20061117Staff to IPC 1-7.pdf

WELDON B. STUTZMAN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
472 WEST WASHINGTON STREET
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074
[phone]
BAR NO. 3283
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Street Address for Express Mail:
472 W. WASHINGTON
BOISE, IDAHO 83702-5983
Attorney for the Commission Staff
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF
IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL
OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN A VIMOR,
LLC AND IDAHO POWER TO PROVIDE
ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND
SUBSTATION FACILITIES TO THE A VIMOR
MUL TI-USE DEVELOPMENT
CASE NO. IPC-06-
FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE
COMMISSION STAFF
TO IDAHO POWER
COMPANY
The Staff of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, by and through its attorney of record
Weldon B. Stutzman, Deputy Attorney General, requests that Idaho Power Company (Company;
IPC) provide the following documents and information on or before FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,
2006.
This Production Request is to be considered as continuing, and Idaho Power Company 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 documents produced.
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 who can sponsor the answer at hearing.
FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO IDAHO POWER
NOVEMBER 17, 2006
Request No.1: Does the Company have other transmission and substation facilities
agreements, similar to the A vimor Facilities Agreement, that are currently being drafted or out for
signature? If the answer is yes, please provide those agreements with a description of the stage of
the negotiations.
Request No.2: In the Avimor Agreement the facilities cost is estimated to be $4.
million. Please divide those costs into transmission line and distribution substation costs.
Request No.3: Under Company design criteria how many residential customers could the
10 MW substation serve?
Request No.4: Without changes in the voltage or size of the transmission line, to what
capacity could the substation be expanded? How many residential customers could be served from
the expanded substation? Approximately what would be the substation expansion cost?
Request No.5: It is Staffs understanding that the proposed substation is initially to be
served by a single transmission line. Does the Company currently have plans to extend a second
transmission line to the substation for reliability or other reasons? If the area around A vimor
builds out, would the Company extend a second transmission line to the substation?
Request No.6: The facilities included in the Avimor Agreement include a transmission
line and a distribution substation. What rate base cost per customer for these types of facilities is
currently included in residential rates? Please show the calculation of the two parts, transmission
line and distribution substation, separately.
Request No.7: Please provide the calculations in Request No.6 above but base those
calculations on data from the Company s IPC-03-13 case.
FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO IDAHO POWER
NOVEMBER 17, 2006
DATED at Boise, Idaho, this Il~ay of November 2006.
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Weldon B. Stutzman
Deputy Attorney General
Technical Staff: Keith Hessing
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FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST
TO IDAHO POWER
NOVEMBER 17, 2006
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE THIS 15 TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2006
SERVED THE FOREGOING FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE
COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY, IN CASE NO. IPC-06-
, BY MAILING A COpy THEREOF, POSTAGE PREP AID, TO THE FOLLOWING:
MONICA B MOEN
BARTON L KLINE
IDAHO POWER COMPANY
PO BOX 70
BOISE ID 83707-0070
SECRETARY
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE