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Home My WebLink About200403011st Request of ID Power to ID Irrigation Pumpers.pdfBARTON L. KLINE ISB #1526 MONICA B. MOEN ISB #5734 Idaho Power Company O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-2682 FAX Telephone: (208) 388-6936 ;;:(' C' t,-.. : .' 'I!- ,--, . "- fLED IV'; zoariFEB 27 PN l~: . - " t' , , ,' f' "" - - ", , ', , ' ItU j IL; i iES CCi ";'. IC:I, II";,) Attorney for Idaho Power Company Street Address for Express Mail 1221 West Idaho Street Boise , Idaho 83702 BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS INTERIM) AND BASE RATES AND CHARGES FORELECTRIC SERVICE. CASE NO. IPC-03- IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS ASSOCIATION , INC. COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or "the Company"), by and through their attorneys, and hereby requests that the Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association, Inc. answer the following interrogatories and provide the following information and documents in accordance with the Commission s Rules of Procedure and applicable scheduling orders and notices issued by the Commission in this proceeding. This production request is to be deemed continuing in nature and the Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association, Inc. is requested to provide, through supplementation additional documents or information that is responsive to this request that it, or any person acting on its behalf, may later come into possession or become aware of. IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS ASSOCIATION , INC. Page REQUEST NO.1: Please provide copies of all data and analyses used to create Figure 6 in Mr. Yankel's testimony. REQUEST NO.2: Please provide all data and analyses used to create Exhibit 301. REQUEST NO.3: What is the standard deviation of monthly values contained in Figure 6? REQUEST NO.4: Please provide the r-squared value for the linear fit represented in Figure 6. REQUEST NO.5: Please provide copies of all studies or documents that Mr. Yankel is aware of that demonstrate that a utility s annual expenses move in a linear fashion over time. REQUEST NO.6: Please provide a list of all utility regulatory bodies or public utility commissions that Mr. Yankel is aware of that use trended expense data as the basis for determining expenses to be included in a utility s revenue requirement. REQUEST NO.7: Please provide any data, study or analysis that supports the contention made on Page 18 of Mr. Yankel's testimony that irrigation customers have lower distribution and customer related costs per kWh than residential customers. REQUEST NO.8: Please provide all data, including any analyses performed or used by Mr. Yankel to support his assertion on Pages 18 and 19 of his testimony that irrigation customers generally have a higher load factor than residential and Schedule 9 - Secondary customers. IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS ASSOCIATION , INC. Page 2 REQUEST NO.9: Please identify by case number and order number the Idaho Public Utilities Commission cases in which the 12-CP method has been used to allocate generation and transmission costs between customer classes as stated on page 27, lines 6 through 8 of Mr. Yankel's direct testimony. REQUEST NO.1 0: Please provide all of the data and documentation used to prepare Figure 8 shown on page 35 of Mr. Yankel's direct testimony. REQUEST NO. 11: Please provide a copy of the agreement and copies of any other documents that describe the agreement between the various parties in Utah that reviewed PacifiCorp s cost of service data and load research data that is referenced on page 20, lines 18 and 19 of Mr. Yankel's testimony. If no documents are available , please specify if the agreement is a written agreement or a verbal agreement and list the parties who have entered into the agreement. REQUEST NO. 12: Please provide the rationale for using the allocation factor "gross pit" to allocate federal and state income taxes to the various customer classes in Mr. Yankel's cost-of-service studies included in the files "Yankel COS 1 base case , " Yankel COS 2 unweighted demand" , " Yankel COS 3 normalized demand", and Yankel COS 4 final" DATED at Boise, Idaho , this 27th day of February, 2004. o( C--- BARTON L. KLINE Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS ASSOCIATION , INC. Page 3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 27th day of February, 2004 , I served a true and correct copy of the within and foregoing IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS ASSOCIATION , INC. upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Lisa D. Nordstrom Weldon B. Stutzman Deputy Attorneys General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 W. Washington Street O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 -L Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 334-3762 Randall C. Budge Eric L. Olsen Racine , Olson , Nye, Budge & Bailey O. Box 1391; 201 E. Center Pocatello, ID 83204-1391 Hand Delivered S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (208) 232-6109 Anthony Yankel 29814 Lake Road Bay Village , OH 44140 Hand Delivered S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (440) 808-1450 Peter J. Richardson Richardson & O'Leary 99 East State Street, Suite 200 O. Box 1849 Eagle , ID 83616 Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 938-7904 Don Reading Ben Johnson Associates 6070 Hill Road Boise, ID 83703 Hand Delivered -L U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 384-1511 Lawrence A. Gollomp Assistant General Counsel U. S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, SW Washington , D.C. 20585 Hand Delivered S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (202) 586-7479 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE , Page Dennis Goins Potomac Management Group 5801 Westchester Street Alexandria, VA 22310-1149 Conley E. Ward Givens , Pursley LLP 601 W. Bannock Street O. Box 2720 Boise , ID 83701-2720 Dennis E. Peseau , Ph.D. Utility Resources, Inc. 1500 Liberty Street S., Suite 250 Salem, OR 97302 Dean J. Miller McDevitt & Miller LLP O. Box 2564 Boise, ID 83701 Jeremiah Healy United Water Idaho , Inc. O. Box 190420 Boise , ID 83719-0420 William M. Eddie Advocates for the West O. Box 1612 Boise, ID 83701 Nancy Hirsh NW Energy Coalition 219 First Ave. South, Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98104 Brad M. Purdy Attorney at Law 2019 N. 17th Street Boise, ID 83702 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE , Page 2 Hand Delivered - U.S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered -L U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 388:1300 Hand Delivered - U.S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (503) 370-9566 Hand Delivered -L U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 336-6912 Hand Delivered -L U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 362-7069 Hand Delivered -L U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 342-8286 Hand Delivered - U.S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (206) 621-0097 Hand Delivered -L U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 384-8511 Michael Karp 147 Appaloosa Lane Bellingham , WA 98229 Michael L. Kurtz, Esq. Kurt J. Boehm, Esq. Boehm , Kurtz & Lowry 36 East Seventh Street, Suite 2110 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Kevin Higgins 39 Market Street , Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Thomas M. Power Economics Department, LA 407 University of Montana 32 Campus Drive Missoula, MT 59812 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, Page 3 Hand Delivered - U.S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (360) 724-5272 Hand Delivered - U.S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX (513) 421-2764 Hand Delivered S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered S. Mail-L Overnight Mail FAX ill ci Q;.. BARTON L. KLINE