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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20081110Micron to IPC 1-4.pdfGIVE SLEY LLP lAW OFFICES 601 W. Bannock Street PO Box 2720, Boise, Idaho 83701 TELEPHONE: 208 388-1200 FACSIMilE: 208 388-1300 WEBSITE: ww.givenspursley.com Gary G. Allen Peter G. Barton Christopher J. Beeson Clint R. Bolinder Erik J. Bolinder Jeremy C. Chou Willam C. Cole Michael C. Creamer Amber N. Dina Elizabeth M. Donick Kristin Bjorkman Dunn Thomas E. Dvorak Jeffrey C. Fereday Justin C. Fredin Martin C. Hendrickson November 10,2008 Via Hand Delivery Jean Jewell Idaho Public Utilties Commission 472 W. Washington P.O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0074 Steven J. Hippler Debora K. Kristensen Anne C. Kunkel Jeremy G. ladle Michaei P. lawrence Franklin G. lee David R. Lombardi John M. Marshall Kenneth R. McClure Kelly Greene McConnell Cynthia A. Melilo Christopher H. Meyer L. Edward Miler Patrick J. Miller Judson B. Montgomery Deborah E. Nelson Kelsey J. Nunez W. Hugh O'Riordan, lL.M. Angela M. Reed Justin A. Steiner Scott A. Tschirgi, lL.M. J. Will Varin Conley E. Ward Robert B. White RETIRED Kenneth L. Pursley James A. McClure Raymond D. Givens (1917-2008) ~æ:5..;0rn('m-..m i::; o..::(;.'.ç'U1 In the Matter of the Application of Idaho Power Company Authority to Increase its Rates and Charges for Electric Service Case No.: IPC-E-08-10 4489-34 Re: Our File: Dear Jean: Enclosed for filing are an original and four (4) copies of Micron Technology, Inc. 's Responses to Idaho Power Company's First Production Requests, together with four (4) CDs, which contain the requested documents in response to Production Request Nos. 3 and 4, in connection with the above-captioned matter. If you have any questions, please call me. Si'(reiy, lV~~ clm~ CEW/tma cc: Service List (w/enclosures) S:\clients\4489\34\CEW to J Jewell re Response to ¡PC 1st RFP.DOC ..,. iur:r'"nE' I'.... '.' ,-.1f\ V.... ,..,~ ZDOB NOV' 0 PM 3: 46 Conley E. Ward (ISB No. 1683) GIVENS PURSLEY LLP 601 W. Banock Street P. O. Box 2720 Boise, ID 83701-2720 Telephone No. (208) 388-1200 Fax No. (208) 388-1300 cew~givenspursiey.com IDAHO Pqt?,q¡~~IO¡"~ UT\L\TIES COhl¡rl,.:'i",¡ ',' Attorneys for Micron Technology, Inc. S:\CLlENTS\4489\34\Micron Rasp to IPC 1st RFP.DOC BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES AND CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE Case No. IPC-E-08-10 MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST COMES NOW Micron Technology, Inc., by and through its attorneys of record, Givens Pursley LLP, and hereby responds to Idaho Power Company's First Production Request to Micron Technology, Inc. as follows: REQUEST NO.1: Please provide copies of testimony and exhibits or comments Dr. Peseau has prepared and/or presented in utility revenue requirement cases during the past three years. Testimony and comments presented in cases in which Idaho Power was a par do not need to be provided. RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO.1: Copies are attached hereto. MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 1 REQUEST NO.2: Please identify by jurisdiction, case number, and date all utilty revenue requirement cases in which Dr. Peseau has paricipated, prepared, and/or presented testimony, exhibits, or comments for the past four years. RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO.2: Please see the response to Request NO.1. The jurisdiction and case number are indicated on each filing. Micron does not understad what is meant by the word "date." Date of case/testimony filing? Date of decision? MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 2 REQUEST NO.3: Please provide copies of all electronic fies, with formulas intact, that were used or relied on to develop the analyses and/or schedules supporting Dr. Peseau's testimony. RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO.3: The requested documents are included in the attached CD. MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 3 REQUEST NO.4: Please provide copies of all workpapers and supporting documents Dr. Peseau relied on to support his testimony, exhibits, and any analysis contained therein. RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO.4: The requested documents are included in the attached CD. MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 4 DATED this 10th day of November, 2008. MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 5 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 10th day of November, 2008, I caused to be served a tre and correct copy of the foregoing by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Jean Jewell Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 W. Washington Street P.O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0074 U.S. Mail X Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail Barton L. Kline Monica B. Moen Idaho Power Company P.O. Box 70 Boise, ID 83707 email: bkline(ßidahopower.com U.S. Mail X Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail John R. Gale Vice President Regulatory Affairs Idaho Power Company P.O. Box 70 Boise, ID 83707 email: rgale(ßidahopower.com U.S. Mail X Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail Peter J. Richardson Richardson & O'Lear 515 N. 27th Street Boise, ID 83702 email: peter(ßrichardsonandolear.com X U.S. Mail Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail Eric L. Olsen Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey Chartered P.O. Box 1391 201 E. Center Pocatello, Idaho 83204-1391 email: rcb(ßracinelaw.net elo(ßracinelaw.net X U.S. Mail Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail Anthony Yankel 29814 Lake Road Bay Vilage, Ohio 44140 email: yankel(ßattbi.com X U.S. Mail Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 6 Dr. Don Reading X U.S. Mail 6070 Hil Road Hand Delivered Boise, Idaho 83703 Overnight Mail email: dreadingtßmindspring.com Facsimile E-Mail Lot H. Cooke X U.S. Mail United States DOE Hand Delivered 1000 Independence Ave. SW Overnight Mail Washington, DC 20585 Facsimile E-Mail Weldon Stutzman U.S. Mail Neil Price X Hand Delivered Idaho Public Utilties Commission Overnight Mail P.O. Box 83720 Facsimile Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 E-Mail Michael Kurtz X U.S. Mail Boehm, Kurtz & Lowr Hand Delivered 36 E. Seventh Street, Suite 1510 Overnight Mail Cincinnati, OH 45202 Facsimile E-Mail The Kroger Co.X U.S. Mail Att: Corporate Energy Manager (G09)Hand Delivered 1014 Vine Street Overnight Mail Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Facsimile E-Mail Dwight D. Etheridge X U.S. Mail Exeter Associates Hand Delivered 5565 Sterrett Place, Suite 310 Overnight Mail Columbia, MD 21044 Facsimile E-Mail Dennis Peseau U.S. Mail Utility Resources, Inc.Hand Delivered 1500 Libert Street, Suite 250 X Overnight Mail Salem, OR 97302 Facsimile X E-Mail MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 7 # Brad M. Purdy Attorney at Law 2019 North 17th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 x U.S. Mail Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail Ken Miler Snake River Allance P.O. Box 1731 Boise, Idaho 83701 x U.S. Mail Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail Kevin Higgins Energy Strategies, LLC Parkside Towers 215 South State Street, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 email: khiggins(ßenergystrat.com x U.S. Mail Hand Delivered Overnight Mail Facsimile E-Mail MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST - IPC-E-08-10 - PAGE 8 r--.._.......' HALE LANE jITTORHIlYS AT LAW 171 f.asl Wnii..nSi- I Soil. 200 ICa,;ll City,lioVlil KIJ01 Telephone (71i)684bDllt '1'..,..ile 11'5)68'.6l1 ww.ll1ldaii.cò.n . March 19,2007 . :.~ ~ ,": ~~ :;.: ~-t:. Crystal Jackson Commission Secrary 1150 E. Willam Strt Carson City, NV 89701 .. :~~ .-..-........ ~:.: .:.E::;~:..~~.~..."'1._...' ~',~.. '. i.r.,~t.~):'.:.~_..-"::.. RE: DOCKET NO. 06.11022 r..)c; . .~ ...."(::.,,;." . Dear Ms. Jacksn ) Please accept for filing the enclosed original and nine copies of the Direct Testimony of Deiuis E. Peseau in Phase iv on behalf of Southern Nevada Water Authority in the abovc- referenced docket. Should you have any questions regarding this fiing, please contac1 me at (775) 684-6000. Sincerely,lA~f! Fred Schmidl, Esq. FJS:taw Enclosures C:c: Parties of Recrd HALE LANK PEEK DHNNlsoN...NO IIOWARD REO oi1'1CE: 5441 Kie. 1.liclSeit flLlo, I RClQ. Ne..,il .9SI111'h_ I11Sj.J7.311O I F..~iRi~. (;75)786.(1711 LAS V¡¡UAS OI'ICi:, 1931Hl.,ar Huah~l',.ay ¡ Fiiunbl'lor II. Ve¡:. ioev agl6~ i i'line 11(2)222-15DD 11'.~i1. (7UJ.)J65-(i/40 :'OJJMAIlCOOIJILRNODOCS\612368\1 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 11 Q. 12 A. 13 14 15 Q. 16 A. 17 18 19 Q. 20 A. 21 22 23 Q. 24 25 A. 26 27 Q. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR TESllMONY? 28 ~ 0'. ")~ BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA Docket No. Oø.11022 -. ('.'":'C:~ ,_'1_ r .0.- .;:; :.~ ,::1..,01 ..~l., : ') '.,. ......\:1 , '.- :~: ::~:~ "~1 -; ;;¡ Diret Testimony of . Dennis E. Peseau .r on behalf of '=4\")o ".\ :;,. .~.. f:'l Southern Nevada Wate Autority PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRES. My name Is Oennrs E. Peseau. My buiness address is 1500 libert Strt S.E., , Suite 250, Salem, Oren 97302. BY WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACITY ARE YOU EMPLOYED? I am President of Utilit Resrces, Inc. The finn consult on a number of econom, financial. and engineering mattrs for various private and public entites. ON WHOSE BEHALF. ARE YOU TESnFYNG IN THIS PROCEEDING? I am testng on behalf of the Soutrn Nevada Water Authri ("SNWAIO) and'it constitue members. DOES AnACHMENT 1 ACCURATELY DESCRIBE YOUR BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE? Yes. ::ODMV'lR\S120821 Page 1 i A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 My testmony in this Phase IV cost of servce and rate desgn porton of Docket No. , 06-11022 focuses on tw narw cost of servce and rate design issues. Nevada Power in its certcation and originally-flied cost of servce study has made a signifnt and Inconsistent change in the manner in whiCh it allocates cost to the water pumping classes. cOrTpared with the tw prir general rate cases Docket Nos. 01-10001 and 03.10001. The purpse of my teimony Is to show that the chango made to the cost allocation is only to the water pumping classes, Is discminatory, unreasonable and unjust. Correting this change or errr will have an insignifcant effect on all other rate classes, although the corrction wil measurably affect water pumping clsses. Correcting Nevada Powes errr will also ensure that the saine consistent oost alloesrs are us for all rate classs. Du to the fact that Nevada Por carr its cost of se reults from Its bundled rate design to distrbution-only or DOS rates, I also propose a small coction to related DOS rates to time differentiate dean charges. WHAT RECOMMENDATION DO YOU MAK WITH REPECT TO THE lW COST OF SERVICE AND RATE DESIGN ISSUES YOU DESCRIBE ABOVE? In order to eliminate the clearly discriinatory raes prouced by Nevada Power's cost of service changes only to waer pumping clss, I recommend that 1h Commisn order the Company to corrct the co allotin to water pumping clsses to: For the Traditional Bundled Witer Pumping (WP) Rate Schedules: 1. Allocte the cos of distrbuton demand nonrevenue feeders on the bass of probabilty of peak ("POP") for water pumping clases, Just as Is done for every other rate class and as the Commission previously adopte in Docket No. 01..1001; ::OD'iCDOCOD0CS201 Page2 . " 1 2 3 2. Alternatively, the Company should ~cale th nonrevenue fee, costa on the same basis as it recommended and the Commision adopted In Docket No. 03-10001, that is, on time d1rent~ated kws, or the coincident peak demands (probility of peak) of otherwise applicable class ("OAC"). For Dfstrbutlon OniY Serv lDOS) ClasMs: 3. The DOS rate design should be Imprved to include a timediffrentiated kW demand chare consistent wit its ealculaon of time difrentiated nonrevenue feder demand costs for other demand metred rate schedules. 4 S 6 7 8 .9 10 11 12 ÐlSTRIBUTION DEMAND COSTS 13 14 Q. WHAT IS THE ISSUE YOU RASE REGARDING THE MANNER IN WHICH NEVADA POWER PROPOSES' TO ALLOCATE DISTBUTION DEMAND COSTS? Nevada Power has devlated frm the method for allocatng distributn demand cost to all waer pumping classes ordered in boh Docket Nos. 01-10001 and 03-19001. explaIn the technicl aspect of this change below. 15 16 A. 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 A. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 WHAT ARE 'i DISTRBUTION DEMAD COSTS?" In Nevda Powets Certificaon filing, it provides its revised cost of servce study (exhibIt-Walsh CertiftIon-2). As has been cutomary. lh cost stdy establishes all require renues as a functn of disbuon, trnsission and generatin befre clasIfyg into demand, enrgy and custmer cost funcions. For reference, the disbuion demand cost category i am concmed wih and address is th residual distributon cateory of "norevenue feederi. t:age 8 of 55, line .45, of Exlbit-WaJsh Certlflcaion-2 calculates the marlnaldemand revenues for this disbutn demand to be $188.8 mUtion. :;OMA\POOLRNDO1201 Page 3 .. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 to Q. 11 A. 12 13 14 1S 16 17 IS 19 20 21 22 23 Q. 24 2S A. 26 27 28 As show on page 8 of this exibit, this $188.8 milion fs allocted to On, Mid, Of and Other demand periods becaus they are caused by probailit of disributin coincient peak demands by time of use. Depite its cousion In this reard, Nevada Power makes an unexplained excption here for all WP rate schedules by allocting these distrbuton demand cost only to WP scheules on a new and inconsistent basis. This new and unjusted change is not only Inconsiste with coincint peak aDocation, but is incoistent with the decisions made by the Commission in both Docket Nos. 01-10001 and 03-1001. WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF THlS CHAGE PROPOSED BY NEVADA POWER? This single chane reults in rate propose for the water pumping classes that are disriminatry, in that only thse classes are allocaed cost in this manner. All other classes have alloC8tors based on preusly approve cost of servce principles applied consistently and equally acrss all classe except for water pumpers. The resulting rates to waer pumpin clsses propos by th Company are unjust and unreasonable because. as I calculate below, the arbitary chnge propose here resul in a five-fold Increase In cost allocated to water pumping rate classes. And. while corrcting this cost aUocation to the water pumpin schedules has no sinifcant Impa on all other rae schules, Nevada Pos change neverthess relt in overall water pumping rates being almost 100.l higher than they would be under prior Commission-ppve co allocatins. WHAT IS THE HISORY OF THIS ISSUE IN PRIOR GENERAL RATE CASES, DOCKET NOS. 01-10001 AND 03.10011 On behalf of the SNWA, our firm discove an errr made by Nevada Power in Docket No. 01-10001 wih reec to Jt cost of servce allocation of distbutn demand costs for the water pumping (WP) rate schedules. ::ODl\PCDSlLRDOCS\120t Page 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 Q. 15 A. 16. 17 Q. 18 19 A. 20 21 22 23 24 Q. 25 26 27 A. 28 The err wa simpl that the Company had elected to us custer usage or bilin detenninant data, not frm the actal and redily avilable WP usage dat by time of use. but instead fr what it termed "otherise applrcaJe cJasss "(OAC) usage data reardles of time of use. The Commissin reognizd the Company's inconsistency and foun at Ordering Pararaph 585: The Commisson finds that the IJroposa1 of the SNWA to base the scedule LGS-WP and LG8-X-WP classe' energy BTGRs upon the marginal cost study and not the classes' o1herwse applicble rates is reasonable and approve. As a.reult, the WP rate in that case were bas on WP usage data by actal time of use, not the Copany's proposed metod of using OACs' enrgy or kWh data. regarless of time of use. WAS THE SAME ISSUE DELIBERATED IN DOCKET NO. 03-100011 Yes. WHT WAS THE COMMISSION DECISION ON THIS ISSUE IN DOCKET NO. 03- 100011 The Commrsslon revised its prir decision and found tht Neda Po could allocate WP demand costs on the basis of the energ data of otherise applicable classes or "OAC.. Ths decision increased WP raes signifnty over the rates tht would have reulted if acal WP data had ben use. SO, IS THE ISSUE YOU RASE IN REGARD TO WP DISTRIBUTION DEMAND ALOCATION IN THE PRESENT CASE MERELY A REHASH OF THE ISSUE WP CLSES RASED IN DOCKET NO. 03-100011 No. 'provi thIs history so the Commisn has a frme of referenc for the new discriminatory approach applie by Nevada Por to the detment of water pumplng ::ODMA\PDOLRND01201 Pag 5 i 2 3 4 5 6 .7 8 9 10 Q. 11 A. 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 A. 22 rae schedules in this case. The issue is ne, as Nevaa Power has not use eiher of the specif allors approve in the preous general rate~. i also prode, ~ background to carefully demonstrate that in the prent case, Nevaa Power has inexplicaly deviated frm the very same method on this issue th It argued and won in Docket No. 03-10001. This new method propose for allocating distrbuton ded costs to WP classes relts in an approximatey fie-fold incrase in demand cots allocated tó thè Wpcrasse. HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO EXPLAN THIS RATHER TECHNICAL ISSUE? I develop belo tw tales intended to clarl identi the disribution demnd costs at issue here; to highlight thtaJl othe rate classes. Including residential and LGS c'as~ are albcte these disbuion demand costs based on a diferent, and prper, basis; that Nevada Pow no longer use Its' proposed and authorize OAe - rate frm OAe kilowtt hours approved Docket No. 03-1001; and, finally. that use of the Commission appred method in Docket No. 03".1001, while higher than use of actal WP time of use dat, would allocte fer demand costs to WP classs than Nevada Powts new and unexlained noncolncident metd. WHAT ARE THE DISTRSunON DEMAND COSTS AT ISSUE HERE? The dlstrbutlon demand costs at Issue here are calculated by Nevada Power as a residual after all other fixed and substtion demand investent and facilies 23 investmnt are removed: 24 /III 25 1111 26 1111 27 1/11 28 ::ODM"'OCLRNOD120tm1 Page 6 . 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Q. 13 14 A. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Total New Distributon Plant Investment ($) less - Demand-Related Substation ($) less - Non-Demandacilies ($) les Faclities Investment ($) equas = Residual DemandDrin Distbut Invesnt ($) This redual demand-drive Invetment is .smes referrd to by Nevada Power and others as "non-revenue feder demand." I WILL simply refer to this redual as distribution demand. WHAT ARE THE ACCEPTED COSnNG PRINCIPLES FOR ALLOCATING DISTRIBUTION DEMAND COSTS? Nevada Powers cost study determines and calculates the exent to which th demand cost are caused by system peak demands and th probabirtt of when thes demands occr. After concluding this, the Nevada Power co of sece study then goes on to calculate prise IIProbabilit of Peak" or POP coincident peak allocaors used to separate thes demand cost Into the appropriate pea~ mid pek, of peak and "other" time of use periods. System peak demand allocators are measure by the POP, or similar measure of coincdent peak demands in Nevada Power's cost stdy. The Company doe, in fact, allocate costs of dlsñbuton demand o~ the basis of POP for all rate classes, except for war pumping, as Is shown in Appndix A, Workaper 3, page 23 of 55 in Exhlbit..Walsh eerlfcation-2. The basis for using such POP demand allocars is usually the reslt of these demand costs being cause by time-iferentted peak and of.peak cot caustin. Nevada Powets co study deteined 1h over 90% of the residual disbufon demand costs are allote to suer peak periods becuse 90% of the probilit of ::OD\P\HOD12081 Page 7 1 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 A. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Q. 15 16 17 18 A. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 HOW DOES NEVADA POWER ALLOCATE THESE DEMAND COSTS TO THE WP CLAES? Unlike the Doket No. 03-10001 cáse whre Nevada Power reuest and was authorize to se WP rates on the basis of energ bUllng determinants for otherwse applicable classs ("OAC"). th Copany In the pl8sent case uses what is rerr to as a "noncincident load allocator for the WP classs only. Non concln~ peak demands have no time of use compone. This Is simply 8 sum of customer or class maidum demands reles of when they ocr. 1 See Exbit Walsh certifcan pae 8 of 65. line 45, raio of "on" to "Totar. Page 8::ODMA'iLRD0120821 1 Q. WHERE IN NEVADA POR'S TESTIMONY OR COST STUDY IS THIS WP 2 EXCEPTIN IDENTFIED OR EXPLANED? 3 A. Nowhere. The only way in which one can identif this dlscnminatry tratment of the 4 WP dasses is to carelly exmine fonnJae for actal co allocations In the 5 Company Workpers 6 7 Q. 8 9 10 A. II 12 13 14 is 16 17. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1111 HOW DID YOU DETINE THAT THE COMPANY'S NEW WP DISlRBUll0N DEMAND Au.CATOR HAS A DISPROPORTIONATELY ADVERSe EFFECT ON THE WP ClES? I detennlned this by comparing the Company's propo cost allocation to the WP classs using it new dlsb'butn deman artoca, compare wf th co alltions that would have reult from using elterthe Doet No. 01-1001 or the Dock No. 03..10001 approve alloctors, as shown: LGS-2-WPS lG8-2-WPP lG5-2-WPT LG8-:iwps pop Allo (#11-10001) 104,92 41,092 KwhScted OnOAC (#3-10001) 151.132 40,820 570.58 74,214 PredNCPSced LGSWPP 9,058 73,107 81,635 192,279 160,54 474,44 Tot 46,866 1,279,191228,183 Index 2.04 5.811.00 ::ODMA\PCORNOO\81201 Page 9 1 Q. WHAT DOES THIS TABLE SHOW? 2 A The table compares the difrences in the amount of dJbutlon demand cost 3 allocated to the WP rate class frm th allocars autorl in Docket No. 01-10001, 4 Docket No. 03-10001, and the COmpany's nely propose non.-lnclde (-NCP") allocar, 5 which is no based upon the same time diferentiated allocators used for other classe. 6 For ease of comparin, I index th lowest level of cost as "1- and the higher 7 allocaors are scled accingly. As is evident Nevada Power's new distribution demand 8 allocator (-NCP allocator") Increses the amount of thes di&nbution demand costs 9 dramatcally, up to 550% over th allocation factr previusly used for the WP classes, and i 0 tht used in the present sty for all oth bundled reail rate c1asss. The WP classes have .i 1 been unfairfy singl out here, and with an allocator th Is not In accrdance wih the pri 12 system peakallocaors use forWP classes and presently for all other rate classs. 13 14 Q. IS YOUR OBJECTION TO THIS ALOCATOR BASED SOLELY ON THE FACT is THAT IT SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES THE AMOUNT OF DEMAND COSTS TO WP 16 CLASES OVER THAT WHICH WOULD RESULT FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED 17 DEMAND ALLOCATORS? 18 A. No, althouh higher costs and relting higher rates are always a concern for WP 19 dasses and. for that maer, all Nevaa Poer cuomers. Hover, in th pmsent Insnce, 20 Nevada Powes selecion of an allocar unrelated to peak period demands is no at al 21 cosistent with fts findings that Over 90% of thes dèmand costs occur in the on peak peri. 22 If Nevada Por relly believe In the theoreical superirity of this allocator, then it certinly 23 should have applied It evnhandely to all classes. Agaln, Nevaa Pots proposal with 24 reard to this allocr to WP rate cfasss is discrminatory, unjust and unresonable. 2S 26 Q. DO YOU HAVE A RECOMMENDATION TO MODIFY NEVADA POWER'S COST OF 27 SERVICE STUDY TO CORRECT THE WP SCHEDULES' DISTRIBUTION DEMAND 28 ALOCATOR? ::ODMA\PCDDO\812081 Page 10 i A. Yes. As' summarzed in my opening te~imony. , recommend eier of tw findings 2 by the Comm;ssion that would restore its poor findings. 1n this case the Commission should 3 order Nevada Powr to be costent in this rerd wih the POP allocator used for all non. 4 WP classes by ordering the pertnent POP WP ra class allocators, as it did in Doet No. S 01.10001. My Exhibit DEP-1 contins the summary of my cost of service study th underiies 6 my remmenatin. 7 In the aitemaive, th Commission should order Nevada Power to use the kwh scled 8 allocator th th Company argue for and was authori to use in Docket No. 03-10001; in 9 other words, assIgn co bas upon alJocrs used for the otherwse applicable clases. 10 11 Q. WOULD THIS LOWERING OF ALLOCATED COSTS TO THE WP SCHEDULES 12 RASE OTHER CLASES; RENUE REQUIREMENTS? 13 A. The retum to use of allocars previousl use in prior dockets for WP scedules 14 would have a very minimal eff on some rae scules. and no ef on other. The 15 maxmum Incrase to any single rae scedule frm this corrtlon tn WP demand allocators 16 is no more than .05 of 1%. 17 18 Q. WHT IS THE AFÆCT ON WP BUNDLE RATES OF REVRTING BACK TO 19 THESE PREIOUSLY AUTHORIZD ALLOCATORS? 20 A. Whie th impact of using my recommended allocolS ~s minimal for other schedules. 21 the impact on th bundled WP rat scedules is large. Taken as a whole. this fix to the 22 distñbuton demand alloesors would reuce the rates for these classe by approximately 23 $600,000. This would change the Company conclusion that WP scedules be at the caP. to 24 no chang over cunent rates. 25 " " 26 III/ 27 1/11 28 1111 ::OOMA\Pi:\HL.120,Page 11 1 IMPROVE DOS RATE CALCULATION 2 3 Q. WHT IS THE ISSUE YOU RASE WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWER'S 4 CALCULATION OF THE PROPOSED DOS RATES? 5 A. Company wiess Mr. Ghigßeri briefly outlines the devlopment of DOS rates in his 6 testimony at Page 26, lines 14-19. 7 If I may paraphrase to my own words wi reec to th distuton (nonre\'nue 8 feeer) demand component: the DOS dibution rate component for the DOS water 9 pumping classes is the same as that developed for the corrsponding bundled water 10 pumping ctass. Thus. the sae noncolncldent scled allocator usd by th Company, and i 1 critcize by me in th pring pages. pertains to the DOS rate as welL. This is becuse 12 the DOS rates are not subject to a separate marginal cot stdy. bu instead borr frm 13 the bundled co study. J4 15 Q. WHAT MODIFICATIN DO YOU RECOMMEND BE ORDERED FOR THE 16 DISTRBUTION DEMAND DOS COMPONENT? 17 A. . No additional modicaon to the DOS dlstnbuon is necessary if the Commission 18 require Nevaa Por in It bundled cost of servce study to reurn to one of the tw prior 19 POP or kw scaled allocars. This corrion would as a mattr of corse be picked up In 20 this component of respective WP DOS rates. 21 22 Q. WOULD THIS CHAGE REDUCE DOS RATES? 23 A. Minimally. I calculat th total savlngs from all six WP DOS classes to be 24 $12,OOr. But this corrn would allow the design of bett DOS rates, as r discss 2S next. 26 27 Q. WHAT RATE DESIGN MODIFICATION TO DOS RATES ARE YOU REQUESTING 28 BE MAE IN THESE PROCEEDINGS? ::ODMACDODCS12081 Page 12 i A. Consistent wit the Companys findings In thir cost of serv sty that its 2 disbuton demand raes are hIghly corrlated with time--use ("OU"), the Compan 3 should implement a TOU-DOS demand chrge. rather thn Its proposed fixed rach 4 demand or kw charg. S 6 Q. PLEAE EXPLAN. 7 A. Nevada Power propos to slmply sum the facilities demand cost for DOS custme 8 wit the distribution demand charges tha, again, have been shwn to be infuenc by 9 coincdent pek loads. 10 A better mean to present cusomers wi meningfl price signals would be to keep i i the facilities' charges as propoed, but collec the TOU-rlat distbution demand cost of 12 DOS custmers through peak. mid. of and othr ped per kw charges. as is done for 13 bundled tlme-of-use ra scedules. While collecing an equivalent amount of revenue 14 requirement. my propoaJ has the beneft of prviding a furtr incentive to shif demand of 15 peak to lowe cost perids, reucin additonal distributon invtment for Nevaa Power. 16 17 Q. HOW WOULD SUCH TOU DEMAND CHAGES BE CALCULATED FOR THE DOS 18 CLASES? 19 A. All data nessary to compute thes pek and off peak per kw chrges are contained 20 in Nevada Power's cot of servce stdy. These rates are developed and shown In my 21 Exibit DEP-2. 22 These rates are base upon the time of us distnbution demand co~ developed for 23 the OAe classes. Due to the Intptible provisions and rates of present bundled WP 24 classes, the OAC costs are more relevant since OOS rates do not have an Intenuptible 2S feature. 26 27 Q. WOULD THESE nME DFFERENTJATED DOS DISTRIBUTON DEMAND RATE 28 ON EXHISrr DEP..2 BE OF BENEFIT TO NEVADA POWER AND ITS CUSTOMERS? ::ODM'lDOC\8201 Page 13 1 A. Yes. These fates, becuse they are time diffrentiate, provide appropriate. cot- 2 base incentves to move demand to mid and off peak periods. Accing to Nevada 3 Powes cost stdy, significant amounts of new distribution investment could be avoided tht 4 would otherwse be required to prvide peak deman service. Thes time of use raes 5 provie a more effICent usage of present and new distribution investent and all custome 6 save money. 7 8 Q. DOES 11E PRESENT NEVADA POWER PROPOSAl TO CHARGE RATES fOR 9 THIS DISTRIBUTION DEMAND AS IF IT WERE NOT nME DIFFERENTIATED PROVIDE 10 POOR PRICE SIGNALS? 11 A. Ves. At prent. wate pumping operators are insted to make an reasnable 12 efrt to shif its pumping operations away frm Nevada Power's coincident system peak 13 peri. These shifs, of course, allow energy bills to be managed, but also invotve incurrng 14 signifcant distribution cost to keep demand shifed primarily to off peak periods. is 16 Q. DOES THE RATE DESIGN PROPOSED BY NEVADA POWR REMOVE SOME OF i 7 THESE COST BENEFITS TO WP, DOS AND 01lER REAIL CUSTOMER CLASSES? is A. Yes. Again, the Copany's proposal to charge a flat demand charge for these time 19 sensitve demand cots reduces war pumper incenties to manage its demand In the best 20 manner. 21 The time diffrentiated rates I provide in Exhbit DEP-2. white covering the demand 22 cost incurrd by the COmpny, promote effcient usage and coservation. 23 '24 Q. WHAT AR YOUR CONCLUSIONS~ 25 A. t have Identied a major change mae by the Company to the methodology it uses to 26 allocte distribution demand costs to bundled WP ra schedules. These change were no 27 idented or discussed anyw in th Copany's filing, and thy contradict the ratinale for 28 ::OD'iDOC\Ø12082\1 Page 14 i allocating such cots to alt other rad schedle on the basis of time-CUffereated 2 coincident demands. 3 If adopted, thes rates would not only be discminato and unair, they would case 4 an unjustifed and abrupt rate increase to the WP schedules. but not appreciably reduc rates 5 to any remaining rae classes. I conclude that the Commission should reJeçt the Companys 6 new methodology and retum to eiter of the tw cost allocation methods it previusly 7 adopted. as identied In my summary on page 3 of my testmony. 8 The Commission should also reconize the benefits in carrng this time diferentiation 9 over to th DOS classe by adopting the ,essentally revenue-neutl demand' raes 10 deVeloped on my exhibit OEP-2. i i Q. DOES THIS CONCLUDE YOUR TESnMONY? 12 A. Yes. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ::OD'ILRN0D1201 Page 15 AFIRTION 1, De.s E. Pes~ purua to NAC 703.710 herby af that tbe forego prep temmony was prear by me or uner my diction and is COIIt to the be of my knledge. Jl i4-.Des E. Pese Dated: ,/'16 I¿¡/ ~ Atchent 1 Dkl.0611022 VVftnes: D.E. Pesau Page 1 of3 STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseu has conducted economic and financlal sties for regulated Industries for the past twenteight years. In 1912t he was employed by Soutern Califrnia Edison Company as Assciate Economic Analyt, and 1aer as Economic Analys. His responsibilites included rew of financial testmony, incrmentl co studies, rae design, ecnometrc estimation of demand elasticities and various areas In the field of energ and eonomlc groh. Also, he was asked by Edisn Electril Instit to study and evaluate several proinent energy models as part of the Ad Hoc Commitee on Economic Groh and Energy Priing. From 1974 to 1978. Dr. Peseau was employed by the Public Utlity Commissioner of Oren as Senior Economist. There he conducted a number of economic and financial studies and prepare tetimony perining to public utilities. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Nortwest offce of Zinder Companies, Inc. He has since submitted testimony on economic and financil matters bere state reulary comissions in Alask, California. Idaho, Maryand, Minnesota. Montana, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, the Distct of Columbia, the Bonneville Power Administrtion and the Public Utilties Board of Alber on over one hundre occions. He has conduced marginal cost and rate design sties and !. Attment 1 Ok!. 06-11022 Witness: D.E. Pesau Page2of3 preare testimony on these matters In Alska, California. Idaho, Maryand, Minnesta, Nevaa, Oren, Washington and in the District of Columbia. He has also conducted cost an rate studies regarding PURPA issueS in the states of Alaska, California. Idaho, Montana. Nevada. New York, Washington, and Washingtn, D.C. Dr. Pes8au holds B.A., M,A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. He has co-authored a book In the field of Industral organizti entitled, ,Size. Profits and Exeive Compen.iation in the larg Coiporation, which devoes a chapter to regulated industries. Dr. Peseau has publisd artcles in the followtng professional journls: Revew of Economics and Statistics, Atlantic Economic Journal, Joyrnal of Financial ManagemeQ! and Journal of Regional Science. His articles have bee read befor the Ecometric Society. the Western Economic Association, the Financial Management Ascition, th RegIonal Scen ASSciation and universities in the United Krngdom as wel as in the Unit States. He has guest lere on marginal costng metds in seminars in New Jersy and California for the Center of Professional Advancement. He has also guest lecured on cost of capital for the public utJity industr beore the Pacifc COast Gas and Electric Association, and for the Executive Seminar at the Colgate Darden Grauate School of Business, Universit of Virginia. Atthment 1 Dkt. 0(11 022 Witess: D.E. 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I . . 2 3 4 5 6 1 8 9 ""10~8 OM ..11ri.~ g 1&l~12 JH 13 14 ~=.€15 ie~~16.. 0 !~8 17~..'i ~18:: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PROOF OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I maled the foregoing Diret Testimony of Dennis E. l)eseau in Phase TV Cost of Serice and Rate Design in Dkt. 06-11022 on behalf of the Southern Nevada Water Authorit), via electronic mail and by delivering to the U .8. Post Offce copies thereof, properly addresSl.id for mailng to th following pens an entities: Nancy Barker Nevada Power Compay 6226 W. Saha Ave. MS 3A Las Vegas, NV 89146 nbarkeieyp.com Marisa Carena, Rate Analyst Nevada Power Copay 6100 Neil Road Reno, NY 895 i i mcarden~sppc.com Eric Witkoski, Consumer Advocat Bureau of Consumer Protection Oflce ofihe Attorney General 555 E. Washington, #3900 Las Vegas, NV 89101 epwitkoslãag.stte lÐV. us Chales Radal. Business Mager IBEW Lol 396 3520 Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89120 Mark Russell, Esq. Mirage Hotel and Casina 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89109 mrusseJi~mimge.com Donald Brokhyser, Es. Alcanta &. Kab LLP 1300 SW Fifth Ave.. Ste. 1750 Portland, OR 97201 deMAa-klaw.com Dan Waite, Esq. Beckley Singleton, Chtd. 530 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89101 dwaite(ckleylaw.cQm ::OOMJ\PDOCS\HI.RNODO\l 12179'1 Jan Cohen. Esq. Public Utilties Commission of Nevada iOt Covention Center Drive, Suite 250 Las Vegas, NV 89109 jcohen(?puc.state.nv.us Alaina Burtenshaw Public Utilties Commisson of Nevada 101 Convention Center Drive, Suile 250 Las Vegas, NV 89109 aburens~puc.sta1c.nv.us Phil Willamson Burau of Consumer Prtection Offce of the Atlorncy General 100 N. Caron Street Carson City, NY 89701-4717 pjwilliaW.tg.state.nv iUS Francis J, Mortn, Esq. IBEW P.O. Box 370955 Las Vegas, NV 89137 Marta J. Ashcraft LC\\1s and Roca LLI) 3993 Howard HUges Parkway. Suite 600 Las Veg, NV 89169 MAshcra(jLRLaw.çom D. George Th Krger Co. 1014 Vine St., 0-07 Cinciiuati. OH 45202 dgeorgelêkrogel'.coin Dale Swan Exele Associates, Jnc. 5565 Sterrett Place, Suite 310 Columbia, MD 21044 dswan,'t,exeterQssoc iates.com Page 1 . r , '; 8 9 '2 10, ¡8 0('.. 11 jii 12 IIi :: lU~ iMŠ." 15as ~fJ iÆ I 16 iJr:O 17 ~t' tê 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 1 Kur Boeh Esq.2 Michel Kur Es. Boeh. Kur & Lowr3 36 E. Seventh St.. Ste. 1510 4 Cincinnti. OR 4520-2kbohm(ßBKLlawfnnco5 mkw~I.com 6 7 Dated this 19t day of Marh, 207. ::ODMA\PDOLR12179\ Page 2 Lawrce A. GollompAssistat 0e Counl Lo H. Cooke, Attrney U.S. Depent of Ener 1000 Inepence Aveue. SW Wasington. DC 20685 LawrceGoDorfá.doe lotcookt.dod.gov rLõ2~ An employe of HALE LANE PEEK DENISON. AN HOWARD HALE LANE AT'OIlNI!VS AT i.W m Ed Wilia St I Seii. 200 I Cin Cil)'. NcYim 19101 Telc (775)6l I Fauile t77') 614.6UUI1'- .b11l.wm Septmber 13, 2006 Crysta Jacksn Commission iSecre I 150 E. Wilia Stret Caron City, NV 89701 RE: SNWA DIRECT TESTIONY DOCKET NO. 06~60S1 Dear Ms. Jackson: " pieas~ accept for filing the enclosd original and nine copies of the Direct Testimony of Dens Peseau on behalf of SNW A in Docket No. 06.0605 i. Should you have any questions regaring ths filing, please contact me at (775) 684-6000. Sincerely,¥1l~ Fred Schmidt Esq. FJS:taw Enclosurs cc: Pares of Reord ~'''t Q ~...;: """f-t:-:"õ(/,~.:r;~.. ,",1''~,r: ""-~l'::Oi..:..¡¡~:.. "".c-0 ,,',,I'::..;~Q t:.; ;r:,,i" .N =l~.....:i ...~.;; HAL LANE PEEK DENNISON AND HOWAR iiNOOI'FICE: 5441 K~ ~ I SqI' FI I Reno. N.. 8951 1 1 P1 (715) m.300 I Faesii. (77S) 78606179LAS V~XìAS iOPFia 3930 lI Hugl Play I i:h Fki I La Vcp. Nl/iia 891 6911' (702) 222-251 1 Facsimile (70) 36~940 i ~OOMA\lDOCSIHLiNODOU'66781U 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Q. 12 A. 13 14 15 Q. 16 A. 17 18 19 Q. 20 A. 21 22 23 Q. 24 25 A. 26 27 Q. 28 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA Docket No. 06-06051 Direct Testimony of Dennis E. Peseau '. ;: ,"o ::;r,;en .~~en .:."I"-0 on behalf of Southern Nevada Water Authority ~:: i:'.-''0::';::1":~::oU ,.,òTi: "' :~'"'.o :i "0"'~l~cW ;~~(~ý\N :~(1."ö;e ..iPl~SE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRESS. My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My business address is 1500 Libert Street S.E., Suite 250, Salem, Oregon 97302. BY! WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACITY ARE YOU EMPLOYED? I am President of Utility Resources, Inc. The firm consults on a number of economic, financial, and engineering matters for various private and public entiies. oM WHOSE BEHALF ARE YOU TESTIFYING IN THIS PROCEEDING? I a~ testifying on behalf of the Southern Nevada Water Authoriy ("SNWA") and its cortstiuent members. DOeS ATTACHMENT 1 ACCURATELY DESCRIBE YOUR BACKGROUND AND EX~ERIENCE? Yes. Wl1AT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR TESTIMONY? , ~:OOM1PCDObs\HLRNOD0C5665\1 Page 1 1 A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 H 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Q. 24 A. 25 26 27 28 Tte purpose of my testimony is to express SNWAls general but cautionary support for NE!vada Power Company's ("Nevada Power" or '~he Company") filed Integrated Resource Plan ("IRpU) in the instant docket. The urge for caution that I express below derives from the enormit of the Company's plan. the very infant or -greenfield" nature of the bulk of the generation and transmission request, and the capital intensiveness an~ the long.lead times required to determine the feasibilty of the IRP. In this regard, I propose that the Commission and parties provide sufcient support and endorsement for the beginning elements of Nevada Powets filed IRP, but stap short of the numerous and, in my opinion, premature granting of complete financial assurances requested by the Company. Specifically, I recommend that the Cqmmission rule as premature the Company's request for Criical Facilities designation and instead approve up to $300 milion in the requested preliminary EEC an~ Intertie studies, to be treated under normal AFUDC accounting (no CWIP) and set a procedure for eventually issuing a final ruling on Critical Facilites status and related ac~ountin9 issues at a later dat as the project develops or not. In the alternative, t recommend that the Commission deny Nevada Power's re~uest for Critical Facilities designation for the Ely Energy Center ("EEe") and the 50~kV NortlSouth Intertie ("lntertie") unless and until such time as the costs. budget, ¡timing, and rates resulting from completing Phase One can be shown to be re~sonablei not unduly burdensome, and in the pUblic Interest I discuss these cost and financial issues below. WlAT ARE SNWA'S PRIMARY INTERESTS IN THESE PROCEEDINGS? As Ithe principal water purveyor for the burgeoning southern Nevada economy, the SNYVA has enormous rnterests in the outcome of this resourc plan case, both as a ret~i1 electric customer (for DOS and vertically integrated services) and as a trarasmission customer. The outcome of these and similar proceedings could have a ::ODMA\PCDObS\HLRNDOCI56656\1 ! Page 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 l 5 16 17 is 19 20 21 Q. 22 23 24 A. 25 26 27 28 sì~nifcant impact on the abilty of the SNWA to continue to economically serve the water needs of souhern Nevada. ¡ The SNWA has underway its ow water importtion plan, requinng it to be i setved with energy in eastern Nevada as far north as White Pine County. Regardless of Ithe eventual shape of its water importtion plan, the SNWA must protect its customers and control its water pumping costs by developing the best possible trarsmission and generation options to accommodate its needs. It is critical for SNWA to ihave the transmission infrastructure to serve its imporation plan in place when wa~er pumping needs commence. To this end the SNWA has been developing a transmission plan to meet the needs of the water pumping requirements associated with its water importtion plan. , Wl)n the SNWA became aware of Nevada Powts plans last winter to construct prdposed 500kV lines in the same general area as that planned by the SNWA for its water importtion project, the SNWA initiated meetings with Nevada Power to discuss ipOl$sible common interests. At that time, SNWA had atready identified electrical traijsmission needs in Clark, lincoln, and White Pine Counties as part of its proposed water importation project. One topic of discussion was the potential to jointly share ownership of the Nevada Power proposed transmission expansion described in this filing. DQES THERE APPEAR TO BE ENOUGH SIMILARITY IN THE TIMING, CERTAINTY, AND ENGINEERING OF THE INTERnE TO EXPECT THAT A JOINT OWNERSHIP ARRAGEMENT WOULD MEET SNWA'S CRITICAL TIME PATH? Wh¡i1e there are some similarities in timing and location, it is not clear that Nevada Power's (ntertie wil meet the electrical needs of StiA. Most of SNWA's needs in ea$tern Nevada require a smaller transmission size. The SNWA has, by necessity, b~n proceding with alternative plans to complete a lesser capacity, 230kV transmission system of its own, designed to transfer power from Utah to numerous i ::ODMA\PooCLRNOOOCS\5\1 Page 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q. 10 i t 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 is 19 20 21 22 23 Q. 24 25 26 27 28 SliWA receipt points. The SNWA has a 100MW ownership interet in the Intermountain Power Project's new coal facilities ("IPP3"). This independent cours by the SNWA is necessary to assure its ability to complete in a timely fashion the water , de~ivery system reuired by southern Nevada. Andi while I have not been heavily in~oived in the ongoing coordination efforts, I have been assured that the SNWA intends to continue coordinating with Nevada Power in recognition of the needs of both parties. HAS THE SNWA CONSIDERED TAKING TSA SERVICE OFF OF THE NEVADA POWER PROPOSED 500KV LINES RATHER THAN CONSTRUCTING ITS OWN Li~ES? Ye~. This is not at all an option satisfactory to the SNWA because of the inabilty to i us. its low cost capitl to construct the lines, the inabilty to require all cntical decilines for construction to be'met, and the need for lower voltage service. TSA ser!ice and its expected higher transmission rates is not considered to be a feasible opöon to the SNWA. Additionally, SNWA has other public partners with additional ownership interests in IPP3 wit which it is now coordinating. J provide this baÇkground to inform the Commission that Nevada Power and SNWA are in continual dialogue regarding the cordination and cooperation of both parties' proposed ¡tra~smisslon facilities. At this time SNWA's direct involvement in Nevada Power's Intertia does not appear likely. iS SNWA REQUESTING THE COMMJSSION TO ORDER NEVADA POWER TO DO AN¥THING SPECIFIC IN THIS DOCKET TO ACCOMMODAT~ SNWA'S TRANSMISSION NEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SNWA WATER IMPORTATION PROJECT? ::OOM'PCOOtS\HLRNODOCS\56656\1 Page 4 1 A. 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 N~. SNWA wil continue to discuss possible involvement in the Intertie with Nevadai .Pøwer and commits to also discussing right-of-way and EIS issues with Nevada Power i as! those issues arise. WtiAT SPECIFIC CONCLUSIONS HAVE YOU REACHED IN REGARD TO THE IRP, ENERGY SUPPLY PLAN ("ESP") AND ACTION PLAN FILED BY NEVADA , POWER? A. I conclude tht: fJn Endorsement 1. Although the preferred plan is not at an the least costly of the plans reviewed, it provides generation capacity which is eventually needed in the Nevada Power system and should generally be supported by this Commission. ESP. Acton Plan Application, pp. 35.37. Crtical Facilty Designation 2. Any designation of the EEC and Intertie as Critical Facilities or a denial of this designation is premature at this time and should await more maturity in development of the plan. A final ruling on this mattr should be deferred until at least sometime in 2008. 3. The Commission should approve the plan as modifed in its discretion, but allow AFUDC on construction work in progress ~CWIP), not CWIP in rate base, until such time as it makes a final determination on Critical Facilties. 4. Nevada Power should be required to clarif rts request for an incentive return" . . . calculated at 2% above Sierra's authorized weighted return on equit. . ." (Application, p. 14 of 16, I. 4-5, and elsewher). Specifically, a 2% weighted return on equity, calculated at a 40% equit ratio, translates to a requested incentive ROE adder of 5% to the presently allowed equity return. , Even a' 2% ROE adder to an unweighted ROE amounts to a $935 milion excess pretax bonus to shareholders over and above it fair rate of return and should be rejectd. 5. The Commission, in following the recommendation to defer final determination of whether the EEC and the Intertie are Critical Facilties. or not, should require certain milestones to have been reached, including. but not limited to, the grantln~ of a final air permit from the Nevada Department of EnvironmentalProtection, scheduled for January 2008. ' IIIf till ::ODMIPCDO\HlRNOOOC\5686561 ¡Page 5 1 Plin En~orsement i2 Q. W~AT IS SNWA'S POSITION WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWER'S 3 P,OPOSED IRP, ENERGY SUPPLY, AND ACTION PLAN? 4 A. T~e SNWA generally endorses moving forward with the planning and permiting of the 5 E~ Energy Center, related transmission facilities, including the Interte, other ! 6 tr~nsmisSion facilities in Clark County, and the approximate 600 MWs of quick start 7 combustion turbines a1 Clark Station. (Application, Items 5, 6, 7, 8.) 8 I The SNWA did not review in detail, and therefore remains silent on, the 9 pr~POSed load and sales forecast and the fuel and energy market forecasts. !10 (Application, Items 3 and 4.) !) I i The SNWA oppoes at this time the Company's reuest to have the i)2 Cqmmission designate Phase One of the EEC and Intertie as Critical Facilties. i13 (A~plication, Item 9.) )4 15 Q. 16 17 A. is 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Q. 28 wltrH RESPECT TO THE EEC. THE INTERTIE, AND THE CLAK STATION AaDITIONS, WH IS YOUR ENDORSEMENT ONLY "GENERAL"? iNerada Power should be encouraged to proceed with its extremely ambitious plans with respect to these facilties. For decades now, the Company has been deficient in i 0wt-generation facilities. The recent additions of the Silverhawk and Lenzie i ge~eratítig plants. together with the 2,100 MW of requested coal and CT plants, could Ishilld Nevada Power and it customers from the risk of èapacit cost swings possible fror any potential future resourc shortges. I The reason that the SNWA endorsement is cautious is due to the extreme !umrertinty with respect to any actal building of Phase One of EEC, and the intardependence of the associated transmission, the Intertie and even the Clark ÇTs. I ptE EXPLAIN. ::ODMA\PCDOPSIHlRNODOCS\56656\1 Page 6 1 A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 g 9 10 1l 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 Q ite some time has elapsed since the completion of major col facilties in the w stern U.S. and, according to the testimony of Nevada Power, the Company is still i astessing the viability of various supercritical boiler and emissions contro 1hl10lOgieS (Sims, p. 9, i. 15-18). I am aware of no U.S. projects identical to the Coripany proposal that have been completed on a commercal,basis in recent years. i uhderstand that certin tyes of supercritical facilties have been built in Asia. And, i whr1e the relatively stable nature of the price of coal makes new col facilties attctve, we are all aware of the potential siting, environmental, and transmissiQn di4culties associated with large planned coal plants. Today. there exist both strong Iprdponents and opponents of major new coal generating facilitis. And, while EEC is reJresented to include u. . . the latest clean-oal tecnologies. . .rr (June 30. 2006, N~C press release), the siting, water, transmission construction, permiting, and public en~orsement of the facilty will certainly pose a significant challenge. For these i re~sons. the SNWA urges the Commission to grant only preliminary approval, but i reqluire extraordinary updating and progress reports with appropriate' off ramps should thel project become mired in difculties. wJy DO YOU CHARCTERIZE PHASE ONE OF EeCI RELATED ~+NSMISSIONt THE INTERTIE, AND THE CLAK CTS AS INTERDEPENDENT? Tht IRP planning process evaluates the totality of the existing electric system, tog ther with all of the proposed preferre and alternative plan additons. The need and optimality of each component is crucially dependent on the succsful pletion of each and all other proposed facilties. Without knowledge of the pletion of. say, the preferrd plan as proposed, there is no expectation that the pro ect is economic (has lowest present worth of revenue requirements, PWRR). For example, the demise of either the ECC or the Intertie individually would reuire co plete rethinking of the remaining project. And, due to the need to economically fill Ne ada Power's load duration curves, loss of either the EEC or the Intertie would call ::ODM\PCDO RNOOOCS\566666\1 Page 7 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 8 A. ' 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Q. 17 18 19 A. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 question the feasibilty of the Clark Station CIs. versus perhaps the more efficient hnology of combined cycle CTs. These considerations underscore the need for ely updates, status report. and possible alterations of the preferred plan. o THE UNCERTAINTIES YOU HAVE REFERENCED REQUIRE CHANGES TO T E GENERATION ADDITIONS SECTION (VOL. 1, PAGE 35) OF THE RESOURCE . With the exception of the request for Critical Facilties designation. I don't believe th t the requested ESP and Action Plan require changes for my proposal to require fre uent status updates. Nevada Powets reuest for approval for up to $300 milion th(1 ugh 2008, qualified by its successful receipt of its air permit should allow Nevada forward unless and until any subsequent plan obstacles are W AT ISSUES DO YOU HAVE WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWER'S REQUEST T HAVE THE COMMISSION DESIGNATE PHASE ONE OF THE EEe AND THE IN ERTlE AS CRITICAL FACILITIES? Un er NAC 704.9484, i understand that Nevada Powe may request that a facilit of th utilit be designated as a Crical Facility. I also understand that the Commission, up n such a reuest, may determine whether to designate suc a facilit as criicaL. In its ~rder in Docket 04-6030, the commis, sion approved a' similar request by Nevada Po~er to designate the (now-named) Lenzie Energy Facilty as a Critical Facility. Th issue I raise in regard to the Company's request for Criical Facilit designation for the EEC and Intertie facilties is that at the present time it is simply not possible to co clude that these proposed facilities may meet any of the purposes listed in par graphs (a) to (e) of the code. The facilities should not, therefore, be designated ritical at this point. Such a finding would be premature at best. Page 8S\LRNOD0C66561 Q.Y DO YOU CONCLUDE THAT THE EEC AND INTERTIE FACILITIES CANNOT 2 W BE FOUND TO COMPLY WITH PARAGRAPHS (AHE) OF NAC 104.94841 3 A.T ese paragraph set the standards of: 4 (a Protecting reliabilty; 5 (b Promoting diversity of supply and demand side sources; 6 (c)Developing renewable energy resources; 7 (d Fulfllng specific statutory mandates; 8 (e Promoting retail price stabilty; 9 (f)Any combination of paragraphs (a) to (e), inclusive. 10 Given the greenfield nature of these proposed facilties. the lack of a definitive 11 10 ation to site the EEC, an undetermined and unproven new emissions control 12 te hnology, uncertin water supply , permitting activities stil in process. and 13 co siderable lead times necessary to bring such coal facilities into commercial 14 op ration, no meaningful conclusions can be reached at this time with regard to the 15 de ree, if any, to which the EEC and Interte may eventually enhance system 16 reU bilit, diversit of resources or price stabilty to the Nevada Power system. 17 18 Q.E YOU INDICATING THAT THE EEC AND INTERTIE WILL NOT BE BUILT? 19 A.No As I have stated, the SNWA support the continued study and potential 20 de elopment of these facilties.But, in stark contrast to the Len¡ie facilty that was 21 we I underway and partally constructed and purchased at a large discount to market 22 pri s for new constructon. the EEC and Intertie are stil in the very early, or 23 "gr;enfield" stage of development 24 25 Q.W Y DO YOU CHARACTERIZE THE EEC AND INTERTIE AS BEING IN A VERY 26 LY OR "GREENFIELD" STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT? 27 A.Is the same characterization used by Nevada Power (Sims, p. 3, I. 16-19).Also, 28 a ording to Nevada Power witness David Sims, Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific ;:OOMA\POO SIHLRNODOCS\566656\1 Page 9 i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 A. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ha e together expended only $1 millon in .. . . . preliminary development costs and st dies on the project. . ," (Sims, p. 10, i. 19-20.) Thus, to date, only .027% of the expected project costs have been expended, this on preliminary development. According to Mr. Sims. some of the preliminary -Identifcation of two potential sites (p. 3, I. 7) -Review for "greenfield" development of coal generation (p. 3. I, 19) -Participating in two studies to assess the viabilty of new emissions control technologies (p. 7. i. 17-18) -Overcoming the fact that the "only proven process" for reducing C02 emissions would consume roughly one-third of a p'lants power output and increase the cost of its electricit by 60..00f. (Cite) Nevada Power; to its credit, candidly admits to the infancy of the study and de elopment of the EEC facility. At present. there are no site, air permits, water, p en technologies, emissions plan, fuel supplies, and transporttion or definitive ap rovals fer the EEC. In my opinion, there is no basis for concluding at this time that the EEC and Intertie are in any way critical among the numerous supply plans revewed and analyzed. The Commission should postpone it determination of eri calit and await the attinment of milestones prior to maltng this decision. AT TYPE OF MILESTONES MIGHT THE COMMISSION REQUIRE? dition to awaiting the engineering and design to take shape. the awarding of a fin I air permit by the Nevada Departent of Environmental Protection (estimated Ja uary 2008), the final EIS (estimated May 2008), and the BlM Record of Decision (e imated July 2008) would be good indicators of whether the actual project is f' Also, a report from Bums & McDonnell indicating whether it has or has not been abl to determine from it study whether the various supercritical boiler and emissions tee nologies, and site constructabilty are viable would be very useful (Sims, p. 9, i. ::ODMAIPCDO S\HODOCS\56656\1 Page 10 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 8 9 A. