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Home My WebLink About20120426IPC to Canal Companies 30-32.pdfDONOVAN E. WALKER Lead Counsel dwaIker(idahopower.com REcEt!Er) UITILITIES 226 P11 L 53 I An IDACORP Company April 26, 2012 VIA HAND DELIVERY Jean D. Jewell, Secretary Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Re: Case No. GNR-E-11-03 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION'S REVIEW OF PURPA QF CONTRACT PROVISIONS INCLUDING THE SURROGATE AVOIDED RESOURCE (SAR) AND INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING (IRP) METHODOLOGIES FOR CALCULATING PUBLISHED AVOIDED COST RATES Dear Ms. Jewell: Enclosed for filing please find an original and three (3) copies of Idaho Power Company's Response to the Third Production Requests of Twin Falls Canal Company and North Side Canal Company ("Canal Companies") to Idaho Power in the above matter. Also enclosed are four (4) copies of a non-confidential disk containing information responsive to the Canal Companies' Third Production Request. Veyours, 1~;V6 , ,, l, - I Donovan E. Walker DEW :csb Enclosures 1221 W. Idaho St. (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, ID 83707 DONOVAN E. WALKER (ISB No. 5921) JASON B. WILLIAMS (ISB No. 8718) Idaho Power Company 1221 West Idaho Street (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-5317 Facsimile: (208) 388-6936 dwalkeridahopower.com jwiIliams(idahopower.com RECEIVED musiogam UTUJTES COMM1SSO Attorneys for Idaho Power Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION'S REVIEW OF PURPA QF CONTRACT PROVISIONS INCLUDING THE SURROGATE AVOIDED RESOURCE (SAR) AND INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING (IRP) METHODOLOGIES FOR CALCULATING PUBLISHED AVOIDED COST RATES. CASE NO. GNR-E-11-03 IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company ("Company"), and in response to the Third Production Requests of Twin Falls Canal Company and North Side Canal Company to Idaho Power dated April 20, 2012, herewith submits the following information: IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -1 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 30: With regard to Idaho Power Company's response to the second production request of the Commission staff request no. 12, please provide an electronic copy of the AURORA post processing EXCEL spreadsheets used to derive the dollar per megawatthour values set forth in this response for the four resources types (baseload, canal drop hydro, fixed PV solar and wind resources). RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 30: Please see the following Excel files provided on the CD that were used to derive the dollar per megawatt-hour values presented in the Company's response to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission Staffs ("Staff') Production Request No. 12: PURPA Baseload 20 MW—Dec 15 Method with carbon PURPA Canal Drop Hydro 20 MW—Dec 15 Method with carbon PURPA PV Solar 20 MW —Dec 15 Method with carbon PURPA Wind 22 MW—Dec 15 Method with carbon The response to this Request was prepared by M. Mark Stokes, Power Supply Planning Manager, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Lead Counsel, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -2 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 31: With regard to Idaho Power Company's response to the second production request of the Commission staff request no. 13, the table denoted as "QF w/Optimal Generation Profile" please provide any AURORA post processing EXCEL spreadsheets (similar to the EXCEL resource specific files provided by the Company in response to Staff first production request) used to derive the values in this table for the four resource types. RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 31: Please see the following Excel files provided on the CD that were used to derive the values in the table "QF w/Optimal Generation Profile" presented in the Company's response to Staffs Production Request No. 13: Value Dispatchability PURPA Wind 22 MW—Optimal Gen Value Dispatchability PURPA Baseload 20 MW—Optimal Gen Value Dispatchabitity PURPA Canal Drop 20 MW—Optimal Gen Value Dispatchability PURPA Solar 20 MW—Optimal Gen The response to this Request was prepared by M. Mark Stokes, Power Supply Planning Manager, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Lead Counsel, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -3 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 32: With regard to Idaho Power Company's response to the second production request of the Commission staff request no. 15, please provide an electronic copy of the EXCEL spreadsheets used to derive the values shown in the attachment to this response for the four types. RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 32: Please see the Company's supplemental response to Staffs Production Request No. 2, which includes the above-requested Excel files as attachments (Supplemental Attachments 3-6 (PURPA project pricing for baseload, canal drop, solar, and wind)). The response to this Request was prepared by M. Mark Stokes, Power Supply Planning Manager, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Lead Counsel, Idaho Power Company. DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 26 th day of AprØ2012. 