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Home My WebLink About200605021st IPC requests of Magic Wind.pdfIDAHO POWER COMPANY P.O. BOX 70 BOISE, IDAHO 83707 BARTON L. KLINE Senior Attorney An IDACORP Company May 2 2006 . . Jean D. Jewell, Secretary Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Street P. O. Box 83720 Boise , Idaho 83720-0074 Re:Case No. I PC-05- Idaho Power Company s First Interrogatories and Production Requests to Magic Wind LLC Dear Ms. Jewell: Please find enclosed for filing an original and two (2) copies of the Company s First Interrogatories and Production Requests to Magic Wind LLC in the above-entitled case. I would appreciate it if you would return a stamped copy of this transmittal letter for our files in the enclosed self-addressed stamped envelope. ~~~u~O-:- Barton L. Kline BLK:jb Enclosures Telephone (208) 388-2682, Fax (208) 388-6936, E-mail BKlinefBJidahopower.com BARTON L. KLINE ISB #1526 MONICA MOEN ISB #5734 Idaho Power Company O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-2682 FAX Telephone: (208) 388-6936 E-mail: bkline~idahopower.com E-mail: mmoen ~ idahopower.com '" '' ! , 1\ ' .. ' c '..J ,,' : ',.. 1 i i. ' '. , Attorneys 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 PETITION OF) MAGIC WIND LLC TO DETERMINEEXEMPTION STATUS CASE NO. IPC-05- IDAHO POWER COMPANY' FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUESTS TO MAGIC WIND LLC COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or "the Company"), and hereby requests that Magic Wind LLC ("Magic Wind") answer the following interrogatories and provide the following information and documents in accordance with the Commission s Rules of Procedure. These Interrogatories and Production Requests are to be deemed continuing and nature and Magic Wind is requested to provide , through supplementation additional documents or information that is responsive to this request that it, or any person acting under its behalf, may later come into possession of or become aware of. IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUESTS TO MAGIC WIND LLC Page 1 REQUEST NO.1: On April 5 , 2006, you sent Idaho Power a revised version of the Firm Energy Sales Agreement (FESA) previously tendered to Magic Wind by Idaho Power and requested that Idaho Power negotiate a contract based on the revised agreement. In Appendix B, Paragraph B-3 of the April 5, 2006 proposed FESA the scheduled first energy and operation dates are both blank. Magic Wind previously advised Idaho Power that December 2006 will be the first energy date in the FESA and July 2007 will be the scheduled operation date. Have those dates changed? If so, what are the current dates? REQUEST NO.2: Please identify the specific provisions in Order No. 30000 that Magic Wind believes obligate Idaho Power to enter into a FESA with Magic Wind utilizing the "modified PacifiCorp method" to value surplus energy. REQUEST NO.3: Previously Magic Wind provided to Idaho Power a letter dated November 6 , 2005, in which Clipper Wind Power, Inc., a turbine manufacturer, provided a commitment to deliver wind turbines for Magic Wind's wind generation project. Recently Idaho Power has been advised that a number of turbine manufacturers are notifying potential purchasers that the demand for wind turbines is so great that they are unwilling to reserve manufacturing capacity without a signed contract with the wind project developer. Please provide copies of all correspondence between Magic Wind and Clipper Wind Power, Inc. regarding Clipper Wind Power, Inc.'s commitment to provide turbines for Magic Wind's wind farm. REQUEST NO.4: Is Magic Wind now unwilling to sign the FESA it previously signed and tendered to Idaho Power in support of its Petition for entitlement to be paid the published rates? IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUESTS TO MAGIC WIND LLC Page 2 REQUEST NO.5: What is the current status of Magic Wind's small generator interconnection request previously filed with Idaho Power s Delivery Business Unit? DATED at Boise, Idaho , this 2nd day of May, 2006. Qij~ BARTON L. KLI N E Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUESTS TO MAGIC WIND LLC Page 3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 2nd day of May, 2006, I served a true and correct copy of IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST INTERROGATORIES AND PRODUCTION REQUESTS TO MAGIC WIND LLC upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Scott Woodbury Deputy Attorney General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 W. Washington Street O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0074 scott.woodburv~ puc.ldaho.Qov Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 334-3762 E-mail Peter J. Richardson Richardson & O'Leary PLLC 51 5 N. 27th Street O. Box 7218 Boise , ID 83707 peter~ richardsonandolearv.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 938-7904 E-mail Richard L. Storro Director, Power Supply A vista Corporation 1411 E. Mission Avenue O. Box 3727, MSC- Spokane, WA 99220-3727 dick.storro ~ avistacom.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (509) 495-4272 E-mail R. Blair Strong Paine , Hamblen , Coffin , Brooke & Miller 717 West Sprague Avenue, Suite 1200 Spokane , WA 99201-3505 blair.stronq ~ painehamblen.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (509) 838-0007 E-mail Dean J. Miller McDevitt & Miller LLP 420 W. Bannock Street O. Box 2564 Boise, ID 83701 joe ~ mcdevitt-miller.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 336-6912 E-mail CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE , Page Glenn Ikemoto Energy Vision LLC 672 Blair Avenue Piedmont, CA 94611 qlenni ~ pacbell.net Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (510) 217-2239 E-mail Bob Lively PacifiCorp One Utah Center, 23rd Floor 201 S. Main Street Salt Lake City, UT 84140 bob. lively ~ pacificom.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (801) 220-2798 E-mail Lisa Nordstrom PacifiCorp 825 N.E. Multnomah, Suite 1800 Portland , OR 97232 lisa. nordstrom ~ pacificorp.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (503) 813-7252 E-mail William M. Eddie Advocates For the West 1320 W. Franklin Street O. Box 1612 Boise , ID 83701 billeddie ~ rmci. net Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 342-8286 E-mail David Hawk , Director Energy Natural Resources R. Simplot Company 999 Main Street O. Box 27 Boise , ID 83702 dhawk ~ simplot.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 389-7333 E-mail R. Scott Pasley Assistant General Counsel R. Simplot Company 999 Main Street O. Box 27 Boise, I D 83702 spasley ~ simplot.com Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 389-7464 E-mail CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, Page 2 William J. Batt John R. Hammond, Jr. Batt & Fisher, LLP 101 S. Capitol Blvd., Suite 500 O. Box 1308 Boise , ID 83701 wib ~ battfisher.com irh ~ battfisher.com Michael Heckler Director of Marketing & Development Windland Incorporated 7669 W. Riverside Drive, Suite 102 Boise, ID 83714 mheckler~windland.com CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE , Page 3 Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 331-2400 E-mail Hand Delivered x U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 375-2894 E-mail BARTON L. KLINE