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Q. 17 A. 18 19 20 21 Q. 22 A. 23 24 2S 26 21 28 1 -29). After this it may be possible, with at least some degree of confidence, to begin to predict whether and when these facilities are likely to add reliability, diverity and pr ce stabilit to the Nevada Power system and its customers. IF THE COMMISSION CHOOSES TO DEFER ITS DETERMINATION REGARDING T E REQUEST FOR CRITICAL FACILITY DESIGNATION, HOW DO YOU R COMMEND THAT EXENDITURES ON THESE FACILITIES BE ACCOUNTED F R? I 11 commend that, prior to final Critical Facilities designation, all such expenditures be tre ted for accounting purposes consistent with current accounting methods. The ex enditures would earn AFUDC, but not CWiP in rate base at this time. Thus, upon an eventual future designation as Critical Facilties, only expenditures subsequent to th determination would be eligible for favorable treatment and then only if granted at Ui t time by the Commission. E YOU GENERALLY IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING CWIP IN RATE BASE? No not generally. In my opinion, awaitng a final determination of rate base tratment un il faciliies are clearly Mused and useful" has been a superior form of regulatory tre tment for new construction. SE EXPLAIN. arguments against a regulatory convention granting CWIP in rate base are not to Nevada. In the instant proceedings, however, the uncertainty, magnitude and pre iminary nature of the propos plan argue furter for not allowing CWIP in rate ba e at this time. The primary shortcomings of Nevada Power's request for CWIP in rat base at this time are twofold. One, the long lead time, coupled with the pre iminary status and accompanying completion risk of the project at this time. would ::OOIPCD SVl.ODCS\6e56l Page 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 . Q. 28 si nifiQantly raise present customers' rates far in advance of any genuine èxpectation of the ¡'use and usefulness" of the preferred plan. Secndly, the Commission should always attempt to align i to the extent p ssiblei the benefits of resource additions with the customers receiving such benefi. U der the Company's preferred plan, the long and probable lengthening of the s gested lead times to reach commercial operation of Phase One of the EEC and rtie, would necessitate significantly higher raes in the next several years to be bo e by customers prior to commercializatin. Corrspondingly, the rates to cu tamers consuming energy from the date of commercialization and extnding over th life of the EEC and 'ntertie projects would be lower. The accounting convention of A U DC better aligns project costs with customers enjoying the benefits of the projects. arguments I have just cited are not meant to argue absolutely against the granting WIP in rate base, as NAC 704.9484 clearly allows this consideration, but instead to point out the serious objections of granting the reques1 so far in advance of the re sonabJe knowledge of the success of the proposed projects. T ARE YOUR ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWERIS REQUEST FRAN INCENTIVE RETURN ON EQUITY FOR THE EEC AND THE INTERTJE? Th primary issue I raise with respe to the Company's requested 2% ROE adder is exceìve burden it plelces on ratepayers, especially in light of the fact that the pr ferred plan with EEC and the Intertie is not the least cost of plans analyzed by , Ne ada Powr. First, however, there is a need for clarification with respect to the Company's 2o/ ROE adder request. W AT CLARIFICATION 00 YOU SEEK WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPANY'S REQUEST FOR A 2% ROE ADDER? ::ODMA\PCO CS\lLRNOOOCS\566656\1 Page 12 A.In at least three places in its fiing, Nevada Power requests an ROE incentive 2 ret rn ".. . calculated at 2% above Nevada Powets authorized weighted return on 3 eq Ity" (Application, p. 14, I. 5-6; Yackira direct, p. 14, i. 15-16; Vol. 1 ESP, p. 36,1'4) 4 (e ph as is added). 5 The term "weighted return on equity" in cost of capital parlance indicates that 6 Company is reuesting far more than a simple addition of 2% to its authonzed 7 eq it return of 10.25%. The authorized 10.25% equity return is an unwighted equity 8 ret m. To reach an overall allowd rate of return on capital, the unweìghted equity 9 ret m is multiplied by the equity ratio and added to the unweighted debt cost multiplied 10 by the debt ratio.The reason that the issue of whether the Company really is 11 reuesting a 2% adder to the weighted equity return is so important is because a 2% 12 eqiit return added to the authori wehled equit rern ecua grats the 13 Co pany the equivalent of a 5-6% ROE adder. 14 15 Q. 16 A.My Exhibit 1 (DEP-1) demonstrates the signifcant difference betwen adding a 2%¡- 17 R E adder to the authorized unweighted return and adding a 2% ROE adder to the i 8 aut orlzed weighted equit return.For clarity of example, the comparison is made 19 as uming a 10.25% authorized equity return, 7% debt costs, and a 57/43% debt- 20 eq ity to capital ratio. As shown in the exhibit, if the requested 2% ROE incentive is 21 ad ed to the weighted return (the 4.41%) As literally requested by Nevada Power, the 22 res It is to actually grant shareholders a 14.9% overall equity reurn. 23 24 Q.01 YOU ATrEMPT TO CLAIFY THIS ISSUE WITH NEVADA POWER? 25 A.Ya . In response to SNWA-1, the Company indicated that it would apply the 2% ROE 26 ad er to the unweìghted return on equity. ' I atach a copy of this response as Exhibit 2 27 (0 P-2).Since the Company filing stil indicates 1hat the 2% ROE adder is to be 28 Page 13 2 3 4 Q. 5 6 A. 1 8 Q. 9 10 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Q. 22 23 A. 24 25 26 27 28 ad ed to the weighted return on equity, my testimony above is intended to note this in nsistency and clarify the intent and extent of the ROE incentive adder. H W WAS THE 2"0 ROE ADDER TREATED WITH RESPECT TO THE INCENTIVE R URN ON THE LENZIE ENERGY FACILITY IN DOKET 04-6030? 2% ROE adderwas added to the unweighted equity return (Order. Page 23). A SUMING THAT NEVADA POWER'S REQUESTED 2% EQUITY RETURN IN ENTIVE IS MEANT TO BE ADDED TO THE AUTHORIZED UNWEIGHTED EdulTY RETURN OF 10.25%, WHY DO YOU CHARACTERIZE THE 2% AS ~CESSIVE? If lIowed, the requested 2% incentive adder on the unweighted equity return will pr vide investors with a $935 million bonus in nominal dollars over the life of the pr 1ectl If the Company's request is for the adder to be on the weighted equity return, th t bonus is Increase to approximately $2.1 billon. And, at the same time, the ad itons of the Lenzie and Silverhawk plants, together with the completion of more th n $4 bilion in new generation, transmission, and DSM facilities (Vol. II, Action Plan, Ta Ie AP-1) wil greatly increase the present level of rate base of Nevada Power and p vide investors with growing returns. DO YOU SAY THAT NEVADA POWER'S REQUESTED 2% ROE BONUS Wi L-PROVIDE INVESTORS WITH $935 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL PROFITS?. Th essentials of this calculation are shown in Exhibit 3 (DEP--). The budgeted e enditures for the EEC and Intertie investment are capitalized and given the ad itonal 2% ROE adder over the life of the assets. Exhibit 3 (DEP-3) calculates a totl incentive-related revenue reuirement over the lives of the assets of $935.024,000 (for 100%), 80% of which is propose to be ch rged to Nevada Power customers. ::OOMA\FC CS\LRNOOOCS\5666561 Page 14 i Q. 2 3 A. 4 5 6 7 Q. 8 A. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 A. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Y DO YOU CHARACTERIZE THE $935 MILLION INCENTIVE BONUS TO IN ESTORS AS EXCESSIVE? Fi t, and perhaps foremost, the propose new EEC and Intertie facilities, while a w Icome change from exposure to market power, wil already be a boon to investors wi hout a $935 millon bonus. In ecnt years, Nevada Power investors have been disadvantaged by the Company's la k of generation resource additions dating back to the early 1990s. I realiz that ada. like a number of other states, had an interlude where the advent of market petrtion required a pause in utility generation additions. As a result, the bulk of the pany's revenue requirement in the last decade and a half has bee comprised of sig iñeant expenses upon which investors earn no money. Relativ to many other et ctic utlities, Nevada Power's preference for market purchases, combined wit sig ifcantly depreciated existing generation facilitie, has made the Company less aU active in terms of investors' earn¡ngs base. IS HE LACK OF CAPITAL INTENSIVENESS CHANGING FOR NEVADA POWER? Ye , very much so. And again, this is a good thing. for the'most part, for both the Co pany's shareholders and its customers, if rates can be kept from increasing un ecessarily. The requested 2% ROE incentive adder is entirely unnecessary. Nevada Power's rate 'base in 2005, according to the filing in Docket No. 06- 16, was $2.3 billon. Upon copletion of the proposed EEC, the Intertie, and other tra smisslon facilities, the Company's rate base could easily be $6 or 7 bilion, or 3 tim s the 2005 leveL. In my opinion, the recent positive financial strides experience by evada Power and the favorable increses in earnings assets just noted will allow the Company to reach investment grade status very soon and does not reuire the ad ¡tiona i $935 milion incentive. Page 15 1 Q. H VE INVESTOR INSTITUTIONS RECOGNIZED THE POSITIVE INVESTMENT 2 A D GROWING ASSET OUTLOOK FOR NEVADA POWER? 3 A. Y, s. For example, on September 11, 2006, Deutsche Bank upgraded SPR frm a 4 ho d to a buy recommendation, increasing it stock price target from $14.50 to $16.50 5 as a result of infratructre growh. My Exhibit 4 (DEP4) contains excerpts from 6 pr 88 releases on this topic. 7 8 Q. A E THERE OTHER REASONS WHY YOU CONSIDER THE COMPANrS R QUESTED 2% ROe ADDER EXCESSIVE? Ya. No one should forget that the last few years have arguably been as difcult for Ne ada Powets customers as it has been for its shareholders. In 1999, for example, Nevada Power retail rates were relatively low compared other western electrics. Today, Nevada Power's rates rank among the highest in the West, exceeded only by the most expensive Califrnia electrics, as cleany iIu trated in the Supplemental Testimony of Company witness Anthony J. Karr. Given this, the rapidly increasing earnings base being experienced by the pany, and the fact that management is just doing it job in building adequate res urces to serve its load, customers ought not be burdened with also paying greater pro its to shareholders. 9 10 A, II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Q. 22 23 A. 24 25 26 27 28 IS NEVADA POWER'S REQUESTED PREFERRED PLAN THE LEAST COST AM NG THE NUMEROUS PLANS IT ANALYZeD? No, a number of the plans analyzed by the Company have lower lifetime costs. As su marized in Technical Appendix II. Supply Side Book at least four of the alternative pIa. s analyed by Nevada Power have lower costs than the preferred plan. These are Ca eNos. 13. 15,4 and 12. ::ODMA\PCDO S\HLRNODOS\56\1 Page 16 i Q. 2 3 A. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 Q. 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THE FOREGOING FACTS REGARDING THE MORE EXPENSIVE REQUESTED EFERRED PLAN ARGUE FOR REJECTION OF NEVADA POWER'S REQUEST? , as I have stated, despite the fact that the preferred plan is more costly than others, th SNWA supports at least the initial pursuit of the plan. My criticism in this regard is that Nevada Powr's requested $935 milion ex ess burde" on this plan is on top of an analysis that even absent this bonus, the pr ferrd plan is considerably more expensive than several alternatives. This, and co sideraton of the preferred plan's clear benefits for shareholders, lead me to co elude that in fairness to customers, at no penalty to shareholders, the Nevada P wer request for the 2% ROE adder be denied at this time. P EAE SUMMARIZE YOUR CONCLUSIONS Th SNWA generally endorses the proposed IRP. At this stage, however, there cl arly exist numerous elements to be studied and analyzd before full approval sh uld be granted by the Commission. Specifc and frquent updates and progress re orts $hould be required to be provided by the Company as a means of confirming viabilty and feasibilty of the proposed resource plan, Energy Supply Plan. and a ociated Action Plan. The Commission, in my opinion, lacks any significant information at this time re arding how useful and "critical" the propose plan wil eventually be. As a reult, a ju icious step would be to postpone and defer any requested ruling on Critical Fa ilities status until at least sometime in 2008. Any conclusions on the approval of, or extent of any favorable accounting and eq jty return incentives, should also be postponed and evaluated again later in lîght of balance between customer and shareholder interests. ::OOMA\PCD C$LfUOOCS68~1 Page 17 AFIRTfON I. mis E. Peseau, purt to NAC 703.710 hereby af tht the foregoing prpar testimony as preed by me or under my dirction and is correct to the best of my knowlede. /J. .~W&nenE:Peseau -- Dated: 1- ~$ - D 42 Page 18 Attchmenl1 Dkt. 06.08051 Witness: D. E. Peseau Page 1 of3 STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseaù has conducted economic and financial studies for regulated industri for the past twenty-eight years. In 1972, he was employed by Southern Edison Company as Associate Economic Analyst. and later as Economic Analyst. is responsibiJitls included review of financial testimony, incremental cost in the fiel of energy and economic growh. Also, he was asked by Edison Electrcal study and evaluate several prominent energy models as part of the Ad itteeon Economic Growh and Energy Pricing. From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Peseau was employed by the Public Utilty studies, te design, econometric; estimation of demand elasticities and various areas Commiss oner of Oregon as Senior Economist. There he conducted a number of economi and financial studies and prepared testimony pertaining to public utlities. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Nortwest offce of Zinder Compani 8, Inc. He has since submited testimony on economic and financial matters b fore state regulatory commissions in Alaska, Californía, Idaho, Maryland~ i Montana, Nevada. Washington, Wyoming. the District of Columbia, the Power Administration and the Public Utilties Board of Alberta on over one hundred ceasions. He has ~onducted marginal cost and rate design studies and Atachment 1 Okt.0606051 Witness: D.E. Peseau Page2of3 testimony on these matters in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryand, , Nevada, Oregon, Washington and in the Distrit of Columbia. He has also co dueled cost and rate studies regarding PURPA issues in the states of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Washington, andAlaska, Washin Dr. Peseau holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degres in economics. He has co-authored a book in the field of Industrial organiztion entitled, Size Pii fits and Executive Com a chapte to regulated industrie. Dr. Peseau has published artcles in the following professional journals: f Economics and Statistics, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal of Financial Mana e ent, and Journal of Regional Scjence. His articles have been read before the Eco ometric Society, the Western Economic Association, the Financial Manage ent Association, the Regional Science Association and universities in the UnitedK ngdom as well as in the United States. He has guest lectured on marginal costing methods in seminars in New Jersey a d California for the Center of Professional Advancement. He has also guest Ie ured on cost of capital for the public utilty industry before the Pacific Coast Gas and ElectricAssociation, and for the Executive Seminar at the Colgate Darden Graduat School of Business, Universit of Virginia. Attment 1 Dkt.066051 Witness: D.E. Peseau Page 3 Òf3 Dr. Peseau and his firm have participated with and been members ofthe America Economic Asociation. the American Financial Association, the Western Econom c AS$ociation, the Atlantic Economic Association and the Financial Manage ent Association. He was formerl a member of the Staff Subcommittee on Economics of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Dr. Peseau has ben President of Utilty Resources, Inc. since 1985. Dkt lJD6051 Peseau DIrect Tesmony Exhibit DEP.1 Page 1 of1 N~da Power Company , E eç of 2% ROE Incent on Weighted and Unweløhted Equity Rctum Sourc Debt Preer Equit Common EquIt Marglnal Cost of cetar. Ba Unwhted CO 7.00% 0.00% L . '9.60%1 Tota 8.65% arlnal cos of calt. 2% ROE IncetN Added to Weighted Equity CostUnwht Weighte Cost Wei ht Cost' 7.00% 57.0% 3.99% 0.00% 0.00 0.00% 15.25% 43.00%1 ø.5G%1 Sou OébtPrefei Eqt COmmo EquIty Tot 10.55% alQnal Cot of capi ~2% ROE In'*ti added 10 Unweht EQUly CotUnweghted WejglitøCo We ht Cost 7.00 57.0% 3.99% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 12.60%1 . 43.rJO% 6.42% SOlrc Dèb Pr EquityCo Eqult) Totl 9.41% Dkt. 06-051 Peseau Testimony Exhibit DEP-2 Nevada Power Company RESPONSE TO INFORMATION REQUEST DOCK NO.:06-6051 SNWA1 REQUEST DATE:8123/2006 RESPONDER:Karr, Tony Please onfirm that Nevada Power Company ("NPC") intends, as is stated In Yackira Direct, . 14, i. 15-16 and p. 36, ESP, Vol. I, to request an incentive return ". . . calcutat d at 2% above Nevada Power's authoñzed weighted return on equit. . . .ri or is the requ st for 2% above its unwighted return on equity? 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I I 0 l l 0 I I 2 7 f l l 2C Q 0 a i I I ø 0 0 ø 2 7 1 1 1 Ta l _, ? l S :i . z -. m" e i m, i i ;r I Qma 0 "O § S l ~ ai 6 ' - 1 2 ra ; : l D . , , GJ o & o .. m ; l o i 2. 1 ' ! ! g .. C Ñ " C . . Okt. 066051 Peseau Testimony Exhibi OEP.4, 1 of 2 ~BûSì · Mar~ ets · Analyst News · TechnQIQgy News. press Releases · By Indystr · My PortoUo News Sien a Pacific Resources upped at Deul sche Bank MarktWatch 6:11:1 AM i: 9/11/2006 LONCON (MarketWatch) -- Deutsche Bank UpgTe ded electric uttlty Sierra Pacific Resoi rces (SB) to buy from hold and raised its pr ce target to $16.50 from $14,50, citing requi oed infrastructre growth In Its Las Vega and Surrounding Nevada service terrlt rles. ... U ;Jif~-:..:r__li~~~ i=.w "'~.,~.... ¿ ....~ _ I .....~ ==_" Z:. ¡----_.- .--- I, f"':' . :. .~-: ¡~~.,.~ ',... . .i I-:'~.... . : L t::.~ ~(-.l~ ..:.. ~ i:~!:,!;J ; i Dkt. 06-oS051 Peseau Dir Testimony.__Exhbll.DEI?-4_ . _.. Page 2 of2 SUbJec: Reuters. - UPDATE i-RESEARCH ALERT-Deutsche Bank uP91'des Siera PaCific - Mon Sep 11, 2006 , 11;46,6 ET .:il"if UPDATE i.RES ReM ALeRT-Dutche Bank upgrades Sierr Pacific Mon Sep 11, 200611:46 AM eT (Changes sourç. Set 11 (Reuter) - eut Bank on Monday raised its rating on Sierr Pacc Resurcs oCRP .N~ to ~buy from "hold" and increase its 12-mo th prlce taret by $2 to $16.50. In a researc note t e brokere sai the upgrade was based on Its updated work on the utilit owners required infrstruur growth in its Las V as and surrounding Nevada llervce terriories. 'Te "prerre" Ely nery Centr pulvriied co integrated resurc ptn is the lor cos and most atractiv generaion developnt prora for ratepayrs over the tong term, compared to higher co and voati1 naural gas fired generan, the brorage said. This, 8101' with the otentlal for eriical faility status, has the adde benefit of additionl gain and value creation for siiareholders, It arJd . 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Reuters and the Reuters spher logo are registere ttademarks and trad mark$. of the R,uters group oJ companies afOnd the world. 9112/2006 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 '20 10 ~~11o ..:i.8 0...1, "0 :i Q\12i:fnoo \I ~ elC!~13.~ ;;i: (/ U 6 mZ 14 , 0... ~ 15~.....ø::U£~ i: 16.. 0 U rI ; ¡ i5 17i- to U 4) l' .. to isæ 19 20 2i 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PROOF OF SERVICt: I ereby certify that I served the foregoing Direct Testimony of Denis E. Pescau on behalf of SNW A' Docket 06.06051 by sending via electnic mail to the following addresses and by delivcrn to the U.S. Post Ofce copies thereof, prperly addressd for mailng and postage pre-paid to the fol owing persns: D uglas Brooks, Esq. Si rr Pacifc Power Company P. . Box 98910 6 26 West Sahar Avenue L Vegas, Nevada 89151 d oak .com Sta CouneJ Public Utilties Commission of Nevada 1 i 50 E. Willam Street Carson City, NV 89701-3109 ' ut1inge~puc.stte.nv .us Alaina Burlenshaw Public Utilties Commission 101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 250 Las Vegas, NV 89109 aburts~puc.state.nv .us P ul Stuhff B au of Conser Protetion 555 E. Washington Street, Ste. 3900 Vegas, NV 89101 tuhff(gag.state.nv.us Nancy Barker Nevada Power Company 6226 W. Sahar Ave.. MS3A Las Vegas, NV 89146 nbaker(gevp.com Kathleen M. Drakulich, Esq. Kummer Kaempfer Bonner. et al. 3800 Howar Hughes Parkway, 7th Floor La Vegas. NV 89109.0907 kdrakulich~kkbr.com e Stransky, Senior Engineer u of Consmer Protection N. Caron Street on City, NV 89701 trs(sag.state.nv.us E est K. Nielsen, Esq. W hoe County Senior law Project 11 5 E. Ninth Stre R 0, NV 89512 en elsen~ashoecounty.us Willam Bible Nevada Resort Association 3773 Howard Hughes Parkway, Ste. 320 N Las Vegas, NV 89109 bbible~nevadaresons.org E. eif Reid, Esq. Le is and Roca LLP S3 S Kietze Lane, Suite 220 Re 0, NV 89511 Ire d~ir1aw.com Steven D. King, Asst. City Attorney City of Fallon P.O. Box 1203 Fallon. NY 89407 :;ODMA\PCD CS\Hl.RNODOQ,'\66(j70\1 Page i of2 Bi 1 Kockenmeìste. Esq. P. . Box 71583 no, NY 89570 Jb sk6(charer.net Mara J. Ashcra, Esq, Lewi an Roca LLP 3993 Howar Huges Parkway, Ste. 600 Las Vegas, NV 89169 Mashcra:lrlaw.com D uglas Davie W llhead Electnc Company 65 Bercut Drive, Ste. C S iamento, CA 95814 Patrick V. Fagan, Esq. P.O. Box 646 Carson City, NV 89702 pfaga(IaUisonmackenzie.com Michael J. Bertran, CPA Energy Control Systems, Inc. so I S. Carn Street, Ste. 206 Caron City, NV 8970 i D vid Lloyd S TO Power Company, L.P. c/ NRG Energy, Inc. 1819 Aston Ave., Suite 105 C lsba, CA 92008 M KJefeker L Vegas Cogeneration II, LLC 35 Indiana St., Suite 400 Olden. CO 80401 Mar Russell, Geeral Counsel Mirage Hotel and Casino 3400 La Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas mr 89109 Chip Little Mirat Americas, Inc. I 15S Perimeter Center West Atlanta, GA 30338 Scott Carer L8 Power Development LLC Two Tower Center, 20th Floor East Bruwick, N.J. 08816 TED this i 3th day of September, 2006. _~. :J14;"An employee of HALE LANE PEEK DENNSON AND HOWARD ::ODMA\PC HLIlNODOS\66670\J Page 2 of2 " ~. 7 8 9 'Ø io~8ON_II::So.¡; .. 1rn~12 §lj 13 'jrnž 14o.3i is.i _... 3:=(.~~ i: 16.. 0D: ~ §~(.17i- ..u l' ~..18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 BEFORE TH PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMSSION OF NEVADA 2 3 oCl 4 Investigati n to analyz the strgts and weakess ) of mana cost of seice studies, embedded cost ) 5 of servce s dies, the reconcilation process and ) how they j pact rate classes. )6 ) SOUTIRN NEVADA WATER AUTORI'S REPLY COMMENTS ON MARGINAL AND EMBEDDED COSTING PREPARED BY DR. DENIS PESEAU , i -, Dkt. 06-05007 ,.f ~ :1".~.... \J'' SO THRN NEV ADA WATER AUTHORITY (USNW N'), puruat to NAC chpter 703 and the Req est for Comments in this docket datd May 3 i, 2006, hereby submits its Reply Conuents to the Pu lie Utilties Commssion of Nevada (UCommission") regarg cost of service metbodolog es. Sumar Conclusons 11 uly 17,2006 opening comments of Nevada Power Compay ("NPC") and Sierr Pacific Power Com any ("Sier"), the Burau of Consumer Protection, PUCN Staf, and Soutern Nev Watr Auth rity regarding marnal and embedded cost of service studies ar in substtial general agrment. Key onclusions incIude: 1.Marina costs should continue to be a priar basis for estimag cost and Nevada. 2. Some ty of equi-propOI1ional scaling of marginal costs to revenue requirements should be continued, whether to overl revenue requiment or individual fuctions. 3. The revenue requirent should continue to be fuctionalized pror to marginal cost reconcil tion. 27 1111 28 1111 ::ODMA\P LRNOOO\5SS270\1 Page i of5 :l i" ".. 9 io 10~oOM_J1:: °0.. l'~'3 0\12CI 00 i:..~13, .~ g ~ I ~t'Z 14I ö.i~ 15J;-'"o~U t Q 16'0 i ~ ã ~17.. l' UI) l" i; l'18:i 19 4. The use of inverse elasticity to allocate costs has been correctly dismissed by the 2 Commissic n in the pas due to the lack of credible elascity studies both for customer classes an 3 demand, er ergy, and customer cos categories. 4 Oif erences suraced with respect to: 5 i.Whether embedded cost of service stdies nee to be taen all the way to the 6 individua customer class levels, as opposed to only fictions. 7 2.Whether or not, and the bas by whch, the "next generaing unit' afects 8 margial capacity cost calculations. 3. Whther or not, and the extent to which, maginal caacity costs can differ frm those of the least costly peakng unt. DISCUSSION A. Usefulness of Embeded Cost Stuies Th opening comments of SNW A supported the fdin of embedded costs broken down to fwctions. fhe SNW A sees no nee to continue such sties disagegated and clasifed to the customer cIa ss leveL. Ther is a theorecal shortcoming of historica embedded cost classification an aJlocation fa tors (e.g. maximum, peak and averge deds) compard with marginal cost factors. Seco dIy, embedded cost of serice studies taen to the custome clas level pree that the historical co t and reur mix of a utlity provides reasnale prce going forw. The SNW A concludes th t the marginal cost of serice studies tyically conducted in Nevada provide superior 20 pricing infon iation to conser. 21 B."Next Generating Unit" 22 There is some confuion surounding the estiate of geeration capacity cost and the "next 23 generating UJ 'f' in the utilties' resource plan. TIs confusion appea to stem from the Jack of a 24 carful distini tion between "long~ru" and "short-ru" maginal costs. 25 Nevada ha always adhered principaly to Long-RlU Incrental Costs (LRIC). This concept 26 is,adttedh. purely a theoretical constct, full of convenient assumptions (e.g. instaous 27 adjustment 01 all factors of production). LRIC is the basis for the peaker method of estimting 28 generation ma ginaJ costs and the ''NRA Method" used in Nevada. Under this method, the utility and ;;ODMA\PCJXIH RNODSISSS270\¡Page 2 ofS t ..... I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 ~ 0 ON .-ii:iBo... " ä :3 0\12fh 00 i: U iu 13o ~ 'g .1 ~ fhŽ 14 Cl ø i; i~'"15::U ø. ~ i: 16.. 0 fiÆ ÐiJ l" U 17u"-¡ l"IS:i 19 20 21 22 23 the entire nterconnectd electrca grd is assw to be In peect equilbriwn at aU times. In such instaces, with no excesses or shortes of capacity allowed, the marginal cos of caacity mus necesl be equa to the cost of a peaker. Ths, of coure, holds only beuse of the convenent assumptio s. With no allowance for shortges, excesses, or suboptimal generating unit mixes, marinal pacity cost never dep above or below th pea cost regarless of the cost of the actu next unit All the above conclusons chage dratically un mainal cong prnciples that ar not purly and eoretically "long-ru." Car must be ta not to mix concept of "long-ru" and shrter~ tenn mar' al cost. Under the latt, marginal capacity cost of genertion ca move radicaly upwad Matematically. shorter~tenn magina cost mus be modeied caefully with' capacity expanon and prouction cost models. Under such circumstances, the actul umstances of th utiity detere the main caity cost In such ca, the fuel savings by actu more effcient new plants ca be a credt or offset to capacity cost potentily reulting in arginal capaity costs lower th a peer. Or, convery. in times of region capacity shortages. fown-out and black-out give rise to so-alled "shortge costs" of capacity that ca the margina cost of a peaker. Th potential for wide swings in magi caity costs, and reting swings in customer- class revenu requirements, ha Jed may state regulatory jwisdietions, including Nevada, to remain ru incrmenta or marina costing metods. CONCLUSION NW A addrsse the followig. more specific, reks of other paes: i. Th Companes' conclusion is coiret tht th marinal cost of genertion, under Nev 's application of long ru marginal cost is not infuenced by the next unt to be 24, built. (Sie evada opeg comments, p. 4. Jins 2-16) 2S 2.The Companes' arguments that there is a logica consisteny in seartely 26 reconcilng d strbution marginal cost but luÌping Into one category all remainig costs, is 27 incorrct.'le the SNW A does not in this case oppose the Companes' proposal, the iss of 28' 1III LRNODOS\S$270\J Page 3 of5 . .~ 1 2 3 4: 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 ií 0OM_ii::So 13 l'121 CI~ ãt-g 13'j ß tCI Z 14 Cl.3i~_...15u::Uu ¡s i: ø. .. 0 16u lD S ¡iaO 17i- l' U l'¡; l'18:i 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 reconciln unbundled funetonatize costs should be made on a case-by-cas bais as a mean to avoid 'ntention subsidies. (p. 3, lines 8-24) As a genera mater, the reoncilig of costs accordin 0 the total of all fuctions will best reect marginal cos. The reonciling of cost individua functions bettr reflects embedded costs. 3.The Bep's comments regag the netting of fuel savings and/or market prce from the c st of a peakng unit (p. 3) is not appropriate under Nevada t s purly long ru costing. When we swne tht al generation is always in exact equilibrium, there can be no additional fuel saving or maret price discrpancies. 4. The discussion of Hoover B is not appropriate for reonciling marginal cost. Hoover B ower is the cheapet reure on Nevda Powers sysem an therefore would never be on th m gin or influence the marginal cost study. RE PECTFLL Y SUBMITT ths 31st day of July, 2006. BY:.:~~ FRD SCHMIDT Hale Lae Peek Dennson and Howa 777 Eat Wiliam Street, Suite 200 Carson City, NV 89701 (775) 684-6000 and CHAS K. HAUSER Gener Counsel, SNWA 1001 S. Valley View Blvd. La Vegas, NY 89153 (702) 258-7167 Attrneys for the SOUTHE NEADA WATER AUTHORIY ::ODMA\PDOS RNODQs\SS270\1 Page 4 of5 ,¡ ..''':- t I- .. 1 2 3 4 5 .6 7 8 9 ig 10 oN-.11~.~g 1 :i 0\12rn 00 = .:~13 .ij~14 ~.Bø 15i-""::U~~ r: 16.. 0.. 11 S& cd . .J~U 17 ul" ii f"18~ 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PROOF OF SERVICE I h reby cert that I maled the foregoing Souther Nevada Water Authority's Reply Comments on Marginal and embedded Costing in Doket 06-5007 by deliveg via U.S.P.S. copies perly addrsse for mailing to the following persons: . La ise Uttinger, Assisant Staff COWlsel Pub ic Utilities Commisson of Nevadai i 5 E. Wilia Stret on City, NV 89701-3109 utti geg(gpuc.state.nv.us Wil . am Staley Sen or Deputy Attorney Gener Bur au of Conswner Protection 100 . Carson Strt C n City, NY 89701.4717 wbs ane~.state.nv.us ths 31 st day of July, 2006. ::ODMA\P LRNODO\SSS270\1 Page S ofS Alaina Burensbw Public Utilities Commssion 101 Convention Center Dr., #250 La Vega NY 8910'9 abuns(!uc.state.nv.us Elibet Ellot Assistt Sta Counl Nevada Powe Compay/SPPCo. 6100 Neil Road Reno, NY 8951 1 bellot~pc.com . ;: , .' . ./". .. C 'i.~.r l:: li ~,til.cTeresa A. Wilia :;. ~- ~.~ .-. ¡ 7 8 9 "t 10100 ~OOM..11:i 80.- !'"Ø :i 01 12~ tl QO I: ...g08 ti 13 -ä.i ~11 u u ~Z 14 Ci... ~ 15.......u:= ()u~ i: 0... 0 16u ~ å 5 tr 17.. !'Ð l' o¡ r-18:i 19 20 2) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 BEFORE mE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA 2 3 4 5 6 nr;~ c_:-, : Investigati( n to anyz the strengts and weaksses ) of marnal cost of service studies, embeded cost ') of service s udies, the reconcilaHon process and ) how they iii pact rae clas. ) ) SOUTER NEVADA WA 'fR AUTHORITY'S COMMENS ON MARGINAL AND EMBEDDED COSTIG PREPARD BY DR. DENNIS lESEAU Die 06-05007 r'..~u SOL THERN NEVADA WATER AUTHORI ("SNWA"). puruat to NAC chapter 703 and the Req lIest for Comments in ths daçket dated May 25. 2006, heby submits its Comments to the Public Utili ies Commisson of Nevaa ("Commission') regaring cos of servce methodologies. INODUCTION The oooaUed "Arab oil embaro" of the early 19708 had a dramatic impact on the cost and rates of elec trc utilties thrughout the world. In the U.S., ths embago, and the subsequent ru-up in the pnces 0 most fossil fuels, chaged the histoncal predictailty of these utilties' growt rates costs, and re "enue requiements. The chages to the utilities' cost enviroiuent and sl to new and vared genertion technologies had the effect of heightenig utilties', reguators', and customers' interests in rateing. A major study in 1973 designed to carfully define cert raemang and rate setg principles ci. Jminate in the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commioner' (''NARUC'') pubIication I leetric Utiltv Cost Allocation Manual. In subseuent stdies conducted in the mid to late i 970s, joint effort of regulators and publicly and pnvateJy own,ed electrc utilties ("te E~RI studies") res lilted in several volums of costng and ratemag studies designed to captue the changing an time-differentiated natue of the costs in th electrc utilty industr. These and subseuent s :udies led many regulatory jusdctions including Nevad to begin endorsing rate tht were in some degre based on economic or margina costs. 1111 ::ODMA\P rlLRNODOS\SSi493\1 Page i of7 :," 6 7 8 9 ~o 10 ~~.. 11 :I So 1~~ 12i: .. ~ .~!è 13~0Z 14 Q.ti ~u::... isi=Uu~ i:Ø-.. 0 16 l~8 17 ~t:~ 18 19 .,'... Ena tment of the national Public UtiUties Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PUR A") 2 ifeant new reuireents on private utilties to compile and record cost and other data 3 necessa t better set customer rates. 4 Tension Between Embedded and Marginal Cost Raes 5 A culiar tenson has arsen, and remains today, between "accounting costs" and "economic cost" for r temaking. These tenns are often describe as rates bas on embeded cost compared on marginal coss. ehate arse initially because of the statutory requirement to begin the ratemag proess \U of revenues, the revenue requiement that does indeed reflect those costs expeted to y the utilty. The revenue requirement wil generally reflect the normal accunting costs, both capital and varable, pretly being incud by the utilty. These costs ar embedded. tht is, averaed ov r the varous fuel and other expees, and over varous generating and other investent in place, perh ps adjused or "noimalize" to the test year. These varous cost ca then be fuctionaJi d. clasfied, and allocate to vaous customer classes on the bais of these actu averaged or mbeded cost. But, as economists often stss. historical cost-baed rates may not provide reasnable cusomer rat s or "price signals." A price signal, it is argued, is necessar to provide incentive for customers to consume according to the cost strctue facing the utilty in a going-forwar bass, not on 20 How ver, as is made apparent by the issues posed by the Commssion for consideration in this 21 docket, est ating forwar-looking cost requires. in some cass, signficant depa frm pas 22 recorded co ts, thereby reuiring assup1ions and forecass. The comments made her by the 23 Soutern Ne ada Water Authority do n01 attempt to define and explan the nuaces of the embeded 24 and marginal costing methods, but instead provide a context for the prsent metods of rateakng in 25 Nevada and, a gènera matter, to encourage a continuance of ratemaking tht is closely aligned with 26 vaid margin i cost estImates. 27 //11 28 /111 ::OOMA\PCDO NOOS\52493\1 Page 2 of7 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10~o01'..11:i 80... to 1 ~ a-12ui 00 §~1 13 '0 ~ui Ž 14 ,!.~ i..-'"is, o::() æ~ ä 16 !~d 17~ r-., r-¡¡ r-18~ 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 A. ,Functionalizing Marginal and Embedded Cost to Revenue Reqrement Fun tionaizin the total revenue requireen involves dividing the tota costs into genertion, tranmissio:1, and distribution cost or fuons. Under embeded cost of servce, thes fuions ar larely alre dy presribed under th FERC Uniform System of Acçounts. Since the embedded cost process bei ins with th allowed revenue requireen setting cutomer rates accordg to these fuctions, llthough complicate provides a somewhat strghtforar bas for coDeetng the prescribed r venue requirment. Mar dn cost of service stuies look to the cost of the new or nex increments of generatig plants,. ssion, and vOllage-fferentiated distrbution seices. The margi or increenta cost of ii generation, trsmission, and distrbution wil not, in geera, equal the utiUty's revenue reuirement and therefore will have to be "reconciled" or sced upar or downwa to equal th revenue req irement. Varous ecnomic theories and models demonste the suerior "effcienies" of baving J ates reflect the presnt cost increments of geeration, trisson an distbution facilties. Th i 'ommssion ha for deces adopted marinal cost stdies tht fictionaize costs ma up revenue equient accoring to maal cost that ar scaled or reconciled to averge or embeded c( st. The SNW A stongly endorses ths pre and recommends th the Commisson continue the DoHey. B. Guidelines for Marginal Generat Unit As di cusd above, cost fuctonaHzed to generation win, in a marginal cost stdy~ be bas upon the nex increent of generating facilties. In practce the "next" generatig increment could be a combustioJ tubine (now us in Nevada), a combined-cycle facilty, vaous tys of coal plants, renewables, ~ nd refubishment to exist plants, among others. The s gnificance of the choice of marinl genting unt is larely in the "classification" of generation cuts ino deman (capacity) and ene. And. because differet custoer classes have different usaBe patterns, aT "load factrs", different classifications of relative demd an energy costs will bear diff rently on respectve cusmer classes' sha oftota revenue reirements. 1/11 ::ODMAQ NODOS24931 Page 3 of7 . ' 6 7 8 9 'So 10~oOM"" 11:: So ì~~ 12 ti i.a 13 .~ ~ ~ ~CfZO d.3 ~ 14J4::'" is8~UØ4 .. g 16 l~~ 17 G .. ¡¡.. IS:i For nearly the decades ths Commission has adopted the "NERA Methd" of selectig th 2 mainal g nerating unit. TIs method essentially assumes tht. in equilibriwn, the next generng 3 unit will a natul gas-fired combuson tubine. Thus, generion cos have be clasifed in 4 Nevada to emand and energy on the basis of the relatve capacity and energy costs of a combustion 5 tubine.ger, more effcient generation technologies generally have a high capacity or demand cost compo ent than does a cobuson tubine, but are mor fuel effcient (have a lower heat rate), therby res ting in ful savings over which the higher additiona capacity costs ca be jusfied. Linea and imlar matematcal progrng models have been develope to more precisely assess the econo ics of what actuly should be th "next or incrementa generation unit." Th oriy advantage r using the NERA Method is that it is relatively sÙDple to compute and is arguably accurate en ugh for ratemaldng. Given the contuing rapid grwt of both Nev utilities, it may be o consder or fuer stdy other available methods more consistent with the Specific ctristics and load bales of Nevada's utilities.resure c improvements are now available that allow more preise choices of "the next" 't. However, the modeling effort in suh esimates beome more çomplicated and may not be wort the effort. 11 SNW A is avalable to elaborate on tls issue in upcoming workshops. For t e present, the SNW A contiues to support the past Commission decisions to base rates on the cost c1as ification reulting frm a combuson turbine marginal unt. 19 C.Usin Margi Cost of Servce to Set Genera Rates 20 As it ha in the past, the Commisson should continue to base cusmer clas rate on mana 21 cost-bad rates provide a clear, but not exact. dircton for providing apprriate cost 22 responsibil and price signs for making consupton decisions and invesents in ener effcient 23 equipmet. arinal cost-basd rates also provide the Commission with a meas of how equitable 24 are the rela ve cusmer class raes. When compard with resptive costs, cla rates allow 25 identification and gradua elimination of interclass subsidies. 26 Mar at cost.based rates aJso provide the means by wluch costs ca be seasonaly 27 Moving towad seaonally-differntiated BTER rates, for example. would reduce or 28 eed for Nevada electrc utiJties to fice the BTER swner revenue shortfals caused Page4of7 '--l I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "0 10~o .~OON..11~eO... t-"0 :: 01 12 5 fI 00 i: ..: el iii 13 fi Z 14.i~,:.....15&=u C) ~ i: ii .. 0 16Q II ~ lä úJ U 17iJ t-o l'~ t-18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 nt averaging of the high sumer fuel an purha power costs with th lower non- suer fu i and purchased power costs. The SNW A rased this issue in Nevad Powe's recnt DEAA c ,Docket 06-01016, and th Company proposed that the ise be fuer reviewed outide Nev da Power's BTER marinal costs have be shown to var signficantly by seasn. Thse costs shaul, therefore, be reflected in seona raes for pur of equity. effciency; and price signals. A propriate seasonalization of the BTER would also reuce anomalies frm the averge BTER. incl ding th need in cern instances to chage negative BTE rate to some clases be~use these sae clases were set too high. D. Filng of Embedded Cost Stues in the Generl Rate Case (QRÇ) A fi ing of a detaled embeded cost stdy as suport for the pret Statement 0 cost studies filed in a g neraJ rate case could be ver usefuL. Presntly. the functionaJized marnal costs ar reflected in ine Compaies' Sttement O. However, the c~paabie fuctionaized embede costs. from which the reconciled cost are derived. ar not ditly available. Includig ths ast of embedded c st results in each general rate cas could provide a bas for checking the reasonableness of the utility s embeded cost allocations. E. Usefness of Embeed Cost Study Emb ded cost studies could be usful to reconcile margial cost back to th overal gener revenue req irment of the utilties. Furermore, th embeded cost studies could indicae the reasnablen ss or not of the utilties' fuctionalization and clasifcation of the acl average or test year coss. 1// 11/ 11// 1/// ::ODMA\PDO LRODO\SS2493\J Page 5 of7 , . ,., '.........'.. '", 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10~oON..1l:I ! 0... l" i :: Cl 12CIco c lf~13.g g ~ ê~ž 14 l! .l '",._...15 8:: ()~~ S 16o II S lä ~U 17~ f'01"'~l'18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 CONCLUSION S A continues to support the use of marginal costs in deriving the actl rates of customer classes. A explained above, SNW A also believes there may be some value in having Nevada's utilties dev lop and present embedded cost studies as a mean of comparson. SNWA is intered in contiuig t paricipate in tls docket and requests that it be added to the service list. RES ECTFLLY SUBMmED ths 17th day of July, 200. BY;7~~FRE SCHMT Hae Lae Peek Dennson and Howd 777 Ea Willam Street, Suite 200 Carson City, NY 89701 (775) 6846000 an CHAES K. HAUSER Genera Counsel, SNW A 1001 s. Valley View Blvd. La Vegas, NV 89153 (702) 258-7167 Attorneys for the SOUTERN NEVADA WATER AUTIORITY ::ODMA\PDO LRNOI)\S52493\1 Page6of7 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 is 10 oN..11~!o... r- 1 ::0\12rn QI ø lf~13o ~ IS.¡ ~VlZ 14 cil ~~_...is3::U~~ i:.. 0 16v In S 3~()17 u r-ø r-18ti 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PROOF OF SERVICE by cer that I maled th forgoing Souther Nevada Water Authority's Comments oD d embedded Costin ii Docket 06~05007 by delivering via U.S.P.S. copies therof, properly ad esed for mailing to the followig peons: 8ta Counsel Public Utilties Commission of Nevada 1 15 E. Wiliam Stret n City, NY 89701-3109 this 17ui day of July, 2006. AJai Burenhaw Public Utilities Commssion i 0 1 Covention Ceter Dr., #250 Las Vega, NV 89109 aburs~e.stae.nv.us a¿Aku)¿L.øo" )Tersa A. Wilias ::ODMA\P LRNODOS\S2493\J Page 7 of? y L. 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10 ~OON..11:i! 0... r- 1 ::Ol 1200 QO I: i.a 13o at .!! i: ti~l' v 14veZ Q .at '"~;....15 B :: (,~~ ä 16v :i S ã ii u 17.. l"v r--I'18:I 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 e . 2 BEFORE TH PUBLIC UTS COMMSION OF NEV JIA ~R~O~ åiv ~F~g NOV.. 2 2Ð DEN~AlE LANE PEEKISON AND HOWARD 3 Investigaon to review proesses, theories and metQdologies tht may be us to 4 esablish just and reasonable rates in general rate casesl ) ) Docket No. 05-7048 ) ) ) SOUTERN NEVADA WATE AUTORIS COMMNTS REGARING RATE MAKG MECHANISMS SQUTHERN NEVADA WATER AUlHORIY (USNW A''), pursant to NAC chapter 703 and the Rl'ques for Comments in this doket dated Augu 26, 200S, hereby submts its Comments to the Publip Utilities Commssion of Nevada ("Coission'') regag prcesses theoes. and methodolc¡gíes that may be used to establish just and reaonable rates in genera rate cases puant to i Secon 7 pfSente Bil ("S.Bj 238. INTRODUCTON oR August 26. 200S, the Public Utilties Commison of Neva ("Commsson") reuesed comien~ on a number of raemakng issues designated as Docke No. 05-7048. The Commission dicte tie comments to avoid generl dion of the issues so the intrduction below is limited ! ! an prvided solely as a mean to intrduce the most coon teclmcaJ points contaied in the specific q,estions rased in the Commision's Reques for Comments. ~ thre topics for comment raed by the Comsson ad the conceptually simple, but ! practicall)j more diffcult. ta of matchig th utiltys likely test year revenues to its likely costs.! IProperly ~onstrted either an adjused, nonnze hionca tes year or a nea-ten futue test ye can be eqnally effective as a mea to match cost and reenue over the peod in which rates ar to be in effeq. Factors affectig th acurcy of eith adjustd 1ustoricaJ or fut test ye ar: · Pr~ision of the basline or becluark cost and revenue ination;I ,· Pntcision of the assumptions peraig to cusmer grwt investment grwt load grwth and the incremental cost st and revenues associate with each; and · Prqcisìon of and the lengt of projections or foreasts for individual cost and revenue i caigores. C:\DE-l\mitchcIJlALSI\Tem\nat23F4B\-J7764.00Pag i of 6i , . . 18ON.. 11:i.~~ 1~~ 12 ã t' ~ 13 .~ ~ iEl fI z !.g~ 14JA='" is 1'''1' ~~! 16 !~U 17 u l'.. l' i: f 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 18 19 20 21 22 23 e . COMMENS ON SPECIIC COMMISSION TOPICS 1.Ratemaldg mechaDisms tbat will allow for the consideratiD of customer growth, infrastcture growth and load grwth durig perods when rate ar to be iu effect Ratemakng mechansms to deal with thes issues reuire a distiction betee fixed and varable costs. Fixed costs and the reover of them in the face of customer, invetment, and loa grwth reuir the estimation of mana or incrental cost and comparson of same to reenues. Varable costs rere consdertion of a mechasm capable of varg or at least tracking and accounting for these cost independeny of cusmer, investent and load grwth. The following points discuss ths distition an the fact th the Commssion over tie has deat wen with thes challenges. . Use of a futur test period for setng base tarff energy rate (UBTER") costs and use of deferd acounting for fuel and purchas power costs is suffcient to deal with grwt in fuel and purchas power cost dur the perod when rates ar to be in effect No other mechanism is necesar for that major rate component. . Mechas to dea with cos and rae components other than fuel and purhad power, are only neces if increnta cost is grter th increenal reenue for cuom and loa growt investent durg the period rates will be in effect. If increnta cost is close to incrental revenue, then grwt wil generate suffcient revenues to off th non-ful and purha power costs caused by cusmer and load' growt. The evidence for Nevada suggests tht increenta cost is not suffciently grater than incremental reenue so as to caue any major eangs shortfal for Nevda Power. In fa the Commsson alady minmizes the chance of tl occurg by allowing the use of an end-or-perod rate base and a subseuent certfication peod for updating revenue reuirement. 24 . Even though incemental reenue and cost may be reasnably close for normal rate bas and 25 expense increaes caused by grwt, the lwnpy natu of soe utilty invesents such as 26 major power plant, trsmission Jines, and substation additions Inay cause futu revenue to fall 27 short of the incremental revenu~ requireent associated with fue rate base adc:itions. Those 28 Ulque types of capita addition are easily identified and able to be mitigated by such vehicles C:\DUME-l \ntiIiIILOCALS t\cmp\nll23F4B\-1 37764.ooPage 2 of 6 i , .// 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 18 10 ON..i t:: .B 0... l''0 :: 0\12ä CI Ili: ..~13O! II I · CI Ž 14 .l~ 15,.-'"u~U il .. ã 16 ¡~d 17i- f' U l'¡; f'18:i 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e . as AFC, CW, recording of regulato asse, etc. These mechansms have been us by the Commison in the past when unusal and large capital adtions are under conction but not ye providing serice to raepaye. · If the Commssion detemnes that adtional meaur ar necesar to alleviate the potential problems of growt the Commission could also consder a fonn of defer accounting and cost rever for cost shortfals for major investents so tht the cost of delay in recover can be regnze. 2. Mechanisms by which the State or Nevada ca trausitioD away from the historical test year for purpes of ratemaking. · The State of Nevad ha in plac anuiber of policies tht provide mea to avoid the stenes of purly mstorical tes yea. The quetion is whethe these measur are adequate in light of customer gr, cost esalaton and geer infttion. A major advantage of using a histrical tes yea as an intial point of depar and reference is th the costs an reenues ar known and meaurble. Trantiong to a fully fi test ye relac known and measurable dat for predctions of cost an reenues. Th rases a whole rage of chalenge includig the ådditional step of prarg foreasts of all tet year cost and reue components for reenue requireent detnation, an th issue of how fo mayor may not be used in cusmer clas cost allocaion and rate deign Th incre the rate cae parcipaton costs of all pares neces to evaluae the prictions of test year co and reenue. In addition, it increes the num of contesed issues in rate cas becuse of use of prections rar th actual data · Whle it may see tht matching cost and reenues for the period rates wil be in efect is extrely desrale, it is not always a necessar condtin. In fact, jf unt costs ar reonably constant, raes set using an adjusted hiorica tes ye will be neay identical to raes baed on a futu test yea. hi suh a cae, use of a historica test year win not caue eags shortfalls. C:\OCUME-I \mtcIiIiLOAlSI\enll23F4B..13n646.00ag 3 of 6 ,.. /v 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 18 10 ON .-ii :i .Bel't.....12 i :t 0\l' 00ct~13.i~ ~ L Ž 14.li~_...is 8==Uø. ~ Cl 16.. 0 iÆ S.J.. U 170.....18i: 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 e . Only mismatches betwee increenta cost and increntaJ reenue cause shortls. J And, whie updated incrementaJ generon, trmisson and distbution sysem cost stdies ar always necessar, past experence in Nevada ha Dot identified a sigrcant mismatch beee incrmenta cost and revenue. · The desird reult of using actul cost and reenue data and allowing a reasonable opportity to ea the allowed rate of retm can be accomplished with adjusted historic numbers. Known, meaable, and reasonably estle rae base additions and expense changes can be easily reognized without rertng to us of a full futu test year. This is oft acomplished by usng known and measurble costs with out of perod adjusmients. Revenue requirement impacts of major rate base adtions and exense changes that can be prcted with a high degree of ceraity ca be prfonned into tes yea revenue reuireent to reuce the chance of eangs shortfalls. The State of Idao handles such matrs with out of perod adjustents. The State onowa also uses a hybrid apprach that begis with a historical test ye and maks adjustments for cerain major events prcted to occur afer the test perod. 3. Exmples of future test ye and/or other rorward-lookiDii rate mag mecbanis. · The State of Idao's use of out of perod adjustment for reasble known and meaable major rae base and exse changes has, alrady bee referenced above. Ida incorprates into the historical test ye res of opetions, the esmate rate ba and exense chages of signficant and knwn item for a perod beyod the en of the tet year. Idao also require utilities to include reenue generatig and expense reducing elements in tes year reults when utilities elec to include out of period adjusents in rate cases. · A recent sury condct for preentation to the Iowa Utities Board indicatd that approximatey 30 states use a historical tes perod and an addition six sttes us a hybrd approach beginning with a historical perod, but allowing adjusent with futu, preicted i For exle, iflast year a bu produce 10 un at a cost, iD nlasonlc profit, ofS1OO and on th basis deided to chae S 10 per unt for next ye, it would not suer an shls if th inem cos of adtion unts wa 510, the sa as last ye. If it sold is unts in th ye, it would gener revemes,of$ISO and in cost of $150. Ony ¡fth inl cos were substantlly grate th $10 per unt wo it sufer shrts. C:\OE-l \mtcoll\LOCALS~l\emp'023F4B\1 3n64.00ag 4 of 6 .. "',. 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A copy of the reort, which was prepar by the Iowa Utilities Board in response to a reuet frm its state legislat, is ated as Exbit A. · If the Commission detenne that it is approat to consider events occurg durng the perod when rates wiJ be in effect the SN A recommens tht raer tha begiing with fully forecased data and reults of operations th know and meaurble data frm a histcal perod shoul be the bais for establishing benchmark cost and rcenue da Histrical test year data could then be adjuste for major, known and accurely preictable nea futu events such as is done in Ida and Iowa an seerl other staes tht us a hybrid test yea. RESPECTLY SUBMlD this 31st da, BY: THale Lane P Denon an How m Eas William Str, Suite 200 Car City, NY 89701 (775) 684-6000Attomeyfor SOU'NEADA WATER AUTORI C:\OUME-I\mtçlill\LOAts1\T~2JF4B\i37764.DOPag 5 of 6 00. ""~-"",~ .... _._-._..... - .. "'~ '-"~~..y ~ ___._..~.."".,~_""~~, ~---u.._____--'..~"' ~._.._ -..i;..~.~.- - '.. ~..._"._ ___ _~__ ~,~~""-,,,~ "'"._~_.. .-..___ "t..: . l' r # 1 e . PROOF OF SERVICE 2 I hery cerify that I maled the foregoing Soutcm Nevada Water Authrity's Comments 3 Regarng Rate Makng Mechansm in Doket 05-7048 by deliverg via U.S.P .S. copies tler~ 4 propelyadsed for mailing to th followig pe: 5 6 7 8 9 " 10;8ON_ 11tI So l~i 12d .:,1 .¡i! ~ 13tnz Q.3 ~ 14 .i=... is 8:¡Uø. .. 8 16o ii S ~~U 17 ul"jl" IS 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Staf Counl Public Utilities Commsion of Nev i 150 E. Willi Street Caron City, NY 89701-3109 Ala Burenshaw Public Utilities Commison 101 Convtion Center Drve Suite 250 La Vegas, NV 89109 Adrana Escobar-Chos. Conumer Advocate Burau of Consumer Protecon 555 E. Wasn Ave., Suite 390 Las Vega NY 89101 Collee Rice Nevada Power Company 6226 West Sahar Avenue La Vega, Nev 89151 Date this 311t day of Octobe, 2005. V:\LEOAL\Pl! 5cre: Commss\Dkat 0$708\Cmi.ooPage 6 of 6 , "r .~t ," .,i.\ ~o 10 Ì$ 0oM..11=i2o... r-"C :: 0\12 6 iz co ãt~13.~ ri ~ li~14 15,: :: ...II'..Uo~ d Po .¡ 0 16II rI ~ lä &l U 17i- I'II ..¡; l"18:= 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 BEFORE THE PUBLIC lmLITIS COMMSION OF NEVADA 3 Investigation to reiew processes, theories and methodologies tht may be used to 4 establish just and reasonable rates in general rate cases. ) ) Docket No. 05-7048 ) ) ) SOUTHRN NEVADA WATER AUTORITY'S SUPPLEMENTAL COMMENTS REGARDING RATE MAKIG MECHAISMS 5 6 7 8 SOUTIERN NEVADA WATER AUTORITY ("SNWA"), pursuat to NAC chapter 703 9 and the Request for Comments in this docket dated December 15, 2005, hereby submits its Supplemental Comments to the Public Utilties Commssion of Nevada ("Commission") regardig processes, theories, and methodologies tht may be used to establish just and reasonable rates in general rate cases puruant to Section 7 of Senate Bil ("S.B") 238. INODUCTION The Commission's proactive assessment of alternative ratemang mechaisms is timely in light of Sierra Pacific Resources recent anouncement of its planed $3 billon investent in new generation and transmission facilties, in addition to the recent purchases of the Silverhawk and Lenze plants in southern Nevada and the Tracy Combined Cycle Project planed in nortern Nevada. In light of these planed investments, the challenge facing the Commission is to continue practices tht most accurately balance the utilties' revenues and costs over the perod in which rates ar to be in effect. After decades of meetig astonishing grwt, primarily throug outside power purchaes, the electrc utilties, paricularly Nevada Power Company, propose to more than double rate base and trition to principally generating operating çompanes over the next few year. Thus, a reassessment of the processes, theories, and methodologies currently used in Nevada is timely. COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC COMMISSION TOPICS In its comments of October 31, 2005 in ths docket, the SNWA stressed the importce of distinguishig between fixed and variable cost considerations when assessing any of the alternative test year ratemaking mecha'nisms (see SNW A, p. 2-3, 1. 7). The utilities' ratio of fixed to variable costs appe as if it may change dramatically in the near futur. For puroses of ensurng cost I hUp:!!ei6.emi:¡l.e;(c¡:e,::mlvicwer.php!~m=O&:miiF3336&p=2 Page. 1 of 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10 ~~~11:i 00 .a t'loo~12 i: 40'' lIo o~13.~ ß ~ ã OOz 14o ~ ..,Q...C 15,......"0:: C) æ~ i:16o is ~ ~ C)17i- t'o~ ~18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 .'.' ..~ . recovery of variable costs in an accute and timely maer, the SNWA contiues to support the present OEAA mechanism. The specific comments below pertaining to the four alternatives posed by the Commssion in the second Request for Comments in this docket date December 15, 2005 are, therefore, priarly aimed at fied cost, genera rate cae considertions. With regard to the four alterntive ratemakng methodologies identified by the CommisiolL SNW A offers the following observations: I. Alterntive 1: Full future tes year a. Ths methodology has the potential to reflect growt in cost of servce, but is also most likely to misrepresent cost of service beause of the need to forecast every element of rate base, expenses and load, and the reting uncertaity. Improvement in accuracy is uncertin and unikely. b. Ths alternative is the least cost effective because of the need for all pares to forecat and evaluae ever component of cost of service and load. Increased cost and effort does not necessarily increase effectiveness because of the anticipated increased uncertainty resuting frm forecast error. Empirical evidence regaring the accuracy of key variables suh as intere rates and prices is not encouraging. c. Ths methodology incrases the burden and impose a fiscal impact on state and local agencies (includig SNW A and others) because of the need to ftly evaluate all forecast components of the futu test period. This methodology also necessitates paricipation in extensive legislative and admistrtive proceedings required to develop the new methodology. We also anticipate increased electrc rates for state and local agencies from the fist application due to the uncertainty referred to above. d. A ful futue test year requis the most changes in proceures and mechanisms because of the need for a totaly new ratemaking mechansm and the need for more thorough anysis of all rate case elements and forecats. II. Altertive 2: Adjust 12 month historic test year for known and measurable data up to 7 months forwar. a. Ths methodology has the potential to reflect growt because of adjustment for 7 months of I li¡/fc26.cm:iil.exc¡le.ccr.Jvieer,php/m=O&inid"'333ó&p"'i.., .. Page 2 of g.., 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10~o o C' ~11~2o 'S t"loo~12 ... tii: V~13o ß t'.