'V*'Z'1____ DONAVON E. WALKER Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -4 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 26th day of April 2012 I served a true and correct copy of IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Commission Staff Donald L. Howell, II Kristine A. Sasser Deputy Attorneys General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington (83702) P.O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Avista Corporation Michael G. Andrea Avista Corporation 1411 East Mission Avenue, MSC-23 P.O. Box 3727 Spokane, Washington 99220-3727 PacifiCorp dlbla Rocky Mountain Power Daniel E. Solander PacifiCorp d/b/a Rocky Mountain Power 201 South Main Street, Suite 2300 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Exergy Development, Grand View Solar II, J.R. Simplot, Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition, Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Idaho, and Clearwater Paper Corporation Peter J. Richardson Gregory M. Adams RICHARDSON & O'LEARY, PLLC 515 North 27th Street (83702) P.O. Box 7218 Boise, Idaho 83707 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email don.howell(puc. idaho.qov kris.sassercpuc. idaho.qov Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email michael.andreaavistacorp.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email daniel.soIanderpacificorp.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email Pete rrichardsonandolearv.com qrecjcrichardsonandoleary.com IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -5 Exergy Development Group Hand Delivered James Carkulis, Managing Member U.S. Mail Exergy Development Group of Idaho, LLC Overnight Mail 802 West Bannock Street, Suite 1200 FAX Boise, Idaho 83702 X Email icarkulisexerciydeveIopment.com Dr. Don Reading Ben Johnson Associates, Inc. 6070 Hill Road Boise, Idaho 83703 Grand View Solar II Robert A. Paul Grand View Solar II 15690 Vista Circle Desert Hot Springs, California 92241 J.R. Simplot Company Don Sturtevant, Energy Director J.R. Simplot Company One Capital Center 999 Main Street P.O. Box 27 Boise, Idaho 83707-0027 Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition Robert D. Kahn, Executive Director Northwest and Intermountain Power Producers Coalition 1117 Minor Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98101 Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Idaho Bill Brown, Chair Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Idaho P.O. Box 48 Council, Idaho 83612 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email dr(beniohnsonassociates.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email robertaDaul08(äqmail.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email don. sturtevantsim plot. com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email rkahn(nic.org Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email bd brown cfrontiernet.net IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -6 Clearwater Paper Corporation Mary Lewallen Clearwater Paper Corporation 601 West Riverside Avenue, Suite 1100 Spokane, Washington 99201 Renewable Energy Coalition and Dynamis Energy, LLC Ronald L. Williams WILLIAMS BRADBURY, P.C. 1015 West Hays Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Renewable Energy Coalition John R. Lowe, Consultant Renewable Energy Coalition 12050 SW Tremont Street Portland, Oregon 97225 Dynamis Energy, LLC Wade Thomas, General Counsel Dynamis Energy, LLC 776 East Riverside Drive, Suite 150 Eagle, Idaho 83616 Interconnect Solar Development, LLC R. Greg Ferney MIMURA LAW OFFICES, PLLC 2176 East Franklin Road, Suite 120 Meridian, Idaho 83642 Bill Piske, Manager Interconnect Solar Development, LLC 1303 East Carter Boise, Idaho 83706 Renewable Northwest Project and Idaho Windfarms, LLC Dean J. Miller McDEVITT & MILLER LLP 420 West Bannock Street (83702) P.O. Box 2564 Boise, Idaho 83701 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email marv.IewallencclearwaterDaper.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email ronwilliamsbradbury.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email iravenesanmarcosvahoo.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email wthomas(dynamisenerqy.com _Hand Delivered U.S. Mail _Overnight Mail FAX X Email qrecmimuraIaw.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email biIIpiske(cableone.net Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email ioemcdevitt-miIler.com IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -7 Megan Walseth Decker Senior Staff Counsel Renewable Northwest Project 421 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1125 Portland, Oregon 97204 Idaho Windfarms, LLC Glenn Ikemoto Margaret Rueger Idaho Windfarms, LLC 672 Blair Avenue Piedmont, California 94611 Twin Falls Canal Company and North Side Canal Company C. Thomas Arkoosh CAPITOL LAW GROUP, PLLC 205 North I 0th Street, 4th Floor P.O. Box 2598 Boise, Idaho 83701-2598 Twin Falls Canal Company Brian Olmstead, General Manager Twin Falls Canal Company P.O. Box 326 Twin Falls, Idaho 83303 North Side Canal Company Ted Diehl, General Manager North Side Canal Company 921 North Lincoln Street Jerome, Idaho 83338 Birch Power Company Ted S. Sorenson, P.E. Birch Power Company 5203 South 11th East Idaho Falls, Idaho 83404 Blue Ribbon Energy LLC M. J. 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Box 844 Boise, Idaho 83701 Snake River Alliance Liz Woodruff, Executive Director Ken Miller, Clean Energy Program Director Snake River Alliance 350 North 9th Street #13610 P.O. Box 1731 Boise, Idaho 83701 Energy Integrity Project Tauna Christensen Energy Integrity Project 769 North 1100 East Shelley, Idaho 83274 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email arronesgaol.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email boftoidahoconservation.org _Hand Delivered U.S. Mail _Overnight Mail FAX X Email Iwoodruffsnake rive raIliance.orq kmiller(äsnakeriveralliance.orQ Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email taunaenerqyintec1rityproiect.orQ Christa Bearry, Legal Assistant IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION REQUESTS OF TWIN FALLS CANAL COMPANY AND NORTH SIDE CANAL COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER -9