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Home My WebLink About20120320Exergy 1-8 to PAC.pdfPeter J. FUchardson Gregory M. Adams FUchardson & O'Lear, PLLC 515 N. 27th Street P.O. Box 7218 Boise, Idaho 83702 Telephone: (208) 938-7901 Fax: (208) 938-7904 peter(ichardsonandolear.com greg~richardsonandoleary.com RECEIVED 2012 MAR 20 PH 4: 08 Attorneys for Exergy Development Group of Idaho, LLC BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION'S ) REVIEW OFPURPA QF CONTRACT ) PROVISIONS INCLUDING THE ) SURROGATE AVOIDED RESOURCE ) PLANING (IRP) METHODOLOGIES FOR ) CALCULATING PUBLISHED AVOIDED )CaSTRATES ) ) CASE NO. GNR-E-II-03 FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY DEVELOPMENT GROUP OF IDAHO TO ROCKY POWER POWER COMPANY Pursuat to Rule 225 of the Rules of Procedure of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (the "Commission"), Exergy Development Group of Idaho, LLC hereby requests that Rocky Mountain Power (or the "Company") provide responses to the following with supporting documents, where applicable, as soon as possible, but no later than April 10,2012. This production request is to be considered as continuing, and Rocky Mountan Power is requested to provide by way of supplementa responses additional documents that it or any person acting on its behalfmny later obtain that will augment the responses or documents produced. Please provide one physical copy of your responses to the address above, and electronic copies, if available, to Mr. FUchardson and Mr. Adas at the addresses noted above, and one copy to Dr. Reading at 6070 Hil Road, Boise, Idao 83703. Please provide Dr. Reading's copy in electronic format, if available, to dreading~indsprig.com. Please begin each response on a separate page and provide page numbers on responses longer than one page. For each item, please indicate the name of the person(s) preparng the answers, along with the job title of such person(s) and the witness at hearing who can sponsor the answer. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.1: Please provide a copy for the PowerPoint presentation the Company presented at the meeting to present and discuss IRP Models at the Idaho Public Utilties Commission on December 15,2011. Include all work papers, spreadsheets in electronic format with formulas intact, and model outputs used in producing the PowerPoint presentation. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.2: For each of the five QF confguations presented in Table A of Kelcey Brown's Direct Testimony, please provide work papers, spreadsheets in electronic format with formulas intact, and model outputs used in producing the values found in Table A. For each of Company's gas- fired generation plants, please list the anual capacity factor, by year, beginning in 2013 though the end of the 20 year analysis period found in the model rus for each of the five QF configurations. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.3: If the Company were to offer a Qualifying Facilty (QF) a contract with IRP Methodology contract pricing with the methodology in effect on the date of this request, please state if the assumptions in the rate calculation would be consistent with the assumptions included in the 2011 IRP Addendum to the 2011 IRP fied with the Idaho Public Utilties Commission on April 1,2011 (PAC-E-ll-lO). Please provide the following inputs that would be used in offering a QF contract and indicate if the inputs are consistent with the 2011 IRP Addendum: (a) Natural gas fuel forecast, (b) Firm load forecast, (c) Resource stack, Page 2 - FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER - GNR-E-II-03 (d) Forecast of the year and month of first futue peak load deficit. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.4: Reference the Resource Portfolio contained in1the Company's 2011 IRP Addendum (Table 3, p. 8), stating the Company plans to add a 625 MW CCCT in 2014. Please provide the prices the Company would offer a QF that would provide power in the same configuration as the CCCT. In other words, please ru the projected output of the 625 MW CCCT through the Company's IRP Methodology as though it were a QF requesting contract pricing. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.5: According to the Commission's accepted "IRP Methodology" (IPUC Order No. 26576, IPC-E- 95-9) and IPUC Staff Witness FUck Sterling's direct testimony Exhibit 101, ''the avoided cost of the QF project is the difference in the present value of the revenue requirements (PVRR) between the base case resource plan and a modified resource plan that includes the QF resource." (Exhibit 101, IPC-E-95-9, R. Sterling, page 14.) Please explain in detail how the Company incorporates the "revenue requirement" as it would in filing for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (i.e. retur of and on investment, all taes, etc.) in the calculation of rates offered in contracts to QFs. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.6: Reference Direct Testimony of Kelcey Brown, pp. 9-10, stating, The first simulation (the Base Simulation) calculates the PVR of the preferred portfolio. The second simulation (the Avoided Cost Simulation) calculates the PVR of a modified version of the preferred portfolio that includes the QF at no cost and includes the energy impact associated with the deferral of a portion of the next avoidable CCCT in a maner that maintains resource adequacy and system reliabilty equivalent to that of the Base Simulation. The difference in PVRR from the GRID studies between the A voided Cost. Simulation and the Base Simulation is used to determine the avoided energy cost. The avoided energy cost does not include the benefit of deferrng the fixed costs of the next avoidable CCCT. Please provide an electronic copy of the GRID model along with an example, including all inputs and outputs, of the above described method of finding avoided energy cost. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.7: Reference Direct Testimony of Kelcey Brown, p. 13, stating, "The Company updates the GRID model based on the most recently available information each time a QF requests avoided cost pricing. This includes updates related to new contracts, fuel prices, forward price cures, load Page 3 - FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER- GNR-E-II-03 forecasts and other assumptions." Please provide the curent updates to the GRID model that would be applied to a QF requesting avoided cost pricing on the date of this production request. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO.8: Please provide all data and work papers used to develop the capacity contrbutions of the five generation types displayed in the table found on page 1 of Exhbit 201 (Techncal Appendix to Kelcey Brown's direct testimony). DATED:March 20,2012 Peter J. FUchardson Gregory M. Adams RICHARSON & O'LEARY PLLC Page 4 - FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER- GNR-E-II-03 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 20th day of March, 2012, a tre and correct copy of the within and foregoing FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY DEVELOPMENT GROUP OF IDAHO, LLC. TO PACIFICORP/dba ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER was served as shown to: Jean D. Jewell, Secreta Idaho Public Utilties Commission 472 West Washington Boise, Idaho 83702 j ean.jewell(ßuc.idaho. gov lL Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile X Electronic Mail Donald Howell Krs Sasser Idaho Public Utilties Commission 472 West Washington Boise, Idaho 83702 donald.howelltgpuc.idaho. gov krisine.sasser~uc.idaho.gov lL Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -- Electronic Mail Donovan E. Walker Lisa D. 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