~ ~ 00 Z 14 ~.3~ 15 III.~.....G):; U G) ~ i: ø. .. 0 16G) (I ; ~ új U 17.. t"V t" ea t"18~ 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ~L- da beond lle filig dae for known and meale ites. This meodlogy is Òios likely to misrepresent cost of service than Alterntive 1 because it is based on 12 months of actu data which wil reduce unceaity. b. This alternative is generally cost effective because it is based on current and known methods with a requirement to only anyz reasonably known and measurable chages for 7 months beyond the filing date. c. This methodology is least likely to have any major impact on state and loca agencies because of minma changes frm curnt ratemag mechansms. The mechansm merely updates the curnt cercation process by several additiona month. d. Since ths alternatve is similar to curnt raemakg with minima chages it would require few changes in procedur and mechas. The most obvious problem would he the need to identify new procedures for the timing of the updated inormation related to the discovery and heang schedule. Some additiona stdas would have to be developed to determine what is reasonably known and meaurable but yet to be experenced data (\, Alternative 3: Adjust 12 month historic test year for known and measurble data for the peod ~ , I~ when rates ar in effect. ,~ :: a Ths methodology also has the potential to reflect growt, but requires less precise.- ~estimates for adjustments by virte of the indefinite time fre for" . . . the period rates ar in effect. II The more distat the time fre, the more liely there will be a cost/revenue discrepancy either for shaholders or customers. If the interal between rate ca filings is short, ths concern lessens. h. Ths alternative is cost ineffective compar with Alterntives 2 and 4, but is probably more cost effective thn Alternative 1. c. The cost impac on state and local agencies is likely to be less than Alternative 1 because the uncertinty of solely futue forecasts are tempered with a base of historic informtion. However, the need to review and evaluate a ful historic perod and a ful futue period may be more costly for review and wil clealy iiicrease costs for rate case parcipation over Alternve 2. .;..,.,....-"., Iittpd/e26.em:i!.~c¡æ.coll'Jvi~er.phpf?ir&mid~3336&p~ .,.. . Page 3. o-f.,....- -"', ,': ,.. .;"-,~, , '" r--'..' . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10 ~OON..11II B 0... l" i :: Ct 12rf co i: tmo 't 13in ß m.~ ~fiZ 14 ~.3~ 15.l .. ...u:; ()u~ i:ø. +' 0 16 l ~;~ ()17I"01" ãi I"18II 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 d. Ths alterntive requires some additiona framework and gudelines to determine the "perod rates are in effect" (Le. which porton of the one or two yea rates rema in effect) and how to identify future data which is "reasonably known and measurable". iv. Alternative 4: Most recent 12 months with adjustments up to period rates in effect. a-d. The SNW A's comments on ths methodology are the same as for Alterative 2 above. Although this method is called a "historic test year" and Alterntive 2 is caed a "futu te year", the altertive methodologies ar identical in the Commssion's notice. Alternative 2 calls for adjusments up to seven month beyond the filing date which, given the suspension peod of 2 1 0 days now contaied at NRS 704.110, is the same perod as the point up toC i/when new rates will be placed into effect as described in Alternative 4. If the SOmmssion intended to solicit comments on another period different frm Alterntive 2, SNW A wil be glad to provide adtional comments at the workshop on February 7, 2006. In response to topic 2 requesting an opinion on the legislation, procedurs, and mechansm necessar to authorize and implement the altertive ratemang methodology alternatives, the SNW A offers the following genera opinions. SN A has not offered specific sttutory or reguation lague for any of the above alternatives at ths point in the proceeding because SNW A prefers the stat quo methodology which has been in place for a substantial period of time and requires no chages to curent law. If the Commssion does adopt any of the alternatives above (except for Alternative 2 applied to natura gas utilties, given the statutory change already adopted by the 2005 Nevad Legislatue in S.B. 256), NR 704.110 must be rewritten because it cuently limits utilities to an historic test period which may only be updated with information up to six months afer the end of that period. If any form of futue test year is desired, a substantial rewrte of NRS 704. i i 0 will be required. If only an update to the historic period is made several months beyond the curent system or up to the tie rates take effect, then only a smaller revision to NRS 704.110, as it curently reads, is required. If any of the alternatives identified by the Commission in ths docket ar to be implemented, a lengty ruemakg to rewrte the schedules and filing requiments in NAC Chapter 703.2201, et seq. wil be necessar. 28 II11 hUp:IIe26.cmil.excitc;coirJviewr.phpl"'m:d-'3336&¡y2- 'Page 4-of 8 t...........", 1'.... ~':'. ,;.,.. " 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10~o ON.- 11lI80 'S '" i rn ~ 12 i: +J II .~! i 13 §~Z 14 Q.3 ~ ~::U 15~~ i:f1 .. 0 16 u CI ~ !~U 17 II '" 'i'" 18~ CONCLUSION 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Growt ha the potential to complicate the effort to set rates that accurately reflect cost of service. As discussed in more detal in the prior SNW A comments, the relationship between '5generation and trmission incremental costs and incremental revenues (rates) determine.- whether grwt is revenue or cost enhcing. The chances of this happening in Nevada !Uay be reuced because of the use of essentially a futu test period for fuel cost. For example, it is clear frm recent DEAA filings that use of a future test year doesn't necessarly reflect futu cost of servce, otherwse DEAA balances would be smal, which they are not. We should not assume tht a more'extended futu test year applied in a general rate proceedig will accommodate growt and more accurtely reflect cost of service simply by basing rates on forecasts of all rate case elements, or that growth wil necessarily have a predictable positive or negative impact on earings. In Nevada there is no clear evidence, aside from fuel and purchaed power cost (which are already based on a futu test year), that incremental cost is grwing considerably more rapidly th incrementa revenue. It is not clear at al tht rate payers or shaeholders would benefit by basing rates on a fuly forecasted cost of service because that would dramatically increase all paries' costs of evaluating rate cass and would introduce a grat deal more Wlcei1inty in the process which may not even reflect growt any more acurately than an- historic tes year. Given the added cost, the grater uncernty, and the added buren on the process, it seems much more cost effective to begin with the most recent historic test yea data available and then mae adjusents for major, reasonably known, and measable rate case elements for a short period of time into the futue. This can be accomplished with minima chages to curent processes and procedurs, miimal added burden on all rate case parcipats, and at min added cost. In addition, sice these major known and measurable future events are the most liely to cause futu cost of serice to deviate frm curent cost of service, growth is adequately accommodated. To the extent that major 1//1 11// 1//1 //1 II httji:ffc2t;.=ml.~;;¡t;.co;rJv¡e-...~r:¡:!i¡:l?m:(&mid=3336&¡r Page 5 of,B-. : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~o 10 ,~~~111I2o...f' itÊ~12 i: .wft.ao U 13 .~ ß t 500 Z 14 o.~i 15.'ä~''':: Uo~ i:i1 .. 0 16 4) rI ; fä~u 17i-('of'-; f'18= 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 plat addtions may fall outside the test year, the electrc utilties' should consider the more effcient coure of filing timelier rate cases, since they are only obligated to fie every two year but are entitled to file more frequently in interm periods if necessa. RESPECTFLL Y SUBMITD this 17th day of Januar, 2006. BY: FRED SCHMIDT Hae Lane Peek Dennson and Howard 777 Eat Wiliam Stret Suite 200 Carson City, NY 89701 (775) 684-6000 Attorney for SOUTHERN NEVADA WATE AUTHORITY II http://e26.em¡i¡!.erdte.coflJviewer.phplm=O&mid=3336&p=2 , Pan-e6 of8 ,._,',.,o '.. ' .1 " 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 io 10~o 0(' io 11tI Bo... l" 1~'~ 12i: tf.g 13 o e \U 'I~A 14i:.! ~ ..=... 15G)... U G) ~ i:ø. .. 0 16G) ~ ~ ~~U 17 Q) l"';l" 18 ~ 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ., '. -.......,.. ..._-;-. "-'-~""'-"'..'. ....~..__._. --_.- ,'._ ....... ... """4' ..u...... ...._..........."-._.~ _ ..,.,....... -', PROOF OF SERVICE I herby certfy that I mailed the foregoing Southern Nevada Water Authority's Supplementa Comments Regardin Rate Mang Mechansms in Docket 05-7048 by delivering via U.S.P.S. copies thereof, properly addrssed for maling to the followig persons: Staff Counsel Public Utilities Commssion of Nevada 1150 E. Wiliam Street Caron City, NY 89701-3109 Alain Burenshaw Public Utiities Commission 101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 250 La Vegas, NV 89109 Ernext Figueroa Burau of Conser Protetion 555 E. Wasington Ave., Suite 3900 La Vegas, NV 89101 edfiguo(fag.state.nv. us Chad Duval Moss Adams LLP 3121 W. March lane, Ste. 100 Stockton, CA 95219 cha.duval(fmossdams.com Connie Silveir Sierr Pacific Power Company 6100 Neil Road Reno, NY 89511 csilveira(fsppc.com Dan Foley SBC Nevada Bell General Attorney P.O. Box i 1010 645 E. Plumb Lane, Room B132 Reno, NV 89520 Debra Jacobson Southwest Gas Corp. 5241 Spring Mountai Road Las Vegas, NV 89150 Debra.J acobson(fswgas.com ';.." liii'p:/'e26 emm¡!..ov~'." ~",~/"'..-.. nhnl'~""J'm¡"'''~~3t;J'""." - n ". . - ._n~...,~.". .....:"......,..... ._.~, -- V-r ~ ..........'P~n-", 7 'of'S'.. _t;'V'-' .. 1 Eric Heath 2 Sprit of Nevada 330 S. Valley View Boulevar 3 Las Vegas, NV 89107 eric.s.heath~spritcom 4 Karen Petersn 5 Allson, Mackenze, et al. P.O. Box 646 6 Cason City, NV 89702 7 kpterson(?llsonmackenzie.com 8 Kathleen Drakulich Kumer Kaempfer, et aL. 9 5250 S. Virginia Stret, Suite 220 io 10 Reno, NV 89520 kdrlich(qbr.com~o ~ ~.- 11 Linda Stinar+' 0... t- Sprit of Nevada 1 =i 0\1200 00.: \l 330 S. Valley View Blvd. i: G 'g 13 Las Vegas, NV 89107,2 ~ ~ ,§ooŽ 14 Linda.c.stiar(ßl.sprint.com .Q.~i 15 Shawn Elicegui.l-'"ßr.U Lionel Sawyer & Collin ~~ g 16 1100 Ban of America PlazaI) 0 ~50 W. Libery Stret, Suite 1100 3~u 17 Reno, NY 89501 v t-selicegu~lioneisawyer.com æ t-18 19 Steve Luhertozzi Sky Rach Watr Service Corp. 20 2235 Sanders Rd. Nortbrook, IL 60062 21 22 Timothy Shuba Goodwi Procter LLP 23 901 New York Ave. N.W. WashingDn, D.C. 20001 24 tshuba(goodwinprocter.com 25 Dated this i 7th day of Januar, 2006. 26 27 28 , :11 !:tt:!!e2(i.e::,;¡!.ei:~:te.cmj'!¡ew.iihp?m=O&mid=3336Ri¡F2 . "Page:,R-£-8 ~. . ..- "H'~':'~..~--~:4 .,-- i,. .i' 6 7 8 9 'E 10 ~8 ON1"11::,So i'''t':: 0\12lI 00 ø lfi 1304)'j b ~00 Z 14 O.~~ 15~.....4) i= Uu~ ø II .. 0 16 l = ~~U 17t'u t'~ t'18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 2 3 4 5 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTLmES COMMSSION OF NEVADA Investigation to review processes, theories and metodologies tht may be used to esblish just and reonable rates in genera rate cases. ) ) Docket No. 05-7048 ) ) ) , v:)J/ý SOUTRN NEVADA WATER AUTORITY'S REPLY COMMENTS REGARDING RATE MAG MECHAISMS SOUTHERN NEVADA WATER AUTHORI ("SNWA"), pursuant to NAC chapter 703 and the Request for Comments in ths docket date December 15, 2005, hereby submts its Reply Comments to the Public Utilties Commssion of Nevada ("Coimission") regang processes, theories, and methodologies that may be used to establish jus and reasonable rate in general rate caes puruant to Section 7 of Senate Bil ("S.B") 238. INTRODUCTION The reply comments contained herein ar intended to synthesize the Southern Nevada Water Authority's ("SNW A") general position with positions on rate mag mechansms presented by other pares on Januar 17, 2006. As made clear by the sum and substace of the comments to date, a single, clea, specific application of a test year methodology wil be diffcult to attin. The SNW A noneteless continues to support the general objectve espoused by it, the utilties, and indirectly by other pares that the test year constrt should be intende to strke a balance beten costs and revenues over the near term. The SNW A ha offered its view on test year parculars designed to balance costs and revenues in its previous two rounds ofwrtten comments. Whle the comments reveal a clea division between the recommendations of the utilities and other pares on the value of the four alternatives designted by this Commssion, there appeas to be consens tht a fuly forecasted test yea (Alternative 1) is the most costly and most contentious of the alterntives. It is most costly because it would represent a completely new forecast paradigm for estimating costs and the estimated test year costs would undoubtedly be higher th test year costs estimated under Alternatves 2-4. Having said this, the SNW A is also of the opiiúon that a completely 28 III1 C:\Documeits and Seltings\Dennls Peseau\Dskop\HLRNODOCS-#S I 091.vl -SNWA_Reply- Comments _Dkt_OS-7048jlllUT_testßar.DO Page 1 cf5 Draft SNW A 1130/06 Test Year Comments INTRODUCTION The reply conuents contained herein are intended to synthesize the Southern Nevada Water Authority's general position on the issues and positions on rate makg mechanisms presented by paries on January 17,2006. As made clear by the su and substance of the comments to date, a single, clear specific application of a test year methodOlOgy wil be diffcult to atin. The SNW A nonetheless contiues to support the general objective espoused by it, the utilities and indiectly by other partes, that. the test year consruct should be intended to stre a balance between costs and revenues over the near ter. The SNW A has offered its view on test year partculars designed to balance costs and reenues in its previous two rounds of wrtten comments. While the comments reveal a clear division between the recommendations of the utilties and other pares on the value of the 4 alternatives designated by this Commission, there appeared to be consensus tht a fully forecast test year (Alternative 1) is the most costly and most contentions of the alternatives. It is most costly because it would represent a completely new forecast paradigm for estimating costs and the estimated test year costs would widoubtedIy be higher th test year costs estimated under Alternatives 2-4. Having said this, the SNWA is also of the opinion that a completely historic and wiadjusted test year is also likely to be an inaccurate mechasm if near term significant cost events are occurng. ABIDING RATE MAG PRINCIPLES .,.) 4 5 6 7 8 9 'Q 10~o~ooN~11P: B 0... l" 1 ~O\1200 00 =.¡ Ñ o 3 "g 13 .~ t1 6rn Z 14 Q.~i 15~_...u~U Q) ~ ¡; ~.. 0 16 § ~ ¡..~ü 17 G) l" 'i l"18P: 19 20 21 22 23 III1 24 II/I 25 11// 26 1/11 27 28 1 historic and unadjusted test year is also likely to be an inaccurate mechanism if nea ter significant 2 cost events are about to occur. ABIDING RATE MAKIG PRICIPLES The SNW A proposes that ths Commssion consider the following principles in assessing alterntives to test year mechanisms: · Both fully historic and fully futu test year mechanisms ar most inaccurate in times of rapid growt and growth events (such as major capital investment). · Modified, forward looking historical-based tes years are most accurate in periods of rapid growt and growth events, so long as rate cases are fied timely and regularly, and updates are made for both costs and revenues. For these reasns, the SNWA strongly recommends that the Commission, utilties, and other pares work cooperatively and intentionally to devise a te year mechanism based upon historical data, but adjusted for near-term likely events beyond the rate case test year. The SNWA is ready, wiling, and able to work with the Commission and other pares to define the appropriate adjustment period and the pareters for recognzig likely events. CONCLUSION The SNW A maes ths recommendation largely becaus of the significant chages and challenges facing the Commssion, utilties and rate payers in Nevada. As discussed in the SNW A supplemental comments, the electric utilties' recently anounced plans to expend $3 bilion for new generation and trsmission facilties, over and above the Silverhawk, Lenzie and Tracy plants alread underway, is likely to drastically alter the present cost structue of those electric utilties. With unprecedented changes in costs, especially the changing mtío of fixed to variable costs, the SNWA C:\Docuinents and ,Settings\Dennis Peseau\Desktop\HLRNODOCS-#51 0991-v I-SNW A_Reply- Comments_Dkt_OS-7048Juture _leslj'ar.DOC Pager-f5 , I The SNW A proposes that this Commission consider the following priciples in assessing alternatives to test year mechanisms: · Both fuly historic and fully futue test year mechansms ar most inaccurate in times of rapid growt and growt events (such as major caital investment) · Modified, forward looking historical-bas test years are most accurate in periods of rapid growt and growth events, so long as rate cases are filed timely. For these reasons, the SNW A strongly recommends that the Commssion, utilities and other pares work cooperatively and intentionaly to devise a test year mechasm based upon historical data, but adjusted for likely events 7-12 months beyond the rate case filing data. CONCLUDING REMARKS The SNWA makes this recommendation largely because of the significant changes and challenges facing the Commission, utilities and rate payers in Nevada. As discussed in the SNW A supplementa comments, the utilties recently anounced plan to expend $3 bilion for new generation and trmission facilties, over and above the Silverhawk, Lenzie and Tracy plants already underway will drastically alter the utilities preent cost strctue. With unprecedented changes in costs, especially the chaging ratio of fixed to variable costs, it is best to look at rea and anticipated rather than forecast changes. i i In its prior comments the SNW A has stresse the need to focus on incremental generation, trasmission and related costs in assessing the balance of costs and revenues. References to year experiences of the fewother jurisdictions attempting future test years is unlikely to be valuable under the circmstances facing growth in Nevada. J "\ 6 7 8 9 ~o 10 ~~ 11:iSõ l~i 12 i: .."~i i ë'¡ 13 ï:: +- ~ '~¡~ 14 ~=... 15~...u ~~ 8 16l) ~ ~ 3~u 1701'il' 18:i 1 believes it is best to look at real and anticipated information in conjunction with actu experience, 2 rather than rely solely on forecasted or estimated changes. i 3 RESPECTFULL Y SUBMITTED thi 30th day of Januar, 2006. 4 5 BY: FR SCHMIDT Hale Lane Peek Dennson and Howad 777 East Willam Street, Suite 200 Caron City, NV 89701 (775) 684-6000 Attorney for SOUTRN NEVADA WA 'fR AUTHORITY 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 i In its prior comments tlie SNW A has recognize and stressed the need to focus on incremental generation, transmission, and related costs in assessing the balance of costs and revenues. References to the experiences of the few other jurisdictions which employ futur test year methodology is unlikely to be valuable to that focus under the unique circumstances facing growt in Nevaa. It is also worrisome for customers to note that Nevada's neighbor, California, which has implemented a full future test year for ratemakng, according to the data submitted by Sierra PacìfclNevaci Power clearly has the highest electric utility rates in the Western United States. As Nevada has learned from tlie Western Energy Crisis during the last decade, following California's lead in utilty regulation, while appealing in theoiy,can prve VerY costly, C:\Documeif iid Settings\Dennis Peseaiiktop\HLRNOOOCS-#S I 0991-v I-SNW A_Reply_ Comments_Dkt_OS- 7048 Juiunuest"'ca.DOC .,'., ",---"",Page-Jø-~''''",_"__",",, -...." -"..:' ,...._. PROOF OF SERVICE2 3 I hereby certfy tht I mailed the foregoing Southern Nevada Water Authority's Supplemental Comments Regarding Rate Making Mechansms in Docket 05.7048 by deliverig via U.S.P.S.copies4 thereof, properly addressed for mailing to the following persons: 5 Willam Staey Alaina Burenshaw6Public Utilties Commssion of Nevada Public Utilties Commission 7 i 150 E. Wiliam Stret 101 Convention Center Dr., #250 Caron City, NY 89701-3109 Las Vegas, NV 89109 8 Ernext Figueroa Chad Duval 9 Burau of Consumer Protection Moss Adams LLP ~o 555 E. Washington Ave., Suite 3900 3121 W. March Lane, Ste. 100 10 Las Vegas, NY 89101 Stockton,.CA 95219floedgur~ag.state.nv. us chad.duval~mossadam.comON..1llI!o... t"COD1e Silveira Dan Foley ¡ :: Ct 12i: 00 Sierra Pacific Power Company SBC Nevada Bell General Attorneyg t'~13 6100 Neil Road P.O. Box 11010(Ig (1.~ ;:Reno, NV 89511 645 E. 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Libert Stret, Suite 1100Linda.c.stinar~aii.sprint.com Reno, NV 89501 25 selicegui~lionelsawyer.com 26 27 28 C:\Documents and Sellings\Dennis Peseau\Deslop\HLRNODOCS4tS i 091.v I.SN:v A_Reply- Comments_ Dkt_OS-7048Juture_tetyear.DO '.11 ,',',.._-, ......,-,Page4-of5-....., J .,.f . f 1 Steve Lubertozzi 2 Sky Ranch Water Service Corp. 3 2235 Sanders Rd. Northbrook, IL 60062 4 Timothy Shuba 5 Goodwin Procter LLP 901 New York Ave. N.W. 6 Wasington, D.C. 20001 7 tshuba(fgoodwinprocter.com 8 Dated ths 30th day of Januar, 2006. 9 ~o 10 ~oON..11=$0 i'as:12fI co i: tf-a 13o ~ m.~ ~,~fIŽ 14ö.äi~;..~15a.:: U'o~ i: 11 .. 0 16 l~ S 17l' Uu l'~ l'18:i 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 C:\Documenls and Setgs\Dnis Teresa A. Willam Pcau\Desktop\HLRNODOCS4S i 099 i -vI -SNW A _ Repl)' _ Comment_Dkt_05-704JUlUre_tet.year.DOC .' ..., ~ " .- .":' . ..' .,,'. ...Page"~,ef5,.,,--,,,~-:-...":.,.,\,.,.,-,~... 'T '.... ....:.~~;'..~,...~ ,- EcIY £_&10 (1921)1993)Sle'LmJ. S1 l'ekKil D. Demi R. CI1 Howard Slcp V. 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(77S) 6801 ..ow .lleliam Marh 7, 2006 Cryta Jackson' Commssion Secretar lISO E. Wiliam Street Caron City, NV 89701 RE: SNWA DIRCT TESTIMONY DOCKET NO. 06.01016 Dear Ms. Jackson; Please accept for filing the enclosed original and nine copies of the Direct Testimony of Dennis Pesau on behalf of SNW A in Docket No. 06-01016. Should you have any questions regaing this fiing, plêae contact me at (775) 684..OOO. :Zk~~ Fred Schmidt, Esq. FJS:taw Enclosu cc: Paries of Record ''':. ." '.S ".f.~:- :~c..:::~':-r;...::O,"r'" :..~ !;1-;:,=n~;.~..~c. .".~~ -(:::,; :4'/1'~g ~..-N i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Q. 12 A. 13 14 15 Q. 16 A. 17 18 19 Q. ' 20 A. 21 22 23 Q. 24 25 A. 26 27 Q. 28 BEFORE THE PUBUC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA Docket No. 06-01016 Direct Testimony of Dennis E. Peseu on behalf of Southern Nevada Water Authority PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRESS. My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My business address is 1500 libert Street S.E., Suite 250. .Salem, Oreon 97302. BY WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACIT ARE YOU EMPLOYED? 1 am President of Utility Resources, Inc. The finn consults on a numbe of economic, financial, and engineering matrs for vanous private and public entities. 'Q_":".o - 'J ON WHOSE BEHALF ARE YOU TESTIFYING IN THIS PROCEEDING? en "~i::::: , .n. ,.~ .~.= I am testifng on behalf of the Southem Nevada Water Authority ("SNW~ll) :~n"t its, ...;:.... ir: .constituent members. '-0 : :,':"e-.. ¡,-".'M.. .; ;: ~ :~1- .., DOES ATTACHMENT 1 ACCURATELY DESCRIBE YOUR BACKGROUN A~D EXPERIENCE? Yes. WHAT IS THE SUBJECT OF YOUR TESTIMONY? ~~ODMA\PS\LRODOCS\78\1 Page 1 / 1 A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Q. 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. 26 A. 27 28 The subject of my teimony pertins to both the level and the design of Nevada Powr Company's ("Company") proposed Base Tariff Energy Rate t'BTER") In these proceedings. Docket No. 06-10106. The Company's Application in these prodings seeks a combined reidential and non-reidential BTER designed to recover an annualized revenue increase of $264.1 milion. which includes both BTER and OEM synchronization. In its subsequent BTER update in this docket, filed February 241 . 2006, the Company reduced its request to $137.7 milion. The former requeste increase of $264.1 mimon is based on Nevada Power's use of a December 28, 2005 price forecast. The update to the BTER was based on a forecast made only a month later, January 27,2006. This large reduction in requested revenue demonstrates the significant impacts and vanaton inherent in even near-term market energy price forecats. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR DIRECT TESTIMONY? The purpose of my testmony is twfold: 1. To demonstrate that implementation of a seasonal BTER, instead of an annual BTER, is at present necessary to relieve customers of exces carrying charges, to relieve Nevada Powr of its chronic summer BTER revenue shortlls, and to reuce the excessive debt financing and credit rating stress promoted by an annualized BTER; and 2. To demonstrate that the continued decrease in forecast energy prices from the time of the Company's BTER update will provide an easy transition to a seasonally~based BTER. WHAT CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS DO YOU MAKE? My conclusions lead to the following recommendations: 1. A seasonally-based BTER that tracks Nevada Power's higher summer fuel and purcased power costs, and lower non-summer costs. should be implemented. ::ODMAIPCDOCS\RNODOCS\27\1 Page 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 is 19 Q. 20 21 A. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ,..\ 2. A seasonally-based BTER would provide customers with price that more accurately reflect their consumption decisions, and therefore promote beter conservation decisions at times when costs are high. 3. A seasonally-based BTER, implemented in time for this summer season, would reduce or eíiminate Nevada Powers need for an additional $200 milion in debt financing this summer. 4. A seasonally-based BTER would permanently reduce a significant amount of debt necesary to finance the prdictble summer BTER revenue shortalls. $. The reduction in financing facilitted by a sesonally-based BTER would relieve customers of milions of dollars in additional carryng charges. 6. The Commission should leave the annual average BTER reflected in current rates essentially unchanged for the next year, because fuel and purchased power prices have dropped dramatically since Nevada Power's February 24, 2006 update. However, by implementing a seasonally based summer BTER, the rate to be implemented commencing May 1, 2006 should be about $O.062/k, or about the same rate reflected in the February 24,2006 update filing by Nevada Power. PRESENT BTER STRUCTURE WHAT 15 THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO THE PRESENT STRUCTURE OF THE BTER? The first issue I raIse is the same whether the BTER Is calculated using either a set of his10ncal or forecasted data. As amended NAC 704.130 now provides, Nevada Power has offered both historicl and forecasted prices. In either case, th BTER is estimated by averaging monthly price Information into a single rate for each of the reidential and non.residential categories. T~~. ay~ra9~s. reflec a compression .of high prices of fuel and purchased power faced and paid by Nevada Power in the summer, wih the lower price$ paid in shoulder and winter months. An average BTER is not designed to cover the Company's high ::ODMA\PCOOCS\LROOOCS\2.\1 Page 3 ..p~~..- ".'.__...- "._.._.." '. --"' ""~*,,-,,.-'._.._~" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 21 A. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 : . . .; ~ . 2. A seasonally-based BTER would provide customers with prices that more accurately reflect their consumption decisions, and therefore promote better conservation decisions at times when cots are high. 3. A seasonally-base BTER. implemented in time for this summer season, would reduce or éíiminate Nevada Powts need for an additional $200 milion in debt financing this summer. 4. A seasonally-based BTER would permanently reduce a significant amount of debt necesary to finance the predictble summer BTER revenue shortalls. 5. The reduction in financing facilitted by a seasonally-based BTER would relieve customers of milions of dollars in additional carrying charges. 6. The Commission should leave the annual average BTER reflecte in currnt rates essentially unchanged for the next year, because fuel and purchased power prices have dropped dramatically since Nevada Powets February 24, 2006 update. However, by implementing a seasnally based summer BTER. the rate to be implemented commencing May 1, 2006 should be abut $O.062/kwh, or about the same rate refleced in the February 24,2006 update filing by Nevada Power. PRESENT BTER STRUCTURE WHA.T IS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO THE PRESENT STRUCTURE OF THE BTER? The first issue I raise is the same wheher the BTER is calculated using either a set of historical or forecasted data. As amended NAC 704.130 now provides, Nevada Power has ofred both historical and forecasted prices. In either ea. the BTER is estimated by averaging monthly price information into a single rate for each of the residential and non-residential categories. The averages reflect a compression of high price of fuel and purchased power faced and paid by Nevada Power in the summer, wi the lowe prices paid in shoulder and winter months. An average BTER is not designe to cover the Company's high ::ODM\PCDOCSHLRNOOOCS~222781 Page 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 21 A. 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 2. A seasonally-based BTER would provide customers with prics that more accurately reflect their consumption decision, and therefore promote better conservation decisions at times when costs are high. 3. A seasonally-based BTER. implemented in time for this summer season, would reduce or éÎiminate Nevada Powets need for an additional $200 milion in debt financing this summer. 4. A seasonally-based BTER would permanently reduce a significant amount of debt necessary to finance the predictable summer BTER revenue shortalls. 5. The reduction in financing faciltated by a seasonally-based BTER would relieve customers of milions of dollars in- additional carrying charges. 6. The Commission should leave the annual average BTER reflected in current rate essentially unchanged for the next year, because fuel and purchased 'power prices have dropped dramatically since Nevada Power's February 24, 2006 update. However, by implementing a seasonally based sumrner BTER. the rate to be implemented commencing, May 1, 2006 should be about $O.062/kw, or about the same rate refleced in the February 24, 2006 updat filing by Nevada Power. PRESENT BTER STRUCTURE WHAT 1S THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO THE PRESENT STRUCTURE OF THE BTER? The first issue I raise is the same whher the BTER is calculated using either a set of historical or forested data. As amended NAC 704.130 now provides, Nevada Power has offered both historical and forecasted prices. In either case, the BTER is estimated by averaging monthly price information into a single rate for each of the residential and non-residential calegones. The averages reflec a compressioJl of high prices of fuel and purchased power faced and paid by Nevada Power in the summer, with the lower prices paid in shoulder and winter months. An average BTER is not designe to cover the Company's high ::ODMA\(\HLRtl278\1 Page 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 A. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 summer cots, and reuires at leat short-term financing to pay for such costs. Nevada Power explains in several places in its Appliction and testimony in this case, and in it Docket No. 06.01018 Application, that even if it requested BTER is granted In its entirety, it expcts to experience accrued deferrals of up to $200 millon. The specifc issue i am raising is the inabilty of the BTER, if estimated and set at an average level over the entire test year, to track the out-of.pocket costs for fuel and purchased power incurred by the Comp?lny. SEASONAL BTER WHAT DO YOU PROPOSe TO REPLACE THE CURRENT METHOD OF ESTIMATING AND SETING THE BTER ON AN AVERAGE ANNUAL BASIS? i propose that the monthly calculations that are currently developed for the BTER not be reuce to a single annual figure, but Instead be set and charged on a seasonal basis. The summer BTER would be based on the forecast prices for the months June through September, while the non.summer BTER would be baed on the forecst pr\ces for the month of October through May. , WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS PROPOSAL? First and foremost, as an economist who has worked before this Commission for many years, l recognize that whenever possible and practical rates to customers have been based on costs, particularly marginal costs. A seasonally-based BTER would promote an alignment of rates with the pronounced seasonality of fuel and purcase powr costs. Under the existing annual BTER, customers have litle or no knowledge of the ' prevalence of high summer fuel and purchased power costs as compared to non- summer months, nor do they have the ~bilit to shape or avoid consumption that can. ", reduc; their power bils. All customers now pay too little for power consumed in ::OOMA\POOCS\t.RNODOC5\22278\1 Page 4 , . .:. . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 A. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 summer costs, and requires at least short-term financing to pay for such co. Nevada Power explains in several places in its Application and testimony in this ea$e, and in its Docket No. 06-01018 Application, that even if it requested BTER is grante In its entirety, it expect to experience accrued deferrls of up to $200 millon. The specifc issue I am raising is the inabilit of the BTER, if estimate and set at an average level over the entire test year, to track the out..f-pocket costs for fuel and purchased power incurred by the Comp?lny. SEASONAL BTER WHAT DO YOU PROPOE TO REPLACE THE CURRENT METHOD OF ESTIMATING AND SETNG THE BTER ON AN AVERAGE ANNUAL BASIS? I propose that the monthly calculations that are currently develope for the BTER not be reduce to a single annual figure, but instead be set and charged on a seasonal basis. The summer BTER would be based on the forecast prices for the months June through September, while the non-summer BTER wouJd be based on the forecast prices for the months of October through May. WHY 00 YOU MAKE THIS PROPOSAL? First and foremost, as an economist who has worked before thrs Commission for many years, I recognize that whenever possible and practical rates to customers have bee based on costs. particularly marginal costs. A seasonally-based BTER would promote an alignment of rates with the pronounced seasonalit of fuel and purcased por costs. Under the existing annual BTERt customers have little or no knowedge of the prevalence of high summer fuel and purchased powe costs as compared to non- summer months, nor do they have the abilit to shape or avod consumption that can reduce their power bils. All customers now pay too little for power consumed in ::ODMIPCOOCs\LRNOOOS\22278\1 Page 4 i 2 3 4 Q. 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 summer months and to much for por consumed the rest of the year. A seasonally- based BTER promotes efcient usage decisions, as well as economic conservation. WHAT OTHER BENEFITS DERIVE FROM THE REDESIGN OF THE ANNUAL BTER TO A SEASONALL V-BASED BTER? The corollary to the annual BTER-induce customer un.derpayment of the high summer months' fuel and purchase power cots is the shortall of revenues collected by Nevada Power in the summer months. The Company speaks to this revenue shortll throughout its filing (Applicaion, p. 4, lines 18.20; p. 17, i. 25-27; Yackira ' Direct, p. 1~, i. 11-21; and in its Application in Docket 06..1018, p. 12, 1. 5-18). Depending on a number of factors, Nevada Power indicates ~e need for up to $200 millon in additional financing to cover accumulatd and prospecve BTER revenue shortalls. Seasonalizng the BTER to track seasonal fu~1 and purchased power costs should eliminate the nee for this financing by providing substantial additonal revenue and cash floW to pay for higher fuel and purchased power costs during summer monts. WOULD THE SEASONALLY-BASED BYER POSITIVELY AFFECT NEVADA POWER'S FINANCIAL FUNDAMENTALS? Yes. As I indicated, the seasonally.based BTER Improve the Company's cah ftow and repuce the need for substantial new debt. As many have noted in recent years, Nevada Power and Its parent, Sierr Pacific Resoürce, have been excessivly debt leveraged for some time. In my opinion. any and all positive steps toward reducIng the Company's need for debt would have favorable consequences for Nevada Powr's customers, shareholderS, and bondholders, Credit rating agencies such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's have implored the Company to improve the important debt- equity ratio. The net efect of a more balanced capital structre is a lower cost of capital through lower debt costs. :;ODMA1PCOOCSLRNOOOCSI522781..Page 5 2 Q. 3 4 A. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q. 16 17 A. 18 19 20 21 22 Q. 23 A. 24 25 26 27 28 WHAT OTHER BENEFITS WOULD ACCOMPANY THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SEASONAllY-BASED BTER? As noted in the tetimony of Company winess Mr. Yackira, p. 10,1. 16-17, substantial carring charges of $23.4 millon are included in DEM5 balances. In addition, Period 6 deferr balances could rech $178 milion under an annualized average BTER. A seasonally-based BTER designed to avert the summer months under recovery would minimize deferred balance and save customers the 9.03 percent carring charge rate whic is applied to these balances. If the entire $200 millon in new debt requested in Docket 06-01018 is avoided, the seasonally-basé" BTER could minimize or eliminate 1innualized carring charges of up to $18 milion. CALCULATING A SEASONALL Y-BASED BTER HAVE YOU CALCULATED A SEASONALLY-BASED BTER BASED ON NEVADA POWER'S FEBRUARY 24, 2006 FlUNG? Yes. My Exhibit DEP-1 summarizes Nevada Power's February 24, 2006 updated price forecas and associated annual BTER. This exhibit then seasonally differentiates the Company's revied annual BTER of $0.063253 into seasonal components. PLEASE EXPLAIN. Exhibit DEP-1 distinguishes by month, by seaso. and by test year the fuel and purchased costs forecast by the Company. For example, dividing the total test year sales of 20,243,888 mwhs into th net retail cost (after removing the FERC allocation) of $1,277,325,000, we obtain Nevada Powets requested annual BTER of $O.06325/kwh, bere adjustment for Hoover B. To seasonalize this annual BTER, the ::ODMA\fCDOCS\HLRHOD0CS2278\1 Pag 6 1 . 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q. 10 11 12 A. 13 14 Q. 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Q. 25 26 27 28 forecast of summer and winter fuel and purchased power costs is divided by the relate forecast energ sales. The Hoover B adjustment of approximately $7,177,000 in favor of the residential class result in a net reuction of $.00083 for reidential, and a net additn of $.00062 for non-residentiL. The final seasonal BTERs based on Nevada Power's February 24, 2006 update are shown at the bottom of Exhibit DEP~1, $0.06242 for residential and $0.06387 for non-residential. ARE YOU RECOMMENDING THAT NEVADA POWER'S PROPOSED ANNUAL BTER LEVEL BE ADOPTED AND THEN SEASONALIZED IN THESE PROCEEDINGS? No. WHY NOT? After I noticed the significant decrease in Nevada Power's proosed BTER from its January 17, 2006 filing forecast to it February 24, 2006 revise forecast, I further update the fuel and purchased power forecast to March 1, 2006. The seasonally- based BTER i develop below and recommend in these proceedings is calculated with this later, more current forecast. Aftr i note that Nevada Power1s original January 17, 2006 BTER filing proposed to collec $264.1 milion in revenues, the Company's update of February 24, 2006 reduce its request to $137.7 millon, a reduction of over $128 milion. BEFORE YOU EXPLAIN YOUR REVISED SEASONALLY~BASED BTER CALCULATIONS BASED ON YOUR MARCH 1 FORECAST, PLEASE ÉXPLAIN HOW YOUR PRICE FORECASTS AND RELATED SEASONALY-BASED BTER COMPARE TO THE FORECASTS AND BTER PROPOSED BY NEVADA POWER ON FEBRUARY 24, 2006. ::ODMIPCDOCS\LRNODOCS\713\ 1 Page7 ' A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Q. 14 15 16 A. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Prices for both fuel and purchased power for the test year are now forecasted to be lower than the forecasts used ~y Nevada Power. This, of course, results in a lower estimaed annual BTER forecast. But, due to the seasonally higher summer BTER rates I calculate below, use of the seasonal BTER wil pose no greater risk of revenue under-revery than the BTER propoed by the Company on February 24, 2006. This is due essentially to the fact that my propose summer BTER is estimated to be very nearly the same as the updated BTER proposed by Nevada Power. The diference is that the non-summer rate i estimate is approximately $8/mwh lower, but this lower rate should not go into effct until October of this year, when fuel and purchased power costs nonnally decrease, barring no significant changes in fuel and purchased power markets by that time. PLEASE EXP~N YOUR UPDATE OF FUEL AND PURCHASED POWER MARKETS AND THE DERIVATION OF SEASONALLY.BASED BTER BASED UPON THAT FORECAST. My update, and recommended seasonally-base BTER, is shown on my Exhibit DEP- 2. All significant data and assumptions used by Nevada Powr were also used in my revised analysis, with the notable exception of its fuel and purchased power forecast Upon review of the forward market natural gas and electic pnces, I found that prices had continued th downward trend found by Nevada P~er by the end of January. In fact the March 1, 2006 natural gas price markets had fallen slightly over 10 percnt from the forecast use by Nevada Power.1 The fuel and purchased power costs for the summer and winter periods show on Exhibit DEP.2 reflect this decrease in costs. These fuel and purchase power prices adjusted to March 1, 2006 are then developed Into seasonally-based BTERs on Exhibit DEP-2, in the same fashion as those in Exhibit DEp.1. 28 1.For example, this was derived from observng a deceas in natural gas NYMEX price of $1.37/mmbt fro Nevada Power's pric. Purchas power pnces were also lowr since tiey are heavily influece bynatral gas co. ::ODMA\PCOOC\HLRNODOCS\2228\1 Page 8 i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Q. 12 13 A. 14 is 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 A. 21 22 23 24 Q. 2S A. 26 27 28 The final result of these adjustent result in my proposed seasonally-bsed BTERs in these proceedings. Proposed BTERs Summer Winter Residential Non-Residential $0.06125 $0.06270 $0.05318 $0.05463 The summer BTER is generally applicable to months June through September, while the non-summer BTER is applicable for months October through May. ARE YOU AWARE OF THE FACT THAT NEVADA POWER IS REQUESTING THAT THE BTER BE IMPLEMENTED BEGINNING MAY 1, 20061 . Yes, and this could cause a bit of disntil'uity in terms of rae design, as the lower non-summer rate Is really most appropriate for May 1, 2006. However, the Commission may not wish to implement the lower rate for one month, followed by the higher summer BTERt espeially since May is a shoulder month wih consumption and costs nearly approaching summer month levels. DO YOU HAVE A RECOMMENDATION IN THIS REGAR? Yes. i recommend that the higher summer BTER be implemented on May 1, 2006 as a special circumstance related to the Company's reques for early summer implementation. WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS RECOMMENDATION? I make this recommendation fo several reasons. First, Implementaion in May provide~ some rate continuity. Second, the Company indicates that it wil be carrng positive deferral balances into this new test year, thus there is no reason to lower current BTER rates fÓr one month. Lastly, it will provide some cushion for summer ::ODMA\PCOOCSloNODOCSI58\1 Page 9 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 A. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Q. 18 A. 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 Q. 28 A. costs, altough my updated forecast indicates that the Company-preicted summer revenue shortall should be largely, if not entirely, eliminated, as well be the nee for , its referenced $200 millon additional debt financing. DO YOU HAVE A PROPOSAL FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NON-8UMMER BTER? Yes. If the most rent forecast is accurate, the approximately 8 mil/kwh reduction in , the BTER would commence October 1, 2006. However, as a transitional accomlTodation, i recommend that Nevada Power be allowed to update the natural gas and electic forecasts by the end of August if there Is signifcant change from th Marc 1, 2006 forested prices. This accmmodation is simply to eliminate the nsk of market change against it at that time, and to allay any angst from the financial institutions that the transition to seasonal rates could be negative to the Company. Since a higher BTER wil already be in place, the ability to accmmodate a change In forecaste prices would also be easy to Implement If it just meant not lowering the non-summer BTER as much as estimated for October 1, 2006. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS PLEASE SUMMARIZE YOUR CONCLUSIONS, I recommend that: 1. The seasonal rates summarized in my Exibit DEP.2 be implementd in this case. 2. The higher summer BTER rate, ordinarily put in place for the first summer month of June, be implemented as a one-time exception this May 1,2006. 3. Nevada Power be allow to re-file a fuel and purcase power update in August that might, or might not, af the degree to which the non- summer rates to be implemented October 1, 2006 are reduced. DOES THIS CONCLUDE YOUR DIRECT TESTIMONY? Yes. : :ODMA\PDOCLRNOOOCS\52278\1 Page 10 AFARMATION I, Dennis E. Peseau, pursuant to NAC 703.710 hereby affirm that the foregoing prepared testimony wa prepared by me or under my direction an is correct to the best of my knowledge. Signed Dated ¡;~- t3 - t?1-l2 ATTACHMENT 1 . . Attchment 1 Dkt. 061016 Witness: D.E. Peseau Page 1 of3 STATEMENTOF OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseau has conducted economic and financial studies for regulated industries for the past twenty-eight years. In 1972, he was employed by Southern California Edison Company as Associate Economic Analyst, and later as Economic Analyst. His responsibilities included review of financial testimony, incremental cost stdies, rate design, econometric estimation of demand elasticities and various areas in the field of energy and economic growth. Also, he was asked by Edison Electrcal Instiute to study and evaluate several prominent energy models as part of the Ad Hoc Commitee on Economic Growth and Energy Pricing. From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Peseau was employed ,by the Public Utilty Commissioner of Oregon as Senior Economist. There he conducted a number of economic and financial studies and prepare testimony pertaining to public utilties. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Northwest offce of Zinder Companies, Inc. He has since submitted testimony on economic and financial matters before state regulatory commissions in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, the District of Columbia, th Bonnevile Power Administration and the Public Utilties Board of Alberta on overooe hundre occasions. He has conducted marginal, cost and rate design studies and . . Attachment 1 Dkt. 06.01016 VVUness: D.E. Peseau Page2of3 prepared testimony on these matters in Alaska, Califrnia, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregn, Washington and in the Distnct of Columbia. He has also conducted cost and rae studies regarding PURPA issues in the states of Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Washington, and Washington, D.C. Dr. Peseau holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. He has co-authored a book in the field of industrial organization entitled, Size. Profits and Executive Compensation in the Large CorporaiQn, which devotes a chapter to regulated industnes. Dr. Peseau has published articles in the following professional journals: Review of Economics and Statistics, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal Qf Financial Management, and Journal of Regional Science. His articles have ben read before the Econometric Society, the Western Economic Association, the Financial Management Association, the Regional Science Association and universities in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States. He has guest lectured on marginal costing methods in seminars in New Jersey and California for the Center of Professional Advancement. He has also guest lectred on cost of capitl for the public utilit industry before the Pacific Coast Gas and Electc Association, and for the Executive Seminar at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. Attachment 1 Dkt.06-01016 Witness: D.E. Peseau Page 3of3 Dr. Peseau and his finn have partcipated with and been members of the American Economic Association, the American Financial Association, the Western Economic Association, the Atlantic Economic Association and the Financial Management Association. He was formerly a member of the Staff Subcommittee on Economics of the National Association of Regulatory Utilty Commissioners. Dr. Peseau has been President of Utilit Resources, Inc. since 1985. Month Exhibit CEP.1 Pae 1 Qf1 Periiiu NIMI Po Compel\ Clllatlon of SiOlIiIl Ba Tariff Enl'Y Rate. Annualize for ti. Twl¥l Man1l End NlMmbr SO. æUG Foreted fO the Twlv. MoJl Eniec Apil 30 207 (000$) Fue an Purcse Pow Cot Forsted Mw Eny Sales Nevada Summer Willr Tot Suer Neda Winir FERC Tot 98574 1.711.457 4.75 130,203 1.987.807 9,283 169.496 2.497,571 13.940!!i.?47 2,251,9 13,&8124.419 1,748,87 90,426 1,288.96 74,349 1.487.914 817 84,310 1,523.952 1,208 99.03 1.538.124 2,51488,3 1.00,185 1.17085.69 1,44,83Q 244 76.796 1,43.025 51J8ES 697,528 1.20,393 8.486.193 11.702 47,aDa 20.24888 2,1 88 a.06 ö848 6941 1,277,325 '0.0084 $0.0691 50.00325 Mey.(Juri JulyoO Augul1-0Seøl.. OClOflr.(6 November-0Decebe-0 JanU8o07i:iy-0 Man-07 Aprii-7 Tot Less FERC Alloction Net Retøl Cosl CO$I pe kWh bere Hover AdJUltm'* for Hoov B Hoover B Benul Alllln ci Hoovr B 10 Non. RcGidenllel ADocalln of Hoove B8e to Røidial Røiiiriie SaleaNan-Ridnl SalTolISeI. NGl Hor B a_li io Rel POI kWh Nel Hor B Cot to NOl- R86ldela pe kW CO per kW Me HoReiitllNonlllil 1:1.545 7.117 (7,177 8,641,455l' .!5.62 20.196,08 ($0.0083) $0.0082 Summer Winter TOIII $0.06757$0.692 $O.(J08 $0.06013 $0.08242 $0.637 Sourcu: ExhIbi E(Rev) end ExhIbit E.' (Rev) P; 16 . . .. Month Neva PCIr ComanyCalCUlah of SesonllZed Base Tarff Energ Rale Annll for the1W1v Months Ende N_ber 30. 205 URI Adsl FCl for tt Twe Mo Ended ApI30. 2Ø07 (000$ Exbll DEP Page 1 of1Peu FU an Pun: Powr COI Foreted Mw Energ SaleNevadSlr,Winter TQlI Summe Nevada Wir FeRC T0C1 89,463 1.711,4 4.$118,188 1.87.807 9,21538292.497.571 13.94144.074 2.251.9l 13,68112,19 1,746,827 8208 1.26,36 67.477 1,467,914 817 76,517 1,52,952 1,28 89,679 1.53.124 2.514 80;179 1,300.185 1.170 77.774 1,440,8 244 69,698 1c39,1 528.991 63055 1,162,046 8.48.193 11.709,89 47,8 20.243.88 2,150 824 2,784 526.830 63431 1,159.262 $0.068 $0.051 $0.05740 MaJuniJuly- August~Sepem.Q60d.0No-ØeDll.Q6 Jønuary7 FebRl-G7Mari7 Aeril.( Total Less FERC AUocUo Net Retail Co Cost per kW bafa HOCr Acusents fo HOOf B Hoar B Bonet AlIn of Hooer B to Non-Redenia AUoction afHoQl B Benet to Redeal Reslclønll SalesNon-Rekll SaleTot Sa Ne Hoov B Benefit to Residntial pe kW Net Hoovr B Co to Non. Redenal pe kWh Co per kWh Afr Hoove Redential Nci.Rea1cnlBI 12,55 7.177 (7,177) 8,641..t 11,554.29ii.l9l;0 ($0.00083) Summ $0,00082 TolalWinr $(,06125 $0.062 $0.05318 $0.054 $0.056$0.058 So: Exhbit E(Re) and Eilb~ E-1(Re) Pag 17 1 2 PROOF OF SERVIE 3.I hereby certify that I have this day served a copy of the foreoing Direct Testmony of 4 Dennis E. Peseau on behalf of Southern Nevada Water Authoriy In Docket 06-0101~,upon 5, each of the partes listed below by hand delivery or by electronic mail and U.S. Mail, propeny 6 addressed, with postage prepaid to: Elizbeth Elliot Associate General Counsel Nevada Powr Company 6100 Nell Road Reno, NV 89520 Fax: 775-834-4098 Email: bellotcmsppc.com 7 Mark Russell, Esq. Mirage Hotel and Casino 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South las Vegas, NV 89109 Fax: 702-792-7628 Email: mrusslJ~mirage.com 8 9 10 II Julia E. Sullivan Law Offce of Julia E. Sullivn, LlC 219 A Duke of Glouceter Street Annapolis, MD 21491 Fax: 410-990-961 Email: luliasullvantãjeslaw.us Staff Counsel Public Utilities Commission 1150 E. Wiliam Street Carson Cit, NV 89701 Email: aburtens(dpuc.ste.nv.us Richard Hinckley, Esq. Public UtiltIes Comission 1150 E. Willam Street Carsn City. NV 89701 Fax: 775-834-4098 Email: hinckley(puc.state.nv.us Dale Swan Exeter Associates, Inc. 5565 Sterrett Place, Ste. 310 Columbia, MO 2104-2690 Fax: 410-992-3445 Email: dswan(dexeterassoates.com Jon Wellnghoff, Esq. Becey Singleton Chtd. 530 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89101 Fax: 702-385-9447 Ema~: Iweillnghoffcmbeckleylaw.com Charles K. Hauser, Esq. Southern Nevada Water Authoriy 1001 S. Valley View Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89153 Fax: 702-258-3268 Eric Witkoski, Esq. Consumer Advocate Bureau of Consumer Protection 555 E. WashIngtn Street, Suite 3900 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Email: epwikos(iag.stte.nv.us . Phil Wiliamson, Financial Analyst Bureau of Consumer Protection 100 N. Carson Street, Suite 200 . Carsn Cit, NV 89701 Fax: 775--87-6304 Email: pjwillaCãag.state.nv.us 12 13 14 15 16 11 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 /~i 26 1111 27 /III 28 1/1/ ¡- ::ODMA\PCOCSRNODO22'46\1 Page 18 i Lawence A. Gollomp Assistant General Counsel 2 U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, SW 3 waShinmon, D.C. 20585 Fax: 2 2-586-7479 4 Email: lawrencè.Gollomp~hq.doe.gov 5 Dated this ~ay of March, 2006. 6 h~::d7 An employee of Hale Lane Peek 8 Dennison and Howard 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 21 28 ::ODMA\PCDOCS\HLRNODOCs\227461 Page 19 Conley E. War (ISB No. 1683) GIVS PURSLEY LLP 601 W. Banock Stret P.O. Box 2720 Bois. ID 83701~2720 Telephone No. (208) 388-1200 Fax No. (208) 388~1300 cew(ggivenspursley .com RECElVÈO" inFILED 0 lfm JUH 2 l PH ~ 34 IDAHO PUl~lIC UnUTiES, COMMISSHJN , 7/7/¿l/ R I' $'( liiil l!.. Attrneys for Potlch Cororation.S:\lIS\l3i4~Ðl~Teidmon.Ð BEFORE TH IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMSION IN TH MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF A VISTA CORPORATION FOR THE AUTORITY TO INCREASE IT RAlE AND CHAGES FOR ELECTRC AND NATUL GA.S SERVICE TO ELECTRC AND NATU GAS CUSTOMERS IN TH STATE OF IDAHO. Case Nos. AVU-E..~ 1 AVU.G-041 DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENNIS E. PESEU ON BEHALF OF POTLTCH CORPORATION June 21, 2004 ,ORIGINAL 1 Q.PLEASE STATE YOUR NAM AND BUSINSS ADDRESS. 2 A.My nae is Dens B. Pesu. My buiness addrss is Suite 250, 1500 Liber Stret, 3 S.B., Salem Oregon 97302. 4 Q.BY WHOM AN IN WHT CAACIT AR YOU EMPLOYED? 5 A.I am the Preident of Utity Reurçe. In. ("URl'). UR has conste on a number of 6 economic, financial and engineeg ma:tt for vaoos priva an public entities for 7 more th twenty yea. 8 Q.PLEASE DESCRIBE YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND WORK 9 EXERINCE. 10 A.My resue is ataced as Exhbit No. 201. 11 Q.HA VB YOU PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED BEFORE TH IDAHO PUBUC UTILITIE 12 COMMSSION? 13 A.Yes. on may occaions. 14 Q.FOR WHOM ARE YOU APARIG IN THIS CASE? 15 A.I am appeang on beha of Potlatch Corporation ("Potlatch"). 16 Q.WHAT is THE PUROSE OF YOUR DIRECT TÈSTIONY? 17 A.I have been asked to review Avist's applicaton in tls cas and mae apprate 18 recommendations to the Commssion. 19 Q.PLEASE PROVIDE A SUMY OF YOUR TESTIMONY. 20 A.My testmony deals with four major issues. all concerng th application for an increae 21 in electrc rates. Afr reviewi the evdence, I conclude tht: DIRCT TETIMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU - i IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-1 aDd A VU-G-041 ............:..................................................................,.........................................................................".,..........,.........,...................................................,...,............. I 1.The Coyote Spnngs 2 generti plant should be exclud from rate bas on 2 seer grounds. not the least of whch is that the plan is not "used and usefu" in 3 providing serice to Avita's rapayers. 