul
Grand View Solar II
15690 Vista Circle
Desert Hot Springs, CA 92241
Robertapaul08 (fgmail. com
Don Sturtevant
J.R. Simplot Company
PO Box 27
Boise, il 83707-0027
don.sturtevant(fsimplot.com
Ronald L. Wiliams
Wiliams Bradbury, P.C.
1015 W. Hays Street
Boise, il 83702
ron(fwilliamsbradbury.com
James Carkulis
Exergy Development Group of Idaho, LLC
802 W. Banock St., Suite 1200
Boise, il 83702
jcarkulis(fexergydevelopment.com
Scott Montgomery
Cedar Creek Wind, LLC
668 Rockwood Dr.
North Salt Lake, UT 84054
scott(fwestemenergy. us
Dana Zentz
Summit Power Group, Inc.
2006 E. Westminster
Spokane, W A 99223
dzentz(fsummitpower.com
Thomas H. Nelson, Attorney
Renewable Energy Coalition
PO Box 1211
Welches, OR 97067-1211
nelson(fthnelson.com
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John R. Lowe, Consultant
Renewable Energy Coalition
12050 SW Tremont St.
Portland, OR 97225
jravensanarcos(fyahoo.com
R. Greg Ferey
Mimura Law Offices, PLLC
2176 E. Franin Rd., Suite 120
Merdan, il 83642
greg(fmimuralaw.com
Bil Piske
Interconnect Solar Development, LLC
1303 E. Carer
Boise, il 83706
bilpiske(fcableone.net
Dean J. Miler
McDevitt & Miler, LLP
POBox 2564
Boise, WA 83701
joe(fmcdevitt -miler. com
Paul Marin
Intermountain Wind, LLC
PO Box 353
Boulder, CO 80306
paulmarin(fintermountainwind.com
Ronald L. Wiliams
Wiliams Bradbury, P.C.
1015 W. Hays Street
Boise, il 83702
ron(fwiliamsbradbury.com
Wade Thomas
General Counsel
Dynamis Energy. LLC
776 W. Riverside Dr., Suite 15
Eagle, il 83616
wthomas(fdynamisenergy.com
Shelley N. Davis
Barker Rosholt & Simpson, LLP
1010 W. Jefferson St.
Boise, il 83702
smd(fidahowaters.com
Brian Olmstead
Twin Falls Canal Company
POBox 326
Twin Falls, il 83303
olmstead(ftfcanal.com
Ted Diehl
Nort Side Canal Company
921 N. Lincoln St.
Jerome, il 83338
nscanal(fcableone.net
Bil Brown, Chair
Board of Commissioners of
Adams County, il
PO Box 48
Council, il 83612
bdbrown(ffrontiernet.net
Ted S. Sorenson, P.E.
Birch Power Company
5203 South 11 th East
Idaho Falls, il 83404
ted(ftsorenson.net
BY:~December 27,2010
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
GNR- E-l 0-04
NIPC
Production Request
NIPC-05
DATE PREPARD:WISS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
On what basis do the Joint Utilties include Avista Corporation in the Joint Motion to reduce the
eligibility cap for published avoided cost rates?
RESPONSE:
In responding to this request, A vista canot, and does not, speak for any utilty or entity other than
itself.
A vista is subject to Commission jursdiction and all PUR A laws under the State ofIdaho. Avista
believes that PUR A policies generally should apply equally to all utiities in the State.
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
GNR-E-I0-04
NIPPC
Production Request
NIPC-06
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kaich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
Please provide copies of all documentation relied upon by the Joint Utilities in makg the decision
to include A vista Corporation in the Joint Motion. Said documentation should include all studies,
wrtings, documents, correspondence, notes and memoranda used or referenced in the decision
makng process to include Avista Corporation in the Joint Motion.
RESPONSE:
There are no wrtten studies or other documentation.
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JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
GNR-E-I0-04
NIPC
Production Request
NIPC-07
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMENT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
Does Avista have any wind QFs currently online? What is the level (nameplate MWs) of wind
(pURA and non-PURA) that Avista is curently integrating on its system? What is Avista's
peak, minimum and average load (in MW s)? Please provide workpapers supporting the response.
RESPONSE:
Please see the sheets "PUR A Char" and "PUR A Sumary" in the attached file
"AVA _ GNR-E-l 0-04_ NIPC _PR2.xlsx" for a listing of the PUR A wind project data requested.
Avista curently purchases 35 MW of wind power from the Stateline project. The Stateline power
purchase is not a PUR A contract. Please see the sheet "Loads" in the same file for our most recent
12 months of load data and our average, maximum and minimum loads over that perod.
