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Home My WebLink About20120419Exergy 44-51 to IPC.pdfPeter J. Richardson Gregory M. Adams Richardson & O'Leary, PLLC 515 N. 27th Street P.O. Box 7218 Boise, Idaho 83702 Telephone: (208) 938-7901 Fax: (208) 938-7904 peter@richardsonandoleary.com gmg@richardsonandolearv.com Attorneys for Exergy Development Group of Idaho, LLC 1912 APR 19 PM 3:06 IDAHO PUb [JTLITIES COMMSSJON BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION'S ) REVIEW OF PURPA QF CONTRACT ) CASE NO. GNR-E-1 1-03 PROVISIONS INCLUDING THE ) SURROGATE AVOIDED RESOURCE ) FOURTH PRODUCTION REQUEST PLANNING (IRP) METHODOLOGIES FOR ) OF EXERGY DEVELOPMENT CALCULATING PUBLISHED AVOIDED ) GROUP OF IDAHO TO IDAHO COST RATES ) POWER COMPANY Pursuant 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 Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or "Company") provide responses to the following with supporting documents, where applicable, as soon as possible, but no later than May 10, 2012. This production request is to be considered as continuing, and Idaho Power is requested to provide by way of supplementary responses additional documents that it or any person acting on its behalf may 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. Richardson and Mr. Adams at the addresses noted above, and one copy to Dr. Reading at 6070 Hill Road, Boise, Idaho 83703. Please provide Dr. Reading's copy in electronic format, if available, to dreadingmindspring.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) preparing 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. 44: Please provide all documents containing policies for implementing curtailment of QFs under Schedule 72. If no such policy exists, please state so. If a policy exists, please indicate: (a)How the policy was developed; (b)Whether this policy has ever been approved or reviewed by the Idaho PUC; (c)Whether this policy has been made publicly available; (d)Whether this policy has been made available to affected QFs. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 45: For each QF curtailment the Company has implemented under Schedule 72 in the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, please provide: (a)date; (b)hour of day; (c)duration of curtailment; (d)notice given to QFs prior to curtailment; (e)control area load and system load during the hours of the curtailment event and in each of the 24 hours before and each of the 24 hours after such curtailment. (f)generation levels for all Company-owned resources during the event. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 46: Please explain how the Company's policy for curtailment proposed for Schedule 74 differs from that for its policy for curtailment for Schedule 72. Please include explanation of how many incremental additional hours of annual curtailment are expected to be required by the Company's proposed Schedule 74 curtailment policy. Page 2— FOURTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY TO IDAHO POWER - GNR-E-1 1-03 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 47: Reference the Company's Response to Exergy Request No. 19(d). (a)Please confirm that the Company's position is that the licenses and state water quality certifications for these plants allow for the Company to spill or otherwise bypass flows without generating electricity for system reliability or emergency purposes. If the Company does not believe its permits and licenses allow it to stop generating electricity at any of the plants for system reliability concerns, please state so and identify the plant(s). (b)For each of the identified run-of-river hydro projects, please explain the duration of time the plant can be generating at full output (given available water flow) after a spill or bypass event. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 48: For the Hells Canyon Complex, please explain the current limitations on the rate of increase in outflow (feet of water level per hour, etc.) from each of the three dams. If the restriction differs by time of year, please explain the differences. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 49: Reference the Response to Exergy Request No. 21(b), describing an expected minimum generation condition at the Hells Canyon Complex of 300 MW at 8,500 cfs outflow and 550 MW at outflows of 14,000 cfs. For each of these minimum generation conditions, please explain the maximum generation ramping rate (MW increased output per minute, or other available units) that can be expected from the Hells Canyon Complex given the limitations on increased outflow described in response to Request No. 48 above. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 50: For each of the three dams in the Hells Canyon Complex, please provide the increase in outflow in cfs for an hour when the outflow increase causes the water level reading on the USGS gauge below the each dam to increase by one foot. REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 51: For each of the three dams in the Hells Canyon Complex, please list the flow (in cfs) through the dam and the electrical output (MW) at the following generation levels: (a)at full capacity; (b)the least amount of generation operationally possible above 0 MW for the plant; Page 3— FOURTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY TO IDAHO POWER — GNR-E- 11-03 (c) each increment of 100 MW (e.g. 100 MW, 200 MW, 300 MW, etc.) between the MW values identified in (a) and (b). DATED: April 19,2012 Peter J. Richardson Gregory M. Adams RICHARDSON & O'LEARY PLLC Page 4— FOURTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY TO IDAHO POWER - GNR-E-1 1-03 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 19th day of April, 2012, a true and correct copy of the within and foregoing FOURTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF EXERGY DEVELOPMENT GROUP OF IDAHO, LLC. TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY was served as shown to: Jean D. Jewell, Secretary - Hand Delivery Idaho Public Utilities Commission •_U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid 472 West Washington - Facsimile Boise, Idaho 83702 X Electronic Mail jean.jewell(puc.idaho.gov Donald Howell Hand Delivery Kris Sasser _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Idaho Public Utilities Commission - Facsimile 472 West Washington X Electronic Mail Boise, Idaho 83702 donald.howell@i,uc.idaho.ov krisine.sasser(puc.idaho.gov Donovan E. Walker - Hand Delivery Jason B. 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