4 2.Avista should not be allowed to recover the cost of natural ga hedges or sws 5 put on in Apri and May of2001 because they were imrudent and inteded to benefit 6 Avist's ungulated activities at the rateayer' expens. 7 3.Avis's use of a 2002 tes ye, adjuste for allegedy known and measurble 8 chages. produces a mismatc of expes and rate bae, on the one had. and revenues 9 on the other. I offer 3 altertive metods of correctig ths mismatch. 10 4.Avista's inclusion of Potlatch's Lewn Facilty in Schedule 25 for rete design 11 plDses is uneasonable on its fa and A vista's cost of serce stuy overstates the 12 anua cost of servng Potatch by apximaely $1.4 millon per year. 13 In addition, John Thornton wiU pret Potlatch's cost of capita temony and its 14 recommendation for are on equity for Avista. However, in th rectly completed 15 Idaho Power rate cae, I offd a critique of Dr. Avera's temony tht showe that 16 updted data and a consistent application of his methodology demonstrte that his cost of 17 equity is oventated, even if one accepts his assumptions. I fea tht if I were to not 18 perfonn a similar anysis in ths case the Commission would draw the unwaanted 19 inerence that my critique is no longer valid. To forestal th infernce. I have prepared 20 and atthed an Appendi to this testimony tht once agan shows tht simple updates to 21 Dr. Avera's data, an the us ofintey consstnt d: employed with his retu on 22 equity metods, drcally lowe his ret on equity estate below the 10.4% to 23 1 i .9% equity cost rage (af the addtion of flotation costs) he estimates for benchmark DlRECT TEIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU ~ 3 IPUC Case NOI AVU~E-041 and AVU-G-4-1 ....... ........... ....... ........'. ... ..... ........ ...................,... _.. .--.. ...... _.. ... .... ...... ...~ ......... ... _.. ........-......... ..... .... ....,.. ... ............... ...... .... .... ......................... ......... ................... .................. .............. .~...-. 1 elecric utilities in th wester U. S.t and below the 1 i.5% eqty retu he endorses for 2 Avista. 3 Coyote SpnDgs 2 4 Q.WOULD YOU PLEASE EXLAI TH ISSUES CONCEG TI COYOTE 5 SPRIGS 2 GENERATIG PLAN 6 A.Before I do so, a short prefae is in orer. The two toics I next discuss in ths tetiony 7 rase very distbing isss about the relatonship beween Avista's reguated and 8 ungulated ar. In order to unta the signficace of thse iss the 9 Commssion need to have a clear understading of Avista's peul corprate strctue. 10 Consquently, I hae repruce below Scott Morr' Avista orgazatona char frm i i his Exhbit No. I, page 5 of 5: DIRCl TESTIONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 4 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-041 and A VU-041 ............................................................................,..........................,..................u...,...................................................,...............,.......................................... 1 2 Q. 3 4 A. S 6 7 .. 8 9 10 11 A vista Corporation Company Overvew o -I A~'" Ði I o '--.''''0l o .-.ICop1ldirilo..lì..ii.. llalblllf6. iS.MoA. Çwloft PLEAE DESCRIE TH ENTITS AND OPERTING DMSIONS ON THE CHART. Avist~s unguate enteise appear on the right had side of the char. Avist Capita is a holdi compay for these enterises. Avista Advage provides inormtion serice and related business serces. Neither it nor the operatin division labeled "Other" figue in my teony. The tw entities engaged in "Energy Marketig and Resour Maagement " on the other hand, playa prominent role in the following discussion. Avist Power is Avista Corpration's il-fatd entr into the merhat powe business. It wa orgialy designed to build or acqui generatig plants and other DIRECT TESTIONY OF DENN E. PESEAU w 5 !PC Cas Nos. A VU-E-041 and A VU-G04-1 1 reures to serve the unguated wholese electcity marets. According to Avista's 2 teony it is now intive, but it was the origin owner of the Coyote Spnns 2 3 genertig plant and it stll own 49% of th Ra merct plant. 4 Avista Energy is Avist Corporaton's energy tring ar. Its prar purse is 5 to trade in both the electrcity and 1lal gas markets. In addtion, it brokers deas for 6 . Avís Utilities, althoug the Washingt Utities and Traorttion Common 7 recently orderd the terination of ths relationp with respect to natul ga purches. 8 At the pea of its activity it genrated reenes far in excess of A vita Corpration's 9 reguated public utlity saes. 10 Q.YOU EARIER DESCRIED AVISTA CORPORATION'S ORGANIZATIONAL 11 CHAT AS "PECULIAR." WHT DID YOU MEAN? 12 A.The right hand side of the chart is not at all unusual for a utility. Most utlities pla 13 uneguate actities in separte entities. The left had side is quite the opposite. All of 14 th utities I am famar with orga the utilty fucton as a separa busines entity, 15 which makes its own purchas and busnes deas separte and apa ftm the 16 ungute enterp. But in Avista's cas, th is no separe utility entity, only an 17 operatig division. In effect, "A vista Utilities" is simply a nae for the residua holder 18 of A vista Corporaon asset tht ar not claimed by one of the unegulated entities. 19 Q.WHT DIFFERECE DOES AVISTA'S ORGANTION MA? 20 A.It blur the distncton between regulated and ungulated activities. In the las A vista 21 rate cae, I complained, appary not stenuously enough that Avìst~s corporate 22 strctue, and its prctce of not contemoraousy makig trdes to its regulated or 23 non-reguated ar, lef it with the latitude to subsuently alocate trades based on their DIRCT TEMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU. 6 IPUC Cae Nos. AVU-E-()1 BDd AVU-c.O..i 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 A. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Q. 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 Q. ..................................................,......................-..,..................................................,............................................................................ profitailty. I charzed th sitution as analogous to a stockbroker who maes investents and th month or even year later~ decides whether the purhases were for his own or his cusomer's account. IS THIS STILL A PROBLEM? In fact, th preent cae is fa worse. In the case of Coyote Sprgs 2 ("CS2")~ the ungulated entity (Avist Power) purchad a plan that subsequetly proved to be a disaster. What is the Company's afer tle fact position? "We (A vista Corpraon) ordered th trcton by our unguted subsidia (Avi Power) for the 'befit' of our reguated cusomers." Ths is analogous to a broke buying a stock for hi own acunt, and then tw yeas late, when the trade is hopelessly under water, declag tht the trde was really for the cuomer's acount HOW DID CS2 GET STARTED? The CS2 fiasco began li many other recet energ debacles in the West, with Enrn playing ~ prominent role. CS2 wa originaly a Portand General Elecc ("PGE") project to be built as a compon to POE's Coyote Springs 1 generati station located nea Boaran Orgon. POE was a regulated Enron subsidiar dur the entirety of the CS2 saga. DID ENON PLAY ANY ROLE IN TI DEVELOPME OF CS2, OTHER TH BEING PGE'S PARET CORPORATION? Yes. On May 4, 1999 Enon ordered the turbine for CS2 from OE at a contrac price of $35,889,000. HOW DID AVISTA BECOME INOLVED WI CS2? DIRcr TETIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 7 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-4-1 and A VU-Go0i A.In mid.1999, Enon and POE decided to sell CS2. On October 4, 1999, Avisa Power 2 3 entered into an "evaluation ageement" with POE that allowed it to begin its due diligence investgaon of the pla. r asswne that other potential buy were also 4 investigati the purhase at abut the same time. 5 Q HOW WAS TI PROPOSED SALE STRUCTUD? 6 A.By the time it was completed, the deal wa classic En in its quirkiess. On October I, 7 1999, the days befor A vist Power signed its evaluation agreement, EnroD 8 inorprated Coyote Springs 2, LLC ("LLC") as a wholly owned subsidiar. On 9 December 22, 1999, Enron and POE agred to trfer CS2 to LLC, contient upon a 10 subsequent sale to an unidentified thir pary. The Decembe 2200 ageement also 11 divided up the proceed of the potental sale as fol1owsth POE and Enn would fit 12 recover thei "cos basis" in CS2 and the turbine, plus their out of pocket ánd allocated 13 cos of development. Thereaer, the fust $10.47 millon of profit wa allocated to POE, 14 the next $12 millon to Enll and any additional amounts were to be split. 15 Q. DID THIS POE AN ENRON DEAL CONlMPLA TE A SALE TO AVISTA 16 POWER? 17 A. , Not originlly. Appartly it was strctued for a sale to an unidentified third par who 18 ultimately backed out. Then Avist Power re-entered the picte. On March 4, 2000, 19 Avita Power signed a Ler oflntent ("LOI") with Enron to buy both CS2 and the 20 tubine. The LOr set the puchae price at $19.5 millon for CS2, an $40 milion for the 21 tubine. POE's and Enrn's collecve cost basis and developmen cost for CS2 were 22 idetied as $ 8,450,000, with the reainig $11,050,000 labeled as a "premium." 23 Q.WHAT DID AVISTA POWE IN TO DO WIll TH CS2 PLANT? DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESAU. 8 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-4-1 and A VU-G-1 1 A.As in the ca of th Radr plant, Avist Power prsuly inteded to opera CS2 2 as a mercha plant sellin into Western wholesae eleccity make. i bas ths ~ 3 presumption in pa on the plant's location, which is il suited to serve Avist Utiities 4 load centers th are loced far to the east of CS2. 5 Q DID TH PURCHASE CLOSE AS PLAND? 6 A.No. On June 20, 2000, th LOI wa amended to reaocate the purchas prce as $16.5 7 milion for CS2 an $43 milion for the tu. I càot fid an explanon for th 8 chage in any of the discovery documents we received, although I sur it may have 9 been the reult of a retion in the previous estima of developmen cost. 10 An even stger development took plac apprximly the weeks later, on 11 July 7, 2000, when Enn assigned its rights to the GE tune to A vista Power. On th 12 same day, Enron crated another subsidiar, LJM-Coyote ("LiM"). For a price of 13 $3,540,000, UM2 provided Avista Power with a two week ''put option" on the tubine. 14 In other words, frm July 7th thugh July 21sl, Avi Power coul requ LJ to 15 repur the tubine for the sum of$39.960,OOO. This put option wa never exerise 16 becus, on July 21, 2000, Enn assigned its inteest in LLC to A vist Power, thus 17 giving A vista Power ownerhip of CS2 as well as the tubine. 18 Q.WHY is TI LJM TRASACTON STRGE? 19 A.I ca think of no legitiate business reaon for A vista Power to ente into the put option 20 agrement. In the first plac, tubines we in short supply at the time, and A vist would 21 have had litte diffty re-selling the tmine if the CS2 de somehow collapsed. 22 Moreover, it is diffcult to understand why, if Avita Power feard the exposure of 23 holding the tubine before it seured the CS2 rights, it didn't simply insist on a DlR TESTONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 9 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-61 and A VU-G-Ð1 ..............................,...................................................................................-..................................................................-..................................................................................................................... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Q. 9 10 A. 11 12 13 Q. 14 A. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 A. 22 simultaeous trfer of the two components. Inea it alowed Enon to impose a tw- week gap on the signng of the two agreents and, in effect, sell it $3.5 milion of insuance to cover the mini exposu that gap cred. Finally, why would any reaonle busineseron pay $3.5 millon for a two wek "insce policy" issued by an empty corprat shelL, with no as and an opeatng history of less than a day, even if Enron guteed the put? TIs simply doesn't pas even a mimal smell test parcularly when the counte par is naed Enrll WHN ALL WAS SAID AN DONE, WHAT DID AVISTA PAY FOR CS2 AN TH TUIN? Th total purhase prce, inlud the option, wa approximately $59.5 milion, for a plant that, by my calcuations, appared to have an all-in cost of approximately $42 million. WHT WAS TH BOOK VALUE OF THE TRSFERRD ASSETS? The book value of the tubin would have bee the sae as its purchae price, $35,889,000. The Alloction Agmet date July 21, 2000 listed CS2's book value as $3,755,409, with an additiona $2,287,591 alocate to projec deelopment exenes. Consquently, the book value would have been $39,644,409 withoutthe development expns, and $41,932,000 if development expenses we capitaize an added to book value. WAS THAT THE EN OF AVISTA POWE'S INVOL VEMB WITH ENON? Not quite. In Apri of2002, CS2's prme contror, another Enon afate, fied for bany and CS2 lost the beefit of its fied price conscton contract while at the DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNI E. PESEAU - 10 !PUC Case Nos. A VU-E-i and A VUG-1 ........................................................................................................,...........................................................................................................................u......................................................_.............. 1 2 3 Q. 4 5 A. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 sae time incurng the cost of replacin the prie contctr an setting with subcntrrs. WAB THAT TI ONLY PROBLEM THT OCCURD DURG TH CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF CS2? No. It is fair to say that CS2 ha been an contiues to bet an ecnomic an operational nightmare. In May of2002t apprxitely a month befor th scheduled completion of the plant, a fire desoyed the trsformer purchased frm a Turkish supplier. This not only prevented the completion of the plan, it al resuted in an environmenta inident when water used to douse the fire over the splash pond built to conta the trsformer's contets in the event of an acident. Clean-up cost as of Deember 31, 2003 wee approxitely $1.7 millon, ha of which are A vista's responsibilty. A replaemen transformer arved at the site in Decmber, 2002, but an inon reveaed it could not be insled because of shipping dame. Repai to th tranrmer delayed CS2's commercia operation date fo more th a yea, to July, 2003. Ther, the plant wa in serce for apprxitely six months. It then exenced another round of trformer problems that shut it down aga. The projected dae for a retu to seice is now Aug of2004. YOU JUST DESCRIED CS2 AS AN ECONOMIC NIGHTMAR. AR YOU REFERRG TO SOMETHG BEYOND ITS CONSTRUCTON PROBLEMS? Yes. The constrcton probleI have causd the estimated cost of Avist's haf of the plat to swell from approximately $94 mion to $109 millon. In addition, the natura gas swaps I wil discus in detail later in my testiony produced losses in excess of $62 DIRCT TETIMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU .11 IPUC Case NO& A VU-E-041 and A VU.Go01 i millon. The bottm line is th A vist overpd for the plat in the original purhase, 2 an ever tu of the car sice then has only added to the miser. 3 Q.SO WHO PAYS FOR ALL THS?, 4 A.Under Avist's proposa 'to rate base the entity of the plant's cost Avistrateayers 5 will pay for all of these problems. If Avista's proposa is acepted, the only entities that 6 wa away from this train wrck uncathed ar the plants ongi own. Avi Power. 7 and its part. A vista Coipration. 8 Q HOW DOES A VISTA POWER ESCAPE AN RESPONSffILIT FOR CSlS 9 PROBLEMS? 10 A.In December of2000. Avista Corporation anoun it would acqui CS2 from Avist 11 Power. But it did not in fact follow though on ths anouncement. Instead, it vailate. 12 Intern A vist memos indicae th A vista Powe was trin to sell the en plant to 13 th pares in the summer and fall of 2001. But A vist Power received only one full 14 prce offer from Mirant, and that prospecve dea fell apar whe Mirant ran into ca 15 flow problems. Ultimaely. Avist Powe ended up sellg 50 perent of the plant to 16 Mirat, and 50 percent to Avista Coipration. 17 Q.WH DID TIESE SALS OCCUR? 18 A.A vita Power asigned a SO percent intet in LLC to Mirat on Decmber 12, 200 i. 19 But it did not transfe the other 50 perent of th plat to Avist Corportion unl 20 Januar 1, 2003, af the close of th test yea in ths cae. 21 Q GIV TIS mSTORY, WHT is TH APPROPRITE RATBMAG 22 TRTM FOR CS2? DIRcr TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU .12 IPUC Case Nos. AVUE-ß1 and Avt04.1 1 A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Q. 12 13 A 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 I have tw recommendatons concerng CS2. The fist is that th cost of the plant should not be inluded in rat ba in ths cae. CS2 is demonsbly not used an usefu, and its trck recrd does not inpire confdenc it will be used and us in the nea :f. A vist has had th tres at completng the plant and get it rug on a reliable bass. It ha stck out al th ties. Given ths history, the plant's cost should not be eligble for recovery in regulat rates unti it ha a deonstated tr recrd of usfuess and reliabilty. Furennore, ü and when the plant does become eligible for inclusion in rae base, the rate based costs should be limted to the plan's fair market value, as decrbed below, as of th trfer date of Janua i, 2003. WH ARE YOU PROPOSING TO REUCE THE PLANT'S COST IN THIS MA? I am simply applyig stdard ratemg preceps to the purhae. A vist Powe is an wiegulated Avist Corporon subsidiar, and tractions between it and Avist Corpraion ar clealy not at an lengt. I am not an atorney, but I have spent enough yeas in the regulatory field to stae that, in jurisdicton I am famlia with when a utility purchases goods or service from an ungulated afflie. the burden is on the utility to prove th the purcha price di not exced fair maet value. In the present cas. becuse of al the construion disast, it is quite clea th trerr CS2 to A vista Corpon at cost cretes a purchae price that is well in excess of fa market value. These exce costs should be dislowe. It is patently unjus to as th rateayes to relieve Avist Power of th unortate consequence of its half ownerp ofCS2. DIRCl TESTIMONY OF DENIS E. PESEAU .13 IPUC Case Nos. AVU-E-1 and AVU-G1 1 Q.DOES TH FACT THAT AVISTA CORPORATION PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCE 2 AN INTION TO ACQUI TI PLANT MA ANY DIFERECE IN THIS 3 CASE? 4 A.No. Avist's anunced intetions came afer Avista Power ha aldyoverd for the 5 asse it purchasd from PGE and &ron, so an adjustent to fair maket value would 6 have been in order even thn. In addition, even though the hoards of directors of the 7 involved compaes autorize their executives to prce with the transation, the 8 companies never acted on those resolutons. Avist's discver responses cotan no 9 contrct, memoradum of unerstding, or any other docent tht would evidence an 10 intention to prceed with the sale. Under those circumstaces, Avis Power wa under 11 no legal obligation to sell to Avi Corption, and it in fat tred to sell the plant to 12 thrd paes month afr the anouncement. Eventuly it did sell haIfto Mirant. 13 Avist unlateally chose to purase CS2 thugh its ungulat subsidiar, 14 thereby avoidig any reguatory consnts on its use or diosition of the assets. Let us 15 suppose tht Avista Power had succeeded in the suer of 2001 in selling the plat at a 16 profit. Would Avita Power have volunteered to sha the procee with the ratepayer 17 just because at on tie it innde to sell the plant to A vist Corporation? Ths is the 18 same A vist that reiste sharing the Centra sae prees with raayer. A vista 19 would have argued tht the dea wa never consate, and th ratepayers never 20 acquired an equitale interst in the plant thugh th payment of depreciation. 21 Q HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO DETERM TH FAI MAT VALUE OF CS2? 22 A.The Commssion could conduct fuer proceedigs for the express purse of makng 23 suh a detemion, but there is a much easer metod rely available. Just two yeas DIRCl TESTIONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 14 IPUC Case Nos. AVU.E-1 and AVU.G-i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Q. 15 16 17 A. 18 19 20 21 22 ago, th Commion conducte an extensive investation to dete the cost of a 270 megawatt combin cycle natal ga plant to use as å suga avoided resour ("SAR") for the purose of caculing avoided cost ras. On Aug 2, 2002, one month afer CS2's origin schedule4 completion date, and five month before the trfer of CS2 to A vita Corportion, A vista fied rebutt testony identing the most rent constrction cost estimats for the SAR as $604/klowaU. I see no reon why A vista should not be held to its own contemporeous estate of the cost of consg a plant nealy identical to CS2. This figur, afr all, repreents the maxmum value A vist Corporaon was willing to pay for the purchase of resurces frm unlate thd pars just before it acuired CS2 frm A vita Powe. Using the $604 figue prduces a fair maket value for CS2 of $84,560,000 for Avist's shae of CS2. The Comion should not allow cost above ths amount in rate base at any time. The Natural Gas Hedges WHAT is THE iSSUE WITH RESPECT TO TH "DEAL A" AND "DEA B" HEDGE TRASACTIONS IN mE COMMSSION'S ORDER ON A VISTA'S 2003 PCAFILING? To its credit, the Commssion reognzed the peuliar natue of both Dea A an Deal B in the 2003 peA prceg and deferr a deciion on the costs of these des into the presnt general rate cas. As I explai below, the high costs associate with each deal ar the resut of imprut decisions and self-dealing between Avist Corpraon and Avist Energy. A vist' s actions have resuted in excess natu gas costs of more than $62 million on a system-wide bais. DIRCT TESTONY OF DENN Eo PESEAU . IS IPUC Cas Nos. A VU.E....i aDd A VUG-i ......................................."...............................................................,.......................,.................................,..................................,....................................................................................,............,'.... 1 Q. 2 3 4 A. S 6 7 8 9 Q. 10 11 A. 12 13 14 Q. HAVE MOST OF THE INORMTION, DATA, AN FACTS NECESSARY TO UNERSTAN TH NATUR OF DEAL A AN DEAL B BEE TRATE AS CONFIDENT BY AVISTA? Yes. Th is unortate, as most of th confdential tring data necessa to understand Deal A and Deal B are public an available on the FERC website as par of the PEC's show-cause procee th cunated in its Mach 2003 PA02-o2 report Fina Report on Price Mapulaton in Western Marets. Ther is therefore, no valid reason to contiue to trat hirica trg da as confideti. WHAT IS THE DIFFERECE BETWEN TH NATUR GAS TRASACTIONS OF DEAL A AN DEA B AND NORM NATUL GAS TRSACTIONS? Thre ar at leas the distnct asec of the Dea A and Deal B tranactions th ar pecul. The fist dinction is that the Dea A and Dea B tres were finacia as oppose to physical transactions. 16 A. 15 PHYSICAL TRANSACTIONS? WHAT is TH DISTICTON BETWE NA11 GAS FIANCIA AN 17 quatity of natu gas at specifed prcig, tes ~d conditions. In physical gas A physical traction is the more nonnal an common purhae of an acua, physical 18 tracons, ther ar no winners OT losers. The buyer receives a specifc quatity of gas 19 at agreed upon prcing ters. The seller recives a payment for providing the physical 20 gas to the buyer. 21 A financial nal gas transaction involves no actua exchnge of physical gas. 22 Insead, a financial dea is agrd upon by buyer an seer in which the buyer bet tht 23 futu gas price wil increa, while the seller bets that fu gas prces wil decase. DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU . 16 IPUC Cas Nos. A VU-E-64-1 and A VU-G-01 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 A. 21 22 Q. 23 24 25 A. 26 Dependig upon the :f monly movement of ga prices, the loser, or th counte on the wrng side of the bet wrte a monthy check or "settes" with the other par. The PEC re just referenced defies finacia gas sws silar to Dea A an Dea B as: In a swap, two counares execute a trde in which th buyer pays a fixed, known price for some notional quatity of gas and the seller pays a price that wil var with the maket price (generly based on some ageed upon price indx). which will only be known later. Thus, the buyer in a swa trsacton is goin long - ma a be that the market prce wil rise - an the seller is beg tht price will fa. (page II-51) On the four days April 10, Apnll1, May 2 and May 10,2001, Avist Ener entered into the finaia sws, Dea A and Deal B,on behaf of Avista Utilities that we of unpreedeted length and lost over $62 milion for ratepayers. At no time durng the te oftbese tw deals wee thes finacial tres "in the money," or profitable for Avist Utilities. The deas were extaordnaly profitable for the thee seller counteares. WHO WERE 1l COUNARTI TO THESE lRSACTONS? BP and Mit were the counterpares on Dea A. Increible as it may seem, Avist Energ,y was the countear for De B. WH WOULD TH SAM ORGANIATION SIMTANEOUSLY TAK OPPOSITE SIDES OF TH BET ON TI DEAL B SWAP? ISN'T THIS A "ZERO SUM GAM?' The fact tht the PCA proted Avis Cororation is the .only th tht mae ths an attactive trsaction for Avis Corporation. The PCA insulated the shaholde of the DJRcr TETIMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU - 11 llUC Case Nos. A VU-E-04-1 and A Vl041 1 2 3 Q. 4 A. S 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 21 A. 22 23 parent company by pasin. though to ratepayer the excess of the locked in hedged natu gas prces over and above the acal maket prices tht exist at the time. MIGHT lHS BE SIMLY A CASE OF BAD LUCK FOR A VISTA'S CUSTOMES? No. The only maer in whch a fiancia swp can be consued is with a wining buyer and a wig seller. The reason for entering a sw on either side is because one's inormation on market prcing makes the nsk of this bet wortwhle. Agan, the only possible reason for Avista Utilities to buy th long-te finacial Swap th it did was beuse it was predctig gas prces would continu to incrase. If futue gas prces at the tie the swap was entered were expectd either to reai at the then high levels, or to decrease then entering th fied pnce swap could ony har the buyer. On the other side, the seller A vist Energy appartly had information suesti that fu gas prices were not goin to rise above th agree upon price per decathemi over the subsequet 17 month, or it would have been foolish to sell the swap. Unless Avist Energy based its action on inormon tht prces would either reman at their hig levels or fall, it would have been acg directy agt the be interts of its shaeholders. If natu gas prices try were expectd to incras over the subsequent 17 month, the best action for both Avist Utilities and A vi Enrgy would have bee for A vita Utilities to buy the fied-price swap frm a less inormed counterp. is THERE ANHING ELSE UNSUAL ABOUT AVISTA CORPORATION'S DECISION TO MAKE TH SWAP? Yes. At the time, A vist Energy brokered all of the natural gas and electrc tr mae for th benefit of Avista Utities. Avista'sjustfication for ths practice was that Avist Energy's continuous maket parcipaton provides it with maket inights and knowledge DIRCT TESONY OF DENNIS E. PEAU . is IPC Case Nos. A VU-E-1lUd A VU.G-4-1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q. 10 A. 11 12 Q. 13 14 A. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 that the utty division does't have. Avista Energy's role as a broke for the utty division placed it in a fiduciar position that reuied it to diclose the fact th it considerd Deal B (and by implication, Deal A) to be a bad deal for Avist Utilities. If A vist Ener did disclose tht fact and the additiona fac th it was tag the other side of th sw, it wa obvously imprden for Avista Utities to proce with swaps tht th par with superior knwledge regaed as foolish. If A vist Energy did not dilose its role, then it violate its fiduciar reponsbilties. and that alone would be' grunds for diowing the cost of both deals in rate. WHT WAS TH RESULT OF THE DÈAL B SWAP WITH A VISTA ENGY? The result wa tht A vist Utilities imediately began monthy transfers of wha tued out to be iiUions of dolla to Avist Energy. HOW COULD 1lRE BE AN IMMDIATE TRASFER OF CASH? I THOUGHT THE SWAP WAS FOR GAS TO BE DELIVRED IN THE FUT. The immedate impact occued because of the way fiancial tres such as this ar setted. As I stated ealier. swaps lik this ar litealy bet on the diretion of prces. Consquently, thy settle monthy baed on the futus prce of gas for the time period covered. In any month in which th fus price is less than the fixed prce. the buyer (Avista Utities) los his bet an must cut a check to the seller (Avist Energy) for the differenc. 1 WHT is TH ULTITE SIGNIICANCE OF THE WAY THE TRES AR SETTLED? 1 Avi converd Deal Ð to a physical purchas at an equivaent fied pri on Jwi 20,200. DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU . 19 IPUC Case Nos A VU.E-1 an A VU-G041 ..................n....'.......,........,..........,.................,.,.................,......................._......._............__..........................._...............'...n.....................................,................................,...................,...,................... 1 A.It explai why the Commsion realy ha no chice but to disalow Deal B. Any other 2 decision would prvide Idao utiities that have a PCA or PGA with a blueprint on how 3 to rad rapayers' pockets for the benefit of shholders. 4 Q.HOW DOES AVISTA UTIITIES AITMPT TO JUSTIY IT DECISION TO 5 ENER INO ''BUYS'' IN BOTH DEAL A AN DEA B? 6 A.Avista witess Mr. Laer discusse these tw deals (acty four tractions) in 7 pages 29w56 of his testony. The attptedjustfication, whle sometimes repetitive, is 8 outlined as follows: Deal A and Del B were mae becus: 9 1.Avist wa in an elecc reource deficit or a "short-posti~" durg the hedge 10 perods. (pp. 3 lw32, 37-40, 42-47) 11 2.The high hedge prces of Deal A and Dea B still comp favoraly to forw 12 maet prices of electrc purha at the tie. (pp. 32-36) 13 3.Electc maket prices in Januar.May 2001 were high, and federa opposition to 14 prce caps sugge no relief in marke prices. (pp. 40-42, 41-42) 15 4.The 36 month and i 7 month duron of Deal A and Deal B were not unusua ters 16 for company hedges oftms sort. (p. 48w52) 17 S.The company did not exec tht forward natul gas prices would decline as they 18 did. (pp. 52-53) 19 6.The tes orDea A an Deal B were consistnt with maket conditions on Aprill 0 20 and May 10. (pp.53-54) 21 Q.WOULD TH DEFICIT ELECTRC RESOURCE POSITION IDENTIFIED BY TH 22 COMPANY JUSTIY BUYG FIANCIA HEDGES LIK DEAL A AN DEAL 23 B? DIRCl TEIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 20 ¡PUC Case Nos. A VU-E-04-1 and A VU-G04-1 1 A.No. I fist wa to ma clear that Potlat does not want in any way to discoure 2 apprpriat resource acquisitions to manta the reliabilty of service to cusmers. 3 However, I am quite swnsed tht the company teony in ths red sugges that 4 somehow De A and Deal B in any way assis in covenng a resourceshort position. 5 Q.WHY DO YOU INDICATE TIT DEAL A AN DEAL B DID NOT ASSIST 6 A VISTA IN COVEG ANY RESOURCE DEFICIT? 7 A.Finial fixed-fot-floatin swaps such as Deal A and Dea B never prvide for any 8 physica quatities of natul gas. Again, Deal A an Dea B ar strcty the ta of 9 "price positions" between two paes, a buyer and seller. For example, if! thought th 10 nat ga prce were going to incrase in the near-term and I could locate a pary 1 i thnkg the opposite, I could buy a na gas fiial swap and reap gas or sufer 12 losses according to my acy, and never be involved with actu physica quantities of 13 gas. 14 If I need naral gas to close an electrc resoure deficit, I would need to enter into i 5 disct physical gas contr as a buyer. Deal A an Dea B did not entitle A vista to 16 even a molecue of metane. 17 Q.IF A VISTA NEEDED ADDmONAL NATUL GAS SUPPLY TO COVER TH 18 PERCEIVD DEFCIT, HOW DID IT ACQUI SUCH SUPPLIES? 19 A.The company on March 13 and Marh 22, 2001, entered int 36 month and 17 mont 20 physical trdes for 27,658 and 20,000 d.cathens per day at maket inex-baed prces. 21 Thes tw gas contracts alone filled the need to cover the resour deficits discusse by 22 the Compay. Deal A and Dea B merly expressed the perceived dirction th natu 23 gas prices would ta over th eng 36 and i 7 month periods been the bettng DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNS E. PESEAU -:n IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-4-1 aDd A VU-G1 ...........~.... ......... ........-........ ........ ... ......... ........ - _.....-.. -........ .... ... ................. ................ ........... ..... _... ..... ...... ......... ...., ............. ........... ..... .... ......,... ...... ..... ... ...... ... .........-........ ......, ....... ,.......................... 1 2 ' 3 Q. 4 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q. 16 A. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 pares. The Common should reject any notion th these fiancial swps can be peddled to customer on the bais of encing system reliabilty. WHT DO YOU MAKE OF MR LAFFERTY'S DISCUSSION ON PAGES 32-36 OF HIS TETIONY THT SUGGESTS TH DEALS WERE PRUDENT BASED ON THE TH FORWARD MA PRICES? The analysis at pages 32-36 of Mr. Laffer's testimony attempts to demonstrte tht the varable cost of power produced by A vita's geneato would have bee below the prdicted fu maet powe prices at the gas prices in Dea A and Deal B. That is, Avis was predicting tha at the Dea A and Deal B fixed swap prices, buyng gas for inter genertion would be cheaper th buying on the elecc makets. This assmes, of course, that the exstig forw power prices at mid-Columbia represented a goo predictor of actua prces in the fue. Whle ths anysis is maematically corr, it hay demonstrtes that tle Deal A and Deal B tr wer prnt PLEASE EXLAI. The anysis presented is tle stang point for an "arbitrage" trad. An arbitrge is the simultaus buying and selling of fugible commodties in diferent markets in order to mae an imedat, nskless profit. For clarfication of the proper use of Mr. Laer's analysis I refer to th Coyote Sprigs 2 table at the bottom of page 32 of his temony. The first row indicates tht the Dea B gas fixed price is $6.56 per decatherm and, at the CS2 plants' heat rate, Dea B gas could produce electcity at a varable cost of S46.06/MWh. The forward electric prces. accrding to Avista showe power prices at tle tie of$126.75 and S105.38/M. DIRCl TESTONY OF' DENNIS E. PESU - 22 IPC Case Noii. A VU-E-041 and A VU4.1 ...... .......... ....... ............. ......... ........ .......... ..,....... ....~... .....~.... ............ ........... .................. ......... ,....... ,............ .... .... -... ...... .......... ................... ...... .............-.... ...... .......... .............................. ....................... 1 A power trader faing th cirumstance would, if the marke held, 2 simutaeoùs lock in a buy at the $6.56 gas price and a sae at the $126. 7S an 3 S105.381MWh electc prces to insu a nskless profit equa to th dierece beeen 4 thes tw energy sae prices and the $46.061M the electrcity would cost to produce. 5 Th would be a raonal use of Mr. Laert's anlysis. 6 Q.DOES TH ANALYSIS PREEND BY MR. LAFFERTY DEMONSTRTE THT 7 DEAL A AND DEAL B WERE PRUDENT AT TI TIME FOR TI PUROSE OF 8 PROTECTING RATEPAYERS? 9 A.No. Unlike the arbitre cae where a certin outome (1he risless prfit) is locked in by lOa conscious decision to forego possible upside and avoid all downside, the ope hedges II ,conducte by Avistadid the opposite. Avista's hedges in esse locked in the downide 12 - by fixing ga prce at nea record levels for up to 36 month - and precluded th i 3 ratepayers gettng any upside if gas prces reted to more norm histric levels. 14 Q.WOULD AVISTA ENRGY HA VB ENTD TI SELL SIDE OF THSE 15 HEDGES IF IT EXPECTED NATU GAS PRICES TO CONTI UPWAR? 16 A.Absolutely not. Doing so would have be a dict contction of mageìent's 17 fiducia responsibilty to shaholdes. A vista Energy mae a calculated bet tha the i 8 very high natu gas marke prices could not be susned. By sellig Deal B to the 19 utility for prices that exceeded S6.00/decathen it stood to reap all th profit frm fang 20 prces. If prices simply remane at the thn high levels, A vist Energy stood to lose 21 nothg. Only if gas price incrasd fuer from these high levels, did it risk losing 22 money. The end resut is tht Avist Energy made an obvious be and reaped more th 23 $18 milion in benefits from its parnt utility. DIRCl TESTONY OF DENNI E. PBSEAU - 23 IPUC Cae Nos. A VUpE-041 and A VUG-041 ..................nu....................................................................................,.....'"....................................................................u........,..,...................................................................................................... 1 Q.PLEASE ADDRESS MR LAFFERTYS DISCUSSION ON PAGES 4042 2 REGARING TH PRUDENCE OF THEE TRNSACTIONS. 3 A.Beginnng on line 17 of his page 40, Mr. Laf sugests that a prnt pern would 4 have viewed th high wite prices of20OO.2001, an th feder goverment's position 5 agint th implemention of price caps, as reasons to "go long" with the natu ga 6 ' hedges. I have jus two short comments on th pomt 7 First, th prudent man at Avista who wa buying the fixed-price hedge on behal 8 of the utility wa the sae man who wa selling it on behalf of Avista Energy. Takg 9 simultaeous and opposite positions on the sae trction cat each be deemed 10 prudent. The sam maket obsetion of high prices and prce caps could not have led a 11 single individual or committee to opposite conclusions regarng th futu near-term 12 trnd in gas prces. 13 Second, other utilities and maket paricipants in the wester U.S. observed th 14 same maket phenomena discussed by Mr. La and did not tae long-term price 15 positions th anticipated fuer ga price incrases. 16 Q.PLEASE DISCUSS MR LAFERTY'S TESTIONY ON PAGES 48-52 THT 17 SUGGESTS TI T TI 36 MONTH AN 17 MONT HEDGES ARE COMMONLY 18 MAE BY THE UTILITY. 19 A.Mr. Laer's discussion here mvolves only physica resource acquisitions not fmacial 20 hedges. I cey agr with him that any resource portlio should have varous short 21 medium, and long~term resource. In ths Jight, I do not challenge or tae issue with 22 A vista's enteg into its Mah 13 and Mah 22 long-ter phsical gas pure 23 contr, as I previously note. DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENNIS E. PEEAU - 24 IPUC Case Nos. AVU-E-04-1 audAVU.G-D4-1 .........................................................O¥................................................................................................................... .'._....'.............................................................................................,..............._... The issue here, of coure, is th A vist took an unprecedente lon-term prce 2 view in the fonn of finacial hedges and, in combination with its subsidi A vist 3 Energy, Avista Corporaon, took both sides of the trsaon. Mr. Laert is silent on 4 these points. 5 Q.HAS AVISTA EVER. TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE, ENERD INO FIANCIAL 6 HEDGES AS LONG AS THE 36 MONlH AND 17 MONTH TERMS OF DEA A 7 ANDDEALB? 8 A.No. hi respnse to Potlatch's data reest, Avista provide a lis of al ret financial 9 hedges and fixed price contrs. Of th 67 fixed-price tranactions provided, the i 0 overhelming majority of the contrac were for te of 1-3 months, with a few with 1 i terms of one year. Only the Deal A and Deal B tractions were for such long perods. 12 I conclude tha it is not Avist's norm buness pracice to ente into long-term pnce 13 hedges. 14 Q.HA VB YOU REVIEWED OTH DATABASES FOR INORMTION TO 15 DETERMIN WHTH mE 36 AND 17 MONT TERMS OF DEA A AND 16 DEAL B AR COMMONPLACE IN TH INUSTRY? 17 A.Yes. In conjunction with its investigation of electrc and na gas price mapulation 18 in weste U.S. markets, th FERC compiled masive dabase regardíng both physical 19 and ficial natu gas trs. As a check on the frequency of long-ter fmancial 20 hedges, I reviewed th FERC data fie for al natura ga financial hedges that we 21 entered into durg May 2001, the sam period as Deal A and Deal B. 22 Accordin to the da base file, there were 37,472 such transations durng May 23 200 i. The huge preponderace of these financia hedges was for th immediate month or DIRCT TESTONY OF DENNI E. PESEAU - 25 LPUC Cas Nos AVU.E-041 aDd AVU-G-01 ..........................................................................................................................................__...'..................................................................................................................... ...._-.-.........,.-..........._--.. 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 quaer ahea althoug some we for quarly i*ods endig as late as Deceber 2002. I found no othr financial trades tht extended as long as the 36 and 17 month te contned in De A and Deal B. PLEASE ADDRESS MR. LAFERTY'S TEST!0NY THAT TH DEèLIN IN NATU GAS PRICES WAS UNORESE~LE. Mr. Laert's testmony on paes 52-53 sttes tha "the Compay" did not expect tht forward natual gas prices would decline, as of coUre they did (page 52. lines 3~6). I canot from the context of the stateent aser just what ''te Compay" is. Cey, Avist Energy expeced a decline in nat gas p1ce. or it would not have sold the fied , prce swa. I Furer, Mr. Lafert's explanation does nqtjust the utity buying the swa. As I exlaied ealier, buying the fixed-prce swap only gave the utity protecton from , fuer increes in gas prices, not from the then existing level of high prices. Mr. Laerty expla ony tht "... the Compay expctd the price for natal gas would remain high for some time into the fu..." (page 52, lines 5-6). He does not mae the arguent tht the Company exctd gas prces to contiue to increas, which would be the only legitimae reason for th swaps. WERE TH TERM OF DEA A AN DEAL B CONSISTE WI MAT CONDmONS ON APRl 10 AND MAY 10,2001, AS MR. LAFTY ARGUES? As I have prously indicated, ther wer apparently no other natul gas hedge tranactions occurng that wer comparble to Dcal A and Dcal B. The references Mr. Lafert makes to forwd prce cues at th tie ceainl is no indication of wht an DIRCl TEIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU .26 IPUC CalC Nos. A VU-E-4-1 and A VU04-1 ................................"......................................................,............................,.....,.. ....-...-'.............,...,.........................................................,.......................,..................,........,................................. 1 2 3 Q. 4 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 is 19 20 21 Q. 22 A. 23 ar-lengt buyer and seller might agre upon for ficial hedges of up to 36 month in len. WHT is YOUR RECOMMATION WI REPECT TO TH FIANCIAL LOSSES CLAMED BY TH UTTY IN CONJUCTION WITH DEAL A AN DEAB? The fiancial losses incued by the utilty in Dea A and Dea B are sumzed in my Exbit No. 202. As of March 31, 2004, the cumulative losses to the utility on th hedges were $62,446,000. Thes losse represent the differnce beteen what the utiity would have pad for natu gas on the ma (absent the hees) and the high fixed gas prce tht it agr to pay by virtue of the hedges. The market prices for ga ar shown for the Malin receipt point, and ar compared to th weighed average price of the heges, labeled "Averge $/dt." For Deal A, the cumulative finania loss wa $44,175,600. For Deal B, the cumulative loss wa $18,270,400. Since De B involves self-deaing and a dit trfer of the utility's losses to sharholder profits, the enti $18.3 milion must be dilowed, adjusted of cour for the Idao jursdiction sha and for the PCA te peod. Dea A did not involve self deain, but it wa ceiny imprdent and it is fuer sus due to the unrecened term of 36 months an the high locke in price. I believe it should liwise be disallowed. But if the Commssion for some reason reject ths proposal, I propose, in the alternative, a lesser adjustment based on a more normal hedging strtegy. PLEAE EXLA TH LATI RECOMMATION. Dea A repreent two hege contracts of 10,000 decthenns each for a penod of 36 month. Th naed coun pares to th Del A contts ar private entities with no DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DEN:E. PESAU ~ 27 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-L and A VU~G-4-1 ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................,.. .............."..-.-......,.,.,. 1 appart lega connection to Avista. According to the Company's repons to Potlath's 2 data requests, A vista did not have either of these entities "sleeve," (conduct the tre for 3 Avista Ener's benefit) the traction. Thus, ther wa no apparent enchment of 4 Avi's shaolde. But De A wa neverteless an imprudet $44.2 milion hedge 5 given its dmation and the fact th it wa put on contr to Avista Engy's position. 6 I base my adjusent on Avista's norm hede stregies for all its other fied 7 price gas purchaes. As I std earlier. Avista normally hedges for gas deliveries in 8 ensuing seaons and occasionay for peods as long as one year. If A vist had followed 9 its normal hedng stttegy it would have avoided the disasus 36 month Deal A fixed 10 price of S6,45/decatherm. 11 Q.HOW is THS INORMATION USED TO CALCULATE AN ADJUSTMENT FOR 12 DEAL A? 13 A.My revew of Avist's confdential information on other hedges reveals that Avista's 14 normal hedges were established approximately six month pror to a sean (November. 15 Mach or Apri-0etber). I threfore usd the Mali natual gas contr prices in effec 16 si months prior to eah upcoming seon as a bas price. For example, May 1,2001 17 prices were used for the November 200 1.Mar 2002 season. These prces are then 18 subtacted frm the Deal A price. The results ar sud in my Exhbit No. 203. 19 Q. 20 A. WHT DOES EXHIT NO. 203 SHOW? Th exhbit indicates th ü Avista ha not enterd into Dea A and inad hedge in 2 i the same mar tht it wa hedgi other natural gas purchas in the same tie frame, 22 gas cost would have ben '30,365,240 lowe. I altertively propose tht, should the 23 Commsion not dialow the enety of the Deal A cost, it should disallow $30.4 DmECI TESTIONY OF DENIS E. PESEAU . 18 IPUC Case Nos. AVU-E-041 aDd AVl1 ..........................n............................................u...................................,.............................................................................................................................................'....................... millon of Deal A costs, adjuste for both the Idao jursdction as well as th peA test 2 period. 3 The Tes Year Mismatch 4 Q.YOU EARIER STATED THAT AVISTA'S CASE CONTAIS A MISMATCH OF 5 REVENS AND EXPENSES. PLEASE EXLAI WHT YOU ME BY THE 6 WORD "MISMATCH," 7 A.Avista caculates its tes year revenue in a sthtoi maer. Test year revenues'. 8 const of2002 ac figws, "normzed" for wether and other stadar Commission 9 appved adjustnents. On the other side of the ledger, however, expnses and rate base 10 are treated in a much differet maer. Avista pro form increases in selected expen 11 items, such as pesion, insuce, and labor cost, to 2004 levels. A vi also includes in 12 rate bae a number ofprject th were plaed in serce afer the tet year, as well as 13 constrction work in progrs that is scheuled for completion in 2004. These 14 adjustents produce operang and maintenace incres of approxiately $5.4 milion, 15 rate bae additions of$54 milion, and associad dereiation increes of $2.3 millon. 16 The net effect is a mismatch of2002 reues agait year-end 2004 exes and rate 17 bas. 18 Q.is THIS AN ACCEPTABLE RA TEMAG PROCEDUR? 19 A.No. For unown reasons Avista chose a 2002 te year, rather th 2003. Havi made 20 that choice, it should not be allowed to unlatrally alter the test year relationship beteen 21 revenues. expenses and rate base. It is a fudamenta principle of regultion tht a 22 utlity's rate base and expenses should be'matched agait revenues for the sae period. 23 Avist's pro fonn reults clealy violate this prciple. DIRECT TESTONY OF DEN E. PESEAU "29 IPUC Case Nos. AVU~E-041 and AVU-G-1 ........;.... ........ ......... ......... .... ........ ......... ........ -......." .-...... ..._...... .._...... .......... ..... ... ...... ........"" ........" ..... ............. ..... .........." .... ..............~........u.......u.............~.........u... .......................""".. .................... .... Q.AR YOU SUGGESTIG PRO FORM CHANGES TO A TEST YE BASE CASE 2 SHOULD BE REJECTED OUT OF HA? 3 A.No. Addin known and meaable chages to a test year bae case is a legitiate 4 reguatory tool, but it must be used with exe cawon beus of the high potetial for 5 abe. In a rate cae, utilies have every incentive to idenfy changes tht incre the 6 reenue reuiement, but no incentive at al to find revenue enhcing chanes. 7 Consequetly, it comes as no surrise that all of Avist's proposed known an 8 measurable chanes produc an incree in revenue requiement. These chages should 9 either be reject or accmpaed by a corresponding adjustent to reenues. 10 Q.CAN YOU PROVIDE AN EXALE OF THE TYPE OF KNOWN AND 11 MEASURALE CHAGE TIT SHOULD BE ACCEPTED? 12 A.The classic exaple is a post.test yea chage in ta rates. Pluggig the new tax rates 13 into the reveue requireent cacultion does not ditub the relationshi beten test 14 revenues and expenses and is obviously equitable. 15 Q.WHAT RULES SHOULD BE APPLIED TO POST-TEST YE KNOWN AN 16 MEASURBLE CHAGES? 17 A.Post.test year expense and rate bas adjusents should only be acceptd when they are 18 in fact try known and meaurble. In order to quaif, a proposed adjustment mus be 19 virtaly cerin to occur, and its revenue reuiment impact must be precisely and 20 reliably quatiable. Fuenore, thre mus be some limt on the tie interv been 21 the test year and pr form adjustmens. 22 Q.AR A VISTA'S PRO FORM ADJUSTMS CONSISTET WI THE RULES 23 YOU HA VB JUST DESCRIED? DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 30 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-..i and A vu-Go..i No. In the case of its pr forma expense adjusent) the time lag beween the 2002 test year and adjusents based on 2004 data or projections maes thes adjustments inequitable. WHY is TH TI LAG IMPORTAN For most utiities) exenses tend to increae every year. but this is offset in whole or in par by effciency improvements and load grwt. If this were not so) utlities would automatically fie rate caes every yea. Avista's own rate cas histry nicely ilustrtes ths point. Its las rate case occurd in 1998, and the one before tht wa sever yea ealier. Avista's pr forma exene adjustents for items like incased labor) ince, and sinular cost ar simply 200 budget estimates. It is absolutely inppropriate to match these exenses agaist 2002 revenues beuse normal load growt wil recup some or all ofthese cost. The Conuion should either reect the 2004 adjustents or impute revenue increases to the 2002 test yea to correc this mistc AR AVISTA'S PRO FORMA ADDmONS TO RATE BASE SUBJECT TO TIE SAME OBJECTIONS? Only in par. Additions to Avist's generati caty were added to th power supply model, and ths presumably adds revenues or decreases exenss as a result of the pro form plant additions. I have not attemted to conf tht this modelig chae wa properly implemented. but I assume Stawill do so. If the implementation was corrcty done, I have no objecon to the pro for adjusents as such, although I have proposed the removal of Coyote Sprigs 2 on other grunds, as discusse above. DIRCT TETIONY OF DENNIS Eo PESEAU - 31 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E--1 and A Vl04i ..... ..... ..............-....... ........ .......... ..... ........... .....~.. ...... ...,'........................... .....,......... .,.. . ..... .... ........... ..,.." ........ ,....~..................,......... ..... ............ ........... .....,....... ....... ................,....................... ...... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 , 1 i 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Q. 22 A. 23 24 25 26 27 Q. But there is no siilar revenue adjustment for the $26,300,000 in 2003 and 2004 transsion projects A vista pro form into th rate base, even thugh these additions wil alo prduce either additional reenues or opetiona savigs. Like other busiesses, utilities generally do not ma additional investents or increse their expenses unes they can generte additiona revenues and profits, eithr by servng additional customers, or by cuttng costs or increasng magins. There is no reon to assume ths is not the cae here. The projected expnditues A vista ha identified must be prsued to generate additional revenues or other benefits that would offset their costs, in whole or in pa. Avis has mad no atempt to identi thes offsettng benefits. As the Commssion pointed out in its recent order in the Idao Power rae case: Generally speang, the Commssion expects al utilties to atempt to identify exnse savin and revenue prducing effects when proposing rate base adjustments for major plant additions. It is unfai to raepayers to assume tht the investment in the plans win not incre Company revenue or decreae Compay expenses in.the fu. Furer, it is uneaonable to expt the Commssion to allow ful recovery,ofplant investment as if the plant ha been in operaion the ful year without a correspondi adjustment to revenues and expenes. Order No. 29505, p. 7. HOW SHOULD TIS MISMATCH BE CORRD? There are basicaly th alternive remedes available to correc ths rate base mismath. The firs would be to reverse the pro form entres and properly match test year averages on both sides of the ledger. The second alternative is to update reenues to th 2004 level in the same maer as rate bas and expenses. Finally, the thrd altertive is to employ th rate base adjusents the Commsion adopted in the Idaho Power ra cae. DO YOU HA VB A PREFERENCE BETWEN nmSE THREE ALTERNATIES? DIlCT TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 32 IPC Case Nos. A VU-E-U4-1 and A VU.o4-1 .................................... ....... ............................... ...... .......... ........ .... ... .....~......... .............. ....................... ....... ............... ......... .......... ...........-.....-....................... .......... ..... .......... .......... ......................... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 .10 11 12 13 14 1.5 Q. A.A! I have stte in other cas, I th anuaizg revenues to 2004 year.end levels is the preerable cour for two reons. Firt, it is much simpler to anualize reenues than to back out pro forma adjustments from numus expense and rate base categories. Moreover, adjusti revenues pruces a more forard.lookig resut than reering the expense and rate base anuaIizons. I reognze, however, th th Commssion adopted a third course of action to corct simla mismache in the recent Idao Power rate cae. In th case, the Commsion adopte a proxy for incrased revenues and reduced expnses. Whle the Commssion stated that it did not necssary regar th adjustment as precednt for futu cases, the circumstaces in ths cae are ver similar to the Idaho Power cas. I lack the preci data to caculate a simar remedy of the mismtch in tls cae, but I note that in the recent Idaho Power decision the Comiion adjustd tota revenues on the order of 5 percent of the rate base additions. Cost of Serviee Issues 17 A. 16 RESULTIG RATE DESIGN? HAVE YOU REVIEWE AVISTA'S COST OF SERVICE STUDY AND mE 18 the pas with a major excetion desribed below. I recmmend two improvements to Yes. The stuy sponsored by Ms. Tar Knox generally follows the methods appoved in 19 alocator contaned in the Company's sty. 21 Q. 20 Avista's Proposed uFour Factor" Alocator for Common Costs 22 APPROVED COST OF SERviæ METODOLOGY USED IN CASE NO. WWP~E- DOES WITNS TAR KNOX PROPOSE A CHGE FROM TH PREVIOUS 23 98-111 DlREcr TESTIMONY OF DENNI E. PESEAU . 33 IPUC Case Nos. A VU.E.o4-1 and A VU...i 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 A. A.Yes. As noted on Pages 6v 7 of her direct testiony, the Company proposes to allocte Ucommon costslt on the bais of four factors: direct O&M expenes, diect labor, net direct plant, and number of customers. Prousy, A vista ha allocate these common cost to customer grups with a 60% cumer/40% energy allocation factor. WHT ARE "COMMON COSTS?' 7 but whch are left over afr most diretly assignble costs have been identified and Common costs are tyically defined as those costs necar for the utlity to fuction, 8 "fuctionalizedlt to production, trmission, distrbuton or cusomer accounts. These 9 reai common costs include gene and common plant investent cost and i 0 adinsttive and general expenses. Offce buidigs, fuiture, transporttion 11 equipment, cert inventories computer costs and a portion of magement saaries 13 Q. i 2 typicaly comprse commn costs. AR TH SPECIFC FOUR FACTORS USED BY MS. KNOX TO ALLOCATE 14 COMMON COSTS PARTIALLY VALI? 15 A. 16 allocate common costs. However. the metd Ms. Knox uses to calculate the act Yes and no. Yes, the four fators, if corrcty defied, are legitite bases upon which to 17 weights of the four-factr allocations has a serious flaw, one that ren her calcuations 19 Q. 18 higWy volatie and incorrect. PLEASE EXLAIN. 20 A. 21 common cost allocations: In order to bettr explain ths issue, I list the propose four factors chosen for the 22 23 24 25 1. 2. 3. 4. Dir O&M Expns Dirct Labor Expenses Net Dirct Plat Expenses Number of Customers DIRCl TESTONY OF DENN E. PESAU - 34 IPC Case Nos. A VUvE-041 and A Vl4-1 ......................................................................................................-..........,........,.................................................................................................................................................................................. Th issue I raise involves only one of the fom facors - Dirct O&M Expenes. Simply 2 put, Ms. Knox fails to remove a porton of these dit O&M expense, an adjusent 3 that is necsary for th proper allocation of common cost. 4 Q.WHT AR DIRE O&M EXENSES? 5 A Dirct O&M exenes in A vist's cost of service study ar listd as FERC Accoun 500- 6 916 on pages 4-10 in Ms. Knox's Exibit 16, Schedule 2. For referece, the su of th 7 expenses in these O&M acounts is $97,699.000 (Line 369, Page 10 of 59, Exibit 16, 8 Schedule 2). 