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Avista Load Statistics (12/6/2009-12/5/2010).Total Idaho *Date
Average 1,080 378
Minimum 664 232 06-01-2010
Maximum 1,763 617 12-08-2009
* estimated as Avista does not distinguish between 10 and WA loads
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loads AVA_ GN R-E-10-04_N IPPC_PR2.xlsx
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AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMENT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
IDAHO
GNR- E-l 0-04
NIPPC
Production Request
NIPC-08
REQUEST:
Reference Joint Petition and Joint Motion, at p. 4, stating Rocky Mountain Power has 358 MW of
new wind contract requests. Reference the Joint Petition and Joint Motion at p. 4 stating Idaho
Power has over 570 MW of new wind contract requests.
a. What is the equivalent number for Avista Corporation?
b. Please provide a list of all such requests, including the name of the requesting entity,
nameplate capacity of the wind project, point of initial contact with Avista Corporation,
and date and natue of the last communcation between the Utilities.
c. For each requesting entity, please provide supportg evidence that the project is stil being
pursued. Such evidence may include a recent correspondence from the requesting entity
requesting a contract.
d.If the documents and information requested in items (a) and (b) are unavailable, please
explain the basis for the response to No. 7(a) above.
RESPONSE:
a. The equivalent number of wind contract requests is 350 MW for Avista.
b. Please see the sheet "PURA Sumary" that was included in the Company's response to
NIPC-07 for a listing of all requests.
c. None of the requests have been rescinded by the project developers. Please see the answer
to b. above.
d. N/A
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.
.
JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
REQUEST:
A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
IDAHO
GNR-E-I0-04
NIPC
Production Request
NIPPC-09
DATE PREPARD:WISS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
Reference Joint Petition and Joint Motion Attachment No. 1.
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kaich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
a. Please provide equivalent data for Avista Corporation and Rocky Mountain Power.
b. Please provide, in electronic format where possible, all work papers, spreadsheets, and data
used in the response to No. 8(a).
c. Please state the name of the person who can sponsor this attachment at a hearng.
RESPONSE:
a. Please see the sheets "PUR A Char" and "PUR A Summary" that were included in the
Company's response to NIPC-07 for a listing of the wind project data requested.
b.See a. above
c. Clint Kalich will sponsor ths exhbit.
AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION.JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
IDAHO
GNR-E-I0-04
NIPC
Production Request
NIPPC-I0
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
REQUEST:
Reference Joint Petition and Joint Motion at p. 7 stating, "When the utility is forced to buy QF
power in excess of its tre avoided cost or in excess of its minimum loads, customers are no longer
indifferent. "
a. Is it the position of each of the Joint Utilities that its avoided cost rates are, in fact, in excess
of its tre avoided costs?
b. If the answer to 9(a) is yes, please provide documentation of each of the Joint Utilities'
''te avoided cost" and in electronic format where possible, all work papers, spreadsheets
and data used in response to 9(a).
c. If the answer to No. 9(a) is no, please explain the relevance of the assertion relative to "tre
avoided cost" to the Joint Utilities' pleading.
. RESPONSE:
In responding to ths request, A vista canot, and does not, speak for any utility or entity other than
itself.
a. To the extent a resource does not provide simlar characterstics to the Surrogate Avoided
Resource (e.g., energy-only resources, requires wind integration, non-dispatchable), the
avoided cost rates are not equal to our ''te avoided cost."
b. A vista assumes ths request refers to item 10a above. Assumng this is the case, avoided
costs are based on the unque characteristics of a generation resource. Ths is why A vista
advocates that larger PUR A projects receive a negotiated rate to approximate the value
the asset brings to Avista's portfolio. A negotiated rate better approximates Avista's "tre
avoided cost."
c. N/A
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A VISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
IDAHO
GNR-E-I0-04
NIPC
Production Request
NIPC-ll
DATE PREPARD:WISS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
REQUEST:
Reference Joint Petition and Joint Motion at p. 7 as quoted in Request NO.9.
a. What is each of the Joint Utilties' mimum load? Please explain how that number is
derived and provide documentation of each of the Joint Utilities' answer.
b. Please provide your response to No. lO(a) on both a system wide and an Idaho
jurisdictional basis.
c. Please document the number of hours each year that each of the Joint Utilties' total
generation exceeds minimum load. Please provide ths information on both a system wide
basis and an Idaho jursdictional basis
d.Please document the number of hours each year that generation (by type of resource e.g.
hydro, coal, natual gas, etc) exceeds minimum load. Please provide ths information on
both a system wide basis and an Idaho jursdictional basis.
e. Please explain, on both engineeng and a financial basis, each of the Joint Utilities'
response to a situation where total generatión exceeds minimum load.