9 By using the sum of all the dollars in all of th O&M acunts, and thei 10 ailocators (energy, deman, custmer) as one of th four factors used, Avist and Ms. 1 1 Knox ar sugesting th common costs ar cad in a fashion similar to the caue of the 12 O&M costs. Prperly defined, O&M expenses fonn a reasnable meas with which to 13 alocat common costs, but Avist's O&M expene definition fals in ths regar. 14 Q.WHAT is TI BASIS FOR YOUR STATEME THAT AVISTA HAS 1 5 IMPROPERLY DEFIND ITS DIRET O&M EXENSES AS ONE OF THE FOUR- 16 FACTORS TO ALLOCATE COMMON COSTS? 17 A.Three distnct reasons suppo my conclusion th Avista's fir factor, the Dirct O&M 18 Expense, incorrectly allocat common costs: 19 1.Avista's O&M expene allocato is extremely volatile frm yea to year, 20 and common cost ar not volale. 21 2.Avista's anual common costs from 1998-2003 ar acly inversely 22 related to its defition of O&M expenes. DIRCT TESTIONY OF DEN E. PESEAU - 35 ¡PUC Case Nos. A VU-E-1 and A vu-Go+i .......~..............................u.............................................................................................. .__....................................................... ............~.....................................,.................................................... 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 8 A. 9 10 11 12 Q. 13 14 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 3. A ststical regresion anysis support the conclusion that the conion cost allocator usig Avista's Dirct O&M Expenes is vald it and only if, variable ful and puchaed power exense ar removed. Avista's Volatile Direct Expense Defnition WHT is TI ISSUE WI RESPECT TO TH VOLATITY OF USING AVISTNS DEFINITION OF DIRECT O&M EXPENSE TO ALLOCATE COMMON COSTS? Simply put, Avistas deftion ofO&M expenes includs fuel and purchased power cost as an element from which the relatively fied common costs ar allocate. I offer clea evidence below tht common costs simply do not var in any reation to chages in ful and purchased power costs. ' APART FROM ACCOUNG AND STATISTICAL DATA, IS mERE A COMMON SENSE EXLANATION AS TO WH COMMON COSTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOCATED ON TI BASIS OF FUL AND PURCHASED POWER COSTS? Yes. As we ar all aware, fuel and purchad power prces have risen, fallen, and agai risen by as much as sev hundr percent on a year-to-year bais. Ifwe assue; as A vista has done, that common cost ar caused by chages in fuel an puchased power costs, th we will be chaging the common cost alocator by as muc as seve huned perent year-by-yea. Anoter way of stang the misapplication is that A vista is implying th its expenditu on offce buildings, fuitue, par inventories, vehicles, computers, offce supplies, employee pension and beefts, rents and gener plat maintena can be expected to var diretly with the recen huge swigs, both up and down in fuel and DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNI E. PESEAU - 36 IPUC Case Nos A VU.E-04i and A VU-G-Ðt . ..... ...... ..., ......... ..... .... ........, ........ ......... ....... .............. .... ..... ...... ......... ... .......... ..............~..... ......... .............. ......... ...... ....... purhaed power prices. (See Exlbit 16, Schedule 2, Pages 1 O~ 11 for complete list of 2 common (A&O) cost items.) 3 Q.DOES THS DISTORT THE COST OF SERVICE REULTS? 4 A.The distoron is huge, beause fuel and purchasd exnses frm year to yea comprise 5 the overhelmg majority of Dirct O&M expenss. For exaple, of th tota test yea 6 O&M expses of $97.7 millon (Exhbit 16, Schedule 2, Page 10, Line 369) $66.5 7 inion, or 68 percent of the tota is fuel an purchased powe expenes. The effec on 8 cusomer of allocag relatiely fid common costs on volatie fuel and pmcbasd 9 powe prices is to caus huge swings in the levls of common costs allocated to eah 10 customer class. These swings have nothng to do with the common cost of serv these 11 customer classes. 12 Q.is THRE AN EASY, COST.BASED FIX TO A VISTA'S VOLATILE AN 13 INACCURTE COMMON COST ALLOCATOR? 14 A.Yes, apa from the inclusion of ful and purhaed power exenses, the remaining Direct is O&M Expense factor is farly indicatve of, and related to the nee to incm, common 16 costs. The easy fix is to simply reove the fuel an purhased power expenses and use 17 the remaiing non-fuel and purchased power O&M expenes as one of the four-factors 18 for common cost allocaor propose by A vista. 19 Avista's Histoncal Common Costs are Inversely Related to Fuel 20 and Purchased Power Expenses 21 Q.OTHR TH YOUR COMMON SENSE DISCUSSION, HA VB YOU ATTTED 22 TO ESTABLISH EMPIRCALLY THT A VISTA'S EXPENITUS FOR FUE 23 AN PURCHASED POWER DO NOT DIRCn. Y RELATE TO, OR CAUSE 24 A VISTA'S COMMON COSTS? DIRECT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 37 IPUC Cue Nos A VU-E-01 aDd A VU-G-01 .........,.....,...............................................................................................,....................................................................................................................................................................................-:..... 1 A.Yes. My Exhbit No. 204 is a grph of the recent histry of Avista's anl varation in 2 tota fuel an pured powe ex comparng them with Avista's ac A&O 3 (common) cost, 1998~2003. 4 Q.WHT DOES EXHffITNO. 204 SHOW? , 5 A.Exhibit No. 204 confrm what we know to be tr - tht Avista's fuel an pured 6 power costs have vaed trmendously on a yea-to-year bais since i 998. 7 The exhbit also confrm the point I wa makin above, that Avista's common 8 (A&O) costs have been virtally consant sinc 1998. Use ofUie fuel and purhaed 9 power expen component with Avista's Direct O&M fa would therefore genrate 10 widely fluctating allocations of common costs to different cusmer classes. distortng II the intent of a common cost alocator. 12 Statistical Relationship Between O&M aDd Common Costs 13 Q.WHT STATISTICAL VECATION DO YOU HAVE THAT INDICATES TIT 14 AVISTNS INCLUSION OF FUEL AND PURCHASED POWER EXPENSES IN ITS 15 COMMON COST ALLOCATOR is INCORRCT? 16 A.The use of formal ststcal anysis to prove th volatile, variable cost for fuel and 17 pured power are not corrlated with fied common costs may be overkill, but I 18 neverless offer a statistca regression anysis supprtg my arguents. The 19 statistica tests or "hypothese" I review also indicate th ful and purchased powe cost 20 should be excluded from the alocator usd to allocate common costs. 21 Q.PLESE EXLAI. 22 A.The regrsion analysis I perormed siply answer the question of wheer A vista's 23 incuence of commn costs is fudamentaly related to a defition of O&M expenses DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENN E. PESAU - 38 LPC Case Nol!. A VU-E-1 and A VU-G1 .........................._...................................................................,......................,..................,..................u.....................,..'...........................,......_.........._..................._,....................................,............ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Q. ,8 A. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Q. 18 A. 19 20 21 Q. 22 A. 23 tht includes or goes not include ful an purhaed powe expenses. As our goa in the cost of serce sty is to idetitY th causative factors of common cos, we seh sttistcally for the acunts mak up O&M exnss tht do, and those th do not, case A vist to incur common costs. Then, in th allocation of coon costs to customer clases, we use only those O&M accounts th do relate to, or "cause" common costs. WHT DOES YOUR STATISTICAL REGRESSION ANALYSIS SHOW? The anysis shows that common costs ar much more related to, or "colated with," O&M expense tht have had fuel and purhaed power expenes reoved. The regression anysis wa conducd for two different equaons: 1. Common Costs related to (O&M minus F&PP expenses); and 2. Common Costs related to (O&M with F&PP expenses) where F&PP refer to ful and purchased power. Exhbit No. 205 sumzes the results of regrssion for these two equations. For completess, coon cos data were developed two ways: first measd as A&G costs; second, as dollar levels of Avist's gener plant accounts. HOW WERE THE DATA DERIVD? Al data were taen frm the 2003 FERC Form I S, for A vista and the five other wester electrc utlities lis in Exlbit No. 205. The other five utiities provide a represtationa cross setion of similarly situated elecic utilities. PLEASE SUMMARI THE QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS. Regardless of wheter A&O expens or general plat is used as th measure of common costs, the regrssion results strngly indicate that O&M expenss less fuel and purchaed DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU. 39 IPUC Case Nos A VUE.04-1 and A VU-G04-1 .................................................................................................. ..........."........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 2 3 4 5 6 Q. 7 A. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Q. 23 power expenes is a suenor allocator, compard with Avist's prposed chage of including fuel an purhaed power expees. Ths analysis support the common sense rening and grphic evidence preend earlier, and it demonsates that Avist's proposed chane in these proceedings to include ful and purchas power expenses to allocate common costs should be rejecte HOW SHOULD COMMON COSTS BE ALLOCATED IN THESE PROCEEDINGS? I believe tht the Commssion is left with two reasonale altertives. Firs the Commssion could adopt in principle Avista's foiu-fator common cost allocator concept, hut simply ord the Company to remove fuel and pursed power expnses frm the one factor, Diret O&M Exp. In ths way, each of the facors in the foiu-factor metod would closely trck common costs. I have parcipated in cost of servce stdies in the past where FERC ha simlaly removed fuel and p'Led power expenses from the Direct O&M Expens accounts. Alterntively, the Commission could order Avi to cotiue to use the priously apprved coon co allocator, wher costs we alocated 40% on energy and 60% on customer coimts. The allocations resulting frm the two alternatives are simlar in this case. My Exlbit No. 205 reflecs the cost of service resuts frm the four- factor "Direct O&M less F &PP expes" method. My recmmendation to the Commission is to us the four-facr Dirt O&M less F&PP expen method. Avita's Transmison Cost Allocator DOES AVISTA'S COST OF SERVICE STUY CORRCTLY ALLOCATE IT TRSMISSION COSTS? DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 40 (PUC Case Nos. A VU-E-041 and A VU-G-01 ....................~........................n................................................................_.hn........................................................._.........................................._...................................................................~..........._. 1 A. 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 A. 8 9 10 ii Q. 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Transmision costs ar incur to meet pe demans, and ar therefore approrily allocte to customer classes on the bais of ded (caacity) allocators. Avista's proposed cost-of-serce sty allocates a significat amount of tranission costs, not on demad, but on an energy basis. Ths is no longer defensible. DID A VISTA'S COST OF SERVICE STUY IN WW-E-98-AA ALLOCATE TRNSMISSION COSTS SIMARY ON A DEMA AND ENEGY BASIS? Yes. Unlike the previous issue on the four-factr metod, the trssion allocation issue I raise her clealy would require the Commission to modify its position in the preous rate cae, and adopt the same methodology it recently approved in the Idaho Power rate cas. But I believe the evidenoe supportng this chge is compellg. PLEASE EXPLAI. My proposal to allocate trmission costs strctly on a dema basis is based on thee ditict propositions: 1. A vista's and viy all other trssion systms are planed, size, an buil to meet maximum insttaeous, or peak demands, 2. Avisa's proposed deand/energy trssion alocator is inconsistent with, and contrictory to, the sae transmsion system rates it has ha approved, and indee charges, to wholesale customers thugh its Open Accss Tramisson Tar ("OA IT"). 3. The Commission has just weeks ago approved the demand allocator for transmisson costs th I propose here in the recntly complete Idaho Power genera ra ca. DIR TESTIONY OF DENNI E. PESAU - 41 LPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-041 aDd A VU-G1 ........................................................ .............._........_..........................................................................................................-....-...........................................,-................,........................................... 1 Q. 2 3 4 A. S 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q. 16 17 18 19 A. 20 21 22 23 WHT is TH BASIS FOR YOUR CONCLUSION THAT A VISTA'S TRSMISSION SYSTEM IS CONSTRUCTED TO MEET ITS PEA DEMA REQUIREMETS? Our fi has exaned syst plag methods and models for many years. For generation systs, a hydr-electrc da bein a good exaple, constion cost ca be incu to meet both demd and energy consideratons. In the Pacific Norwest, for examle, we mow tht hydr genertion costs ar incd or "causedlJ not only by pea demand reuirements, but also by the need to store energy. Generation cost are routinely allocate to both ded and ener. Trasmission syem, while thy obviously trmit energy, are planed for, and the cost is causd by, the need to meet pe demands. Once the costs ar incu and the facilties constcted, no additional costs ar inctUcd to tranmit energy. Thus, the principle of cost-causion lea us to alloca transmision on the basis of deand (capacity) usge only. HOW is AVISTA'S PROPOSED DEMNDIEERGY TRNSMISSION ALLOCATOR INCONSISTET WI TH TRASMISSION COST ALLOCA nON AN RESULTIG RATE IT HAS IN PLACE FOR WHOLESALE TRASMISSION USERS? The open acce policies implemented by FERC some yea ago, as we mow, requi A vista and oth utiities to fie and matai OA ITs, th rates of whch mus be based on cost of serice. I have reviewed the cuent A vista OA TT an detrmned tht the Company allocates its trsmission syste cost (the sae system contaied in its prsent trnussion cost of servce) not on the basis of the demd/energy alocr DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 42 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-4-1 and A VU-G-l1 ..-.................~.............................................-..............................,..................0-.,.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 12 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 23 proposed in ths genera reta rate cae, but raer on the same demand basis tht I am proposing her. There is no resonable jusficaon to have two differt sets of transmission costs and rates for the same identical systm. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT TH APPROVED OArr RATE is BASED ON A DEM-0NL Y ALLOCATOR? In my Exhbit No. 207 I attch a copy of the relevant pages of A vist's prnt OA TI. The raes posted there ar denved strctly on a lfper kW" or demand basis. TI indicates that the OA IT rates and the trmission cost contaned thern ar based solely on a dema allocator. DO PROBLEMS ARSE FROM ALLOCATIG TH SAM TRSMISSION COSTS OF SERVICE ON TI BASIS OF TWO DIFFE ALLOCATORS, AS AVISTA is PROPOSING? Yes, obviously so. First, the deman method is corrct and the deand/energy is not. Therefore, one set of rats is correct and the latter is not. Th is no sound reon why identcal ret or wholesale trsion customs should hae their respecive cost allocaons and therefore their rates differ for the same usge. This is disparty is not only ilogica; it is also potealy dicnmintory. WHT TRSMISSION COST ALLOCATION METIOD DID THIS COMMSSION ADOPT IN TI REEN IDAHO POWER GENER RATE CASE NO. IPC.03.13? The Commssion based its rate design on Idaho Power's basic cost of seice sty, which allocate the Compay's trmission costs on the bas of demand only. Idaho Powes approved OA rr rates are also based on demand-only trsmission cost allocators. DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DEN E. PESEAU - 43 IPUC Case Nos. AVU-E-4-1 and AVU-G-ol ..........................................................,..................,.........................................,................................................................................................................................................................................... HAVE YOU PREPARD A COST OF SERVICE STUY THAT INCORPORA'rS THE CHAGES YOU RECOMM? Yes. Exhbit 206 is a summar of th results of my cost of serce stdy incorporag the proper 4~facor and transmion capacity allocator. Wle the chages to the alloctions to the varous cutomer claes ar not dramtic, they are significat and necessa to properly capte cost of serce. WHT DOES YOUR COST OF SERVICE STUY SHOW wrm RESPECT TO TH PRESEN CONTRUTIONS THT DIFFER CUSTOMER CLASSES AR MAG TOWARD RESPECTIVE COSTS OF SERVICE? The sumar resuts incate, consstent with the conolusions of Avist's cost of seice stdy, tht reidenti cutomers, Schedule i, and large generl serice customers, Schedule 25, are receiving substatial subsidies frm all remaiJUng cusmer clases, including Potlatch. Page i of Exhbit 206 shows tht the residential and gene sece customer classes' rats generate raes ofre that ar significatly below the syste's average rae of retu thus indicag tht other clases' rates are set to high in order to make up the shortal. HOW SHOULD THE COMMISSION DEAL WITH THE ELIMATION OF THESE SUBSIDIE? In the recent Idao Power gener ra case I testified that a huge subsidy, in tht cae to the irigaton pumping class, need to be systmacaly an unuivocally reduce to ze, necesitatig a large increas to the irgator. The sam principles apply here, althoug the levels of subsidies to the residenti and genera servce customer ar not so large as in the Idaho Powe cae. In principle, I believe thes subsidies should be DIRCT TESIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 44 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-1sDd AVU~G-i ...............................................................................................................................,............................................H....................................".................................................................'......"............. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Q 15 A. " 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Q. elinaed imedatly. Howeer. I am alo awa the Commisson has expressed concerns abut the "rate shock" tht could result from ver step increas for a parcul cusmer class. Accordingly. I propose in th proceedings th if the overll aproved incree is ten pecent or less. all cusmer clases' should be moved to fu cost of seice. If the increase is grater than ten percent. the Commission order should order residenial and large general service rate moved at leat haay toward rate of retu paty, with two anua autmatic adjustments therer to close the remainig cos of servce gap. Under the latter alternative, the other customer classes (Schedules 1 1 - 12, Schedules 21- 22, and Potlatch) would contiue to pay a subsidy in the nea term, but would receive assurces th the rema subsdy would be eliminate over the next two year. Ths , is. I believe, more th fair to the subsidize cutome classe. Rate Desig Issues DO YOU HA VB AN COMMNT ON A VISTA'S RATE DESIGN PROPOSALS? 'Yes. My fist obseration is that Avista's proposal to include Potltch's Lewiston Facilty (''Facilty'') in Tarif Schedule 25 should be reected. Becaus of the huge disarity in size between the Facilty and the other Schedule 25 customer, it maes no sense to include the Facilty in tht schedule. For cumers the size of the Facilty, the Commssion ha always used seare taiffs for eah spcial contrac cuomer, and it should do so in ths cae as well. The Facilty is approximtely thre times the si of all the entire Schede 25 class. is TH FACIITY IN FACT A SPECIA CONTCT CUSTOMER? DIRCf TESTJMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU . 4S IPUC Case Nos A VU-E-4-1 and A VU-G1 A.Yes. The A vist and Potatch powe supply ageement (UAgrementtt) is a unique 2 contrct th governs Avista's serice to only one cusmer- the Facilty. In tht 3 Agreement, the pares agreed to the teporar use of Schedule 25 mtes for service to the 4 Facilty, peding the next rae case. But Potlatch did not ag to become a Schedule 25 S cusmer. The Facilty has always been a "special cotrct cutomet' in the pas and the 6 Agreement clearly contemlates tht ths sts will continue in the futW. 7 Q.is IT DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE THE FACILIT'S COST OF SERVICE FROM 8 SCHEDULE 251 9 A.No. The A vista cost of serce stdy, an my own, already compute all cost of sece 10 elements for th Facilty on a std-alone basis, in recogntion of th fac tht the Facilty 11 is indeed a custmer class unto itself. Given this, the Commission should require Avist 12 to preserve these cost elements trating the Facilty as the cusomer clas tht it is. It 13 makes no sens to subseuently meld the Facilty with the much smaller Schedule 25 14 class. In orde to set mtes for the Facilty with the Schede 2S clasii, A vista in this 15 ca had to resort to major rate design changes in order to properly ase tht Potlatch 16 would not be overharged. 17 Creang a stad~alone rate schedule for the Facilty wil not afect th Facilty's 18 cost of serce or rates. It is simply a prentive meaur. The concer is tht in the 19 futue ths distiction could be blur in a subsequent stdy in a maner tht caus th 20 Facilty to pay costs for which it should not be accountale. The distinction between the 21 Faclity and the Schedule 25 cumers should be clarfied by placing th Facilty in a 22 separ ra schedule. 23 Q.DOES THIS COMPLET YOUR TESTIONY? DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 46 ipue Case Nos A VU-E-041 and A VU.G-61 ..............................................................n........................................................................................................................................................................................,..............'.......,............................ 1 A.Yes. it does. 2 '. DIRCT TEIMONY OF DENNS E. PESEAU - 47 IPUC Case Nos. A VU.£1 and A VU-G-U4-1 ..................................................,....................................................................;.................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 2 Q. 3 4 A. S 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Append A-Update to Dr. Avera's Analysis WHT is TH CORR RETUR ON EQUIY RAGE USfNG DR. AVERA'S METHODS FOR ESTIMTIG EQUITY RETUS? i conclude that consistent aplication of the discounted cah flow (DCF) and ri prmium meods used by Dr. Avera reduces hi recmmendatons as follows: RQEMethod Aver EstmatenI Peseau Update DCF Risk Premium i Rik Premium II CAPM 10.4% 11.4 10.8 11.9 9.3% 10.8% 9.2% to 10,1% 10.9% _n/ includes flotation costs of20 basis points. 15 of 10.4% to 11.9% and cery do not support a recommended ROE of 11.5%. See Updates that are consistent with the method Dr. Avera utiiz do not supprt his range 16 Exhibit No. 211. 17 Q. 19 A. 18 AND ANALYSES OFFRED BY DR. AVE? WHT GENRAL COMMENTS DO YOU HAVE REGARING TH TESTIMONY Dr. Avera offers 70 paes of testimony coverng a nwnbe of topics. Twenty-four of 20 thes pages cover discussion of flotation cost and the quantitative equity retu metods 21 and estmates commonly considered by ths Commission. The res of the testiony is 22 concerned with genera and fudamenta ecnomic and fincial topics tht ar normly 23 and effciently taen into accoun by invesrs when bidding on an purchasin coon 24 stock and other assets. Financial intutions and investors know the finacial and 25 operationa chateristics of Avist ever bit as well as Dr. A vera and use ths 26 informon to mae form investment decisions. A well-known finacial principle is 27 that investrs are not normly, nor do they expect to be, compensted for nonmark.t or DIRCl TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 48 IPUC Case Nos. A vu.E-o..i and A VU-Gi .....,'....................n.........................................,.....,..................._.....'...,.........................,.....................".......,..............._..._.............,.......................',.............._.._....._.._...._................ ...._............._....... company-specific risks th ar not systematic. Thes risks are diversiable and do not. 2 and should not for th bass of rate of re "adders." The methods of detg 3 cost of equity used by Dr. Avera and other in ths cas measure retus that ar 4 commenSlmte with siil risk-adjusted investments and should not be adjusd for 5 exogenous risks. 6 Q.PLEASE SUMMARZE DR. AVERA'S ESTITES. 7 A.Dr. Avera presents four quantative anyses of the cost of eqty for a "benchmark" 8 grup ofwestm elecic utlities from which he derives a 10.2% to 11.7% equity cost 9 rage. He presnts a discounted ca flow ("DCF'') anysis for a benchmark grup of 10 electc utilities in the western U. S., tw risk premium approaces, and an estmate baed 1 i on the capita asset pricing model ("CAPM"). From hi DCF analysis he estates that a 12 benchmar sample ofwestem electrc utilities requir a return on equity of 10.2% (page 13 45). Based on two rik premiu models, he concludes tht the cost of equity for the 14 respective reference samples of electrc utities is 11.2% (page 49) and 10.6% (page 50). 15 And, frm ms CAPM apprach, he derives a cost of equity estmae for the wetern 16 elecc utiities of 11.7% (pge 51). Bas on tht inrmaton, and an adder of 20 basis 17 points for flotation costs and addtional premum he argus ar required for risk speific 18 to Avista, he endorss an ROE of i 1.5%. 19 Q.HOW DOES HE RECH TH CONCLUSION THT A VISTA SHOULD BE 20 AUTHORIED AN EQUITY RETU IN EXCESS OF i 1.5%1 21 A.Dr. Avera presets lengty discions of company-speific riks tht he contends ar 22 faced by Avist and should be recognized in sett th author retu. Tht anysis 23 of unque risks is the basis for his contention that the Company reui an equity ret DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 49 !PUC Case Nos. A VU-E-01 and A VU-G.o4-i . ...........- ..... ... ...... ......... ............. ..~... ......... ......... ......... .....~... ......... ......... .... .... .....,.. ... -........ ...... ........ ...... .......... .... ...... ........ ..... ........'. ......... ..... .... ................ _... -...,..... ..-................ ... ...... ... ...... ....... ....... 1 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 near the top of his estite of the equity cost rage for other wester electrc utilities. But as I jus explaed, these company specific risks ar incorprated ino his results, and a subjective adder for such risks is unwaranted. Update to Dr. Avera's DCF Approaches DO YOU HA VB ANY COMMS ABOUT IDS DCF ANALYSIS? Yes. Recal th the DCF methd under stada ficia assuptions reuces to the equaon: ROE = Di/Po + g where ROE ;;requied equity re fit peod dividend rate01= Po =today's stck price g growt rate= Dr. Avera's estite ofa 10.2% retur reults frm his estimate of the DCF components: 10.2% "" 4.2% (yield) + 6.0% (growt) I update the 6.00Æi growt rate and his dividend yield. The growt rae g is growt that is expte in the fu by invesrs. It is by nae forward looking. But I note that on Dr. Avera's Schedule WEA-2, he usd not only th typical benchmark for expecte grwt, as report by the invesor intitutions IBES, Value Lin, Firs Ca and Multex Investor, but also hitorical rate of eangs grwt fo both five and ten year pas perods: DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 50 IPC Ciise Nos. A VU;,U41 and A VU-G-01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 12 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Dr. Avera's Expcted Grwt Rates Value First Pas Past (BES Line Call Multe lOYr.5 Yr. Average Expected Growt Rate 5.1 2.4 5.2 5.4 7.3 8.1 Whle the simple averge of these grwt raes is 5.6%, Dr. Avera inexplicably uses a 6.0% figue to develop his 10.2% retu IN YOUR OPINON, is DR. AVERA'S USE OF THE HISTORICAL GROwr RATES IN InS AVERAGE AN APPROPRIATE BASIS FOR ESTIMATING TH DCF REQUIR FUT EXPECTED GROWT RATE? No. To the extent tht pas grwt might be of any importce to invesrs, the analysts' foreasts Dr. Aver reports for IBES, Value Line, First Call an Multex have alady taen th inormation into acunt. David A. Gordon, Myron J. Goron and Lawrce I. Gould, "Choice Among Methods of Esmating Sha Yield," Jounal of Portfolio Management, pp. 50-55 (Sprng 1989), did a sty tht fomid anyst' forecats of growt prvide a better explanon of stock prces th three backw-lookig measues of growt They exlai that their fidings mae sense becaus anys would tae into acmit past grwt as wen as any new inormion when they form their forts. Roger Mori report the result of other empirical stuies and concludes anys' foreasts "are mÒI acurte th forecas based on hiorica growt" Regulatory Finane.' Utilities Cost ofCapitaJ, page 154. My restateent 'of Dr. Avera's DCF anysis recognizes four of the growt forecats Dr. Avera relied UPOll but gives no weight to the meaur of past growt Dr. Avera reported. DmEcr TESTIMONY OF DENNS Eo PESEAU .51 IPUC cae Nos A VU.E-1 and A VU-G-G1 ...............,..........................................,..................,..............................H.......~.............................................~.,...._..................,............................................................................................................... I Q.HOW HAVE YOU MODIFIED DR. AVERA'S DCF EXPECTED GROWT RATE 2 VARLE TO REOVE TH EFFCTS OF HISTORICAL GROWT? 3 A.My Exhbit No. 208 shows those resuts. To determ an update and consstnt 4 esimate for the DCF exp growt rate for eah of the utilities in Dr. Avera's saple, '" S I update his rert estates of investor institution projecons in Schedule WEA.2 as 6 well as his estate of sustanable growt in his Schedule WEA-3. Exhbit No. 208 7 shows an average of four growt forecats; the cur estes reported by IBES, Firs 8 Call and Reut (forerly Multe) and the higher of the two forecas made with Value 9 Line data Exhbit No. 208 shows tht the corrct averae for the prjected or exted 10 grwt ra is 5.1 %, close to the bottom of the 5% to 7% rage adopte by Dr. Avera. 11 Q.DID YOU UPDATE DR. AVER'S DIVEN YIELDS? 12 A.Yes. I used data published by Value Lin, dat June 4. 2004, and the metod Dr. Aver 13 used to compute dividend yields to mae that update. Thes updatd divided yields are 14 also reported in Exhbit No. 208. 15 Q.BASED ON YOUR UPDATES AN UTILIZATION OF ONLY THE FORWARD- 16 LOOKIG GROWT RATES REPORTE BY DR. A VERA WHT is YOUR 17 RETATEME OF DR. AVERA'S DCF REULTS? 18 A.Based on his saple and the restments discused above the indicated avere cost of 19 equity fOl'the west elecc utilities is 9.3% (4.1% dividend yield and 5.1% grwt 20 afer rounding), 90 basis points les than the 10.2% estated by Dr. Avera. 21 Q.DO YOU HA VB OTHR CONCERNS WITH DR. AVERA'S DCF ANALYSIS? 22 A.Yes. The DCF metod he prposes is incot. At page 32, Dr. Avera prsets th 23 genera form of the DCF modeL. It clealy shows th expected divideds pe shae DIRECl TEIMONY OF DENN E. PESAU . 52 IPUC Case Nos AVU-E-4-1 and AVU-G041 ...........h..................................................................................u........................................................................................................................... .-.....u..................................................................... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Q. 13 14 A. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 A. 22 23 (DPS) ar the cah flows th ar of interest to invesrs. He adopts Value Line ~ forecasts of dividends for the next year but ignores Value Line ~ forecasts of dividend~ for other futu years. His DCF approach is incorrct beçus it does not inipra all of the inonnaton on dividend growt tht investors consider when they prce the sha of conuon stock in his sample. Had Dr. Avera made IDS DCF estmate wi a mul-stage DCF model that reognize that dividend grwt is expectd to be les than haf as rapid as forecasd eags and sutainable growt for the perod 2004 to 2008, th DCF equity cost estate would be less th 9.3%. But because I limit my testmony to a resttement of the methods Dr. Avera ha relied upon, I have not presete such an analysis. Update to Dr. Aver's Risk Preium Approaches PLEASE DESCRIE THE RISK PREMI APPROACH TO ESTIMATING A UTLITY'S REQUIRED RETU ON EQUIY. Wher the DCF metd adds estates of dividend yield to expted grwt rate to get equity cost estates, risk premum metods recognze that over tie common stck is risker th most debt securties (bonds) and therefore requires a premium, or ader, over and above the retu on bonds. Ths adder is oftn tened a risk premium As yields on bonds ar genlly dictly obsable and measurable, equity cost estiates may be derived if reliable risk premiums can be detennine. HOW DOES DR. AVERA UTLIZ TH RISK PREMI METHOD? Dr. Avera us a ri prmium method based on authorid equity re, anothr bas on actu or reaizd retu an, finally, the more academicay rigorous risk prenúum method, the Capita As Pricing Model (CAPM). DIRCT TEONY OF DENNIS E. PESAU - 53 LPUC Case Nos. A VU~E-i and A VU-G4-1 ................,.........H...........;...................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Q. 2 3 A. 4 5 ' 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q. 16 A. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 WHT EQUI RETU DOES DR AVERA ESTITE USING IDS AUTORIED RE RISK PREMI METHOD? 11.2%. He derives ths by adding a Debe 2003 bond yield of 6.61 % to a risk premium estimate of 4.58% tht is derived in his Schede WBA4. Schedle WEA4 uses regrion anysis to attmpt to detene the historica relationship beeen allowe equty rerns and bond yields; and the differce beteen the two, to estblish the risk premium. Th theory is that if the regrssion anysis ca deine the relationship beteen the bond yield an the appriate risk prum, then one can obsere today's bond yield, ad to it the estiate of risk preum appropriat for the bond yield and ad the two to get an equity retu estimate. From Schedule WEA-4, Dr. A vera estiats the relationship as: (ROE. Bond Yield) = .073 + (-.435 x Bond Yield) Whle I have no ~el with the basic methodology, Dr. Avera uses interest rates or bond yields tht are inally inconsisnt in his metod. PLEASE EXPLA. Dr. Avera uses a low yield bond to compute hi historica rik prum. Use of ths low bond yield when subtracted from allowe equity re, producs an exaggerted or higher risk preium than if a consstent bond rate is us. The bond yield used by Dr. Avera shown on Schedule WEA-4 is an avee of AA, AA, A and BBB rad bonds. Since th highy rated bonds AA, AA and A wil have the lowest interest rates, the composite rate Dr. Avera uses is low. Subtacting a low interest rate frm an authoried retu yields an arficially high risk premum. Then on Page 49, Line 10, he adds this high risk prum to th highest bond yiei~ tht of a trple-B bond. Ths mig of DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PISEAU - 54 IPUC Case Noi. A VU-E-Ð.! and A vu.G-0i .....'.....................................,'''..............,.......,............................................................,........"..................-....................,.................,......."..',..............-......................................................................... 1 2 3 Q. 4 A. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 is 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 21 A. 22 23 differnt bonds for the regrssion anlysis and for computig the equity retu bia upw Dr. Avera's estima of an equity re HA VB YOU AITEMPD TO REOVE DR. AVERA'S INCONSISTECY? Yes. An approprite calculaton would us the same mea of bond ratig in the regression anysis as in the recommended equity rewn In makg my resttement, I have used A-raed utiity bonds to compute the risk prmiwns, to ru the regrsions and to estiate the equity cost. I ~hose the A-rate utility bond rates becae Dr. Avera reUes on A-raed bonds in Scheule WEA-5. Also, curt quotations for A-rated utlity bond raes ar widely available and published by Value Line every week. I also used trple-B raes. as a second apprh in another regrsion as well because tht is what Dr. Avera uses on his Page 49. The results of th resed anysis ar shown in my Exhbit No. 209, pages l' and 2. Combing the revised regresion resut with a June 4.2004 Value Line quotaon of 6.08% for A-rate utity bond rates gives an indicated cost of equity for the bechmark electrc utilties of 10.8%.40 bais points lower tha Dr. Aver's estiate of 1 1.2%. Using the trle-B regrions with th curnt trple-B rate of 6.56% reported June 4. 2004 gives a cost of equity estimte of i 0.9%. DO YOU HA VB ANY COMMS ABOUT DR. AVERA'S RISK PREMI APPROACH BASED ON mE REALIZED¥RATEOF-RETU APPROACH TIT HE PRESENTED IN SCHEULE WEA-5? Yes. First, as he did with his other risk preum approach, Dr. Avera use one type of bond to deerine the averge risk preium an then incorrtly adde tht risk premium to a triple-B public utiity bond rate. In ths anysis th ri premium was established as DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - 55 ¡PUC Case Nos AVU-E-041 aud AVU-G04-1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q. 16 17 A. 18 19 20 21 22 the averge dierence ~tween anual res on stocks and A-rate bonds and thus th risk premium wi be larer th if the premium were eslishe for trple-B bonds. To mae Dr. Aver's apprach intemly consistnt, I addd the curen A-rated bond to the premium for A-rated bonds. This chage alone reuces Dr. Aver's equity cost esmate to 10.1 'Y. See Exhiit No. 210. My other obsertion is tht Dr. Avera's approach assues th invesrs tyicaly have holdi perods of only one year, when investors probably exect to hold shaes of utility stocks for loner peods. If invetors have ver long holdig periods, a risk premium bas on diffs in geometrc average ret woud be the appropriate risk premium. If, for exaple, investors have 57-year holding perod, the correct estiat of the risk premium would be 3.11 % instad of 4.01%. See Exhbit No. 210. I exp tht investrs typical hae holding periods longer than one-year but much shorter th 57 yeas. In such a case ths apprach would indicate the cost of equity would be bet 9.2% and 10.1% but closer to 10.1%. DO YOU HA VB AN COMMNTS ABOUT DR. AVERA'S CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL EQUIT COST ESTIMTE? Yes. Although the CAPM'g derivaon is steeed in a good deal offianial theory and mathemcal determination, the fina specifcation, like th DCF method, is faily strghtforward: Equity Cost = Risk Free Rate + Beta x Maket Ri Premium Ther ar a numbe of different ways the CAPM can be implemented an a number of ways tht estmates of the risk fre rate and maket risk premium ca be derived. i limt DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - 56 IPUC Cae Nos. AVU-E-1 aDd AVUG-04i ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 3 Q. 4 A. 5 6 7 Q. 8 ' A. 9 10 Q. 11 A. 12 13 14 15 16 Q. 17 A. 18 19 20 21 22 23 my comments to an updte of Dr. Aver's risk free rate an hi estimate of the maket risk premium (M). I will not contest his meaur of maket risk, "beta" WHAT is TH RISK-FRE RATE USED BY DR. AVERA? Dr. Aver uss as a meae of the risk-fr rae th avere yield on long-ter , governent bonds. He indicate tht this mea of the risk-fre rate as of Decmber 2003 was 5.2%. WHT is THE REEN YID ON WNO-TERM GOVEME BONDS? The yield reported by Value Line at June 4, 2004 is 5.32%. I use tht value in my update of Dr. Avera's CAPM estimte. HOW DOES DR AVERA ESTIMTE TH MARK RISK PREMIUM ('IMR")? Whle I do not ag with his method of estma the MR, I use his method her with a simple update. Dr. Avera denves a foret of the tota average market ret for the stock market of 13.7%, thn, to estite the market prium he subtrcts his risk fr rate of 5.2%, which resuts in an 8.5% MRP. WHT UPDATE HAVE YOU MADE TO DR. AVERA'S MR? Wherea the long-te goverent bond rate is dìy obserable and is set in competitive maets, the other component of the risk premium aproach usd by Dr. Aver the projected market re, is not diectly obseble or meaable. The projectd maet re is siply the opinon about the futu made by differen investor institutons an can chage frequently. Use of a projecte market retu of 13.7%, as of a single point in tie, therfore makes the predcton of total market retu highy varable, as I now show. For reference, the long-term average market risk prium durng the DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU . 57 IPUC Case Nos. A VU-E-1 and A VU.G-1 ....... ....~.......~............. .......... ....... ..., ,_.,"".... ...... ,..,., '-.,..' .... .,..................... '................................., ........, ..,... . ....;. ......... ....................-.. ,........ ,.......... .......,...... ......... ......... ..... ... ........, ........,........ ........ 1 period 1926 to 2003 is 7.2%, not the 8.5% used by Dr. Aver. Invers tht use CAPM 2 would unoubtedly give weight to that long~te averge maket risk premium. 3 Dr. Aver's tota maket retu esat wa ma pror to recet stok market 4 acvity th ha occured since Deer 2003. Investors now understad tht a short- 5 te gai as large as 13.7% is no longer reastc. For example, the Value Line forwd- 6 looking total maket retu for the 1700 stocks it follows, as of June 4, 2004, wa 7 12.55%, not the 13.7% usd by Dr. Avera. Ths huge potetial for mation in these 8 "curent" MR estimates maes rate of retu seg for regulatory puroses difcult. 9 Nevertheless, usng the updated market retu foreas of 12.55%, the implied MR is 10 7.23% (12.55% - 5.32%), not the 8.5% used by Dr. Avera. At this time, the indicatd 11 "cut~ maret risk premium and the long-ter avee maret risk preum ar both 12 7.2%. If investors consider eithr indicaor of the maret risk preum, an update of Dr. 13 Avera's CAPM equity cost esmate is 10.9010 as shown below: 14 Equity cost == Rp + beta x MR 15 Equity cost == 5.32% + .77 x 7.2% == 10.9% 16 Q.PLEASE SUMMAE YOUR UPDATES AN RESTATEMS OF DR. 17 AVERA'S QUANTTATIVE ESTIMATES OF TI COST OF EQUITY FOR 18 BENCHMRK ELECTRC UTIITS. 19 A.I conclud my strghtforwd update of Dr. Avera's esates of the cost of equity do 20 not support a remmended ROE range of 10.4% to 11.9% and cenly do not suppor 21 an equity ret for A vist of 11.5%. My sum Schedule DEP-4 shows tht a simple 22 avera of the updated equity cost estmates is 140 bais points below the 11.5% ROE 23 that Dr. Avera remmends for Avista. DIRCT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - S8 IPC case Nos. A VU.E-4.1 and A VU-G4.1 ...............u.........................................................................................................................................................................................................,................................................................................. Q.DO TH DIRClIONS IN TRNDS OF FINANCIAL MATS SUPPORT YOUR 2 RECOMMATIONS? 3 A.Yes. My Exhbit No. 212 show monthy interest rae data for 10-yea Treasury bonds 4 and for Baa corporate bond for the period Octber 2001 thugh April 2004, as reort 5 by the Federa Reserve. Genely, rates for goverent bond and Baa corporate bonds 6 have deased by 145 bass points since Ocber 2001. I conclude that given the drop , 7 in caital cost, Avist's cost of equity is well below its 1998 cost DffECT TESTIMONY OF DENNI E. PESEAU - 59 IPUC Case Nos. A VU.E-041 and A'VU-G1 Conley E. War (ISB No. 1683) GIVENS PURSLEY LLP 601 W. Banock Stree P.O. Box 2720 Boise, ID 83701-2720 Telephone No. (208) 388-1200 Fax No. (208) 388-1300 ce~givenspurley.com mo 2tm~ JUL -9 PM 3~ 57 i-!! i:ol li._ REC£lVEO ." . ,,~ .....'l ielJ~.;¡U tU~ .i UiILlTlES CONMlSSION Attrneys for Potlatch Corpration. S:1lll J 14\S4\P_Jl T..ii"",DOC BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIS COMMSSION IN TH MATIR OF TIE APPLICA nON OF AVISTA CORPORATION FOR TH AUTORITY TO INCRESE ITS RATES AN CHAGES FOR ELECC AND NA11L GAS SERVICE TO ELECTRC AND NATIRA GAS CUSTOMERS IN THE STAlE OF IDAHO. Case Nos. A VU-E-041 AVU-O-04-1 REBUTAL TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU ON BEHALF OF POTLATCH CORPORATION June 21, 2004 ORIGINAL .............................................................~......n..............................................~.................,...............................................................................................................,...................................-................. Q.AR YOU THE SAM DENIS PESEAU WHO PREVIOUSLY FILED DIRECT 2 TESTIMONY IN THIS CASE? 3 A.Yes. 4 Q.WHT is TI PUROSE OF YOUR REBUTTAL TESTIONY? 5 B.I have five areas of brief rebut: 6 1.Staff wi1nes Hessing should not have accted the Deal A exces gas cost 7 because his compellng arguen to disallow Dea B gas costs apply to Dea A as 8 well. 9 2.Sta witnesses overlooked the signficant change in cost of servce metods 10 propose by A vista witness KnOx. 11 3.Staff witnesses Sehune's and Hessing's proposal to move varous rate schedules 12 only 200/Ó of the way to cost of service will perpetuate the longstading subsidies 13 between customer classes. 14 4.Coeur Silver Valley witness Yanel's proposa to directy assign pnmar cost to 15 Schedule 25 class has merit. 16 5.Staffs proposal to change the metod of computing peA rates should be rejected 17 or modified. 18 Deal A and Deal B Financil Transactions 19 Q.WHAT AR TH PRIRY ISSUES YOU ADDRESS IN YOUR REBUTAL 20 TESTIONY OF MR. HESSING REGARDING DEAL A AND DEAL B? 21 A.In a nutshell, I agree wholehearedly with Mr. Hessing's recommendation to exclude all 22 the excess finacial cost of the so-called Deal B. In fact, his approach is quite similar to, 23 and parallels, the rationale I provide for excludng Dea B in my direct testiony. There REBUTAL TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - Page i of 16 Case Nos. A VU-E-041 and A VU.G-04.1 ......u......................................................u_............_..__........................................................'OV.......................u......._...__.._................................._...........,................,.....,................................."......,...... 1 is no ne to elaborate on our similar approaches and our identical conclusions with 2 reect to Dea B, other th to point out th our statement of the amounts in dispute 3 difer, prmany because I used system numbe while Mr. Hessig's figur ar for th 4 Idaho jursdiction and test year only. 5 My issue with Mr. Hessing's temony is that the very compellng circumces an 6 facts that lead Mr. Hessing to appropriately dey Avista reovery of Dea B costs, with 7 one exception, shuld have also compelled hi to recommend disallowance of Deal A 8 costs. My testimony reommends the disallowace of the costs of both Dea A and Deal 9 B. 10 Q.WHT is TI ONE EXCETION TO TH SIMLARTY OF CIRCUMSTANCES i i SUROUNING BOTH DEAL A AN DEAL B? 12 A.The one dissimilar cirumtan is tht A vist Energy was th counterary to Deal B. In 13 Deal A the apparent counteraries wer Mirant an BP. Thus, the Deal A counteies 14 that profited so greatly were not par of Avist Corporation's corporate stctue. But in 15 all other resect both Mr. Hessin's and my observtions and criticisms regaring the 16 impropriety and imprudence of Deal A and Deal B ar the same for both deals. 17 Q.is TH FACT THAT A VISTA CORPORA nON ITSELF DID NOT PROFIT FROM 18 DEALA SUFFICIENT TO JUSTIFY RECOVERY OF TI DEAL'S EXCESS GAS 19 COSTS IN TH peA? 20 A.No. Mr. Hessing's other compelling arguments for denying revery of Deal B cost on 21 th basis of impnidence also hold for Deal A. Both Mr. Hessing's dirct testimony and 22 my own explain at length the numerous peculiarities and irreguarties of both De A and 23 Dea B that lead t9 the conclusion that each of these deals wa impruent. In fact. the REBUTAL TEIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU ~ Page 3 of 16 Case Nos. AVU.E.04.1 and AVU.G-94-1 ......._-........_....._...................................'..............................u.........................................................................n..................................................................................................................................... 2 3 Q. 4 5 A. 6 ' 7 8 9 Q. 10 11 12 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 extended period of 3 lt year for the Deal A swap actually maes the bet the utilty made on Deal A prices far more speclative and imprudent than Deal B. HOW DOES MR. HESSING EXLAIN HIS PROPOSAL TO DISALLOW DEAL B BUT ACCEPT DEAL A? On pages 15-16 of his direct testimony, Mr. Hessin offrs two reans for not disallowi Dea A. First, as explained above, the counteares to Deal A were not Avista affliates. Second, Mr. Hessing opines tha Dea A did not pu A vista over "the long limit contaned in its Risk Policy." YOU HA VB ALREADY EXLAI YOUR POSITION ON DEAL A COUNTERPARTIES NOT BEING AVISTA AFFILIATE. WHT is YOUR RESPONSE TO MR. HESSING ALLOWIG DEAL A BECAUSE IT WAS STUL UNDER THE "LONO LIMIT?" As I discussed in more detal in my direc testimony, Deal A and Deal B were both financial trades, not physical tranactions. In other word, Deal A and Deal B did not purchae any natual gas. On page 5, lies 14.24 ofms teimony, Mr. Hessin describes both the physical index-priced gas purchaes and the subsequent ficia tractons as if they were all pars of Deal A and Deal B. But the proposed Deal A and Deal B cost adjustents ar strictly related only to the financia imprudence of these transactions, and not in any way to the procurement of the physical natual gas. Therefore, I find it irrelevant tht th physical purchases were, or were not, over some designated volumetrc or long limit Neither of the Deal A and Dea B finacial tres was prudent on behalf of the utilty's customer for reasons explained in Mr. Hesng's and my testiony. I urge REBUTAL TESTIMONY OF DENNI E. PESEAU . Page 4 of 16 Case Nos. A VU-E-04-1 and A VU-G-04-1 .............-............................................-.._.......T........._.......T.....'................................................................................,.................................................................,......T_....'.............................................. PAGE 5 is CONFIDENTIA 2 3 4 5 Q. 6 7 A. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 . 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 other reckless and unprecedented featues of both deas that Mr. Hessing and I identfY in our diect testmony, compels the conclusion that both should be excluded frm rates on the grounds tht thei cost were imprudently incured. Staff Fails to Aclowledge the Importance of Avista's Incorrect 4-Factor Allocator WHT is YOUR REPONSE TO STAFF'S ADOPTION OF A VISTA'S COST OF SERVICE METHODOLOGY? Both Mr. Hessing and I testi that Avist's cost of service methodology generaly follows tht ordered in prior Commission orders. However, I point out that there is a significant change in Avista's newly proposed "4-factor" allocator for common cost. Whle I indicate tht a 4~factor allocator is not objectionable on its face. the maner in which A vista witness Knox constrcts this allocator is incorrect and uncceptable. My issue here is with Mr. Hessing's chartenzation of Avista's study as consistt with th usd in its last general rate cae ''wth mior modifications" (Hessing, page 4. lines'1-2). Wht I want to make clear, and demonste quantitatively, is that his characterition of "minor modifications" holds only if the newly proposed 4-factor method ofal1octing common (overhead) costs is corrected as I propose on pages 33-40 of my direct testimony. As I show below. the corrected 4-factor allocator I develope represents a less extreme dearre from the previously adopted allocator. In the cae of Potlatch's Lewiston Facilty, the pnor method and my corrected 4.factor alloctor should, and in fact do, produce similar cost allocations. both of which differ significantly from the A vist :rults. REBUTTAL TETIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU. Page 6 of 16 Case Nos. AVU-E-04-1 aDd AVU-G-Ð4.1 HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO DEMONSTRTE THAT THE INCORRCT ALLOCATOR PROPOSED BY AVISTA is NOT, AS MR. HESSING STATES, A "MINOR MODIFICA noN"? Q. 2 3 4 A.Below I list three colums sumarg th rate schedule rates of retu from i) the 5 "40% energy/60% customet' used and adopted in pror procengs, 2) A vi's newly 6 proposed but incorrect 4. factor allocator an 3) my corrcted A vist' s 4.actor allocator! : Class Schedule 1 General Service Large General Servce Schedule 25 Potlatch Lewiston Puping Lighting AVERAGE 7 Q. 40%160% Method 1.04% 9.35% 9.26% 2.07% 5.61% 7.79% 6.52% 4.71% Avista 4-Factor 1.97% 9.70% 8.12% 1.7% 5.24% 7.24% 4.55% 4.71% Potlatc 4.Factor 1.84% 9.52% 8.16% 1.28% 5.60% 7.22% 4.15% 4.71% PLEASE EXLA THS TABLE. 8 A.My intent here is to show that Avist's incorrct 4.factor allocator is much more than a 9 "minor modification." As I discussed in my direct testmony, Avist's results ar skewed 10 by its inappropnate inclusion of varable fuel and purhae power expenses in the 1 i definition of O&M. By includig these energy costs in an allocar meat to allocate 12 fixed common cost, Avista improperly shfts costs to lugher load factr customers. 13 Whle the perentage shift is rela1ively small, the effect in absolute terms is not Avist's 14 flwed cost of service chage increases Potlatch Lewiston's cost of serice by 16 common sense. 15 approximately $ i ,000,000 per year. A shift of this magnitude in common cost defies , The Potlatch-calculated ret differ from those in my dirct testimony bece, In order to make accur compansos, I do not her chane the trission allocator, as I reommend in my dict tesimony. REBUIAL TEONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU . Page 7 of 16 Case Nos. AVU.E-4-1 and AVU-G-4-1 .........................u..................................................................................................................u.............................................................................................._............................................................. 1 Corrting Avita's misten inclusion of fuel and purhased power expes, as I 2 show in the colum headed '¡Potlach 4-Factor," prouces fil allocations that are less 3 prejudicial to lugh load factor customers and more consistent with pror order than 4 Avista's apoach. My rebut Exhibit 213 suaris the denvation ofthe Potlatch 4w 5 Factor metod. The other colwns are developed frm A vista Exhbit 16, Schedules 2 6 and 3. 7 Q.HOW DO YOU RECOMME mAT TH COMMISSION RESOLVE THESE 8 DISPARATE COST OF SERVICE RESULTS? 9 A.I recommend that the Commission either stick with its previously adopted "400/0160%" 10 method, or adopt the corrted 4-factor metod that I propose. 11 Stafs Proposed 20% Movement to Cost of Service is Inadequate 12 Q.WHT is THE iSSUE WITH RESPECT TO STAFF'S PROPOSAL TO MOVE EACH 13 RATE SCHEDULE 20% TOWAR COST OF SERVICE? 14 A.Both Staf witnesses Messrs. Hesing and Schune proposed to limit the movement of 15 each cutomer class's rates to 20% of the discrepancy with cost of servce, with the 16 remaning revenue requirement deficiency being made up by spreading th deficiency on 1 7 the basis of an equal percentage to each rate class. 18 My issu here is that the Staf proposal once again blunts any meaingful movement 19 to cost of serce, therby continuing indefintely the longstding intewclas rate 20 subsidies. The concurrent PCA reduction makes ths an ideal time to fmally make some 21 progress towa rate parity. 22 Q.PLEASE EXPLAI. REBUTTAL TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU . Paite 8 of 16 Case Nos. AYU-E-04-1 and AVU-G-04-1 1 A.Staff jusifies its proposal to mae minmal progrss toward cost of service on th basis 2 of avoiding rate shock. The unortte consequence of limiting rate incrases of 3 customer classes currently being subsidized is tht it generates a corrponding rate shock 4 to rate classes ilat are alreay paying well in excess of cost of service (potlh's 5 Lewiston Facilty). For example, staf proposes an overall averge rate increase of 6 15:8%. As my cha on page 7 of this testmony points out, the residential class's rates 7 curntly generte rougWy 20% to 40% of the average rate ofret no mar which 8 cost of service method is adopted. Yet staff proposes to limit the incras to the 9 residential class to 18.8%. On the other had, Potlatch's currt rates generate retus 10 well in excess of the system averge retu, yet Stats proposal results in a 14.9% rate 11 increase for Potlatch. Stated another way, depending on the cost of serice methodology 12 chosen Potlatch is generating a rat of retur that is approximately 3 to 5 times that of 13 the residential class, but the Sta proposes only a 3.9% duference in the percentage rate 14 incrase assigned to the two classes. I respectfuUy submit this result is neiiler just nor 15 reasonable. 16 Q.HOW DOES STAFF'S RECOMMNDATION IN mlS CASE SQUAR WITI ITS 17 RECOMMEDATIONS IN THE PAST? 18 A.As I understand it, in ile prous A vista general rate increase Staff prposed thee cost 19 of servce options-to move rates one.thrd, one-hair, or entirly to respective cost of 20 service. The Commssion instead selected 20% as the overall cap on the movement to 21 cost of service. 22 Q.DID THT INITITIVE IN FACT RESULT IN A PARTIA CORRTION OF 23 RELATIVE RATE OF RETU DISPARTY? REBUTTAL TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - Page 9 of 16 Cas Nos. A VU-E-041 and A VU-G-04-1 ..u.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................,................... A.Unfortnatly, no. In fact the inter.class subsidy of the residential clas has increaed, 2 rather th decreased, since the las A vista rate case. Under these circumstaces, the rate 3 shock argwnent is wearng very thin. There has been no progress towad the elimination 4 of this subsidy for roughy five years, and I suspect Staffs proposal, if adopted, will be 5 revealed to produce little or no progr when the next Avis rate cae rolls arund. I 6 fuy realize this is a tough issue for the Commssion, but the indefnite continuaion of a 7 subsidy of ths magitude is simply intolerable. It is bad economics and bad policy and, 8 at best, it only postpones the day of rekonig whe the reidential clas wil ultimtely 9 have to pay its ful cost of sece, or sometg very close to it. At that point, the rate 10 shock wil be far worse than it would be in this cae. 11 Q.AR THRE CIRCUTANCES IN TH PREEN CÁSE TIT WOULD SOFT 12 TI RATE IMPACT OF MOVING MORE BOLDLY TOWAR COST OF SERVICE? 13 A.Yes, the propose PCA reduction provides an offset to any rate incrase the Commission 14 ultimately approves. For exaple, if the Commission adpts the Staffs proposed 15.8% 15 general rate increase, the net incrase for the Idaho jursdiction af the PCA adjustment 16 is only 2.4%. Under Staffs 20% proposal, the net increae in residential rates would be 17 only 5.1 % in ths sceo. There is clealy room to make a more meanngful move than 18 this to equa class rates of retur without causing rate shock 19 Q.WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND THT TH COMMISSION ADOPT IN TERMS OF 20 MOVEMENT TOWARD COST OF SERVICE? 21 A.I recommend tht the Commission do two ths. Firt, it should order that customer 22 class rates move 50% towa cot of service in ths cas. Secnd, the Commission REBUTTAL TESTIMONY OFDENNlS E. PESEAU- Page 100f16 Case Nos. A VU-E.4-1 and A VU-G4-1 1 should expres the intet that in subsequent cases, or with 2 years if no genera rate 2 cas is filed, rates wil be moved an additiona 50% toward cost of service. 3 Coeur Silver Valley's Diree Assignment of Primary Distribution Costs 4 Q.I NOTICE YOU DID NOT DISCUSS SCHEDULE 25, TI OTIR CUSTOMER 5 CLASS THAT APPEA TO BE REA VI Y SUBSIDIZED, IN TH PRECEBDING 6 SECTION OF YOUR TESTIMONY. WH is THT? 7 A.After reading Mr. Anthony Yimel's direct testimony on behal of Coeu Silver Valley, I 8 am convinced that all of the cost of service studies in this cae, including my own, 9 significatly overste Schedule 25's cost of servce. Mr. Yankel points out that it is 10 possible and practical to dictly identi al those A vist priar facilties necssar to 11 serve all Schedule 2S customers from the Company's accuntig records. Since ths is 12 possible, Mr. Yanel argues tht it is always more accurte to dirctly assign those 13 facilties' costs to Schedule 25 customer, rather than average these customer-specific 14 costs into all other reidential and smaller general servce custmers and then alocate 15 them on a les accurte basis. 16 Q.WHAT is YOUR POSITION WITH RESPECT TO miS ISSUE? 17 A.While I have not fuly reviewed Mr. Yankel's analysis, I can state that his position that 18 directly assigned costs are more accurate thn those derived by a computed allocation is , . 19 correct. 20 The reason tht dirctly assigned costs beter reflect cost of service is raher 21 strightforw. If I can directy identifY those investents mae specificaly to sere a 22 customer, I can clearly tre both the cause an the costs of those invesents to tht 23 customer. Mr. Yanl has identified the direct costs of primar distbuton facilties REBUTAL TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU - Page 11 ofl6 Cas Nos. A VU-E-04-1 and A VU-G-04-1 ...................................... ..............................................................,..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 U Q. 12 13 A. 14 15 16 17 Q. 18 A. 19 20 21 22 used to serve Schedule 25 customers an, as J understa it, proposes to directly assign these identifiable cost to the Schedule 2S class. J cerinly agree in principle tha this direct assignent is prferble to an indirct cost alocation. Accordin to Mr. Yanels calculations, ths direct assignent ofprim distibution facilties signifcantly reduce the purrtd subsidy of Schedule 2S customers. I have not attempted to veri his caculations. But as I have just noted, Mr. Yanel's adjusent is correct in principle, and uness someone ca demonstrte that it ha been imroprly implemented or calculate, his ultimate conclusion-at Schedule 25's cost of servce is oversted-is correct as well. Stafrs Proposal to Change Basis for Computing peA Rates DOES STAF PROPOSE TO CHANGE TH BASIS UPON WHCH peA RATES ARE COMPUTED? Yes, on pages 22-24 of his tesmony, Mr. Hessing proposes that the Commission chage from the curent method of spreadig PCA account balances to customer class rates on an "equal percentage" basis to a metod of spreaing balances on an equa cents per kwh basis. WHT is YOUR POSITION ON THS ISSUE? I oppose th proposal on both thoreica and pratica grounds. Firt, I have always argud that power supply costs ar not 100% energy or kwh-based and should not, therefore, be spread on an energy-only basis. Ther is both a fixed or capacity component and a seasonaly-differentiated cost component to power supply cost that makes spreing balances on a flat, equal kwh basis incurte. Recovering power REBUTAL TESTIMONY OF DENN E. PESEAU - Page 11 of 16 Case Nos. AVU-E-04-J and A VU-G-1 .............................".......................,................,.................................................................,............u...,...........................................................................,.........,..........................,..........................,.... supply adjustments on a per kwh basis is inconsistent with the way we establish base 2 rates, and should be rejected as a matter of principle. 3 Q.WHAT is YOUR PRACTICAL OBJECTION TO TH PROPOSAL? 4 A.In theory, whether PCA changes ar recovered though percentage changes or energy rate 5 adjustments should be a matter of indifference to ratepayer. If bas rates ar properly 6 set, a customer who pays more wider an energy only recovery of a surhage wil also 7 receive a proportonaely larger benefit frm any PCA "rebate." Over the long haul, eac 8 customer's tota PCA exosure should be the same wide either recovery method. 9 But as a practical matter, high load factor cusomers such as Potlatc who compete in 10 nationa or global markets ar not really indifferent. Switclng to a per kwh recover 11 methd will make these customers' rates much more volatile, because the suchages and 12 rebates will both be grater th under the curt system. In short their high rates will 13 be higher and their low rates lower wider Mr. Hessing's proposal. This is a concer for 14 Potlatch and other industral cusomers becaue it makes buiness planing and , , 15 management more diffcult. Furthermre, rate increaes can cause disruptions and losses 16 that canot be recovered by corresponding decreases in subsequent years. To cite but one 17 example, a peA rate increae can potentially shut an industial cusomer off from some 18 markets or, in an extreme case, render production wieconomie in all markets. Losseslike " 19 these ar not likely to be adequately compensated by benefi from PCA rebates in good 20 yea. 21 Q.AR THER ANY OTHER PRACTICAL PROBLEMS WITH STAFF'S PROPOSAL? 22 A.Yes. On page 23, line7 to page 24. line 2, Mr. Hessing carfuly explains tht, due to the 23 fact that there are curently positive balances in the PCA accowits, and these accowits REBUTTAL TESTIMONY OF DENNI It PESEAU - Page 13 of 16 Case Nos. AVU-E-4-1 and AVU-G-04-1 '.......n........n.......n................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Q. 9 A. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 A. wer collecte on the present equa percentae basis, it would be very unfair to high load factor customer to now change and attempt to reover these balances on a new, energy only basis. He proposes that any change approved in the PCA metodology not be imlemented Mti the present defer balances are clead. I simply wat to underscore th this mixing of methods to accuulat and then to recover such balances is potentially highly prejudicial to high load factor customers unless it is implemented when balances are essentially zero. DO YOU HAVE A SECOND RECOMMENDATION REARING THIS ISSUE? Yes. If the Commission decides to make the change Mr. Hessing remmends in the name of consistency, it shol.d tae the proposal to its logical conclusion. If the Commission really believes tht power suply adjustments ar incurd on a "per kwh" basis, the "cents pe kwh" revery should be "sesonaized" on a monthly or quarterly basis in a maner simiar to avoided cost rate. Doing so would alow PCA rates, like other cost components, to track the actul chanes in power costs as they va over the year. It is an eay ma to calculate the act monthly kwh rate that cause the PCA defer balances to change, and frm ths information detennine the basis for adjusting the PCA rate seasonally. All the benefits of cost-causation and price signl considerations that apply to base customer rates would then apply to PCA rates. DOES lHS CONCLUDE YOUR TESTIMONY? Yes. REBUTAL TEMONY OF DENNiS E. PEEAU - Page 14 or 16 Case Nos. A VU-E-04-1 and A VU-G-04-1 ....._.................H......................... __................,........,....................._...,............."...............................,.................................,..................... CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIY that on this 911 day of July 2004, I caused to be served a tr and correct copy of the foregoing document by the method inicated below, and addressed to the followig: Jean Jewell Idaho Public Utilties Commission 472 W. Waslun Stree P.O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0074 ( ) U.S. Mail ( ./ Han Delivered ( i Overght Mal ( J Facsimile Scott Woodbur Lisa Nordstrm Idaho Public Utilties Commssion 472 W. Washingon Stret P.O. Box 83720 Boise, il 83720~0074 swoodbu(gpuc.state.id.us lnordst(gpuc.state.id. us ( J U.S. Mail , ( J1 Hand Deliveed ( ) Overnght Mai ( J Facsimile ( ) E~Mail David J. Meyer Senior Vice President and General Counsel A vista Corporation P.O. Box 3727 1411 E. Mission Ave., MSC~13 Spokane, WA 99220-3727 david.meyer(avistacorp.com ( ) U.S. Mail r ) Hand Delivered ( J) Overnght Mail ( ) Facsimile ( ) E-Mail Kelly Norwood Vice President, State and Federa Regulaton A vista Utilties P.O. Box 3727 1411 E. Mission Ave., MSC~ 7 Spokane, WA 99220~3727 kelly .norwood~avistarp.com Denns E. Peseau, Ph.D. Utity Resoures, Inc. 1500 Libert Street SE, Ste. 250 Salem, OR 97302 dpesea~excite.com ( ) U.S. Mail ( ) Hand Delivere ( II Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimie ( J E-Mal ( J) U.S. Mal ( ) Hand Delivere ( ) Overnght Mal ( J Facsimile ( J E.Mail REBUTAL TESTIONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU . Page 15 of 16 Case Nos. A VU~E-4.1 and AVU.G-04.1 .......................................................,....................................................................................YO............................................._.............................................................................................................. Chales L.A. Cox EVANS, KENE 111 Main Stt P.O. Box 659 Kellogg,lD 83837 ccox~usamedia.tv ( ) U.S. Mail ( J Hand Delivered ( Jl Overght Mail r J Facsimle ( 1 E-Mail Bra M. Pudy Attorney at Law 2019N. 17th Street Bois, ID 83702 bmpurdy(!otmaiLcom Michael Kar 147 Appaloosa Lane Bellgham, W A 98229 michael~wish.net i 1 U.S. Mail r ,JJ Hand Delivered ( 1 Overnght Mal ( i Facsimle ( 1 E-Mail ( J U.S. Mail ( J Hand Delivered ( Jj Overnight Mail ( J Facsimile r ) E-Mail r J U.S. Mail ( J Had Delivered r./ Overght Mail ( ) Facsimle ( 1 E-Mail Anthony J. Yanel 29814 Lake Road Bay Vilage, OR 44140 REBUTTAL TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESRAU. Page 16 oft6 Case Nos. AVU.E-04.i and AVU-G-04-1 ~ o' Illr I! HII (19Z9.199)Stve LaIl " Stpl PekKan II Dc0IIt Cia Honl 8t v. NovckJli:l-llKiB_ Alex J. FlIDU KñIi B. McMUlanIIDJ. Kii Kelly 1'esloiinNo Pair Fln Maiwe. Wooead Miç/lk D. MlIliltiiW. J"lD1 LaO" C.1!l_yJ.No Davi A. Gim1a l'D. G11i ßI P.li$sa 1'. Cisl Timy /I LiiF~ençk J. SdlallN;w1iDid G. LOOIl luliaS.GoklTon R. So P8cl J. ReIlly Sc: D. F1emll Siny M. Si BRlnl C. e:rskyFret R. l!ilCie ralt c. llals~dMa I. Knitz Maiaw B. Hiper Br M. lol 81)" K. KlOOl1l0toDoglll C.i"liinC.Jo Alsis G. Micltod'rlias R. Ry DI V. Djilii OfC_1 RoyFam ho1iNgLeCAi..Pml e HALE LANE e . !~~(:::p.i::!" ~~:i~~i.(.!r.:i,¡.' ",'. .. :,;?EN 04 OCT 28 Prj 3: 2 U Please acct for fig an ongínaJ and nine copies of the prefied direct testiony of Dr. Dens E. Peseau on beha of the Souther Nevad Water Authorityin Docket No. 048022. ' filing. Please call Fre Schmdt at 684-6008 if you have any quesons regarding ths ~tO~Mã~way .. HAE LANE PEEK 'DNNISON AND BOWARD RENO OfICE S41 Kiekc i.i Sed Floorl Ri. Nc.. 8951111'1011" (75) 3i7.iao I Fai:il. (ns) 786.6179 LAS VEGAS OFFCE: 230 WCSI S1IlI' Avenuc I Elimh FlDD I Box 81 La VClIl NC\ 8910211'1_ (7 22-1500 I Pacili,Uc (702) 365-60 C:\WlNPlvnlc~olCr i.rPVleadiig.dOg ATTORN.V. AT LAW m Etlt Wil Slnll Slll io I Qm Ci. Nna moi Tinc (7) 6l I Facsiniile (nS) 6l1i Webste: htt:Hwww.hllløc.i: Octobe 28, 2004 Ms. Crta JacksnSecret Public Utities Comission of Nevada i i SO Willam Strt Caron City, NY 89701 Dear Ms. Jackson: Sincerly, : \ ..e - I'" :.:- :., ~.. r'",ri~~..: :.,,. I:." .' ..,. ... .! C¡. ¡ "1"..;:.. ~~ 04 OCT 28 Pl- 3: :~ 0BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA Docket No. 04-8022 Direct Testimony of Dennis E. Peseau on behalf of Southern Nevada Water Authoriy 1 Q.PLEAE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRESS. 2 A.My name is Dennis E. Pesau. My business addre is Suite 250, 1500 3 Liberty Street, S.E.. Salem, Oreon 97302. 4 5 Q.BY WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACITY ARE YOU EMPLOYED? 6 A.I am President of Utility Resourcs, Inc. My firm consults on a number of 7 ecnomic, financil and engineering matters for various private and public 8 entties. 9 10 Q.ON WHOSE BEHALF ARE YOU TESTIFYING IN THIS PROCEEDING? 11 A.I am testifying on behalf of the Souther Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). 12 1 of 12 . . 1 Q. 2 3 A. 4 5 Q. 6 7 A. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 A. 21 22 23 24 e - DOES ATTACHMENT 1 ACCURATELY DESCmBE YOUR BACKGROUND AND EXPEmENCE? Yes. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE' OF YOUR TESTIMONY IN THESE PROCEEDINGS? T-he primary purposes for the SNWA involvement in this case are to re-affrm its support for Nevada Power's reques to have the Commission approve the HAM 500 kV component of the Centennial Prject; to confirm with Nevada Power that the significant transmission needs of the Colorado River Commission (eRC) and the SNWA are in no way compromised by any Company request made in its filing; and to propose that a mutually beneficial joint ownership between Nevada Power and the SNWA of the HAM 500 kV project be considered and Nevada Power be ordere to report back to the Commission the results of discussions with SNWA to consider such a joint owership option. Ms. Gail Bates describes in more detail the second issue of confirming levels and reliabilit of CRCJSNWA needs. WHAT CONCLUSIONS HAVE YOU REACHED? i conclude that: 1. Nevada Power's technical studies in this cae cormrm the economic and engineering superiority of th HAM 500 kv project over alternatives. However, there are Important unresolved 2of12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 A~PROVE THE HAM 500 KV PROJECT at e questins rearding the amount of the line that will be subscribed. The SNWA therefore conditions its support for the HAM project on the successful discussion on joint ownership I discus below. 2.The Commission should reuire in these proeeing that Nevada Power commit to providing to the CRC/SNWA all contractual and generaiiy áccted levels of transmission service necessary to protect the integrit of the Southem Nevada water system and represent that the proposed removal of the previously approed McCullough 5001250 kV transformer and the Clark Substation from the HAM 500 kV project wold not affec service to CRC/SNWA. 3.The Commission should encourage Nevada Power to immediately investigate the feasibilit of and discuss with the CRC/SNWA the joint development and ownership of the HAM 500 kV project to identify the potential mutal benefits for Nevada Power shareholders, ratepayers and SNW A and water purveyor custmers summanzed below. The Commission should order Nevada Power to report back to the Commission within 90 days the results of such discussions. I believe this to be a "wln-win" opportnity for all parties. 4.The SNWA does not oppose Nevada Power's request to keep the $15.56 millon in investment reduction due to cancellation of the McCullough transformer component of the HAM project by placing this sum into the contingency fund, but request that this sizable sum be sep~rately earmarked as a budget line item, to be used only for newly Identified facilities, not merely cot overruns on existing planne facilties. 34 35 Q. WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO COMMISSION APPROVAL OF 36 THE PROPOSED HAM 500 KV PROJECT? 3 of 12 e e 1 A.The Actn Plan contained In the Company's proposed Third Amendment 2 Filing (Pages 2-3) request among other things that the Commission reaffrm 3 its approval of the HAM 500 kV project 4 , 5 Q.WHAT IS THE SNWA'S POSITION ON THIS REQUEST? 6 A.The SNWA considers this HAM 500 kV component of the overall Centennial 7 Projec to be extmely importnt for the long-tenn economics and reliability 8 of Nevada Power's electic syem. 9 The HAM 500 kV project is an important enhancement to southern 10 Nevada's transmission network and is an Ideal facilit to integrate future 11 facilities needed by SNWA to por th existng and planned water system 12 infrastrctre. The HAM 500 kV line is considered so impont that the 13 SNWA request that it be allowe to assist in it financing, and development 14 and ownership with Nevada Powr, as I explain below. 15 16 Q.HAVE YOU REVIEWD THE TRANSMISSION ALTERNTIVES TO THE 17,HAM 500 KV PROJECT STUDIED BY NEVADA POWER IN ITS THIRD 18 AMENDMENT FILING? 19 A.Yes. On Pages ß.12 of the direct testimony of Nevada Power witness Larr 20 Luna, and Pages 8-11 of the Thir Amendment, the Company discuses the 21 numerous advantages of the HAM 500 kV projec over five alternative 22 transmission projecs. While I am not a trnsmission engineer, the clear 23 findings that the HAM 500 kV project is cost competive, has greer capacity 40f 12 . .e e 1 than alternatives, serves as a backbone system for the greater system and 2 ' can be completed earlier than alternatives provide ample base for approval 3 over the alternative projec. 4 5 CONFIRMING ABILITY TO SERVE CRClSNWA REQUIREMENTS 6 7 Q. WHAT IS THE ISSUE WIH RESPECT TO QUESTONS ABOUT NEVADA 6 POWER'S ABILIT TO SERVE NECESSARY CRC/SNWA 9 REQUIREMENTS? 10 A. Based on a bare reading of the Application, the CRC and SNWA had 11 concerns about the Third Amendmenls requested changes and potential 12 impacts on the CRC/SNWA transmission service questons. Gail Bates of the 13 CRe addresses the status of these concerns. 14 15 SNWA'S REQUESTTO OWN AT LEAST 10% OF THE HAM 500 KV PROJECT 16 17 Q. WHAT ACTION IS THE SNWA REQUESTING THE COMMISSION TAKE 18 WITH RESPECT TO THE SNWA'S REQUEST TO ACQUIRE AT LEAST A 19 10% OWNERSHIP IN THE HAM 500 KV PROJECT? 20 A. The SNWA reqiiest that the Commission instruct Nevada Power to begin 21 intensive, coperative discussions with the SNWA to detemiine the feasibilit 22 of, and if appropriate, allow and provide for the SNWA to finance and 23 purcase At least 10% ownership of the HAM 500 kV projec. i,pointto the 50f 12 1 ' 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Q. 9 10 11 A. 12 13 14 Q, 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 e - Commission's affrmative role in bringing about the recent highly successful sale of power from SNWA's SlIverhaWk combined cycle plant to Nevada Power as an example' of beneds which can be derived with Commission ordere encoragement. The expected outoome of Joint ownership of the HAM 500 kV projec has even greater benefits to Nevada Power's customers and shareholders, as well as SNWA's, and it member agencies' customers. WHY SHOULD THE COMMISSION REQUIRE THAT A STUDY OF THE BENEFITS OF JOINT OWNERSHIP OF THE HAM 500 KV PROJECT BETEEN NEVADA POWER AND THE SNWA BE UNDERTAKEN? The prospect of such joint ownership is, In my opinion. clearly a "win-winD sitation, for at least the ecoomic and planning reasons i list below. WHY IS SNWA SEEKING JOINT OWNERSHIP? The SNWA is unique among other parties or customers that either "buy from'; or ilsell into" Nevada Power's sysem. The SNWA is neither a usual customer of nor usual generar of electricity. The SNWA certainly has, and distributes to, large loas in the Nevada Power system. But the SNWA also has a 125 M. interest in the Silverhawk generating plant and the CRC, largely on the SNWA's behalf, owns the extensive River Mountains transmission facilities located in Nevada Power's servce terrtory. The large and regionally disparate loads served by the SNWA and the necessit of moving power in different diretions depending. on SlIverhawk and other power source 6 of 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Q. 9 10 A. 11 12 13 14 15 16 Q. 17 18 A. 19 20 21 22 23 e e availability make partl ownership of the HAM 500 kV project by SNWA a significant opportunity upon which to build up it water sys infrastctre in coming years. Simplifying somewhat, the SNWA must. in order to meet the growth in demand for water that it faces. both develop water sourc distnt to the Las Vegas Valley and be in a position to obtain and distribute electric power to It new water sourc in order to pump such supplies to market WHAT INCREAES IN SNWA ELECTRIC LOADS ARE ANTICIPATED TO SERVE THESE DEVELOPMENTS? While the estimates are preliminary and subject to change, the electric power eventually expcted to be reuired for new water resource development is In excess of 150 MW of new load in addition to foad growth associated wit use of the existing water system. A 10% ownership of the HAM 500 kv project would well serv these SNWA pumping requirements. WHAT POSITIVE FINACIAL BENEFITS DO YOU FORESEE FROM JOINT OWNERSHIP OF THE HA 500 KV LINE? Due to the present excelent credit stnding of the SNWA. its abilty to finance 100% with low cost debt and the present huge capital expenditure budget of Nevada Power, i expect a number of poitive financial outcomes to develop: · The financial communit and leading creit raing agencies will perceive this joint ownership as a win-win for investors since it 7 of 12 , -e e 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 I offer the above not as an exhaustive list of benefits, but as a few exmples of reduces near-term huge capital requirements, improving times interest.coverage ratios, liquidity and lowers debt cots. .The SNWA's wilingness todiscuss means to better integrate the eiåsting CRC/SNWA and Nevada Power transmission systms provides opportnities for additional import capability, system reliabilit as additional intercnnecton to eRe and SNW A's existng transmission is developed. .Opportunites to stdy the potential for the SNW A to finance additional ownership portns of the HAM 500 kV line and transfer benefits -at cost" to Nevda Power could greatl benefit . both investors and ratepayers. 16 many possible mutal benefit to the parties from sitting down and 17 constctve studying these opportnities. 18 19 Q. WHAT FRACTION OF NEVADA POWER'S TOTAl CAPITAL 20 EXPENDITURES BUDGET WOULD A PROPOSED 10% JOINT 21 OWNERSHIP BY SNWA COMPRISE? 22 A. The reief to Nevada Powets shareholders and customers of the reduction 23 in the Company's near-term capital budget is modest. For example, at a 8 of 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 21 22 A. 23 e e budget of approximately $100 million for the compleion of the HAM 500 kV project, a 10% joint ownership by the SNWA reduces the near-term budget by $10 millon. This amount is, of course, a smaller percentage of Nevada Powets overall capital budget of nearly $ 300 milion per year. But the absolute percentage relief in Nevada Powets capital budget Is not th prime consideraion here. The announcement effect to investors and credit rating agencies that Nevada Power, its reulators and its custmers are encouraging ways to stem the trend in excessively 'averaged investme requireents wil improve the Company's investment standing. To the extent that this joint venture opens Nevada Power to additional investment opportunities to invest in intercnnections and infrastructure not otherise available. investors wil understand that this joint venture does not deny preent investment opportunities, but rather shif them Into near-term future opportunites when Nevada Power is in an even beUer financial condition to Invest in such assets. IS THE SNWA INDICATING A WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE TO PURSUE PROJECTS OF USE TO NEVADA POWER AS WELL? Yes, and while I am not providing a list of specific items, certainly a study of intercnnecton possibilities betwn Nevada Power and the CRC/SNWA 90f12 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Q. 14 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 e e would identiy such details. There are apparenty very signifcant joint project that deserve furter study to determine whether they can be underken . IS JOINT OR MULTIPLE OWNERSHIP OF TRANSMISSION FACILITIES RARE? No. Throughout the United State, multie ownershIp of high voltage transmission lines is common. For example, the huge AC and DC transmission lines connecing the Pacific Northwest wit Nortern and Southem California, having a capacit of several thousand megawatt, are owned by multiple publjc and privte entities which work together to optimize the physical and economic operation of the transmission system. IS PARTIAL OWNERSHIP OF THE HAM 500 kV PROJECT AN UNUSUAL UNDERTAKING FORAN ENTITY LIKE THE SNWA? No, not at alL. As I have stated, the'SNWA does not fit the simple prole of an energ consumer. The SNWA is faced with the tasks of enhancing and developing new sources of water supplies to Southern Nevada. It Is unique among other entities and customers in this regard. Joint ownership now of the HAM 500 kV project would greatly reduce the cO and administrative burdens to the SNWA and Nevada Power in numerous OA IT and other filings before FERC and this Commission. 10 of 12 '.. : 1 Q. 2 3 A. 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q. 10 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 22 A. 23 e e WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWER'S REQUEST TO KEEP THE $15.56 MILLION IN BUDGET FOR THE CANCELLED MCCULLOUGH TRNSFORMER? On page 3, Jines 9-26 of his testimony, Nevada Powr witness Mr. Luna requests that the Company be aUowed to cancel the additon of a $15.56 trnsformr that wa previously seoped and budgeted for the HAM 500 kV project. But. rather than reduce the previous budget by the amount of $15.56 milion. he instead request that this amount simply be added to the Centennial Project.s Risk and Contingency budget. The overall budget ' therefore remains unchanged. WHAT IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION TO THIS $15.56 MILLION REQUEST? The SNWAdoes not oppose keeping these funds available, but requests that this sizeable sum be separately earmarkd as a budget line item, to be used 11 of 12 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 A. 6 e e only for newy identied facilites, no merey cost overrns on exiSing planned facilites. DOES THIS CONCLUDE YOUR TESTIMONY? Yes. 12 of 12 e e AFIRTION I, Dens E. Peseau, puuat to NAC 703.710 herey af th the foregoing prepared testimony was prear by me or under my diction and is corr to th bes of my knowledge. ¡¿&-'~Dens E. Pesu Dated: 10-2$- Or e e AlTACHMENT 1 e Achment1 Page 1 of3 STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONA AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseau has coduced ecnomic and financial studies for regulate industris for the past twnty-eight years. In 1972, he was employed by Soutern CaUfomla Edison Company as Assocate Economic Analyst, and later as Economic Analyst. His responsibilties included review of financial testimony. incremtal cot studies, rate design. econometnc estimatin of demand elasticrtles and various areas In the field of energ and economic gro. Also, he was asked by Edison Electcal Instite to study and evaluate severa prominent energy models as part of the Ad Hoc Commit on Economic Groh and Energy Pncing. From 1974 to 1978, Or. Peseau was employed by the Public Utty Commissioner of Oregon as Senior Economis. There he conducted a numbe of economic and financial studies and prepare testimony pertinlng to public utites. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Nortst offce of Zinder Companies, Inc. He has since submitd testmony on economic and financial mattrs before state regulatory commissios in Alaska, Califoria. Idaho, Maryand, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Washington. Wyoming, the Distrct of Columbia, the BonneviUe Power Administation and the Public utlities Board of Albert on over one f' e &chment1~ge2of3 hundred occsions. He has coducted marginal cot and rae desin stdies an prepare testimony on these maters in Alaska. Californa, Idaho. Maryand. Minnesota, Nevada. Oreon, Washingto and In the Disrict of Columbia. He has also conduct cost and rate studies regarding PURPA issues In the sttes of Alaska, California, Idaho. Monna, Neada. New York, Washington. and Washington. D.C. Dr. Peseau holds the B.A.. M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in ecnomcs. He has co-authored a bo in the field of industral organiztion entiled, Size. Profits and Exective Compsatign in th Large Corporatio. which devotes a chapter to reulated industr. Dr. Peseau has published artcles In the following professional journals: Review of Economics and Sta~. Atlantic Economic Journ. Jouma of Financlšil Management, and Journal of Regjona! Sgience. His artcles have ben read before the Econometric Soiety, the Weste Econoic AsociatiOn. the Financial Management Association, the Regioal Science Associaton and universities in the United Kingdom as well as in the United Staes. He has gues lectred on marginal costing methods in seminars In New Jersey and California for the Center of Proessional Advancement. He has also guest lectred on co of capital for the public utilit industr before the Pacifc Cost e _chment1 Page 30f3 Gas and Electrc Association, and for the' Exutie Seminar at the Colgate Darden Graduate Schol of BusInes, Universit of Virginia. Dr. Peseau and his firm have participated wi and been membe of the American Economic Asociation, the Amerin Financal Association, the Western Economic Assocation, the AUantfc Economic Assoiation and the Financial Management Assoiation. He was formerly a member of the Staff Subcommitee on Economics of the National Assoation of Regulatory Utilit Commissioers. Dr. Paseau has ben Prsident of Utility Resourcs, Inc. since 1985. e CERTIICATE OF SERVICE - J herby certif th i have th day served a copy of the foregoing DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENS E. PESEAU ON BEHF OF SNWA in Docket No. 04- 8022 upon each of the pares lised below by fasimile sece as follows: Conne Westat Sier Pacific Power Compay 6100 Neil Road P.O. Box 10100 Reno, NV 89520-0024 Facsile (775) 834-4811 Shery McDonad. Man Regulator Servces Sierr Pacifc Power Company 6100 Neil Road P.O. Box 10100 Reno, NV 89520-0024 Facsile (775) 834-8 i 1 Mar Simmons Sierr Pacifc Power Company 6100 Neil Road P.O. Box 10100 Reno, NV 89520-0024 facsime (775) 834-4811 Staff Counsel Public Utilities Commission i 150 E. Wiliam Stret Carn City, NY 89701-3109 Facsimile (775) 687-6110 Alaina Bursbaw Public Utilties Commssion 101 Convention Center Drve, Suite 250 Las Vegas NY 89109 Facimile (702) 486-7206 Tim Hay, Conser Advocte Bureau of Consumer Protecon 1000 E. Wilia St, #200 Caron City, NY 89701-3117 facsimile (775) 687.6304 ::ODMA\PDOS\LROD0C14968\\Page i of2 . 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ~ 10 O~.. 11~!g'U=:0i 12 ~U) 00 glf-g 13 'j~~ 14 Q.ei .iå... 15 8...U ..~ 116 3~u 17 ~ f' :i 18 19 20 21 , 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e e Gerad Lope Senor Deut Attrney Genal Colorao River Commisson 555 E. Waslugtn Ave., Suite 3100 Las Veg, N' 89101-1065 Facsimile (702) 486-2695 Bil Koekeeir. Esq. 6005 Plum St., Su 301 Re, NY 89509 Facsime (775) 829-6165 Patrick V. Fagan Es. Allson, MacKenie, Rusl, et at P.O. Box 646 Carson City, NY 89702 Facimile (775) 882-7918 Charles Hausr Soutern Neva Water Author i 00 i S. Valley View Blvd. La Vegas~ NY 89153 Facsmie (702) 258-3803 Des Pesau Utilty Resours i 500 Libert St., Suite 250 Salem OR 97302 Facsimile (503) 370-9566 Jacqueline Roinbaro Bep 1000 E. Willam St., Suite 200 Cason City, NY 89701 Facmile (775) 687-6304 Dat iI. UI¡ da ofOd. 2~e: ~-- -_._~~âl' J ..~ ::ODMA\PCDOLRNOÐI4961 Pae 2 of2 . . r-:._..._.... ... . , ~.. ~ ',¡ e'~.: .' " , ,,' ". RECEIVED ~i BEFORE TH PUBLIC UTIS COMMSION OFi.JQi\P~ ~ _~(),!mi~!'imi~ .' . ". \...,. .... . '. '! . .. I 03 SEP 1.9 AM 10: 36 In re Applicaton ofNEV ADA POWE COMPANY to ) Amen its Amended Demand.Side Plan of Acton for it ), 'Refiled 2000 Resour,Plan. ) ) / Do No. O~-60S6 In re Filng by NEVADA POWER COMPAN FOR Appva ofits 2003.202 Electc Resur Pla, ' ' ) ) CDõe-No:-03õõ100J ) /' i PREPAR TESTIONY OF DENNS E. PEEAU' ", . Submi~by~~,FreS~, '. Hale Lae Pee Deson an Howa , 777 Eas Wilia St, Suite 200 C~n City, NV 897Òl (715) 6846000 Attmeys for SOUT NEADA WATE AUTIORI- .,.,,- ., 1t ;- Of '.. B~FORE THE ~UBlIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NeJAOA pocket No. 03-700' Dire Testimony of Dennis E. PeseLi on behalf of Southem Nevada Water Autori 1 Q. PLEAE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRESS.. , 2 A. My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My busines address is Su~ 250; 15QO 3 . ,libert Stre, S.E., Salem, Oregon 97302. 4 Q. BY'WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACITY ARE YOu' eMPLOYEO? 5 A. I am President of LItHity Resourcs, Inc. MY firm consult on a number. ~f . 6 economiè, financial and engineering matt for various privàte and public7 - enti. 8 Q. ON WHOSE BEHALF ARE YOU TESTIFYING IN THIS PROCEEDING? 9 A. I am tetifing on behalf of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). -1.. tr,.,e .; ~ ~ DOES ATTACHMENT 1 ACCURATELYDE~C~BE YOUR BACKGROUND 2 3 AND EXPERIENCE? A.Yes. '.4 Q. 5 ,A. 6 7 8 .9 10 11 12 '13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. 21 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR TESTIMONY? My testimony focuses pnmarily on five ares or issues 'Nhich l i~enti below. To place these issues in perspect, I note th tbe overall,tenor of.,., " Nevada Power's filed Resource Plan is the Commitent to an ambitious' capitl expenditure proram to greatt expan~ the'Company's own géneration , and transmisGion plant over the next deCade. The SNwA has provided testimony in prior Nevada Power dockts including reource plans and continues now to recognize' and point out the inadequate I~vel.of int~~al " generaion and transmission resource addItions made to the Nea po~r . system over the last decade or more. New ~dditons are necesary and v~i . to the electcal sýstems.,reliabilit in southern' Nevada. The SNWA heartily supports, the timely completion of necessary trnsmission and generaion facilities. But ~ number of Nevada Power's føinclal proposals in it fding, and circumstances 'extrnal to its Plan, are simpl ,Incompatible. wit the. , Company's propose new geiieration and transmj~ion ex~enditures. and it abilit to maintain any semblanCe of financial stbilit at rate lev,els -thåt are acceptåble to its customers. -2- e e 1 I point speccally to its plans, to issue over $1.7 bilion in debt but no equity over the peñod 2003-2009 and it decision to begin using project~d avilable cash to spend in dMdends rather than finance new generation and transmission facilities. The most recet extrnal circumstance I refer to Is the August 29, 2003 adverse ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy court to "issue summary judgment for Enron against Sierra Paciic Resources regarding Enron's tlaim for liquidated damages. Instead of outining correcive measureS to reairi its financia~ foothold while making crucial invtments. Nevada Powr instea~ requests a pre~apRroyal of some $40Q-00 milion per year in exenses tJ:at have historically been scrunized in deferred energy and general råte cases. This testimony wholeheartedly support and encourages the generaion 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and transmission investment necessary to meet presnt and growing electñcity requ¡reme~ts and offerS altrnatives to Nevada Powe'r's'proposals. 14 Q. 15 A. 16 17 18 19 '20 21 "22 23 24 25 26 WHAT ARE THE FIVE PRIMARY ISSUES YOU ADDRESS? The five issues are: 1. Nevda Power should avail itelf of purchas powr product that are suited to it unique summer needle peaking load profile, rather than continued excessive reliance upon 6x16 or similar high energy products purchased previously. The SNWA has a 'uniq'ue load profile and its own significant resource product which Nevada Power should avil itelf of or fully evaluate to help avoid the large credit.rlsk premiums being demanded of the Company by vendors on the opn market. '2. Nevada Power prôposes in this proceeding to begin giving $53 milion per year of it scarc cash flow to its parent Sierr Pacif Resources begInning January 2004. Given Nevada' Power's .3- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 '14 15 16 17 18. 19 20 21 " 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 . .' e."e deteriorating capital structure, such an acton is even more iD.. advised than when the Commission rect such dlvdends1n Docket 02-4037. The Company's abllty to complete the importnt Centennial and Harry Allen-to-Mea newtrànsmission projects, as well as fts proposed generaon will not bè able to be. financed at reasonable'costs if Nevada Pow gives up this cash flow. 3. Nevada Power prop.0ses perhaps the móst, '.sweeplng guaranted cost recovery mechanism in Nevada's regulatóry history In this Resource Plan docket Some $400-00 milion In fuel and purchåsed power cost per year are being requeste to be pre-approved in this docket, removing ,the typical and appropriate review given the.e expenses in deferred energ arl general rate cases; 4. In conjuncton with its reuest for preapproval of most fúel ah PP-expense, Nevada Powr reuests that the Commission. approve the cost of the call options It has already entered Into and those it proposs to enter. Recovery of ttese costs is appropriately decided outside of a resurce plan proceeding. Any decision regarding call option hedging stategies should bè evaluated in deferrd energ rate proceedingS. 5. Nevda Powr is proposíng to move from its' policy in recent years of puising wholesale power 100% on tie short-trm market to, in this case, purchasing "s signif~nr amount on the ' long-term wholesale market. Proper risk diversification, techniques would. suggest a more balanced or "portalio. mix of purcases. Nevada Powr has not provided adequate rilk , a~alYsis in this re~ard. 29 CONCLU~JONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, 30 Q. PLEASE SUMMARIZE YOUR RECOMMENDAnONS. 31 A. 1 recommend that the Commission: 32 33 1.Order Nevada Power to fill its huge open position with demand and supply side resourcs that both fit its load profile R~d -4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1"1 12 , ' 13 14 . 15 16, 17 18 19 .' 20 .e,.lI minimize cost. Nevada ,Pow should, during the nex six 'months explore with the SNWA the unique load charactiSics and reourcs SNWA has available in Nevaa Powers service terrory. The $500,000 in thre year actiòn plan funds requested by'Nevada Power for a coal study should be deferre. '. until Nevada 'Power report, back on it progress with SNWA. 2. Order, 'or put Nevada Powe on notice that it '.wil order th Company to consrve çash by prohibiting dividends taUs parent, 'until a 42% eqLlity raio is reached. ' 3. Deny Nevada, Powets request for approval 'of .it "Recçimmerided Gas Hedging Stratey" In th~se procings and defe any such decison to the next deferred energy eaSe '. 4. . Defer any decision on the appropriat expenses for Nevaa Power's proposed natural gas call options to the next déferred energy case., ' . '5. ' Require Nevada Powr to furtller study and report back on .an appropriate purchased power portolio mix before enacting lI proposed movement. from the previous polic of purchsing 100% on the short~term market to purchasing as much as 100% ' on the long~temi market. '. ' .21 FllLING NEVADA POWER'S 3,000 MEGAWATT-OPEN POSITION, 22 Q. WHAT IS THE ISSUEWIl RESPECT TO NEVADA POWER'S FILLING OF.' 23 ,24 25 2e 27 28 ITS HUGE POWER SUPPLY SHORTFALL? A.As the Companyexplains throughout the supply side plan, energ supply plan and financial analysis plan portions of it, filing, Nevada ~ower has the, . . daunting task of procuring at least half ol it required por supply. from sources as yet unidentifed. The Company proposes to filJ the deficlt of up to.' . . '.. . 3,000 megawatts ,per yeâr by the issuance of'an RFP designed.lQ ac~uire ' -& .' , , . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 :8 e e long-term purchased power contrctS-of 3-1' 0 years. While Neva~a Por has r~cently been unsuccful, accrding to its teSimony in othr proceeding,.- in attcting responses from vendors In RFPs, i agree with its assessmentthat the temporary apparent ~dequaey or even slight surplus of reiol generation may change these generators willngness to respond to Io~g.term contract The issue is whether Nevada Power wnl be able It attract the rather. unique and .specialized energy product it requires to optially fiJI it needie-peaki~g loåd shapes. 9 Q. WH DO YOU QUESTION WHETHER.NEVADA POWER CAN ATTRACT 10 11 ,12 13 14 19 16, 17 18 '19 THE PARTlCU~R PURCHASED POWER PRODUCTS IT NEEDS? A.In the last two deferred energy proceedings Nevada Power argued for cos recvery for losses it incurred frm havIng to resell excess energy resulting from contract base upon almost exclusively 6x16 purchas. That ~s, Nevada PoWer felt th In order to fiJI it open positon it was forced to enter contracts requinng it to purchase energy six days a week, for sixteen hours pèr day. Since Nevada Power typicaUy only needs peak energy for four to eight hours per day, these preOUS 6x16 energy contracts caused Nevada power to acquire substantially more energy than it needed. The excess iNs sold at huge losses. . -6- ."e,...tt 1 2 3 . . The question that ari in this filing is whe~er NeVad~ Powr will h~ve opportunites through it ,prposed RFP procs .to obtain othér t~an 6~16 energy product. " . ',4 Q.DOES NEVADA POWER'S RESOURCE PLAN FILING J:PRESS THE 5 o HOPE THAT IT MAY THROUGH ITS RFP PROCESS, FIND WILLING 6 PARTICIPANTS TO ENTER INTO SYNTHETIC TOLLING AGREEMENTS .0 7 FOR POWER, THEREBY REDUCING ITS 6Xi'S OBLIGATIONS? 0, 8 A.Yes. The possibility of entering' synthetic tol~ing ágr~ments is mentioned at 9 : a number of places in the Company's'application.testimony and exhibits. 10 11 12 13 Q. WHAT (S.A "SYNTHETlC,TOLLlNGft AGRE:~MENT?" 0 A. Tolling is a means bY which a utlit such as Nevada Power can ácquire leg~1 rights to çapacity of a pl\rtcular generating plant owned by an independe~t part by agreing to pay (usually) fixed demand charges. . A synthet tollng 14 15 16 17 . ' agrement Is similar'but not necessarily'tied to à particular plant Anyenérgy. '. ., 0 output requested by Nevada Pow is chargd to the Compan' by th . independent part on the basis of the market price of gas and a heat rae. or by Nevada Pow actually acquiring and providing the actal supply. -7- e,. ''e 1 'Q. IS THE EXECTATION BY NEVADA POWER OF THE OFFERING OF 2 TOLLING 'AGREEMENTS BY OTHERS REASONABLE? 3 A. At some set of prices and terms this expecation is' resonable due to'.a. .' 4 '.5 6 7 8 app~rent present adequae or surplus of indpendently owned gene('ting , 'cåacity in the western U.s. If independet ower~ o.f. 'genertion can . negotiate tolling pñces and terms that exeéd those ~ey cò~ld get on the, . . open 'market, it is 'reasonable to assume they wouid .-re,spond to, Nevada Power"s proposed RFP. ,9 Q. , ': IN YOUR OPINION WILL NEVADA POWER FACE PAYING A CREDIT-RISK, 10 PREMIUM FOR ANY SUCH TOLLING AGREEMENT? 11 A. Yes. Due to Nevada Powr's financial cirçumstanÇe it is rea~onabl9 to. ,, . 12 assume that any long-term agreement, tpltng or otherwise, wil have an , , ' 13 associate credit premium attached to it.14 .J . ' 15 Q. WILL THE HOPED..OR TOLLING AGREeMENTS LlKELY PROVIDE 16 17 POWER SUPPLY OFFERS THAT WILL IMPROVE UPON THE PAST 6X16 " LONG-TERM PURCHASES? 18 A. Yes, altough the m,or.concentrated ~ purchases are made to conform to 19 20, only the highes~ peàk hours of the day, the highe,r will be the capacity and, probably, energ premium charges associated ~ith any tollng contråct.' The .. ;e '4t . . 1 2 value to Nevada Power and It customers òf such narrowr peak power~, Of cours~, enhanced as well. 3 Q. WILL NEVADA POWER LIKELY BE ABLE TO FILL MO$T OF ITS 5 PROJECTED 3.000 MEGAWATl' OPEN POSITION WiTH 'TOLLING AGREEMENTS? 4 6 A. . The Company does not identi what percntge of itS RFP pross mlglR be 7 8 fiired Wit~ tollng agreements. Nevada Powr does, howver; indicte that 'I prefers to fill it open position largely with long-tenn 3-10 year contrcts. . 9 Q. WHAT, OTHER PURCHASED POWER PRODUCTS SHOULD NEVADA 10 POWER ATTEMPT TO ACQUIRE TO FILL ITS OPEN POSITION EITHl:R THROUGH ITS RFP OR OTHÉR NEGOTIAnONS?,1:1 12 A. The SMNA a~d it member agencies, or "wter pumpers,!" togethér haye, '.' electc loads today in excess of 200 megaWatt Inside the uloåd control" area ' of Nevada Power. Alhough most of that load Is not actually supplied by Nevada POWer this load will increase to over 300 megawatt by 2005. Trt combination of the water pumpers'typically of-peak pumping, the abilty to be 13 14 15 16 . 17 18 19 20 . ., . interrpted within limit during on-peak hours, their own signifcant capacit and energ requirement and a strong financal market credit rating together provide an almost perf profile to fit Nevada Powets peaking requirements. I am confident that a good faith effor on the part of Nevada Power and the -9- :e.,' .-It 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "S wat~r pumpers could lead to the mot economical resource ~ fiU a slgnlfam porton of their open positon immediatel. " Furthermore, the recent activties of the SNWA to bècome a 125 MW participant in the local Sitverhawk cobined cycle generating plan (~iCh.ls ., ' scheduled online by, next spring), their recent effòrt:, to s~cure firm . transmissfon rights, and significant but preliminary analyes int th viabilty' , and siting of fluidizd-bed coal-fired generaion facilliee c~uld grea~1y assist Nevada Power in it efort to secur additonal supply.~. '. 9 Q., PLESE BRIEFLY DESCRIBE THE NATURE OF THE WATER PUMPERS' 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 'A ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, LOADS AND REQUIREMENTS. . The water pumpers' electcal needs are ~rved, within Nevadri P~~r's servic territory both as a cutoiner of Nevåda Power and' as a whoiesa,~. . customer served by the Colorado River 'Commission (CRC). At present. a. . signifcant amount of megawatt water pumping loa is serv by Nevada Power and up to 125 megawa ~rchased through 'the eRe ~rim~r¡1y to operate the vast Saddle Island complex (whic SNWA owns) comprising, facilties and pipelines necssary to pump water up and into and within the las Veg~ valley. 19 -10~ ." e..e 1 'Q.' WH~T.TYPE OF "CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTS" DOES N~ADA POWER 2 INDICATE IT NEEDS TO FILL ITS OPEN POSITION? 3 4 ".5 6 , A.In Vo.lume LV, the LQad Foreast and Market Eundilmentåis, Page 17, th Company descrbes the need for power proucts for capacity and elierg of relatiely nerrw intervals of a fe hours to meet needle 'peaking nature of it ' , system. 7 Q. DO THE WATER PUMPERS HAVE THE ABILIT TO PROVIDE NEV~DA' 8 POWER WITH SIGNIFICANT QUANTITIES OF SUCH' CÜSTOMIZED , 9 . . PRODUCTS? 10 A., Y.es. The watr pun:pers have a significant amount of both demand s~de and 11 12 "13 supply side products. The abilty to provide these 'custom procuet' 'is, af.. '. .:.". , C?urse. subject to, Nevada Powets wilingness to take advantage of s~ch opportnites. 14 ' Q. PLEASE GENERALY DESCRIBE THE POSSIBLE DEMAND ,SIDE AND 1'5 ' 16 17 SUPPLY sioe CUSTOM PRODUCTS .THAT COULD BE OFFERED BY . WATER PUMPERS. A.Demand side pro~uct include those that proide, the abilty for Ne~a Power 18 ' to' avoid purchasing otheiwise'scarce and expensive onileak poer supplies... . .. . 19 ' In the ca~ of the retail water pumping lo~ds seiyed by Neyada Powe:r. under, , ,20 appropriate term and conditions, th water pumpers can interru~t capacity' . , -11- '." . ,.,, .. --~- 1 2 .3 5 6 7 falit located at Apex, Nevada. . The energy produce from this locil " generator is capable of shaping to accommodae a maximum' of output, consumption In the off peak for water pumping, leaving the plants peak capacity and energy available for custers of Nevada Power; FinaOy, Nevada Powr Is requesting'in its filing to ~xpend $500,000 over the next tw years to study the feasibilit of an undesignated coal plant. . As part of its ongoing effort to minimize energ cost and satisfy it g~ing , , 4 8 ' . ioad requirement, the SNWA forsome time héS been explorng the econåml~, . . 9 feasibilit of owning a share of a coal plant and has arrèady commit , 10 $1,000,000 to study ne coal generation feasibiliiy. Just as Nevada Poers, ,11 Reid Gardner 4, coal plant Jointl owed 'by Nevada Power a.nd the water .12 pumping CalifornIa State Agency (OWR) is an example of a succssful . 13 private/public ,partnership in electric generation, the study at' a 'co-venture 14 betwen Nevada Power and the SNWA could be very beneficial to Sòutem 15- Nevada. It is also importnt to recnize that SNWA's Double M-. crit. 16 rang from Standard & Poots is certinly unique among pow proucers ar 17 'elecric utilities In general. 18 Q. WHAT DO YOU SPECIFICALL'('RECOMMEND? . 19 . A, Nevada Power should pursue ~sourc optons wit SNWA and report back 20 to the Commission within six months or at least prior to the 2004 peaki, , -21 season. In the interim, the Commission should defer approval of Nevada -13- '. ...... .: e e 1 and energy supplied for mos of their Intemallod requirement for four or So ' 2 hours on summer peak days. Of course. this doesn' evn up 'to include ,3 sevral hundred additional.MWs of SNWA lod supplied by.eRe. Nevada 4 Power was unable to locae and purchas thIs type of custom product In the 5 past few summer seasons. 6 Anoter very valuable demand side custom product potentially ava¡la~Je 7 to Nevada Power is an enhanced abilit to protect system reliabili 'by, , . 8 coordination of load sheding a~i1ties off of SNWAtransmisslon laterals urider 9 instaces of sytem emergencies.' '. 10 Q. WHAT WATER PUMPING ~ESOURCES ARE POTENTILLY AVAILABLE 11 TO FILL NEVADA POWER.S OPEN POSITION? ,12 A.In the near-term. the water pumpers either heve. or wil hav substantial power under contract to meet its own loads that are not served by Nevada- Power. Typically. ,the economics of minimizing costs dictates that the power provided under these contrct be 'Shaped into a maximum amount of off peak usag.. for water pumping. and the remainder resold, Into higher prd peak 13 14 .15 16 17 18 19 20 21 .,wholesale markets. This large amount of peak capaci and ~nergy product Is likely to be a near penect match'to fill Nevdà PoWets needle ~aldrigload J?rofile. By next summer, the SNWA intends to add to its power supply program the 125'megawatt share of the Silverhawk combined cycle combustion turbIne -12- ..e,e ,1 Power'~ three. yea.' action pfan request for approval of $500,000 on a coal 2 project feasibi.lily study. 3 NEVADA POWER'S,CAPITAl EXPENDITURE BUDGET IS AT Rl§K 4 . Q. . WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO NÈVADA POWER'S PROPOSED '5 . CAPITAL EXPENDITURE BUDGEr? 6 A. Even with a modest leve of reuired capitl expenditures Nevada Pçiwer 7 .8 9 10 would be challenged to finance invesment on reasonable tenns at reasonaQJe .: cOst~. Nevada Power's projectd budget for capital expenditre Is anying. . but modes~. Tåble 4-3, page 298 of Technical Appendix ll in the Company's filin reflects the following tota capital budg~t 11 Capitl.12 Year Re,gulremenl 13 2004 $347,435,000142005 .448,1'51,000152006448,505,000162007399,885,000172008.440.861,000182009566,409,000192010477,753,000 .. 20 21 22 ,Attchment .A Of the Company respone to BCP 2-28¡ included a~ my Exhibit_(DEP-1), breaks down the annual capitllnvestment by fi.nc~n. For the period of the Aciòn Plan, 200+2006 alone, the capital reuirements are -14- '- e'e, , 1 $ 1.2 bilion. The issue is whether Nevada Power's desire- to ~In is,uil'g , .. . 2 . , dividElnds of $53 milion per year, beginning January 1, 2004 i~ consisterit, ,3 wIth the fjnàncial stature necessary to i:ise, such large amounts of cåpital 4 ~lIe maintaining a healthy capitl stctre: " 5, .Q. 6 A.. 7 B 9 10 11 ,12 13 14 WHAT fS A HEALTHY CAPITAL STRUCTURE? A hèaltiiy c~pital structre, is a balanced proorton of outanding debt "an còrron equity sufcient to att,act additiona eapitl- both debt an eqi:ity:- on reasonable terms. Nevada Powr for years ,has had far'too much debt, also termed excessve .Ieverage~, in its capital Structure. Re~giiizin9 this high degree of le.verage, and the reluctance of Nevada Power ta Issue ample . common stoc, the Commission 'in Docket 02-4037 prohibited the Ceip~ny from issuing d.ivdends to Sierra Pacific Resources until eiter thè Company hit a target of 42% equit ratio as a perCntae of total capital',' or Oecemb,er S1,2003., 15, Q. WHAT IS THE CURRENT EQUlTY RATIO OF NEVADA POWR? 16 A., 35%; as indicated on page 82' of Volume Vt of the Integrate R~our~ Pla~ '17 2003. ~1s. 'IL l. . . ...e ti ,1 Q.WHAT ARE THE FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THÈ 3~%' EQl!1T . : ~.2 RATIO? 3 A.There are tw very negative consequences ated to this Jow equit ratio. 4 .One, the low equit ratio means too high of a debt ratio. Too high of a debt ,.S rati raises the interest rate which Nevada Power must pay for new ~ebt, . ..6 ' Secnd, the lo equit ratio disq~alifes Nevda Powr frm rea.lning 7 investment grade credit'ratings. Nevada, Power's debt is currentl rate~ .~t 8 Ujunk- 'Ie~i, or below invstmel1 grade. .. 9 Q.DOES NEVADA POWER HAVE A T~GET. EQUITY RATIO? .10 A.Yes.The Companýs targe equity ratio' is 42% (pge 82, Vol. vi, IRP). 11 Nevada Powr indicétes that a 44% actual equity ratio Is needed tó, regain ".',12 Investment grade ratings (page 85. Vol. Vi, IRp)..' 13 Q. I:OW IS llE EQUIT RATIO JN~REASED? 14 A. The equity ratio can be increased by financing the capitl budget with neW 15. 16 issuances of common stoc, and/or through internally generaed fúnds In ~ form of retained earnings. .16. ..e e 1 ' Q. DOES NEVADA POWER INTEND TO ISSUE NEW COMMON STOCK?, 2 A. No, not until at least the year 2010. MY Exnibit.:..JDEP-2) reprouce ,thè 3 4 extemalfinancing plans of the COmpany (pg. ~98. Tech.'App:ll). ,Ali financing.. .. . 'prlor to 2010 is debt 5 Q. DOES NEVADA POWER INTEND TO' REDUCE ITS ~TERNAL 6 7 8 ,9 10 'FINACINGS BY MAXMIZNG INTERNALLY GENERATED aAPITAL fUNDS? A.No. Nevada Power intends to rèuce its Intemafly'generated funds by åt least . $ 53 milion per year 'and issue a like amount to Its parent in the form of divdends for yers 2004. 2005 and 2006 (pg. BO, Financial Plan, Vol: VI). " " :. . 11 Q , . TO WHAT OTHER PURPOSE SHOULD NEVADA POWER APPLYTHE $ 53 , 12 MILLION PER YEAR IN DIVIDENDS? 13 A. " A more prudent use of the annual cash of $ 53 milJOn is to reduce the annual 14 amount of projected debt issuance by an eq'ùal amount, NevGda Power 15 presently and will for years fåce a diffcult market for its, debt. In its mos ' 16 recent finance docket,Nevada POlNr had to refinance unseered6% debt for 17 secured 9% debt despite the fact that market interest rates had not move. 18 Nevada power's plan to issue $ 53 mUlion in divdends to its 'parent simply. , 19 ' removes this amount of otheiwise readily available capital from internal funds -17,, ".e,'e 1 2 , ,and reuires a Jlke amount of expnsive, poorl rated de~ to be Issue, further'lowring its equit raio. " 3 .' Q. WILL: NEVADA POWER FACE ADDITIONAL DEMANDS FOR ITS CASH IN 4 THE NEAR FUTURE? 5 A.. . . .Yes.. Unless the recent decision of the U.S,. l:ankruptcy court is reversed, Nevada Power will ~eed approximately $ 229 milion in cash in the neàr,~re.6 . . .7" Q. WHAT PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES WILL RESlRLT FRaM ~EVADA 8 POWER'S DIVIDEND PROPOSAL? 9 ' A.' The proposed dividends and their êffect of redUCng the already low equit 10 " , ratio. wilf signiflcantly increase the likelid that Nevada Power wil' ~ot be " '11, 12 13 14 15 16 ,1r 18 able to meet the level of capital expenditure~ ,contined in its resourc plan. :",.,With its 3000 meg~tt open posiion and its modest .amount of self ownl: generation, the transmissiòn and generation expenditures in the budget are, , crcial for maintaining systm 'rellabllity in southern Nevda.' As was the . . positon in the last resou~ce plsl1 docket, the SNWA continues to rècommend., . that. the capitl budget be maintained at the highes leVes. In particula, . Nevada Power should conserve its internal funds to ensure the timely completion of the Centennial Transmission Proect prior to the 2007 peak., -18- , .' ;e e 1 NEVADA POWER'S REQUEST FOR PRE~APPROVAl . 2 OF DEFERRED ENERGY COSTS SHOUlJ BE DENIEP. ,3 . Q. WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWERlS REQUEST 4 TO HAVE THE COMMISSION IN THESE PROCEEDINGS PRe-APPROVE COST RECOVERY REVIEWED IN DEFERRED ENERGY.AD GENERAL RATE CASES? 5 6 7 8 9 10 A Throughout the Company fillng, the request is made to approye a "R,ecommended Gas Hedgin Strategy.' While reource plans, action pràns, strategies and sPecific 3-year capital expencJitures are normalry In the purvieW ' of IRP proceedings, the Company requests reai:ing the approval',of a "Gas , . 