RESPONSE:
In responding to ths request, A vista canot, and does not, speak for any utility or entity other than
itself.
a. See the sheet "Loads" that was included in the Company's response to NIPC-07 to arve
at our minimum load of 664 MW. Ths figue was derved by takng recorded dáta of our
hourly loads from December 6,2009 though December 5,2010 and locating the lowest
hourly demand on our system.
b.From a power supply perspective, A vista does not distinguish between its Idaho and
Washington loads. The best approximation would be from Avista's most recent general
rate case where based on retail sales, Idaho customers represent approximately 35% of
A vista's overall load. Applying ths percentage would equate to 232 MW for Idaho. These
calculations may be found in the sheet "Loads" that was included in the Company's
response to NIPC-07.
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.
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c.
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As documented in our most recent Integrated Resource Plan (IR), see pages 2-27 and 2-28
of that document, Avista's generation facilties and power contracts exceed our loads in all
hours of each month. Therefore Avista's capabilities exceed our loads in all hour.
d. Please see the sheet "Max Gen versus Load" in the attched fie "AVA_GNR-E-I0-04_
PR2.xlsx." Avista's lowest load was on June 1,2010, at 664 MW (232 MW estimated
Idaho jursdiction). Resource generation levels by resource tye are shown from our 2009
IR Loads and Resources tabulation.
e. Generation must equal electrcal load on a near-instantaneous basis. If generation
approaches the point of exceeding electrcal load, the utility must decrease generation to a
level where load equals generation or sell the excess generation in the market place if it is
economically or physically able to do so. If a market does not exist, the generation
resources are dispatched in economic order. If only hydro resources are operating, the
utility must spil excess generation to the extent it can do so.
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Resource Peak Calculations
Resource
Hydro
Other Contracts
Gas
Coal
Wind
Biomass
Total
Nameplate
Capacity
1,148
332
526
222
35
47
2,310
Capacity Avaiable on The
Minimum Load Day *
1,145
332
228
111
o
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1,816
* based on capacity during June. Some plants are on
maintenance; therefore availability is lower than
nameplate.
Max Gen versus Load AVA_ G NR-E-10-04_NIPPC_PR2.xlsx
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AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMTION
JUSDICTION:
CASE NO:
REQUESTER:
TYE:
REQUEST NO.:
IDAHO
GNR-E-I0-04
NIPPC
Production Request
NIPC-12
DATE PREPARD:
WITSS:
RESPONDER:
DEPARTMNT:
TELEPHONE:
12/22/2010
Clint Kalich
Clint Kalich
Energy Resources
(509) 495-4532
REQUEST:
Reference Joint Petition and Joint Motion at p. 7 stating "It is also important that this change in
eligibilty for published avoided cost rates be applied equally to the Utilities, as exclusion of one
may act as a "magnet" attracting a disproportionate number of proposals for that utility."
a. For A vista Corporation, please identify all possible firm transmission paths into its
balancing area from the other two Joint Utilities' Idaho balancing areas upon which
renewable resources could schedule energy and capacity to Avista.
b. For each such transmission path please identify the available firm transmission capacity
that renewable resources may use for deliver of energy and capacity to Avista.
c. Please identify and estimate all costs to a renewable resource located in each of the other
two Joint Utilities' balancing area for deliver of energy and capacity to Avista.
d.Please provide responses to II(a) - (c) with regard to deliver to Idaho Power from the
balancing area of the other Joint Utilities.
e. Please provide responses to II(a) - (c) with regard to deliver to Rocky Mountain Power
from the balancing area of the other Joint Utilities.
RESPONSE:
a. A vista is electrcally connected with the Idaho Power Company at Lolo, Dry Creek and the
Hot Sprigs. Avistais electrcally interconnected with Rocky Mountain Power at Dr
Creek and Hot Springs.
b. Posted path capacities are only available for a 13-month rollng basis and can var hourly.
If a developer requests a long-term transmission serce agreement, the host transmission
provider performs the studies necessary to determine available transmission capacity from
the point of receipt to the point of delivery.
c. This information is not known until a request for transmission is made on the host utility's
transmission system. Costs to transmit power from a FERC jursdictional utility to a
purchaser outside of the host utility's balancing authority are identified in each
jurisdictional utilty's Open Access Transmission Tarff.
d.This information is not known until a request for transmission is made on the host utility's
transmission system. Costs to transmit power from a FERC jursdictional utilty to a
.
.
.
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purchaser outside of the host utilty's balancing authority are identified in each
jursdictional utility's Open Access Transmission Tarff.
e.Ths information is not known until a request for transmission is made on the host utilty's
transmission system. Costs to transmit power from a FERC jursdictional utility to a
purchaser outside of the host utilty's balancing authority are identified in each
jursdictional utility's Open Access Transmission Tarff.