11 12 Hedging Strategy apparently goe far beyond resource plan pro~Ings. 13 14 . . Nevada Power's request is actally for the pre-approval of several hundred millon dollars of natural gas ~ts for ga& yet to be purchased,. b~t rtonnally reviewed in deferred energy proceins. 15 Q. PLEASE EXPLAIN. 16 A. Nevada Power's proposed Hedging Stegy requests approal fortw distinct 17 18 19 20 expenses: one, th recovery of natural gas cost in 2004 incurred for Jl its ' own pJan:t and the coSt of the el~tricity purchased through the antcipated tollng agreements to fill Its 3000 megawatt open position and, twò, recovry for the e~nses attbutable to the prop~se call option~ on 100% of the gas 1 seè Application Pages 7-8; Yachlra, Page 6. Unoa 17.21; Iv, Page 3, Lines 6-; Acon Plan, Pas- 2-3; VOL. I, Page 16; Vol. II, Pa 2, 45 , ' ' -19~ e 'e 1 2 3 4 5 Q. ARE FUElAND FUEL ACQuismON COSTS NORMALLY AP~RoVEO IN 6 'ADVÄNCE OF PURCHASES? 7 A.. No, in the several fuel cost recoery proceedings in which i have partìcipa. ' 8 . revery of fuel costs is granted subsequent to 1he actal incurrin of theS. ... . ~9 , costs. 1Q', Q., ÁRE FUEL AND FUEL ACQUisitiON COSTS USUALLY APPRÓVED IN ',11. , , RESOURCE PLANING PROCEEDINGS? ': . 12 A. No, not in Nevada. .13 . Q. PLEASE ESTIMATE THE LEVEL Oi: FUEL AND FLJEL ACQUJSlnON 14 EXENSES FOR 2004 ALQ-NE THT THE COMPANY IS SEEKiNG. 15 A.' The followng table summarizes the four dfstlnct areas otcost recorytN¡ , ,16 Nevada Power IS'requestlng for fuel and fuel acquisition cost: ' -20- ....': e.,e 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 , .9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 '.' 11 , ..18 , . Annual Exense (milion.) . $196 . 20 370 18 Natural Gas for Own Generation 1 Call Options for Ow Generation2 Exòsure for Tofled Generatiòn3 'call Options for Tolled Generation" Total, NPC Cos Recvery Request $6Ò4 milion As show In the table, the single point fuel cost estimate for the 2004 rery reuest of Nevada Power is $604 million, which Includes the cost of physical , : gas and hedges,for it own generation resourcBS, pl~ th cost ~f phyical ga~ and hedges for the gas that is procured for the t~lIlng agreents as;ociated with the proposed RFP. The estimate assumes that the cost of call options Is only $.025 per met and the talling capacity' fåctor is 45%. each of which '~~y , , ..' be conservtive. 19 Q. WHAT APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF THE TOTAL DEFERRED ENERGY 20 21 COSTS NORMALLY REVIEWD IN DEFERRED ENERGY COST. PR,OCEEDINGS DOES THE $604 MILUOl4 REPRESENT? 1Page 3S. Vol: II lAS8umec $.2 pri of option alÚugh it is likly ths numbed.s much higher. . 'Exhib"' (DEP-3) "Assumed $.25 price of opti altough Ills lily this numbr Is much higher. -21:- ".-- 1 A. Up to 80% when compared to total ful and purchased power BTER eXpnses' ' 2 !n Docket No. 02-11021. The only signIficant remaining cOsts rèf out of this "hedging stråteg are those associate with ~oal, oil and certain' othèr miscellaneous items. Most of the purcased power (tolling) 8J1d natural gas costs are included in the hedging stra. 3 4 5 6 Q. ~~T IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION WITH REGARD TO APPROVING, 7 THE HEDGING STRATEGY? 8 A. The hedging strategy is nothing more than making natural gas purchases 'on ' 9 ' the spo market at market prices, with a call optian for strike priceS' ou ò~ the, ' 10 money. I recommend that the Commls~ion defer any exlici or,implicit " 11 approval of the costs incurred as a result of any purchasing' and hedging 12. strategy to the next deferred ertergy cost proceedings. 13 14 DEFER DECISION ON PRUDENCE OF COSTS OF GAS CALL OPTIONS 15 Q. WHAT IS THE ISSUE REGARDING NEVADA POWER'S RECOVERY OF 16 THE COSTS IT INCURS TO SECURE CALL OPTIONS FOR NATURAL, 17 18 19 20 21 A. GAS? , In the previous deferred energy proceeding, Nevada Power indicted that,. while call options provide protection. they have a significant cost (Reid Deposition, Exhibit 2) the October 15, 2001 memo to'RMC. Given the signifcant cost of call options then, Nevada Power decided to cover a slTan -22- -. 1 '2 3 4 5 6 7 8, 9 10. 11" ,12 13 ,14 15 16 17 .1R 19 20 21 e"e , . portion of it naural gas purchases with these options. T~e issue here is whether the Comrri~sìon in this resource plan proceeding slioul~ autoriz ~.' .. . endors the level of costs thatthe Company would incur in going' now ~ a 100% call opton steg.' . . . . Q. WHAT WILL BE NEVADA POWER'S COST OF CALL OPTIONS UND~R ITS 100% PROPOSAL IN THE RECOMMENDED GAS HElllNG, . STRATEGY? A. . . We, of cours, don't know in a~vance. In Nevad~ PoWteim~ ~ l)ket No. 02-11021, the C,?mpany indiced that "coll~r ~ptÎ,ons" which are less. . exensiv than the call options propoed in its Recommended stregy, we.re 5-10 cents per mef (Reid, Direct, Page 5, Lines 13.;14, as modified òrallyat, ' hearings).". ' ~. The cost of natural gas call options as of the time.of the writing otriy , . tesmony was between '70 cents and 84 cènts per mcf for December 2003 " natural gas. Call option for periods beyond Decmber wold be ~uch .. higher. ., . , As an "orders of magnitude" estimate for, the call oPions propøsed by ,, , Nevada Powe.:l use a 7~ cent per mcf cost, and the gas quantities ,I developed in Exhibit ~ (D~P-3). The estimate of the COS~ of just theSe financial instrument, with no physical gas associated wi it, ìs.$85 m~ni~n ~~r year (. ~5/5 ." 666). -23- ". 1 '2 3 4 5 6 7 8 , ' 9,. 10 e.,e, , . Q. HOW DO YOU RECOMMEND THE ISSUE OF THE RECOVERY OF CALL OPTION COSTS BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION? , A. Firs, I recommend that Nevada Power proV~ addltiona! testimòny on ,it. position on this Issue,' given that the market price for caD opt. has . increased so much from'the time its'strategy was origin~tec. Secnd, . given the uncertinty and tremendous costs tõday of. call. ' options. the Comm~ssion should defer any decision on the appropriate levels , of optlons costs into the more ~pprpriate setting of the deferred energy proceedings. In Uiis way the timing and prudence of the options could be. . I . appropriately evaluated. " ,11. REQUIRE ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS BEFORE 12 LOCKING INTO 100% LONG TERM CONTRACTS . .. . . ' . ,13 .Q. WHT IS THE ISSUE REGARDING NEVADA PO~R'S REQUEST TO BE 14 " AUTHORIZED' TO ENTER LONG~TERM PURCHASED POWER '15 CONTRACTS TO FILL ITS LAGE OPEN POSITION? 16 A.. Nevada Power's request for approval of it long-term RrP proceSs and a'.' 17 18 19 20 21 , , ' 100% hedged position for Its financial gas exposure wUllock ratepayers Int a huge financial' commitment. I am generally not opposed to a considerable intermediate or long.term '" ' purchased power position, but aii such decisions must be wei9lld with risk and portolio miX considerations.. The issue is whethr the timing Of this " -24,; 1 2 3 . 4 5 6 7 ,8 9 10 11 e - resurce plan coupled with the extremely weak finance position of Ned.a' . power make this a prudent time to lock signifcantly into long-term RFP contrct. Q. PLE.ASE EXPLAIN..' . A.Prior proceding~ have made evIdent. tte very weak. finåncial position of N~vada Powr and the creit~risk considerations that all vendors will ~e(gh. when propOsing to sell to Nevda Power.' Credit-risk premiums grOw exponentially with time. Thus, the terms and coditions under which a power . supplier would sell to Nevada Powr must bemll much more onerous u~r a ten, year contract than ~nder, say, a o~year summer peaking ~ntract. The proposed toiling agrement hav& litte effect on these risk premiums. 12 Q. WHT lSYOUR RECOMMENDAnON ON THE ISSUE Of NEV~D~ POWER 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 A. LOCKING INTO SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF LONG-TERM PURCHASED POWER CONTRACTS? The actual dègree to which customers are going to be ask~ to assume a credit risk premium cannot be known until the long term RFP pros is:, , , compleed and Nevada POWer has flied it Amended Plan. I urge the . Commission to set aside sufcient time to evaluate the results of this procss and order any changes to th purchased power reource mix that it cO,nctudès is warranted. -25- e..e 1 Q. DOES THIS CONCLUDE YOUR DIRECT TESTIMONY? 2 A. Yes:' .' .26. " . ..~ e ~: . i brlllløgillli .1 ~..' . ~ibit __. DEP i . Pa~e i of i . . , . '. 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G O To D l n g P u r n a e 8 S :1 , 5 0 0 $1 7 2 , 4 6 2 , 5 0 0 . $1 9 7 , 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 $2 1 , 7 3 7 , 5 0 0 $2 4 6 , 3 7 5 , 0 0 0 ~5 , 8 5 0 , O O O 2, 0 0 $2 2 , 9 5 , 0 0 $2 6 . 8 0 , 0 0 0 $2 ~ , 6 S 0 . 0 0 Q $3 2 8 . 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 $3 9 4 , 2 0 , 0 0 0 25 0 $2 8 7 4 3 7 5 0 0 $3 2 8 , 5 0 0 . 0 0 0 $3 6 9 5 6 5 0 0 $4 1 0 , 6 2 5 0 0 0 S4 . 7 5 0 0 0 0 Pt i l c a l P u r c h a s e s . $ 1 9 6 . 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 $1 9 6 . 0 0 0 . 0 0 $1 9 6 . 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 -$ 1 9 6 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 $1 9 6 , 0 0 . 0 0 0 .. ~ - To t l F I n a n c i a l re : . Mi n i m u m $3 6 8 , 4 6 , 5 0 ' $ 3 9 3 , 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 ' $ 4 1 7 , ' ( 3 7 , 5 0 0 $4 2 , 3 7 5 , 0 0 0 $4 9 1 , 6 5 0 , 0 0 0 Ma x i m u m $4 8 3 . 4 3 7 . 5 0 0 ' $ 5 2 4 . 6 0 0 , 0 0 55 6 5 , 5 8 . 5 0 0 $6 0 6 6 2 5 , 0 0 0 ~8 . 7 5 0 . D O O .. r Al u m ¡ t : He R a f O T o l Gø è o 7, 6 0 0 b t \ !i O $ I ;. - " e ~r i ~ ~ ß : . :" ~ t ,r t . " , : 1 " i~ e.e AFFIRMATION I, Dennis E. PeseaLl, pursuant to NAC 703.710 hereby affrm that the. foregoing prepared testimony was prepared by me or under' my ,direction and is. correct to the best of ITY knowledge. ' Signed lL;i:-.. Dated Septemer 19, 2003 e,'e Attchment. 1 Page 1 of3 STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUAliFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseau has conductd ecnomic and financial studies f~r regulated, '. industries for the past twnty-eight years. In 1972, he was employed by Southém Cafifomiå Edison Company as Associat Economic Analys, and later as Economic. . Analyst His responsibilties included review of fiancial testmony, increentl cost. .' . studies, råte design, ecoometric estimation of demand ~fasticiies and various areas. ,in the field of energy and economic growt. AIsoi he was asked by Edison Elecl. .Insttute to studY' and eVåluate several prominent energy models as 'part ofthe Ad Hoc Committee on Economic Growh' and Energy Pricing, From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Peseau "was e"!ployed by the Public Util;~ Commissioner of Oregon as Senior Economist. 'There he conducted a number of . èconomic and financial studies and prepare testimony perting to public utilities., , In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Northwet offce of Zinder Companies, Inc. He has sj~ce submited teimony on economic and financial. . . . matters before state reg~lat~ry comissions in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryland, Minnes~ta, Montaná, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, the Distnct of Columbia" tn' Bonnevile Power Administration and the Public Utilitfes Board of AlbeJ1 on óver one hundred occasions. He has conducted marginal cost and rate design studies and e:e Atchment 1 Page2of3 prepared testimony on these matters in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, qregon, Washin,gton ~nd in ti: Distic of Columbia. He has , also conducted cost and ra studies regårdin PURPA issues in th'e sttes of Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York. 'Washington, and Washington, D.C. pro Peseau holds th B.A., M.A. and Ph:O. degrees in economics.,. , ,. ' He has coauthored a book in the field of industrial organization entiÌ~, " Size: ,Prots and Executive Compensation in the Large' Co~poration, whiè,h devotes a chapter to regulated industries. Dr. Peseaû has published articles În the following professional journals: Reyiew of Economics and Statistie¡, 6tlantic EcoçmiC Journal. Journal of Financial . ' Management and Journal of Regional Science. His articles have been read befor the Economec Societ, the Wesrn Econ~mfc' Assocation" the Finan~al ~anagement Ass!?ciation. the Regional Science Assocation and universities in tn~ United Kingdom as' Well as in the United Stte. He has guest lecturéd on marginal costing methods in seminars in New ~ , ,Jersey and California for the Center ,of Professionfll Advancement. He h. also guest lectred on cost of capital for the public utlity industr before the Pacic Coast Gas and Electric Åssociation, and for the Executive Seminar at the Colgate Darden '. , Graduate School of Business. Univrsit of Virginia. ì I,. "..' It e Attchment 1 Page 3 of3 " ,Dr. Peseau and his fir have particpated ~ and ,been members of~e Americ;an EConomic Assciaton, the American An~ncial Associaton, the Wester Economic Association, the Atlantc Economic Association and th FinancJal, . Management Assocation. He was formerly a member of th Stff Subcommittee on Economic of the National Associion of Regulatory Utilit CommissiOner. Dr. Peseau has been President of Utilty Resourcs, Inc. since 1985. " e - PROOF OF SERVICE . I hereby cerify tht I mailed the forgoing Prf1léd Testony ofDeis Pesea ii Docket 03-6056 and 03-7004 by ~veriDg to the u.s. P~t Of,ce copes ~ propely àddres for maling to th followi pens: Conn Westt Nevad Power Compay P.O. Box 10100 Reno) NV 89520 . Cheil Bacan Nev Powe Compay P.o. Box 10100 Reno, NV 89520 Tim HaBurau of Conser Protecton 1000 E. Willam str Carso City, NV 89701 Jo1m Nielse.' . West R.esource Advocate 2260 Baselin Road, Suite 200 Boulder, CO 80302 . '. , . Jon Wellnghoff .Beckley Singleton 530 La Vega Blvd. South La Vega, NV' 89101 Oerd Lopez Colorado River Commssion 555 E. WaSgton Avenue. Suite 3100 Las Vega, NV 89101, lamesRo ' RCSln 500 Chesteeld Center, Suite 320 ' Cheseld, MO 63017 e Michal Alcata Alcan & Ka LL 1300 S. W. Fift Svenue .Suite i 7S0 Poran, OR 97201 John Gezin 436 Cour Stre~ Reno, NV 89S01 Willam Gehen Teco Powe Service 702 N. Frain Str Tam~ FL 33602 , Dale Stransky . Buråu of Conser Prtecon 100 E. Willam Str Suie 200 Carn Cit, NY 89701 Er Witkos Burea of Consu Prtection SSS E. Wasngt Suite 3900 La Vegas~ NV 89101 John Nielsen Energy Projec Directr Wes Reour Adocate 2260 Baseline Road. Suite 200 Boude, CO 80302 Dated: Seembe 19, 2003 . .' . 1--.'--- I.',---";' '::.e n t~(:::I~.,t:f. P!':'J 'r '0. j: :T!~.: t:'~:"'.l'" :O!,;q BEFORE THE PUBUC lIILITIES COMMISSION OF NEV..Á' .: ", '; 04 JAH 2 7 PI; 3: 25 Application ofNEV ADA POWER COMPANY for authority to incree its annual revenue requireent for general ras charged to all clases of electrc cusomers and for properly related thereo. ) ) ) ) ) Docket No. 03.10001 ...._.. .. Application ofNEV ADA POWER COMPANY for approval Of new and revised deprecation and amortization raes. ) ) ) Docket No. 03-10002 PREPARED TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU Phase Thre - Rate Destgn Subnutted by:~~~ Fred Schmidt Hale Lae Peek Denson and Howard 777 East Wiliam Street, Suite 200 Carson City, NV 89701 (775) 684-6000 Attorneys for SOUTER NEVADA WATER AUTORITY "r , " 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Q. 12 A. 13 14 15 16 Q. 17 A. 18 19 20 Q. 21 A.22 23 24 Q. 25 26 A. 27 28 e e BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA DOKET NO. 03-10001 Direct Testimony of DENNIS E. PESEAU On behalf of Soutm Nevada Water Autor Phase Thre - Rate Design PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My busines address is Suite 250, 1500 Libert Street, S.E., Salem. Oregon 97302 BY WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACITY ARE YOU EMPLOYED? I am President of Utilit Resources, Inc. My firm consults on a number of economic, financial and engineering mattrs for various private and public entities. ON WHOSE BEHALF ARE YOU TESTIFYING IN THIS PROCEEDING? I am testifyng on behalf of the Southrn Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). DOES ATTACHMENT 1 ACCURATELY DESCRIBE YOUR BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE? Yes. ::ODM\PCS\lLRNODOSI6979U1 Page 1 of12 .i 1 Q. 2 A. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 A. 12 13 14 15 16 J7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e e WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR TESTIMONY? My testimony in this rate design phase of this docket addresses tw issues. One, I discuss a means to help reduce the greatly increased rate subsidy identified by Nevada Power Company ("Nevada Powerj that does not raise the electric rates of residential customers above levels proposed by Nevada Powr. Two. i identify and correct a major error in Nevada Power's marginal cot of service study which affects all water pumping rate classes. WHAT CONCLUSIONS HAVE YOU REACHED? I conclude that: 1. Nevada Power's marginal cost study is flawed and does not follow Commission orders. An error in the marginal transmission and distribution study has resulted in a $1.295,188 excess allocation of costs to the water pumping customer classes. This error is specific only to these WP water pumping classes. 2. The rate subsidy discussed by Nevaa Power tht has increased in this case to $106 millon per year should be reduced only to the extent that Nevda Power in this rate case does not reeive authorization to raise its revenue requirement by .it requested amount. However, reductions to the Company's request to increase rates could be used to reduce the level of the rate subsidy. ::oMA\(CDOI,RNODOCS\3!JQ\1 Page 2 of 12 e e 1 OY,ER-ALLOCATION OF COSTS TO WP WATER PUMPING CLASSES 2 3 Q. 4 5 6 7 8 A. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Q. 20 21 22 23 A. 24 25 26 27 28 HAVE YOU TESTIFIED PREVIOUSLY THAT THE WATER PUMPING CUSTOMER CLASSES HAVE UNIQUE USAGE AND INTERRUpnBILfTY CONSIDERnONS THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED IN ANY NEVADA POWER MARGINAL COST OF SERVICE STUDY? Yes. In Nevada Powets last general rate case, Docket No. 01-10001, I testified on rae design on behalf of the water pumping classes for the Soutern Nevada Water Authont. In that docket J pointed out that the marginal cost study and resulting water pumping classes' rates sponsored by Nevada Power were in error. They were In error because the Company's cost study ignored the usage charactristics of water pumping classes, instead, the cost study just assumed that these classes' costs were the same as "otheIWise applicabJe classes." By usage characteristics, I mean the unique off-peak pattems of energy usage of water pumpers relative to other customer classes. DID THE COMMISSION AGREE IN THOSE PROCEEDINGS THAT THE MARGINAL COST STUDY AND WATER PUMPING CLASSES' RATES PROPOSED BY NEVADA POWER WERE IN ERROR? Yes. Ordering paragraph 583 of the Commission order stated: "NPC's marginal cost of servce study included separate base general rate energy related information for schedules lGS-WP and LGS-X-WP, but NPC did not use this information to develop separate rates. Du~ to curtailments,' the rates proposed would be lower than that for otherwise applicable tariff." ::ODMA\lDOCS\HLRODOC\J69790\1 Page30fl2 e e DID THE COMMISSION REQUIRE NEVADA POWER TO BASE RATES TO THE WATER PUMPING CLASES ON THE MARGINAL COSTS OF THESE CLASSES, RATHER THAN ON OTHER WISE APPLICABLE RATES? Yes. Ordering paragraph 585 of that same order stated: "The Commission finds that the proposal of the SNWA to base the schedule LGS-WP and LGS-X-WP classes' energ BTGRs upon the marginal cost study and not the classes' otherwise applicable rates is reasonable and approv." DO YOU HAVE SIMILAR ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO NEVADA POWER'S COST STUDY TREATMENT OF THE WATER PUMPING CLASSES' USAGE CHARACTERISTICS AND RESULTING MARGINAL COSTS AND CLASS RATES IN THE PRESENT PROCEEDINGS? Yes, as I explain below. DOES THE MARGINAL COST STUDY SPONSORED 'N THE PRESENT PROCEEDINGS BY NEVADA POWER COMPLY WITH THE COMMISSION'S ORDER IN Docket No. 01-10001 WITH RESPECT TO WATER PUMPING CLASSES' MARGINAL COSTS? No, the marginal cost study filed doe not comply with the Commission order in the last general rate case with respect to water pumping marginal cots. Nevada Powts deviations from the methods ordered in the last case result in its proposing rates in this case that are highly inequitable and discriminatory to the WP water pumping classes. ;;ODMA\POO\HLRODOCS\J69790\1 Page 4 of 12 1 Q. 2 3 A. 4 .s 6 7 8 9 io 11 12 Q. 13 14 A. 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 22 23 A. 24 2S 26 27 28 e °e DOES NEVADA POWER TESTIFY IN THE PRESENT CASE THAT ITS MARGINAL COST STUDY FOLLOWS PREVIOUS COMMISSION ORDERS? Yes. On page 3, lines 16-18 of Ms. Walsh's testimony she indicates: II.. ° The marginal cost of service method utilzed for this case is primarily that used in previous cases, wit a few enhancments and changes to comply wit previous Commission orders... " The enhanceents and changes made by Nevada Powr to comply with ,previous orders later described in the testimony of Ms. Walsh do not go to the errors in the study with respect to the water pumping classes that I describe below. DOES MS. WALSH INDICATE THAT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO HER USING OF INDIVfOUAll Y IDENTIFIED MARGINAL COSTS IN HER STUDY? Yes, although she indicate that these exceptions .....are few and consistent with past practice and/or Commission orders..." (page 12, I. 14-15.) Unfortunately, the exception to using the available individual marginal trnsmission and distribution demand cost by Ms. Walsh is very cotly to th water pumping classes. WHAT 00 YOU MEAN BY YOUR STATEMENT THAT MS. WALSH MAKES AN EXCEPTION TO USING THE AVAILABLE INDIVIDUAL MARGINAL COST FOR WATER PUMPERS' TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION DEMAND COSTS? Ms. Walsh states on page 12, lines 20-22 of her testimony that .....Optional WP classes do have marginal cost individually calculated and values shown in Table 1 for the majority of their cost functions.... It is true that the majority of the WP Of water pumping cost functions are calculated individually. But Ms. Walsh makes an important exception, similar to that which she made for the WP classes in the previous case by ::ODMA\PCOOCS\LRNODS\6979O\I PageS of 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 A. 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2S 26 27 28 e e using "otherwise applicable" classes' dat instead of WP~specifc data that were readUy available elsewhere in her study. On page 12, lines 22-26 of her tesimony, Ms. Walsh identifies what I cosider to be her unneessary and highly discriminatory data "substitution"; -...The exception for WP is for the marginal co of transmission and distribution costs for the non-otlonsl class from which they came, re-scaled to the WP glass sales... II (underlining added). PLEASE EXPLAIN. I express in my own words this same quotation from Ms. Walsh ina more specfic, but equivalent way. Ms. Walsh had all the data for each WP water pumping class necessary to compute their respecive marginal transmission and distribution demand costs, just as she possessed the equivalent data for the residential, general service and large general servce classes. For all these other classes that were not water pumping, she applied each of the respective class' time of use (i.e. peak, mid, off and other) usage data appropriately to spread the transmission and distribution cost on the basis of each class' contribution to the particular time periods costs. That Is, classes with relatively high on-eak usage, fo~ example, receive relatively high ¡¡llocation of the on-peak transmission and distribution cos. and so forth for the mid, off and other rating or usage periods. Although Ms. Walsh also had this same appropriate usage data for peak, mid, off and other time periods for an of the water pumping class schedules (LGS-2-WPS. LGS-2-WPP, LGS-2-WPT, LGS-3-WPS, LG8-3-WPP, LGS-3-Wpn, she did not use these classes' data to spread transmission and distribution costs to the respecive WP ;;ODMA\PCDOLRNODOI369O\I Page 6 of 12 e e classes. Instead, she ignored thes time of usag data and chose annual avege numbers applied from the LGS classes. DOES MS. WALSH EXPLAIN WHY SHE CHOSE NOT TO USE THE AVAILABLE WP USAGE DATA TO DETERMINE WP MARGINAL COST OF TRNSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE SAME FASHION AS SHE DID FOR ALL OTHER MAJOR CUSTOMER CLASSES? No. Witout explanation, Ms. Walsh ignores all these available WP time period usage data and instead Mscales" marginal trnsmission and distribution costs with an average annyal WP usge scaling factor. That is, she added up aU kwh energy sales fo the year for a WP class, say LG8-2-WPS, and divided this annual sum by the total kwh energy sales for the year for what she calls an "otherwise applicable" class, or "non- optional" class, say LGS-2-S. The result of this gives nothing but an annual percentage of LG8-2-WPS sales to total LG&-2-S sales, which ignores all of the WP water pumping time perod or time of usage characteristics. IS IT CORRECT TO ESTIMATE WP CLASS SHARES OF MARGINAL TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION DEMAND COSTS ON THE BASIS OF AVERAGE ANNUAL. ENERGY CONSUMPTION? No. Marginal transmission and distribution cots are time sensitive. That is, usage during peak periods imposes a greater cost to Nevada Power's system than usage during off peak periods. Accordingly. customer class usage during peak periods resurts, or at feast should result, in higher costs being sprad to those classes with relatively more peak period usage. Customer class. rates should be developed ::onMAIPS\lILRNODOC~'\6970\1 Page 7 ofii e e accrding to these usage periods to provide price signals to cutomers and, possibly to provide price incentivs to shift usage to lower cost of peak periods. WHAT IS THE QUANTITATIVE EFFECT OF NEVADA POWER'S SPREADING OF MARGINAL TRANSMISSION AND DISTIBUTION DEMAND COSTS TO THE WP ClASES ON THE BASIS OF ANNUAL AVERAGE, RATHER THAN ON THEIR RESPECTIVE PEAK, MID AND OFF PEAK USAGES? The effect is to over-allocate costs to the WP cJasses by $1,295,188 per year. This occurs because the water pumping classes usage characteristics, compared with most other custoer classes, shif large amounts of power consumption to the loer cost mid and off peak time periods. These shifs to the lower cost perids are good for the transmission and distrution systems and for other customers' cost as well. Nevada . Power's marginal cost study ignores these benefits by removing the actual WP usage data and substiting instead an incorrec assumption tht the water pumpers have the same average usage across all time periods. WHAT CHANGE TO NEVADA POWER'S FILED MARGINAL COST STUDY WOULD CORRECT THE PRESENT EXCESS ALLOCATION OF COSTS TO THE WATER PUMPING CLASSES? Nevada Power simply needs to follow the same method of using the water pumping usage data by time period for developing WP marginal costs as it has for every other major customer class in the study, and as it has done for all major customer classes, Including the WP classe, in each and every marginal rost study filed previously since at least 1992. Nevada Power's propose study discriminates against the WP classes by not allowing them to reduce costs by shifing usage to off peak periods. ::ODMAIPOCLRNODOSU6979O1 Page 8 of 12 2 Q. 3 4 5 A.6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 A. 12 13 14 15 16 17 is 19 Q. 20 A. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e e HAVE YOU MADE THE CHANGES TO NEVADA POWER'S MARGINAL COST STUDY THAT YOU RECOMMENDED IN THE QUESTION AND ANSWER IMMEDIATELY ABOVE? Yes. My thre page Exhibit DEP.7 summarizes the changes to WP marginal trnsmission and distributon demand costs neceary to reflect the actual WP usage data. PLEASE EXPLAN. Exhibit OEP-7 replicates a number of data series from Nevada Power's Certification marginal cost study. For easy reference, I include as Exhibit DEp.8 select pages from the Company's cost study in the Applicaion which contains some of these data. At the top of each of the three pages of Exhibit DEP.7 I present the indivdual class usage data for all of the LGS, the LGS WP schedules, as well as the uRatio of WP Kwh to LGS Kwh." WHAT DO THESE RATIOS SHOW? These show the ratios of WP to LGS usage for the peak, mid, of and other periods that should have been used by Nevada Power in spreading marginal transmission and distribution demand costs to water pumping classes. Also, shown is th total annual average WP usage that was Incorrectly used in Nevada Power's study. For example, on page 1 of Exhibit DEP.7 tJe time diffrentiated WP ratio for Nevada Powets peak period is shown to be 1.34%, which Nevaa Power should have used in order to be comparable to its treatment of all other cutomer classes. Insted, Nevada Power used the higher average annual kwh ratio of 1.84%, also shown on page 1 of Exhibit ::ODMA\POOC&'\I.NOIx:S\36979m1 Page 90f 12 2 3 4 5 Q.6 7 8 9 A. 10 i i 12 13 14 is 16 17 Q. 18 A. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e e DEP-7. To be consisent with other classes and wi rt past marginal cost stuies, Nevada Power should have used the peak, mid, off and other time perio raios in place of its annual average ratio. DOES EXHIBIT DEP.7 CALCULATE THE WATER PUMPING MAGINAL COST OF TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION DEMAND BASED ON THE TIME DIFFERENTIATED WP USAGE DATA? Yes. Page 1 of the exhibit applies the WP time diferentiated usage data by rating period to marginal transmission costs in a manner consistent with Nevada Powets methods for other major rate classes. Page 1 at the, bottm compares the total marginal transmission costs sprea to the WP classe using the correct usage data by time period. As shown, Nevada Power alloces $798,911 in transmission costs to the WP cfasses, whereas the time period allocation should be $360,173. WHAT DO PAGES 2 AND 3 OF 3 OF EXHIBIT DEP~7 SHOW? Pages 2 and 3 of the exhibit correspond to page 1 but apply to distribution substaion and non-revenue feeders. rather than the transmission cost shown on page 1. Page 2 computes WP marginal substtin costs of $204,996 rather than Nevada Powets annual average calculation of $545,550. Page 3 computes WP marginal non-revenue feeder costs of $310,554 rather than Nevada Powr's annual average calculation of $826,441. ::OMAIIV'I.RNOOOCS\69790\1 Page lOofl2 4 5 6 7 8 9 e e 1 Q. 2 3 WHAT IS THE TOTAL DIFFERENCE IN WP MARGINAL COST OF TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION DEMAND FROM CORRECTING NEVADA POWER'S STUDY TO REFLECT WP TIME OF USAGE? A. Page 3 of Exhibit DEP.7 indicates that Nevada Powets Study allocates exces costs to the WP classes of $1,295,188. The SNWA requests that the Commission, order Nevada Power to correct this inconsistent and harmful defect in its proposed study. PRESENT RATE SUBSID'( WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO THE RATE SUBSIDY DISCUSSED BY NEVADA POWER? Exhibrt L1W-6 in Nevada Powr's cost study calculates that the rates it proposes in this case result in the residential rate subsidy increasing by $23 milion per year over that decided in Docket No. 01.10001. The rate subsidy in Nevada Powets study is approximately $106 milion, whereas in the lat general case it wa approximately $83 million. On pages 22-25 of Ms. laura Walsh's testimony she addresses the stic issue of how this subsidy might be reduce. She discusses the last Commission general rate case order wherein the Commission for a number of reasons decided to suspend movement of rates closer to cots in that case, but predicted revisiting the issue in this 2003 general rate case. Nevada Power's exhibits then offer alternative means of reducing the present subsidy. WhiJe the Company is to be commended for identifying alternative means, unfortunately its presentations result in rates for residential customers that are higher than Nevada Power originally propose. ::OOMA\I()lHlRNODO~'I?91 Page 11 of 12 Q. 2 3 4 A. S 6 7 8 9 10 ii J2 13 14 15 16 J7 18 Q. 19 A. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e e DO YOU HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL FOR REDUCING THE SUBSIDY THAT DOES NOT RESULT IN RESIDENTIAL RATES HIGHER THAN THOSE PROPOSED BY NEVADA POWER? Yes. My review of the cost of capital and other revenue requirement testimony in the first two phases of these proceedings indicates that a number of parties are recommending significant downward adjustments to Nevada Power's requested Increase in revenue requirement. To the extent that the Commission is persuaded to authorize revenue requirements below that sought by the Company, some level of these reductions could go first to reduce rates of customer classes that are currently paying the subsidy while not increasing residential rates. After some target reducton, say back to the level of the subsidy in the previous GRC, any remaining reduction should be shared in some fashion with the residential classe. I recommend this because the high level of subsidy is bettr to be reduce gradually so as to minimize any rate shock to residential customers DOES THIS CONCLUDE YOUR DIRECT TESTIMONY? Yes. ;;OI)MA\POOS\LRNOOOCS\36979011 Page 12 of12 e e Attchment 1 Page 1 of3 STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONA AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Paseau has conducted ecnomic and financial studies for regulated industries for the past twenty-eight years. In 1972, he was employed by Southern California Edison Company as Associate Economic Analyst, and later as Economic Analys. His responsibilities included review of financial testimony, incremental cost studies, rate design, econometric estmation ofdemand elasticities and various areas in the field of energy and economic growth. Also. he was asked by Edison Elecical Institute to study and evaluate several prominent energy models as part of the Ad Hoc Committee on Economic Groh and Energy Pricing. From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Peseau was employed by the Public Utilit Commissioner of Oregon as Senior Economist. There he conducted a number of economic and financial studies and prepared testimony pertaining to public utilties. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Northwest offce of Zinder Companies. Inc. He has since submited testimony on economic and financial matters before state regulatory commissions in Alaska, California, Idaho. Maryland i Minnesota, Montana, Nevada. Washington, Wyming, the District of Columbia, the Bonnevile Power AdminíSlration and the Public Utilities Board of Alberta on over one e e Attchment 1 Page 2 013 ., hundred occasions. He has conducted marginal cost and rate design studies and prepared testimony on these matters in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon. Washington and in the Distnct of Columbia. He has also conducted cost and rate stdies regarding PURPA issues in the states of Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Washingtn, and Washington, D.C. Dr. Peseau holds the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. He has co-authored a book in the field of Industrial organization entitled, Size, Profits and Executive Compensation In the Large Corporagn, which devotes a chapter to regulated industes. Dr. Peseau has published articles in the following professional journals: Review of Econgmlcs and Statistics, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal of Financial Management, and Journal of Regional Science. His artcles have been read before the Econometric Societ, the Western Economic Association, the Financial Management Association, the Regional Science Association and universities in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States. He has guest lectured on marginal costing methods In seminars In New Jersey and California for the Center of Professional Advancement. He has also guest lecured on cost of capital for the public utilit industry before the Pacific Coast e e Attchment 1 Page30f3 Gas and Electrc Association, and for the Executive Seminar at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, Universit of Virginia. Dr. Peseau and his finn have participated with and been members ofthe American Economic Association, the American Financial Association, the Western Economic Association, the Atlantic Eoonomic Association and the Financial Management Association. He was fonnerly a member of the Staff Subcommitee on Economics of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Dr. Peseau has been President of Utilty Resources, Inc. since 1985. Cl a s s iß 2 S lG S - 2 LG 5 - 2 T lG S - 3 lG s - lG 3 T To l l L G S Cl a n IG - 2 lG S - 2 P LG S - 2 T LG lG S - 3 P l. G S - 3 T To t Cl a LG - 2 - W P LG S P - W P LG S - 2 T . W P lG S - . W P LG S . 3 P . 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Comparison of Annual Scaling of Marginl Cost and Cost Period Scaling Kwh UsageClassPeakMidOff Other Total PeakLGS-2S 219.745,127 211.641,143 338.506.134 1.253.012,472 2,022.904,876LGS-2P 5.750,377 5,768.765 10.121,915 39.501,303 61,142,360LGS-2T 529,718 529,282 1,038.548 4,619,734 6,717,282LGS-3S 152.057,158 151,344,631 267.992,836 959,997.859 1,531,392.48lGS-3P 115.749.939 116,368,262 206.915,802 759,704.813 1,198,738.816LGS.3T 12,453,610 12.111.991 25,669,047 100,145.694 150.380.342Total LGS 506.285.929 497.764,074 850,244,282 3.116,981,875 4.971,276.160 Cot LGS-2S-WP 2,954.581 4.513,214 18.179,426 11,573.345 37.220,566 1.34%LGS-2P-WP 619,127 596.932 1.056,769 3.160,750 5,433.578 10.77%LGS-2T.WP 72,172 177.327 479,108 965,360 1,693.967 13.62%LGS-S.WP 531,406 4,297,122 17,135.268 26,299,801 48,263.597 0.35%LGS.3p.WP 1.078.606 3,590,0$22.963,717 45,636.797 73,269,185 0.93%LGS.3T-WP 4.064.771 6.217.490 19.531,761 51,183.634 61,617.656 32.80%TotlWP 9.340.66 19,392,150 79.346,049 139,419.687 247,498,549 1.84% LGS Marginal Transmission COst Class Peak Mid Off Other TotalLGS.2S 6,939,330 812,920 241 70,899 7.823,390LGS-2P 186,662 22,391 7 1,924 210,984LGS.2T 15,271 1.82 1 173 17.265LGS-3S 4.747,758 569,520 175 48,885 5,366,338LGS-3P 3,511,175 420,025 128 35,002 3,966.33lGS.3T 360,005 42,161 16 3,729 405,911Total17,790.218WP Marginal Transmission Cost Using Annua Kwh Scaling WPMargClassPeakMidOffOterTotalPeakLG$-2S.WP 127,681 14,957 4 1,305 143,947 93,303LGS.2P-WP 16,586 1,990 1 171 18,750 20,097LGS-2T-WP 3,851 459 0 44 4.354 2,081lGS-3SWP 149,631 17,94 6 1,541 169,126 16,592lGS.3P.WP 214,610 25,673 8 2,139 242,430 32,719LGS-3T-WP 195,390 22,883 9 2,024 220,305 118,081Total798,911 lGS Marginal SubstatIon Cosl$ Class Peak Mid Off Oter TotalLG8-2S 6,592,480 772.288 229 67,365 7,43,352L.GS.2P 177.332 21,272 7 1,828 200,439lGS.2T LG8-S 4.510,44 541,054 166 46.441 5.098,110LGS-3P 3,335,675 399.031 122 33,252 3,768,060lGS-3T Total 16,498,981 .WP Marinal SubstaIon Costs Using Annual Scing WPM ,e e. Class Peak Mid Off Oter Tota PeakLG5-2S-WP 121.299 14,210 4 1,239 136,752 88.639lGS2P-WP 15,759 1,690 1 162 17,813 19.093 LGS-2T-WP 0 0 0 0 0 LGS-3S-WP 142.152 17,052 5 1,464 160,673 15,763lG5-P.WP 203,883 24.390 7 2,032 230,312 31,083lGS-3T-WP 0 0 0 0 0 Total 545.550 Class LGS.2S lGs.2P lGS-2T lGS-3S lG5-SP lGS.ST Total Class lGS-2S-WP LGS-2P-WP LGS.2T.WP LGS-3s.WP LGs-P-WP LGS-3T-WP Total LGS Marginal NonRe\fnue Fee Cos'sPeak Mid Of Othe Total 9,986,804 1,169,922 347 102,034 11,259,107 268,636 32,224 10 2,769 303.639 o 7,723,016 5,708,182 o 24.993,944 6,832.781 , 5,053,141 619,630 604,48 252 185 70,35 50.373 WP Margintil NonRevenue Feeer Costs Using Annual ScalingPeak Mid Off Other Total183,753 21,526 6 1.87723.873 2,864 1 246o 0 0 0 215,343 25,832 8 2,217308,858 36.947 11 3.079o 0 0 0 WPMargin Peak 207.163 26,984 o 243,400 348.895 o 826,441 134.277 26.923 o 23,879 47,087 o Total all Scaled Marginal COst 2,170.902 ".'e Mid Of Other Perid Ratio of WP Kwh to LGS kw 2.13% 10.35% 33.50% 2.84% 3.09% 51.33% 3.90% 5.37% 10.44% 46.13% 6.39% 11.10% 76.09% 9.33% 0.92% 8.00% 20.90% 2.74% 6.01% 51.71% 4.47% Total Annual Raio WP/LGS 1.84% 8.89% 25.22% 3.15% 6.11% 54.27% 4.98% ina Tranmsission Cost Using Time of Use Kwh ScalingMid Off Other Total17,335 13 6552,317 1 154~O 0 ~16,170 11 1,33912,958 14 2,10321,643 12 1,928 arginal Substatio Cost Using TIme of Use Sealing 111,306 22,569 2,727 34,113 47,794 141,664 360,173 e Percent $ Diference Diffrence 29.33% -32,641-16.92% 3,819 59.66% -1,627 395.78% -135,013 407.24% -194,636 55.51% -78,640 121.81% -48,738 Percent $ ."0 ti e Mid Of Other Total Diffce Differece 16,469 12 622 105,742 29.33%-31,010 2,201 1 146 21.441 -16.92%3,628 0 0 0 0 0.00%0 , 15.362 11 1,272 32,40 395.78%-128,266 12,310 14 1.998 45.405 407.24%-184,907 0 0 0 0 0.00%0 204,996 166.13%0040,55 at NonRevenue Feeder Costs Using Time of Use SclingMid Of Other Total24,948 19 9423,334 1 222o 0 023,272 16 1.92718.649 21 3,026o 0 0 Pert $ Diference Difference . 29.33% -46,976-16.92% 5,4970.00% 0 395.78% .194,305 407.24% -280.1120.00% 0 166.13% -515,697 160,187 32,480 o 49.09 68.783 o 310,544 875.713 147.90%-1,295,188 ~77,985 9,125 o -32.570 , -465,020 o -8,450 .. _c i P o , O o . , o y St . . . . 1 0 : P s " ' l l m p l m o n l O i i ~i g n " r M a r g l C " " l o " " _ . . 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GS 20602 5.27%-260 14.640 14,640 LG5-1 54660 13.97%-70 39,515 39.515 ~ LGS.2S 25920 6.63%-1 18,771 18,771 LGS-2P 640 0.16%463 463 LGS-2T 308 0.08%223 223 "'iLGS-S 15875 4.06%745 12,242 12,242 LGS-3P 10865 2.78%583 8,452 8,452LG5-T 1301 0.33%73 1,015 1,015 LGS-XS 82 0.02%9 68 26 94lGS-XP 2795 0.71%29 2.322 2291 4.613 LGS-XT 312 0.08%378 60 867 '1.471 LGS-2-WPS 636 0.16%18 479 479 -77.98527 lGS-2-WPP 10 0.02%3 54 54 9.12501 LGS-2-WPT 36 0.01%1 27 27 0 LGS-3.WPS 511 0.15%23 437 437 .. -322.5703 lGS-S.WPP 764 0.20%36 589 589 -45.0197 LGS~3-WPT 193 0.05%40 180 180 "0 SST 0 0.00%0 0 SL 718 0.18%76 -6 590 590 i RS.PAL 137 0.04%99 99 GS-PAL 349 0.09%253 253 AIWP 0 0.00%0 0 . 391181 2283 -6445 279136 3185 282321 -856.4502 283298 Cost PwrFac AddlFac Total Cost RR Class RR Percent Adj Contracts Cost RR Base RM 155,112 10.95%155,172 155.172 RS 563,365 39.77%563.365 563.365 LRS 3.078 0.22%3,078 3,078 GS 50.902 3.59%50.902 50.902 LGS-1 22.886 16.23%14 1 229,901 229.901 lGS-2S 134,597 9.50%44 134.641 134.641LGS-P 3,800 0.27%1 6 3,807 3,807 LGS-2T 540 0.04%a 540 540 LGS~3S 95,932 6.77%34 95.966 95.966 LGS-3P 72,287 5.10%26 36 72,349 72,349 lGS-3T 8,364 0.59%2 8,366 8,366 LGS-XS 1,060 0.07%4 1,064 1,06 LGS-XP 37.184 2.62%203 75 37.462 37,462 LGS-XT 42,473 3.0CWo 21 75 42,569 42,569 LGS-2.WPS 2.346 0.17%2 2,348 2,348 LGS-2-WPP 383 0.03%1 384 384 ..e e lGS-2-WPT 94 0.01%94 94 LGS-3-WPS 1,983 0.14%1,984 1,984LGS-3WPP 2.930 0.21%2.930 2.930 LGS-3-WPT 3,666 0.26%3.666 3,666 SST 0 0.00%12 0 0 SL 5,978 0.42%5,978 5,978Rs-AL 140 0.01%140 140Gs-AL 375 0.03%375 375AlP00.00%0 0 1,416,537 365 1,93 1,417,083 ,1,419,524 1,417,081 244 p'e e with Scaling Adjustment ~ Transmisn Costs Tota Adjust5746814.72%37,944 37,944 ,9778 10.91%7281 195941 50.20%139,908 139,908 39783 44.38%296249380.24%665 665 188 0.21%140206025.28%14,673 14,673 2578 2.88%19205466014.00%39,602 39,602 13808 15.40%10282259206.64%18,812 18.812 7823 8.73%58640.16%465 465 211 0.24%157 308 0.06%224 224 17 0.02%13158754.07%12,267 12,267 5366 5.99%3996 10865 2.78%8.469 8.469 3966 4.42%2953 1301 0.33%1.017 1.017 406 0.45%302820.02%69 95 60 0.07%4527950.72%2.327 4,618 2050 2.29%15273120.08%604 1,471 2746 3.06%2045558.01473 0.14%423 -56 423 144 0.16%107 -32.6410879.125091 0.02%60 7 60 19 0.02%14 3.819349360.01%27 0 27 ~6 0.01%4 -3.117909248.42975 0.06%203 -233 203 169 0.19%126 w135.0132298.98028 0.08%253 -336 253 242 0.27%180 -194.6361930.05%180 0 180 220 0.25%164 -76.64046 0 0.00%0 0 0 0.00%0 718 0.18%591 591 62 0.07%461370.04%99 99 0 0.00%0 349 0.09%25 253 0 0.00%0 0 0.00%0 0 0.00%0390324.55 279,136 -618 89642 100.00%66752 -40.2293 w129a.679 Present Percent Firs First First Rrs First FirstPercentRevIncreaseCapRellocRemainPercentAlCap 10.95%144051 7.72%o .155171.7 18.39%1764.4 172.81539.76%424559 32.69%464866 989.27 0 0.00%0 46.8660.22%2803 9.81%3069 8.913007 0 0.000/0 0 3.0693.59%46716 8.96%0 50902.08 6.03%5787.69 56,69016.22%238967 -3.79%0 229901.4 27.25%26140.36 256,0429.50%144561 w6.88%0 134640.a 15.96%15308.97 149,9500.27%3934 -3.22%0 3807.46 0.45%432.9176 4,240 0.04%347 55.59%397 142.889 '0 0.00%0 3976.77%104259 -7.95%0"95965.69 11.37%10911.54 106,877 5.11%75826 -4.59%0 7234.35 8.57%8226.3 80.5760.59%8654 -3.33%0 8366.169 0.99%951.2541 9.3170.08%1188 ~10.42%0 1064.245 0.13%121.0073 1,1852.64%36816 1.75%0 37461.87 4.44%4259.507 41,721 3.00%40123 6.10%'0 .42568.64 5.05%480.16 47,4090.17%2145 9.45%0 2347.7 0.28%266.9393 2,615 0.03%315 22.04%360 24.4263 0 0.00%0 360 .e e 0.01%94 0.49%0 94.4567 0.01%10.73996 105 0.14%2298 .13.66%0 1983.997 0.24%225.5854 2.210 0.21%3317 -11.67%0 292.791 0.35%333.1245 3,2630.26%3905 -6.11%0 3666.327 0.43%416.8705 4.0830.00 0 O.otk 0 0 0.00%0 0 0.42%8719 -31.43%8719 -2740.514 0 0.00%0 8,7190.01%150 -6.42%0 140.371 0.02%15.960 156 0.03%410 -8.48%0 375.2129 0.04%42.66264 418 0.00%0.00%0 0 0.00%0 0 1293999 9.49%95934.99 843737 ..e e Generatio Energy w/o Tota w/O Energy RRSavingsDemandHooverHooversPercetw/o Hoover97780.109817 7317.131 5088 96350 147238 10.45%112,890397630.445989 29nO.55 222305 302974 525279 37.2B%402,7411880.00106 140.6853 1061 1965 3046 0.22%2,33525780.028901 1929.184 154 29247 44136 3.17%34,300138080.154795 10332.88 77373 157330 234703 16.66%179,95178230.0877 5854.154 42843 100535 14378 10.17%109,9312110.002365 157.8968 1194 291 4145 0.29%3,176170.000191 12.72154 89 307 396 0.03%30453660.060156 4015.517 28887 74996 103883 7.37%79,64939660.04461 2967.861 21689 57676 79365 5.63%60.8514060.004551 303.8203 2295 6691 9186 0.65%7,043600.000673 44.89956 322 878 1201 0.09%92120500.022982 1534.068 10918 2955 40474 2.87%31,03227460.030784 2054.903 15107 36762 51889 3.68%39,784111.3589 0.001246 83.33277 -24 632 1767 2399 0.17%1.83922.81935 0.000256 17.07631 3 132 267 399 0.03%3062.882091 3.23e-05 2,156744 .2 8 77 85 0.01%6533.98683 0.000381 25.43322 -100 99 2189 2286 0.16%1,75447.36398 0.000531 35.4469 .145 201 3244 3445 0.24%2,641141.3595 0.001585 105.783 -58 797 3612 4409 0.31%3.38000000.00%0620.000695 46.39621 291 6675 6966 0.49%5,34100056560.00%430001591590.01% '12200000.00%0,89201.77 1 66752 -38 49220 91655 1409125 1 1080403 First Secnd Reveue Secnd Second Second second Third% Change cap For Reai Remain Percet All CapRR % Change Cap19.97%157721.4 15,094 0 0 0 157721.4 9.49%09.49%0 0 0 0.00%0 464866 9.49%09.49%0 0 0 0.00%0 3089 9.49%021.35% 5385.15 3,205 0 0.00%0 53485.15 14.49%07.15%,0 0 229901.4 38.79%7729.633 263771.4 10.38%03.71%0 0 134.6 22.71%4526.819 154476.3 6.84%07.79%0 0 3807.46 0.64%128.0125 4368.39 11.04%014.41%0 0 0 0.00%0 397 14.41%02.51%0 0 95965.69 16.19%322.511 110103.7 5.61%06.26%0 0 72349.35 12.21%2432.494 83008.14 9.47%07.670Æi 0 0 8366.169 1.41%281.2832 9598.706 10.92%0-0.23%0 0 1064.245 0.18%35.78151 1221.034 2.78%013.32%0 0 37461.87 6.32%1259.524 42980.9 16.75%42150.6418.16% 45936.82 1,472 0 0.00%0 45936.82 14.49%021.89% 2455.811 159 0 0.00%0 2455.811 14.49%014.29%0 0 0 0.00%0 360 14.2eoÆi 0 ".e e 11.91%0 0 94.457 0.02%3.175777 108.3724 15.29%107.620 -3.85%0 0 1983.997 0.33%66.70497 2276.287 -0.94%0 -1.63%0 0 2929.791 0.49%98.50399 3361.42 1.34%0 4.56%0 0 3666.327 0.62%123.2674 4206.465 7.72%00.00%0 0 0 0.00%0 0 0.00%00.00%0 0 0 0.00 0 8719 0.00%0 4.22%0 0 140.371 0.02%4.719465 161.051 7.37%0 1.92%0 0 375.2129 0.06%12.615~430.4908 5.00%0 0.00%0 0 0 0.00%0 0 0.00%0 19.929 592746.9 e e . NPC Scaling Hoover Energy . Tota Adjusted SNWaAdjTotal;: Cost RR Cost RR Difference dOnly-2980 109,910 155,04 155,172 .127-9055 393,686 562,908 563,365 -458 -63 2,272 '3,076 3,078 .2 34,300 50,860 50,902 -42 179.951 .:229,749 229,886 -138 109,931 134,527 134.597 -70 3,178 3,799 3,800 -2 304 539 54 -1 79,649 95,887 95.932 -45 60,851 ,72,256 72,287 -32 7,043 8,361 8,364 -4 921 1,060 1,060 0 31,032 37,172 37,184 -12 -838 38,946 42,462 42,473 -11 1,839 2,425 2,346 79 79 306 374 383 -10 -10 65 97 94 2 2 1,754 2,317 1,983 334 33 2.641 3,411 2,930 481 481 3,380 :3,724 3,666 58 58o .0 0 0.5,341 .5,977 5,978 -1 -2 41 140 140 0 122 .375 375 -1 0 0 0 0 -12938 1067465 ~.1416537 1416537 ...58E-12 944.5003 Rev for Third . Third Third Third Third Fourt Reali Remain . Percnt Alice CaRR % Change Cap0000157721.4 9.49%0 0 0 0 0 464866 9049%0000030699.49%0 0 0 0 0 5345.15 14.49%0 0 229901.4 0.414095 34.1189 264115.6 10.52%001340.6 .0.242512 201.5314 154n.9 6.00..0 0 3807.46 0.006858 5.699046 4374.089 11.19%0 0 o :0 0 397 14.41%0 0 95965.69 0.172852 143.6424 110247.4 5.74%0072349.35 .0.130314 108.293 83116.44 9.61%0 0 8366.169 0.015069 12.52257 9611.229 11.06%001064.245 0.001917 1.592973 1222.627 2.91%0830.2632 o .0 0 42150.64 14.49%0 0 o i 0 0 45936.82 14.49%000002455.811 14.49%0000036014.2%0 ..e e 0.751843 0,0 0 107.6206 14.49%0 a 1983.997 .0.003574 2.969667 227.251 -0.82%0 0 2929.791 0.005277 4.385342 3365.805 1.47%0 0 3666.327,0.00660 5.487700 4211.953 7.850Ai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00%0 0 0 0 0 8719 0.00%0 0 140.371 0.000253 0.210109 161.2611 7.51%0 0 375.2129 0.00066 0.561623 431.0524 5.13%0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00%0831.0151 555190.6 4.61E+08 .AI e e Certifcation Kwh LGS~2S-WP 2,954.581 4,513.214 18,179,426 11,573,345 37,220,56 LGS.2S 219,745,127LGS-2P-WP 619,127 596,932 1,056,769 3,160.750 5,433,518 LGS.2P 5,750,3nLGS-2T~WP 72,172 177.327 479,108 965,360 1,693.967 LG8-2T 529,718LGS-3S-WP 531,406 4.297.122 17,135,268 26.299.801 48,263.597 LGS-aS 152.057.158LGS-3P.WP 1,078,606 3,590,065 22,963,717 45,636.797 73,269,185 LGS..P 115.749,93LG8-3T.WP 4.084,771 6,217,490 19.531,761 51,783.63 81,617,666 lGS-3T 12.453.6109,340,663 19.392,150 79,346,049 139.419,687 247,498,549 506,285,929 LGS-2S.WP 7.94%12.13%48.84%31.09%100.00%LGS-2S 10.86%LGS-2P-WP 11.39%10.99%19.45%58.17%100.00%LGS-2P 9.40%LG8-2T-WP 4.26%10.47%2828%56.99%100.00%LG8-2T 7.89%LGS.3S.WP 1.10%8.90%35.50%54.49%100.00%LGS-3S 9.93%LG5-3p.WP 1.47%4.90%31.34%62.29%100.00%LGS-3P 9.66%LGS-3T.WP 5.00%7.62%23.93%63.45%100.00%LGS-3T 8.28%3.77%7.84%32.06%56.33%100.00%10.18% Peak Only Percent LGS.2S.WP 11.52%11.60Æi 70.88%100.00%LGS-2S 28.54%LGS.2P-WP 27.24%26.26%46.50%100.00%LGS-2P 26.57%LGS~2T.WP 9.91%24.34%65.76%100.00%LG$-2T 2525%LGS--WP 2.42%19.56%78.02%100.00%LGS-3S 26.61%lGS-3P.WP 3.90%12.99 83.10%100.00%LGS-P 26.36%LGS.3T.WP 13.69%20.84%65.47%100.00%lGS-3T 24.79%8.64%17.94%73.41%100.00%27.3% Last case Certifiatio Kwh LG5-2$-WP 2,594,784 3,456,756 16,088.819 7,654,423 29,79,782 LGS-2P.WP 110,542 131,481 306,113 790,036 1,338.172 LGS-2T-WP 89,968 188,171 44,921 927,859 1,654,919 lGS.3S-WP 1,135,933 2,668.807 15.162,796 33.72,011 52,669,547 LG8-3P-WP 1.966,055 3,910,641 17,589,600 39,665,609 63,131,905 LGS-3T-WP 2.332,418 5.762.965 23,918,299 72,296.858 104,310,600 8.,,760 16.118.821 73,514,548 155.056.796 252.919.925 LG5-25-WP lGS-2P-WP LGS-2T.WP LGS-3S-WP 8.71% 8.26% 5.44% 2.16% 11.60 .9.83% 11.37% 5.07% 54.00% 22.88% 27.13% 28.76% 25.69% 59.04% 56.07% 64.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00 o-tt ,e LGS-3P-WP 3.11%6.19%27.86%62.83%100.00%LG8-T-WP 2.24%5.52%22.93%69.31%100.00%3.25%6.37%29.07%61.31%100.00% ."e e 211,641,143 338,506,134 1,253,012,472 2,022,904,876 5,768,765 10,121,915 39,501,303 61,142,360 529.282 1,038,548 4.619,734 6,717.282 151.34,631 267,992,836 959,997,859 1,531.392,484 116,368,262 206,915.802 759,704,813 1,198,738,816 12,111.991 25,669.047 100,145.694 150,38,342 497,764,074 850,244,22 3.116,981,875 4,971.276,160 10.46%16.73%61.94%100.00%9.43%16.55%54.61%100.00% 7.88%15.46%68.77%100.00% 9.88%17.50%62.69%100.00%9.71%17.26%63.38%100.00% 8.05%17.07%66.59%100.00% 10.01%17.10%62.70%100.00% 27.49%43.97%100.00% 26.66%46.77%100.00% 25.23%49.51%100.00% 26.49%46.90%100.00% 26.51%47.13%100.00% 24.11%51.0%100.00% 26.84%45.85%100.00% ..,"e e CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE i hereby certfY that I have'this day sered a copy of South em Neva Water Authority's Prefiled Testùony of Dens Peasea, Phase il-Rate Design upon each of the parties listed below by placing the same in the U.S. Mail posage preaid, or electrnically, to the following: Kathlee Drakulich Sier Paeìfc Power 6100 Neil Road Reno, Nevad 89520 kdlichØl~.C(m smcdonald sppc.com nellianõ(evp.co csilvICl(lppc.com Staf Counsel Public Utilties Commssion of Nevaa 11 SO East Wiliam Strt Carson City, NY 89701 trbertSi£uc.state.nv.us AlBina Burtnshaw Public Utilities Commission 101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 250 La Vegas, NV 891109 abunens(auc.state.nv. us Tim Hay Attrney Gener's Bureau of Consumer Protection 1000 East William$ Suite 200 Carson City, NV 89701 tdh~ag.state.nv.us Eric Witkos Attorney Genera's Bureau of Consumer Prtection 555 E. 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Suite 200 Carson City, NV 89701.3117 nuer.state.nv.us pwilI iatã.state.nv .us .~1...e e BiU Kocenmiser 6005 Plumas St., Suite 301 Reno. NY 89509 biUy(cqalns.com Martha Ashcraf 3993 Howa Hughes Parkway Suite 600 La Vegas. NY 89109 rnashcraft€ylrlaw .com Michael P. Alcantar Donald Brookhyser Alcant & Kahl LLP 1300 SW Fifth, Suite 1750 Portland. OR 97201 deb(ã.kIaw.com mpúia-klaw.co James Ross RCS, In. 500 Chesereld Center, Suite 320 Chesterfield. MO 63017 jimross~-cs-inc.com Michael Kurtz Boehm, Ku & Lowr 36 East Seventh Street, Suite 21 10 Cincinnat, OH 45202 mklawtaoLcom MikePinnu Chemcal Lie Company 3700 Hulen Street Ft. Worth. TX 76107 mpinau~hemjcalljme.com J: ". ..-'- Sctt Crgie Prest, Alms Consulting 6005 Plumas Suíte301 Reno. NV 89509 e e Dated this 27th day of Januar, 200. -e BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NMOA - .,' i : : ! Docket No. 02-11021 Direct Testimony of Denis E. Peseau on behalf of the. Southern Nevada Water Authori Q. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRESS. A. My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My business addres Is Suite 250, 1500 Libert Street, S.E.1 Salem, Oregon 97302. Q. BY WHOM AND IN WHAT CAPACITY ARE YOU EMPLOYED? A. 1 am Preident of Utilty Resources, Inc. My firm consults on a number of economic, financial and engineering matters for various private and public , entiles. Q. ON WHOSE BEHALF ARE YOU TESTIFYING IN THIS PROCEEDING? A. I am tesifying on behalf of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). Q. DOES ATTACHMENT 1 ACCURATELY DESCRIBE YOUR BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE? A. Yes. -1- e e Q. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR DIRECT TESTIMONY? A. In this Docket No. 02-11021, Nevada Power Company ("Nevada Power¡ seks authority to adjust the current Deferred Energy Accunting Adjustmnt ("OEM") rate and Base Tari Energy Rate ("STERn) such that the proposed adjusted rates result in an overall rate reduction of 5.6% for residential customers and a rate reduction of 5.1 % for nonreidential customers. These percntage decreases are the result of Nevada Power proposing to amortiz its additional accumulated DEA balances of $195 rniilion over a three year period, but reduce its BTER in this case by almos 20% over the present level to net to the reultant proposed overall rate decreases. In its Application and filing, Nevada Power also requests two specific waivers from deferrd energy accunting provisio. Nevada Power firs requests a waiver to deviate from regulations to der and carry forward to the next deferrd energy period Athe accrued but unpaid costs associated wih the disputed (Enron, Cal Pine, Morgan Stnley, Reliant, Sempra, Trans-Canada) claims of terminating suppliers", which it claims total $229 milion. (Appliction, Page 15). Nevada Power makes a secnd request to deviate from the regulations and seeks Commission approval for a new methodolog for settng the BTER in this proceeding. The purpose of my testimony is to propose certn adjustments to the DEA rate and BTER rate based upon my differing opinions as to the appropriate levels of prudent fuel costs incurrd by Nevada Power in it tet -2- e e year Octber 2001-September 2002. My testimony also makes recommendations on Nevada Power's requests to deviate from nonnal deferred energy accounting regulaions. Q. WHAT CONCLUSIONS HAVE YOU REACHED REGARDING THE PRUDENCE OF THE $195.7 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL OEA RECOVERY SOUGHT BY NEVADA POWER IN THESE PROCEEDINGS? A. i concJude that in this case Nevada Powets request is overstate by at least $90.8 milion. This overstatement appears to be the result of imprudent and unauthorized purchases for fuel that, peculiarly, were made at the exact same time for this test period as transactions that were found to be imprudent dunng the previous test period in Docket No. 01-11029. In oter words, in the very same period of time, February-Apr" 2001, in which Nevada Power was found in-cket-No.O--14029--Aae-ade imprttt-andcesse-pei purcases, i find in the present case that imprudent transactons made atthat time also aff an amount of Its test year Ocober2001-8eptember 2002 expenses. In paricular, I conclude that 1. Although Nevada Power indicates in its filing that it incurred $265.9 millon in net natral gas and transportat costs in th test year, the Company incurred only $140.8 millon of actual costs for delivred natral gas. Nevada Power lost the difference. a net of some $125 million. by speculating in financial derivtives. -3- e e 2. The Company neglected in this filing to reduce tet year purchased power costs to comply with the Commission order in Docket No. 01-11029 that found that Nevada Power had imprudently overbought power during early 2001and that Nevada Power was required to reuce the DEA for not acquiring 25% of it forward poer requirements in late 1999 at a price based upon a "Meroll Lynch" proxy for the price of forwrd powr. I did not have accss to necessary documentation to complete eithr the overbought or Merril Lynch adjustent as J explain below. Although appropriate for the Commission to continue its precedent in this case, I have not developed the related adjustments and have focused solely on the new Issue of imprudence as a result of speculation in natural gas financial deriatives. 3. The BTER rate set in this case should be adjusted upward in a manner that approximately offets the $90.8 millon disallowance to OEM balances i am proposing, pius any and all other adjustments the Commission finds appropriate in this easei including th Merrill Lynch adjustment, so 8S to preserve the abilit of Nevada Powr to reduce rates to reidential and nonresidential customers by 5.6% and 5.1 % respecvely but also maintain the cash flow level request by Nevada Power in this case. NEVADA POWER'S GAS COSTS AND FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES Q. WHAT iS THE ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO THE TEST YE RECOVERY OF NATURA GAS COSTS SOUGHT BY NEVADA POWER? A. In Nevada Power's Exhibits E-2, Line 21 and E-3, Page 2 of 2, line 26, the Company claims that it incurred Test Period Natural Gas Costs of $250,256,132, net of inventory adjustment. This amount is carried forward -4- e e with other test year fuel and purchased power cots to fonn the basis for establishing and collecting test year costs through an adjusted DEM ra. The $250,256,132 of gas costs is deried from Nevada Power Exhibit E-11.6, Page 3 of 6, Lines 21-31, Column (aa) as the difference betwen column (aa) subtotal of $265,860,683 and an adjustment of $15,604,551. Line 21 indicates that Total (delivere) Gas and Transportation costs in th test year were only $140,830,145. Line 23 of this same exhibit show a line labeled "Less:Sales," that is, the revenues deri by Nevada Power from the sellng off of any excess or unuse natural gas. But the sales revenues on Line 23 are added to, rather than subtracted from, the Une 21 total gas costs. In other words, by adding the sales revenue figure of Line 23 to Line 21, Nevada Power is in effect indicating that it paid parties in the test year $125,030,538 to take it excess gas. I initially assumed that the accounting here was simply in error, wi an inadvertnt errr in sign, from negative to positive. The issue here is just what this "les: Sales " figure of $125,030,538 represents, and why is the figure being added to tet year costs and proposed to be charged to ratepayers? -5- e e Q. HAVE YOU DETERMINED THE SOURCE OF THE $125,030,538 THAT NEVADA POWER INCLUDes AS A NATURAL GAS COST? A. Yes. In a partal response to Data Request SNWA 17, a copy of which is shown in my Exhibit _ (DEP-1), Nevada Power explains that the $125.030,538 is the sum of actal sales revenues for its excess gas, and losses it incurred in the use of financial derivatives, or financial trdes during th test year. The figure of $125,030,538 is the sum of the sales revenues from resellng excess natural gas (and therefore a negative entr) and the actual loss of $133,184,681 the Company incurred by making "financial trades. ø This is why I qualified in my conclusions above that Nevada Power lost a "net" of $125 milion. It actually lost the $133.2 million. Q. WERE AN ACTUAL OR PHYSICAL QUANTITIES OF NATURAL GAS PURCHASED OR RECEIVED IN THIS FINANCIAL TRDING? A. No. the $133,184,681 that Nevada Power is attempting to recver did not purchase a single molecule of gas. Nevada Power paid an additional sum of $140,830,145 for the actual gas that it burned in the test year. Q. WHERE IN NEVADA POWER'S FILING IS THE TOPIC OF THE LOSSES FROM FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES OF $133.2 MILLION ADDRESSED? A. This topic is neither addressed nor explained in the Company's filng, excet for a one page vague reference to hedging strategy in the testímony of witess ~ e e Lorelei Reid, Direct, Page 4, Line 12, to Page 5, Line 15. This general discussion never reference any of the financial consequences or circumstance under which these financial derivatives were entered or even that Nevada Power incurrd such loses. Q. WHICH OF THE NEVADA POWR WITNESSES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDRESSING THE PRUDENCE OF TEST YEAR NATURA GAS EXPENSES? A. The testimony of Mr. Coyle and the desition of Mr. Branch both identify Ms. LoreLei Reid as the only witness addresing the issue of the prudence of test year natural gas expenses. Q. WHAT DOES MS. REID TESTIFY TO REGARDING THE COMPANY'S FINANCIAL OR "HEDGING" STRTEGY FOR NATURAL GAS? A. Fro a literal reading of her testimony, Page 4, Line 12 to Page 5, Line 15. i inferred that at the September 5,2001 Risk Management Committee ("RMC") meeting, which was just prior to the October 2001 start to the test year in this cae, the RMC approved some form of hedging strategy for test period supplies of natural gas. Had this happened, the timing would have been almost perfectly consistent wi the hedging strategies that Nevada Power and the RMC followed in the year prior. That is, on or about September 20, 2000 Nevada Powr began engaging in hedging stregies (basis swaps and fixed -7- ".:' e e for floating swps) gradually over a course of six or sev months for the Docet No. 01-11029 test year, which began October 2000. But, whn I reviewe the September 5, 2001 RMC minutes referenced by Ms. Reid in th present case, , noed that the minutes refct a request by her and subsequent approval by the RMC to hedge only 10,000 Dthlday for Nevada Power. Her testimony, Page 5, Line 5, indicates that the Company's needs were approximately 150,000 Dth/day. No RMC minutes subsequent to September 5, 2001, nor did the confdential gas purchase trnsaction sheets, indicte any later hedgIng activities. Q. WHAT DID YOU CONCLUDE FROM THESE MINUTES, AND MS. REID'S TESTIMONY? A. I concluded that Nevada Power eiter took a gas purchase position that was indexed to actal markt prices for it remaining gas needs of approximately 140,000 Dtday, or had conducted hedging activties prior to the September 5, 2001 time fre but was without a reference by or any discusion of in Ms. Reid's testimony. The lattr conclusion seemed most plausible, as I could not understand' how the hedging position of the relatively modest quantity of10,OOO otdaycould have led to the huge test year losses of $133.2 milron. A gas purcase position that would have been indexed to the market pnce could not have produced any financial loes. -8. e e Q. HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO DETERMINE THE SOURCES AND CAUSES OF THE $133.2 MILLION LOSSES FROM HEDGING? A. Yes. Several months prior to September 5, 2001, over a period of just four spefic days, February 22, and April 11, 12 and 27, Nevada Power entered into a limited number of very high prd basis hedges that produced the overwhelming percentage of it test year financial losses. The taking of these huge positions was inconsistent with an appropriate buy over time hedging strategy that was in pla, as well as inconsistent wih the gas hedging strtegy that Nevada Power had implemented in the purchase of its Docket No. 01-11029 test year natural gas supplies. As I show below, had Nevada Power remained with its bu-over-time strategy, it could have reduce its test year natural gas cots that it attributes to financial derivaties in the present case test year by at least $91 millon. Q. WHAT NATURA GAS PROCUREMENT POLICY WAS IN EFFECT AT NEVADA POWER DURIG THE PERIOD IN WHICH THE TEST YER GAS HEDGES WERE MADE? A. There was no written natural gas procurement strateg In effect during the time frame that th hedging that took place on February 22, April 11 ,12 and 27.2001 (Reid dep., page 104, fines 12-24 and page 162, Lines 9-15). In addition. there were no discussions that could be recalled by Ms. Reid concerning these hedges prior to the February 22 or April 11 , 12 and 27,2001 .g. e e purcases despite statements by Nevada Power that suc discussions and pre-approvals are usual pracice. Although Company protocol reuired signatures on trades by superiors, the approvals for the trdes in question here we not obtained until after the trdes had be executed (Reid dep., Page 55, Line 1 to Page 56. line 24, and Page 143, Lines 3~16). Q. ARE THERE DOLLAR VALUE UMITS ON THE RISK ASSOCIATED WIT THE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS THAT NEVADA POWER PERSONNEL CAN ENTER INTO? A. Yes. During the period in question, the dollar value limit for Ms. Reid to enter into natural gas transactions was $2 millon per trade. I am unable to explain how the February 22 and April 11 , 12 and 27 trades could have been entered into consisent with this restricon, given the evenual $133.2 mOUon losses associated wi them.' Ms. Reid's total of only six individual transactons on February 22 and April 11,12 and 27 for basis swaps alone totaled loss positions of over $90 millon. One trade was conducted on February 22, two trades conducted on Aprill1. one trade on April 12 and tw trdes conducted on April 27. The loses associate wi each trade ranged from over $5 millon individually for one trde, to over $30 million. 1The doliar value limits of $2 mllion were increased to $5 milion subject to Board approval, later at the May 23, 2001 RMC meeting. -10- e . Q. CAN YOU DETRMINE WHETHER THE RISK MANAGEMEN COMMITEE WAS OPERAnNG UNDER ANY DEFINED GAS PROCUREMENT DISCIPUNE? A. Minutes of an RMC meeting date February 29, 2001, Page 2. attached as my Exhibit _ (OEP-2) indicate that an members approd a motion to It ... continue the current buy over time sttegy with respec to Nov. -Mar. 2002 ..." with repect to natural gas purchases. This same motion, however, require that u... by next meeting an outline of a fuel procurement strte with respec to coal/gas be prepared assuming no divestiture of generaton l1... No such outline was prepared for the next RMC meeting of March 14,2001, nor was any discussion or outline prepared prior to any of the February 22 and April 11, 12 and 27 trdes made by Ms. Reid. I wish to make clear here that these February-April financial trades at that point in time were not for the coming symmer months, but for the following 2002 winter and summer months. QUANTIFYING THE LOSSES OF THE GAS FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES Q. JUST WHAT DID NEVADA POWER DO IN TERMS OF TRANSACTIONS WITH FINANCIA DERIVATIVES TO INCUR $133.2 MILLION IN LOSSES? A. There are two fundamental components to delvered gas costs: the actal or physical gas ("commodit") cost. and the transporttion cost to the point of recipt ("pipeline" or Mbasis"). Unless Nevada. Power holds contract capacit -11- It e on the pipelines serving Southern Nevada subject to FERC cost of service rates, the cost of each of these two components varies in today's gas markets under natural gas deregulation by the FERC. Therefore, in order for Nevada Powr to completely fix a test yer price of gas delivere to it systm, which it apparetly wished to do, the Company hedged both commodit prices ("fixd for floang or FFSWAp.) and transporton delivery prices ("basis swap"). The $133.2 million in financial hedging losses were the result of the market pnce of both commodity and basis fallng dramatically aftr the hedges were put in place. From Exhibit 1 attched to the deposition of Lorelei Reid, the test year losses for each hedge can be sen as:2 Commodity $36.8 million loss Basis: $99.7 millon loss Q. SHOULD NEVADA POWER HAVE HEDGED GAS COMMODITY ANDIOR BASIS IN THE MANNER IN WHICH IT DID? A. Absolutely not At least three issues need to be addressed prior to entering such hedges: 1. Should hedges or fied..rice financial derivatives be used at all, or should the gas have been bought at indexed prices with no possible financial impact on the Company or it customers? 2. Did Nevada Power possess or feel that it posseed superor trading prowess or knowledge to ''bat the market," which in this instance meant that it knew that both commodity and basis prices would be higher over the October 2001-September 2002 2 Reid Oepositin Exhibit 1, pa 18 Grand Total for marK to market losses for FFSWAP (commodity) and page 32 Grand Total for mar to market losse for BASISSWAP. -12- e e test year, than the hedges it conducted In the Februar and April 2001 time period? 3. If Nevada Power did not posess superior market knowledge or abilties, Uien a hege should always be done in increments, over time, to avoid taking a .price view" that is, making a bet that prices would continue upwrd. Q. PLEASE ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF WHETHER FIXED PRICE HEDGES SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENTERED. A. In retropect the answer is easy. No. Gas costs wold have been $133.2 million lower absent the hedges. But the issue hee regarding hedes Is whether or not Nevada Power should be taking on such financial risk when it was anticipating to be or actally was under a defrred energy mechanism. The corollary issue is whether this nsk shouJd be borne by shareholders or ratepayers. Q. WHY DO YOU STATE THAT NEVADA POWER COULD HAVE AVOIDED THE USE OF FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES AND ASSOCIATED FINANCIAL RISK BY SIMPLY ENTERING INTO GAS CONTRACTS WITH PRICES INDEXED TO MARKET PRICES AT THE TIME OF GAS DELIVERY? A. Financial hedges are nothing more than bets betwn a part and counterpart. One part bets that prices are going to rise and the counterpart bets that price will decrease. In each financial hedge that was underken by Nevada Power, the Company wa bettng that gas prices would continue .13- e e upward. That is all that a financJal hedge is: a contractal commitment to make a financal (only) settlement that is based upon the relaionship betwn the hedged contract price, and the actual market price at the time of gas delivery. With gas that is purchased with prices that are Indexed to markt pnces, no bet has been made, and no financial gains or losses are incurred.3 In such cases, Nevada Power simply receives and pays for natural gas at th prevailng market price and has no additional financial responsibilit. Q. DID NEVADA POWER POSSESS SUPERIOR TRAING ABILmES OR INFORMATION WHEN EXERCISING THE TEST YE HEDGES? A. No. As l explained above. there is no evidence of anything oter than a buy over time gas purchase strateg in place at the Company prior to the February-April financiat hedges and there we not even any discussions of pending expeced commodity or basis price increases at the time in February and April 2002 when the hedes were made. Again, unless Nevada Power held strong, informed convictions that commodity and basis price were going to rise above the then record level, then the financial hedges it enteed could only have resulted in monetary losses. 3 Ms. Reid acknowledges this In reard to index prices u...Since the leinated supply contracts were priced at index, the terminations had no financial impact on the Company or its customers... .Direct, page 4, J 2-5). -14- e e Q. WERE THERE IN FACT DISCUSSIONS OR FORECASTS PRESENTED TO NEVADA POWER THAT COMMODIT AND BASIS PRICES WERE GOING TO DECREASE, NOT INCREASE AS IT BET? A. Yes, and subsequent price decreases that actually did ensue are wha eventually red to the large financial losses. In March 2001 the Invetment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. made a preentation to Sierra Pacifc Resources. A copy of the Goldman, Sachs & Co. presentation accompanies the minutes of the RMC meeting of March14, 2001. This preentation shows commodit and basis prices well belo those that Nevada Power entered into on April 111 12 and 27, 2001. Knowedge of these forecasts, but exercising the hedges anywy, greatly increased the financal risk of the Company's April 2001 hedges for the test year in this proceeding. Q. WHY DO YOU MAINTAIN THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF SUPERIOR MARKET KNOWLEDGE, HEDGES SHOULD ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED IN INCREMENTS, OVER TIME? A. If Nevada Power did not have a "price vi," that is, a strng analysis or view that prices were going to rise, but stiR wanted to fix its test year gas prices, the best proceure is to buy over time. This is sometimes referred to as price averaging. Buying over time is an acknowledgment that one does no expect to, at any point in time, beat the market. As commodites such as natural gas have price pattrns that are cyclical, buyng over time moderate oreliminate -15- e e price risk. Some supplies are purchased at point on the price cycle below average prices; some supplies are purchased at points on the price cycle above average prices. Many studies indicate that commodit price , movements are somewhat random and unpredictable and. in order to remove timing risk, should be bought overtime, thereby maxmizng the probabilites of buying at averages over tie. My Exhibit _(DEP-3) is an excerpt from the Company resnse to an oral reuest made at the deposition of Lorelei Reid and contains a WEFA consulting report made to Nevada Power that underscores the point that comodit prices and unpredictable. Q. DID, IN FACT, NEVADA POWER ENTER THESE COMMODITY AND TRANSPORTATION HEDGES AT THE "WRONGu TIME? A. Yes. Neva~a Power clearly entere thes transactions at the top or high side of the price cye. During the FebruaryApril 2001 time frame, both gas commodit and market basis price were at all time reord levels. Lockin into hedges at this time is imprudent unless Nevada Power had strong information and advice that prices were to continue setting new record levels. As one might expect with commodity prices that are cyclical, actual gas commodity and basis prices plummeted two months af the executin of the hedges and huge financial loses ensued. My Exhibit_(DEP-4) show the historical behavior of gas commodity and basis prices before, during and after the -16- e e February- April hedging. Nevada Power's timing could not have been worse, as both of thes prices plummeted in the following two months. Q. DID NEVADA POWER USE A BUY OVER TIME HEDGING STRATEGY FOR ITS DOCKET NO. 01-11029 TEST YEAR NATURAL GAS PURCHASES? A. Yes. The test yer for Docket No. 01-11029 was October 2000-8eptember 2001. From a review of files oftransaetions sheets for gas hedging provided by Nevada Power, I was able to determine that the Company's hedging positions in this prior deferre energy test year ocurrd over an approximate six month period beginning in September 2000. Over this period, Nevada Power purchased approximately equal quantities of gas in a disciplined manner over time. If the Commission rules that it was prudent for Nevada Power to use financial derivatives at all in acquiring natural gas suppUes, thn I recommend that the Commission Impose a buy over time hedging stratey that re-rices Nevada Power's present test year hedges according to a six month gradual purchase period. Q. WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS RECOMMENDATION? A. I realiz that dealing in financial hedges is risky busines. Financial derivatives do not reduce gas costs over time. they only introduce price certinty. But there is no means to know ahead whether these certin price -17- e e are above or below market. In orer to benefit at all from thes financial hedges, the hedging must be done gradually over time. BENEFICIARIES OF GAINS FROM NEVADA POWER SPECULATION IN FINANCIAL DERIVATIVS Q. DID THE COUNTER PARTIES TO THE FEBRUARYwAPRIL FINANCIAL HEDGES WITH NEVADA POWER MAE SUBSTANTIAL MONETARY GAINS? A. Yes. In these few hedging trnsacton, Nevada Powts losses were the countrparties' gains. Counterparts gained over $133 milion on these fe financial hedges, in a penod of a fe days. Q. WHO BENEFITED FROM NEVADA POWER'S HEDGED TRANSACTIONS? A. Interestingly, only three counterparties were involved in all of the commodity and basis trnsactions with Nevada Power. GAS COST ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT PRUDENT HEDGING Q. HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO ADJUST THE FINANCIAL LOSSES FROM NEVADA POWER'S HEDGING TO REFLECT A GRADUAL, BUY OVER TIME PROCUREMENT STRTEGY? -18- ti e A. I propo to re-price the actal hedging transactions made by Nevada Power by using the actual market prices for these hedging instruments that existed at mid-month in each of the six month prior to the period of gas deivery. In other words, rather than use the commodit and basis prics that Nevaa Power locked into because of its concetraed purchase, i use the actal market prices of such financial deritives that Nevada Power would have experienced had it followe it buy over time strtegy. Q. PLEAE EXPLAIN. A. My Exhibit _ (DEP-5) refct two hedging straies. Th left-most box of this exhibit, "NPC Acquisitions," shows the actual commodity (NYMEX Fixed for Floating sWaps) and basis (50Cal Basis Swaps) transactions that Nevada Power entred into. The purchases are broken into the typical gas contract wintr and summer periods, November 2001--arch 2002 and April 2002- October 2002, respectively. For example. the commodity hedges entered by Nevada Power for the gas in winter of the test year were for 70,000 MMBTUlday at an average wintr price (for the comodity only) of $4.91. For the summer, the position was for 55,000 MMBTU/day at an average price of $3.10. Similarly, the winter basis or transportation component of gas also had a position of 70,000 MMBTU/day, but was entered at an average price of .19- e e $4.14. The summer position of 50,000 MMBTUlday had an average price of $4.94. Q. WHAT DOES THE BUY OVER TIME STRATEGY IN YOUR EXHIBIT _(DEP-5) SHOW? A. The right-most box of Exhibit _(DEP-5) shows the diferences in the financial commodit and basis price that would have ocurred had Nevada Power more closely adhere to It buy over time straegy. and had it not atempted to time the market in the February and April time frme. The Buy Over Time Strategy re-pnces Nevada Power's trades accrding to mid-month commodity and basis tres in each of the six months prior to seasonal requirements. The reprlced positions result in commodity price of $3.95 and $2.78 for winter and summer period, respectively. The re-priced positons result in basis prices of $1.04 and $.04 for winter and summer periods, repetively. Q. WHAT DOES YOUR EXHIBIT _ (DEP-6) SHOW? A. Exhibit _ (DEP-6) computes the adjustment to test year natural gas cost that Is necessary to reec the reduced comodity and basis prices that should have been experienced under Nevada Power's stated purchasing policy. -20- e e The total financial derivatives cot is computed for Nevada Power's financial derivatives cost as well as the financial derivatives cost of the buy over time strategy. Had Nevada Power followed it buy over time stratey i its test year natural gas cots would have been $90,763,715 lower. This amount of unnecessary additional cot was incurred imprudently and should be removed from the OEM balances in this case. Q. EXHIBIT _ (DEP-6) REFLECTS NATURA GAS COST DIFFERENTALS FOR ONLY THE ELEVEN MONTH PERIOD NOVEMBER 2001.. SEPTMBER 2002. WHY? A. Although Octber 2001 is in the current te year, the gas supplies for this month wer obtained as part of the summer acquisitons made for the previous test year. As I find no fault with the procurement policies from the last test year, l make no adjustment for October 2001. SOUn-WEST GAS COMPANY COSTS OVER SAME PEBIOO Q. DID YOU COMPARE THE PURCHASE STRATEGIES AND RESULTING GAS COSTS WITH OTHER NATURAL GAS PURCHASERS IN THE REGION? A. Yes. My Exibit_CDEP-7) compares the unit gas cots experience by Nevada Power and Southwest Gas Company over the course of the test year. While Nevada Power paid an average price of $6.39/D in this tes year, -21- e ti Southwest Gas paid an average of only $3.88/Dth. The Commission has determined that the average cost paid by Southwest Gas was prudent for this period in the most ret PGA case. Had Nevada Powr an average pnce of $3.88/Dth. its test year gas cots would have been $98.4 millon lowr. OVERBOUGHT AND MERRILL lYNCH ADJUSTMENTS Q. WHAT ARE THE ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO YOUR REFERENCES TO THE OVERBOUGHT AND MERRILL LYNCH ADJUSTMENTS? A. In Docket No. 01-11029 the Commission found that Nevada Power had continued to purchase power even after it had reached its stated objectve of107% of average peak loads. The Commission quantified the amount of imprudent cots associate with the excess purchases and denied the recoery of such costs. In the present case, Nevada Powets load and resource balances appear to indicate a lesser, although significant amount of excess purchase in certin months of the test year. Nevada Power has proposed no adjustment in this case for excess purchases. I have not been able to estimate the amount of any imprudent expenses for an overbought position in this case; due in part to lack of full access to necessary documents data. I did not participate in the FERC procedings for the terminated purcased power contract, nor did I have access to the tenns and conditions for the Duke Energy contract renegotiations. I have not reviewed the Duke contracts as they are confidential and have not been given to me. -22- e e WIth repect to the Merrll lynch adjustment, I did not consider this issue in Docket No 01-11029, although I understand that the Commission ordered that this adjustment be made. Nevada Powr has appa~entl not followe through in this case 'with the Commission ordere Merñll lynch adjustment. Alhough I have not been able to foJlowthrough with an independen Merrill Lynch calculation of my own in the present case, I do not disagree with the Commission order on this issue. I have also seen the Nevada Power response to MGM 6-01 in this case that contains additional details of the terms and conditions of the Merrll Lynch transaction. I understand that certain other parties are addressing this issue In the present case. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Q. PLEAE SUMMARIZE YOUR REOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS. A. My review and recommended adjustments in this case have been limited to the test year natural gas cots incurre by Nevada Power. My review indicates that Nevada Power lost $ 133.2 milion through financial derivtives intended to speculate that gas commodit and basis prices were going to rise, despite a lack of analysis to support this speclation. I have re-priced these hedging losses to reflec the level of losses that would have been incurre by Nevada Powe if it had followe its stated strategy of purchasing on a "buy over time" basis. My analysis Indicates that an amount of $90.8 millon of losses were the reult of imprudent decisions -23- e e resulting from the Company deviating from its ow strategy. I reme1h the Commission order Nevada Powr to remove $90.8 milion from its proposed OEM balance. The BTER issue has been a moving target throughout discovei and depositions in that Nevada Power has request approval of the new purchased por contract. but has not responded to requests to demonstrate the eff of these contract prices and provisions on the BTER. Thus the rationale and justition given in the direct testimony is not applicable. The costs developed in his testimony are no longer a reliable basis upon which to estimate fuel and purcasd powr cots for the BTER. Natural gas price have also increased somewhat since the filing of Mr. Branch's testimony. Without information on the degree of hedging undertaken by the Company and the terms of the proposed contracts, I cannot reliably quantify a BTER. I propoe that the Commission order Nevada Power to exactly offet the OEA adjustments that i, and others propose. and which the Commision accepts, with an upward adjustent to the BTER proposed by Nevada Power in this case. Q. DOES THIS CONCLUDE YOUR DIRECT TESTIMONY? A. Yes. -24- ~e e Exi~it (DEP 1) Page 1 or2. NEVADA POWER COMPANY RESPONSE TO INFORMATION REQUEST DOCKET NO.:02-11021 REQUEST DATE: Jan 29, 2003 WITNESS:REQUEST NO.: SNWA 17 REQUESR:Dennis Peeau RESPONDER:Rice, Bruce REQUEST: Regarding Exib E 11.6, paes 2 and 3 of 6: Unes 23 of paes 2 and 3 of 6 sh pove en fo -Sales-. saies revenues shoud be us to reduce toal gas cots, yet line 23 is added to line 21, incasng tota gas cots: a. Should tine 23 actuay show negati dolla values to rect offse to ga cots? Pleae exla. b. Why were th fine 23 Sale revenues reeced as netie values in the corrponding schedules in Dock No. 01-11029? c. If NPC intends for lin 23 rerenced above to actlly be poive in th filing. is NPC paying part to take it gas supplies? Please exlain. d. Pleas proide all woer. supong docuenton and invoice pertinng to all Exibit E- 11.6. RESPONSE: The "sales" shown on line 23 represent net actvity of sales (gas sold to ~stomers) and financial trdes (hedges). Generaly, NPC . subtracts the safes of gas from total gas and transporttion costs, thereby reducing total gas costs. The expenses of th financial trades (hedges) were greater than the sales for the test period ending September 2002. This resulted in a positive amount that is added to total gas and transportation costs. Please see Uie attached spreadsheét Uiat details by month the amounts for sales and financial trades for both the currnt filing as well as Docket 01-11029. .' Oc l o O l N o v . e n D e l l e n . o i F e b o 4 Z M . . A p r 2 M a Y - 2 J i i i i J u I . f Z A i i o O Z S g Z Sa l e . 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Q 1 10 . 0 0 0 0. 0 3 9 3/ 1 5 1 10 . 0 0 0. 0 3 To t a l 70 , 0 0 0 1. 0 4 0 50 . 0 0 0. 0 4 ..,.: e e Exhibit:_ (DEP 6) Docket No. 02.11021 Sourn Nevada Water Autority Adjustment for Ov Time Buying NPC Financial Traes Nymex FFSWps Nov,01~Mar,02 A.rlO2-8pt02 TotalMMBtu/Oay 70,000 55.000Volume (MMBtu)1°1570,000 9,615,000 20.185,000Total Cost 51,928,900 29.778.525 81,707,42$IMMBtu 4.91 3.10 4.05 So Basis Swaps Nov,01-Mar,02 Apr,02-5pt.02 TotalMMBtu70,000 50,000Volme (MMBtu)10,570.00 9,150,000 19,720.00Total Cost 43.752.250 45,155,250 88.907.500$/MMBtu 4.14 4.94 4.51 NPC Hedging Cost 95,681,150 74,933.775 170,614,925 Over Time Hedging Cost 52,745.055 27,106,155 79,851,210 Adjustment (42,936,095)(47,827,620.0)(90,763,715) -i-ø.~ Do t N o . 0 2 - 1 1 0 2 1 '- Ne v a d a P o w e r C o m p a n y . S o u t h w e s t G a s +J ., . 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S e p t , 0 2 a r e f o r e c a s t s . e So u r c e s : S o u t h w e t G a s 2 0 0 2 P G A F i l i n g Ne v d a P o w e r 2 0 0 2 O E M F i l i n g , , e eiachment1 Page 1 of3 STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONA AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseau has conducted economic and financial studies for regulated industrs for the pas twnty-eight years. In 1972, he was employed by Southern California Edison Company as Associate Economic Analyst, and later as Economic Analyst His responsibiltie included review of finanCial testimony, Incremenl cost studies, rate design, econometrc estimatin of demand elasticities and various areas in the field of energy and economic growt. Also, he was asked by Edison Electicl Institute to study and evaluate several prominent energy models as part of the Ad Hoc Commit on Economic GÌ' and Energy Priing. From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Peseau was employed by the Public Utilit Commissioner of Oregon as Senior Economist. There he conducted a number of economic and finanCial studies and prepared testimony pertining to public utlies. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Nortwet offce of Zinder Companies, Inc. He has since submittd testmony on economic and financial matters before state reuiatry comissions in Alaska, California, Idaho. Maryland. Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Washington. Wyoming, the Distric of Columbia, the Bonnevile Power Administration and the Public Utiltie Board of Albert on over one hundred occions. He has conducted marginal cot and rate design studies and "..; I e eæchment1 Page 2013 prepare testimony on these mattrs in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and In the District of Columbia. He has also conducted cost and rate studies regarding PURPA issues in the staes of Alaska, California, Idaho, Montna, Nevada, New York. Washington. and Washington, D.C. Dr. Peseau holds the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. He has co-authored a book in the field of industrial organization entitled, Size. Profits and Executi Copensation in the lerge CorporatiQ.n. which devote a chaptr to regulated industries. Dr. Peseau has publishe articles in the following professional journals: Review of Economics and Statistics. Atlantic Economic Joyrnal, Journal of Financii1 Managemeot, and Journal of Regional Scen~. His art have been read before the Econometric Society, the Western Economic Association, the FinancIal Management Assation, the Regional Science Association and universities in the United Kingdom as well as in the Unite states. He has guest lectured on marginal costing methods in seminars in New Jersey and Califrnia for the Center of Professional Advancement He has also guest lecred on cost of capital for the public utilty industry before the PacJfic Coast Gas and Electic Association, and for the Executie Seminar at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, Universit of Virginia. 0..:. , . ' . .e 4tchment 1 Page 3 ot3 Dr. Pesau and his firm hav participated with and been members of the Amerin Economic Asocation. the American Financial Association, the Western Economic Assocation, the Atlantic Economic Association and the Financial Manageent Association. He was formerly a member ofth Sta Subcommittee on Economics of the National Associion of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Or. Peseau has been President of Utilit Resources, Inc. since 1985. 4 . l .e e AFFJRMA TION J, Dennis E. Peseau, pursuant to NAC 703.710 hereby affirm that the foregoing prepared testimony was prepared by me or under my direction and is correct to the best of my knowlede. Signed ¡l't&e-t1 Dated -J1øu/- i ¿tli¿ ".: .. .. i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ¡ 10~8 oN.. 11:iBo ii~ 12.. ii,= u'g 13 . ~ ~(I Z 14 Ql r; ~=... 15¡...c; Øl~ i: ii ~ 16~.. ~ 170.. ii'" is := 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 0_.:. e - PROOF OF SEVICE I hereby cefy tht I maied the foregoing Prpar Testmony of Dens Pes in Docket 02-1 1021 by delivering to the U.S. Post Offce copies thof, prperly addresd for miuling to the following persons: Bet Ellot Nevad Power Company MS 3A 6226 W. Sah Avenue La Vegas NV 89151 Timothy Hay Consumer Advocate Bureau of Conswner Protection 1000 E. Wiliam Strt, Suite 200 Caron Cityt Nevaa 89701 Lawrnce Gollomp U.S. Depaent of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue SW Washigton, DC 20585 Staf Counel Public Utiities Commission 1150 East WiUiam Street Car City, NV 89701 Jon WeIIngboff Bekley Singleton Chtd. 530 La Vegas Blvd. South Las Vega, NY 89101 Mark Russell Mirage Hotel & Cano 3400 La Vega Blvd. South Las Vega, NV 89109 Erc Witkosk, Nevad Attorney General'5 Offce 555 E. Washigtn St., Suite 3900 Las Vega, NV 89101 ::OOMA\PS\HLRNODOS\3234n\i Page 1 of2 . I I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 18 10 oM..11~j~ 1 ~12 §lj 13 i Ž 14 Q.l~ 15j4 :: .04 B...U, ~ g ø. oW 16I) ui ¡ J~O 17 I) f' 'i I"isti 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 e ~ Tam Polito Bureau of Consumr Protection 1000 E. Willia Street, Suite 200 Caron City, NV 89701 Robe Crowell Crowell, Susich, Ow & Tookes, Ltd. P.O. Box i 000 Caon City, NV 89702 Joyce Newm Utility Shaholde Associaton P.O. Box 1823 Caron City, NV 89702 Gerald Lopez Colorao River COmmssion of Nevada 555 East Wasingon Avenue, Suite 3JOO Las Vegas NV 89101 David J. Gildersleee Nevada Energy Buyers Netrk 8685 W. Sah Avenue, St. 200 Las Vega, NV 89117 Dale Swa Exetr Associates, Inc. 12510 Prospety Drive, S1. 350 Silver Sprg, MD 20904 , James D. Salo Colorad River Commsson of Nevada 555 Eat Wasngton Avenue St. 3100 Las Vega, NY 89101 Dated: Marh 7, 2003 _lsi,An PEEK D ¡SON AND HOWARD 777 E. Willam Str Suite 200 Carso City, Nevad 89701 ::ODMA\P&'\NODOCS2347J\1 Page2of2 " : Dean J. Miler McDEVI & MILER LLP 420 West Banock Street P.O. Box 2564-83701 Boise,ID 83702 Tel: 208.343.7500 Fax: 208.336.6912 joe(fmcdevitt-miller.com Ida Pu Jtilties Commissio Offi(,:~1 lIie SecretaryRECEIVED NOV 30 2O Bo, Id Attorneys for Applicant BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITS COMMSSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF UNTED WATER IDAHO INC. FOR AUTORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES Case No. UW.W-0404 AND CHARGES FOR WATER SERVICE IN TH STATE OF IDAHO BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION DIRCT TESTIONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU 1 Q. 2 3 A. 4 a. 5 A. 6 7 8 a. 9 A. 10 11 a. 12 13 A. 14 Q. 15 16 A. 17 18 19 20 21 22 Please state your name and address. My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My address is 1500 Libert Street, S.E., Suite 250, Salem, OR 97302. By whom and in what capacity are you employed? I am President of Utility Resources, Inc. Utilty Resources, Inc. consults on a number of economic, financial, engineering and regulatory matters for private and public entities. On whose behalf are you testifying in these proceedings? I am testifying on behalf of United Water Idaho Inc. ("United". or "the Company"). Does attachment 1 to your testimony describe your professional career and educational background? Yes. What is the purpose of your direct testimony in these proceedings? I am sponsoring Exhibit 14, a cost of service study ("COSS") of the water system of United, and making rate design recommendations based in part on the COSS. The reason i state that my rate design recommendations are based only "in part" on the COSS is an acknowledgement that here in Idaho, and usually elsewhere, implementation of effcient, fair and equitable rates to United's customers requires a good deal of Peseau,Oi 1 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 Q. 5 A. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Q. 14 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 practical judgment in addition to the cost guidelines given us from the COSS. Have you previously testified before the idaho public utilties commission on cost of service and rate design matters? Yes. I have testified before this Commission on such matters on numerous occasions dating back to 1980. I have represented various customer groups previously on COSS and rate design issues involving electricity and natural gas. i believe that this case is the first water system COSS and rate design study that I have prepared in the State of Idaho, although I have testified in water cases on several occasions in Oregon, Nevada and California. What conclusions have you reached from your studies and analyses? I conclude that: 1. The customer charges now in place are significantly below customers' cost of service and should be raised. i propose that these charges be raised by approximately 36%. 2. Customer class distinctions in the present case remain according to meter size. 3. There is substantial difference in seasonal commodity costs of service between the winter and summer and the present 25% commodity rate differential should be maintained. Peseau.Oi 2 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 a.How is your testimony organized? 2 3 4 A.Prior to my presenting the detailed COSS and rate design proposals, I focus initially on a review of some of the water system cost of service and rate design issues that United, 5 Commission Staff, and intervenors and therefore, this 6 Commission considered in the prior rate case No. UWI-W-98-3 7 and subsequent Order No. 28043. In that case, a number of 8 different COSS and rate design proposals were presented and 9 evaluated. The issues considered there provide a perspective 10 for the COSS and rate design enhancements I discuss below. 11 ' SIGNIFICANT COSS AND RATE DESIGN ISSUES 12 a.What significant COSS and rate design issues arose in the 1998 13 rate casethat remain pertinent in the present proceedings? 14 A.Leaving aside for the moment the many technical COSS issues 15 pertaining to functionalizing and classifying the numerous cost 16 17 categories involved in describing the United system, there were threshold issues in the prior rate case. 18 19 a.Please briefly explain these threshold issues. A.The first issue pertained to the consensus conclusion that the 20 revenues collected under United's customer charges fell 21 significantly short of covering the costs of serving customers. 22 Customer costs are defined as the costs associated with 23 customer billng, meters, service and fire protection. As Paseau, Di 3 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 customer costs comprise a significant percentage of customers' 2 bils and they cannot be "avoided" by reducing water 3 4 consumption, customers tend to prefer low customer charges. The issue in the present case is just how much to raise the 5 present level customer charges, given the continuing disparity 6 that I find between these rates and customer cost of service. 7 A second important issue was the means by which customer 8 classes were to be defined. For a number of reasons, United's 9 customer classifications, for purposes of COSS have been 10 11 based on meter size, not classes such as residential, commercial, industrial or public authority. In Case No. UWI-W- 12 98-3 it was recognized by Commission Staff and United that the 13 sampling, load profile and other usage pattern data necessary to 14 construct meaningful residential, commercial and other rate 15 16 classes would be very costly and diffcult to develop. i consider cost distinctions by meter size to be the reasonable classification 17 of costs and continue this practice in the COSS I develop. A third important rate issue taken up in Case No. UWI-W-98-18 19 3 was the design of the usage or commodity rate. This usage- 20 sensitive or commodity portion for rate design is especially 21 important in that it is here that customers confront the price 22 signals that form the basis for effcient water usage as well as 23 conservation decisions. Peseau, Di 4 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 In the 1998 rate case, the then-existing seasonal rate 2 structure was re-examined in light of certain customers' 3 4 frustration or confusion over facing different commodity rates during different times of the year. The sense seemed to be 5 "Shouldn't it cost me the same to bathe in the summer or the 6 winter if my consumption is somewhat flat year-round"? I argue 7 below that the answer to this question is "No, but the good news 8 for you is that appropriately seasonalized rates result in your 9 total annual bils for water used to bathe being less for you than 10 in the absence of seasonalized rates." That is, the cost of a bath 11 in the winter is lower by a greater amount than the cost ofa bath 12 in the summer is higher, if your annual consumption is relatively 13 14 flat. As shown more formally below, the reason that annual bils for relatively flat demand water customers are reduced by 15 seasonalizing commodity rates is that, compared to other 16 17 customers, their consumption occurs relatively more in the winter or "off-season" rate period. With effective communication, these 18 customers' frustration with differentiated bils could not only be 19 softened but perhaps be offset by the knowledge that their level 20 (Le., effcient) consumption is rewarded by the seasonal rate 21 structure in the form of less expensive annual bills. The 22 reduction in these annual bils is made up from customers that 23 do not have level consumption, such as irrigation loads. The Peseau, Di 5 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 a. 12 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 a. 21 22 A. 23 higher percentage of revenues paid by higher summer consumption is as it should be, for the summer period is shown below to have the higher costs of service. So long as there is a reasonable cost basis for seasonal rate differentiation, seasonal rates are fair, equitable and "bettet' than flat annual rates. Previously, the basis for seasonalizing the Company's rates was informed judgment. The COSS undertaken for United in the present case actually distinguishes and differentiates commodity costs by seasons rigorously rather than relying solely on judgment. Did you consider proposing an inclining or inverted block rate structure here similar to proposals in uwids last rate case? Yes. As part of my preparation for the present case, i read much of the record in Case No. UWI-W-98-3 where the topic of inverted rates was discussed. i note that after the Commission considered the issues pertaining to commodity rates, Order No. 28043 concluded that seasonal rather than inverted block rates be implemented, although there was a dissenting opinion on the issue. What is your recommendation with respect to the commodity rate issue? There is no perfect means to estimate commodity costs and transfer these costs to rate design. Ultimately judgment not only Peseau, Di 6 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 a. 31 32 about costs but also rate stabilty, understandabilty and other equity issues must be addressed. I do, however, prefer and in this case recommend continued but improved use of seasonal over inverted block rates. While over the years I have estimated and recommended both seasonal and inverted block rates, I believe in this case rate making goals are better served with a seasonal rate structure, perhaps modified by a minimal initial summer consumption block. As Commission Staff and others discussed in Case No. UWI-W-98-3, and in my opinion hold true in this case, seasonal rates: 1. Are able to be estimated formally within the COSS and give more formal foundation and understanding of seasonal cost differences; 2. Although not as simple as annual flat commodity rates, are much simpler and more understandable compared with multiple block rates; , 3. Assure a better price signal to and promote conservation by customers than do inverted block rates; 4. Allow customers at all times to know the rates they face, while they may never know the rate they face at any particular point in time with an inverted block rate structure. Did commission staff in case no. Uwi-w-98-3 correctly point out that the COSS in that case did not tell us directly how costs vary by season? Peseau,Oi 7 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 A.Yes. However, in the COSS I offer here, we have seasonalized 2 costs. While this formal seasonal estimation does not eliminate 3 the need for judgment in designing rates, it does nevertheless 4 give a good initial indication of seasonal cost differentiation, and 5 a rate objective to move toward over time. 6 POSSIBLE SUMMER INITIAL LOW-COST RATE BLOCK 7 a.In your testimony above, you referred to a possible "initial 8 summer consumption block" within a seasonal rate structure. 9 What do you mean by this? 10 A.My critique of inverted block rates pertains to the diffculty and 11 potential confusion associated with multiple blocks that are 12 designed to cover large consumption increments, for example as 13 in the case of base blocks, shoulder blocks and peak usage 14 blocks. In such instances, it is not possible to adequately define 15 these blocks within a cost of service study. 16 However, there are certainly reasons that a noncost-based 17 initial low block rate can be considered for purposes of assisting 18 in keeping the annual costs of small usage customers to a 19 minimum. We have begun attempting to develop the type of bil 20 frequency analysis necessary to estimate a reasonable size for 21 this initial summer block. Due to the need to gather additional 22 23 data and perform statistical analyses, I have not included an exact initial block proposal here. We anticipate being able to Peseau,Oi 8 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 a. A. a. A. schedules, as well as the summary cost of service rates for seasonal usage, as well as customer costs. The last 2 lines of each page of the schedule, "Existing Revenue" and "Percent Change from Current", show the full cost of service rates and the change in the present rates necessary to achieve cost of service rates. Again, I do not recommend movement to full cost of service. However, I use the cost and present rate information shown on Schedule 1 to reach the rate design recommendations that i make in the following section of my testimony. What does schedule 2 show? The 2 page Schedule 2 provides the overall summary results of the COSS. The column "Total Amount" on pages 1 and 2 show the aggregate amounts of operating expenses and rate base related data necessary to adjust the period ending July 31, 2004 figures to May 31, 2005. The remaining columns summarize the steps of the service component analysis by breaking these total rate year balances into volume, base demand, excess maximum day, excess maximum hour, customer related O&M, customer meters and services and fire protection. What is the next step in your COSS? The next step is shown in Schedule 3. This schedule provides the actual allocation of functionalized costs. A common allocation method, and one recognized by this Commission, is the "Base- Peseau, Oí 10 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 a. 11 A. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 a. 21 A. 22 23 schedules, as well as the summary cost of service rates for seasonal usage, as well as customer costs. The last 2 lines of each page of the schedule, "Existing Revenue" and "Percent Change from Current", show the full cost of service rates and the change in the present rates necessary to achieve cost of service rates. Again, I do not recommend movement to full cost of service. However, I use the cost and present rate information shown on Schedule 1 to reach the rate design recommendations that I make in the following section of my testimony. What does schedule 2 show? The 2 page Schedule 2 provides the overall summary results of the COSS. The column "Total Amount" on pages 1 and 2 show the aggregate amounts of operating expenses and rate base related data necessary to adjust the period ending July 31, 2004 figures to May 31, 2005. The remaining columns summarize the steps of the service component analysis by breaking these total rate year balances into volume, base demand, excess maximum day, excess maximum hour, customer related O&M, customer meters and services and fire protection. What is the next step in your COSS? The next step is shown in Schedule 3. This schedule provides the actual allocation of functionalized costs. A common allocation method, and one recognized by this Commission, is the "Base- Peseau, Di 10 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 a. 5 A. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 a. 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 a. 19 A. 20 21 22 Extra Capacity Method." This method separates total costs into the components of base cost, extra capacity cost, customer cost and fire protection costs. What are "base costs" in the base-extra capacity method? Base costs represent those costs incurred by the Company for average, flat or base load levels of water production and consumption by customers. Base costs represent a form of "optimal system" costs as they are the costs of a system utilized at a 100% system load factor that requires no additional peaking facilties or other capacity costs. Base costs are those O&M and capital costs for serving customers at a constant annual rate. What are "extra capacity" costs? As the name implies, extra capacity costs are those O&M and capital costs that are over and above the base costs. They are costs for meeting maximum peak demand in excess of average demand and include supply, treatment, pumping and distribution facilties costs. What are customer costs? As in most utilty functions, water system customer costs are those costs incurred by the Company to provide service to customers independent of the actual level and rate of water consumption. In the present study these costs include the three Peseau, Oi 11 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 o. 10 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 o. 20 A. 21 22 o. 23 24 A. 25 26 functions: customer commercial, customer meters and customer services. The,AWWA Manual M1 defines customer costs as: Costs directly associated with serving customers, irrespective of the amount of water use. Such costs generally include meter reading, biling, accounting, and collecting expense, and maintenance and capital costs related to meters and associated services. (page 324) Are you aware that the commission staff has recently proposed that customer costs for electric utilties be defined more narrowly? Yes. However, for United's water system, the above definition should continue to be used for cost of service analysis. All categories of the customer service above are independent of water use. These services are sized initially for customers and do not vary by annual or seasonal demands. Allocating any of these fixed costs to the commodity portion of seasonal rates would distort the usage sensitive water rate. What are fire protection costs? Fire protection costs include the O&M and capital costs of fire hydrants. How did you apply the base-extra capacity method to derive the costs associated with these components? The base-extra capacity method formally estimates the base or average demand system costs, the excess maximum day system demand costs and the maximum hour system demand Peseau, Di 12 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 a. 16 A. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 costs. The method recognizes that extra costs are incurred for meeting maximum day demands over average system demand, and that even greater costs are incurred for facilities required to meet maximum peak hour demands. Accordingly, the base- extra capacity method allocates the total costs of supply, pumping, treatment, T&D, customer, fire protection, general plant and intangibles on the basis of average and peak demand. The actual allocations are made from calculated "factors" or allocators. The results of this step of allocating to the service components for the period ending May 31, 2005 are shown in Schedule 3. Schedule 4 of my exhibit provides the details of the derivation of these factors. Schedule 4 also provides the derivation of all other component, function and seasonal allocators. What do schedules 5-13 show? Schedules 5-13 provide detailed account information that breaks costs into functions. The functional categories used the COSS are: 1.Intangibles 2.Source of supply 3.Pumping plant 4.Water treatment 5.Transmission and distribution Peseau, Oi 13 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 6.Customer meters and service 2 7.Fire protection 3 4 8.General plant a.What does schedule 14 show? 5 A.Schedule 14 provides rate year pro forma customer and billng 6 information by meter size and revenue count at existing rates 7 and equivalent meter counts. This information is used to derive 8 unit customer costs from aggregate customer costs. 9 10 a.What does schedule 15 show? A.Schedule 15 reports private fire service information similar to that 11 presented in Schedule 14. 12 SEASONALIZED COST OF SERVICE 13 14 a.What is the issue you address with respect to cost seasonalization? 15 A.Although United has had seasonal water rates in effect for some 16 17 time, the degree of the winter/summer rate differentiation has not before been based on the cost of service study. The issue i now 18 address is the formal estimating of the Company's seasonal cost 19 differences in the context of the COSS. It is not my intent to 20 argue that seasonal rates should be set equal to seasonal cost differences but rather that the actual cost differences be21 22 recognized as one important variable in setting final commodity 23 rates in this case. Peseau,Oi 14 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 a. 2 3 A. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 a. 13 A. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 What does your COSS analysis show with regard to United's seasonal cost differences? As in all cost of service analyses, there is no single "correct " method to seasonalize costs. Judgment is required. I develop two alternative methods to seasonalize cost of service to provide the Commission insight into the new analyses and give a reasonable range of discretion in setting seasonal rates if it chooses to order seasonal rates. As developed below the two analyses find that the seasonal rate spread based on cost of service falls in the range of 25- 70%. Please explain the seasonal cost analysis. The seasonal cost study begins with the identification of the appropriate annual functional and component cost categories that are usage sensitive, and therefore, eligible for seasonalization. The COSS identifies volumetric, base demand, excess maximum day and excess maximum hour costs as usage sensitive. The annual dollar amounts for these cost categories are summarized in Schedule 1. The total of these usage sensitive costs in rate year May 31,2005 is $26,636,100, a very significant percentage of the total revenue requirement of $38.1 millon. Peseau, Dj 15 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 The various categories identified above each has a unique 2 seasonal characteristic and must be separately estimated. For 3 example, volumetric costs vary directly with seasonal usage. 4 Cost of chemicals is such an example. The more water 5 6 produced, the more chemical used. Purchased water costs also vary directly with the amount purchased. Base capacity costs, 7 which are incurred to meet annual average demand also vary 8 directly by seasonal usage and therefore should be allocated by 9 respective seasonal winter/summer usages. 10 The peak or excess maximum demand costs, however, vary 11 disproportionately higher during summer months. Seasonal 12 13 allocators for the excess maximum day and excess maximum hour demands therefore require considerably more analysis. 14 a.How does the COSS develop seasonal cost allocators for the 15 two categories excess maximum day and excess maximum 16 hour? 17 A.To accomplish this, average monthly usage, maximum day 18 usage and maximum hour usage is computed for each month of 19 the test year. From these data twelve monthly day and hour 20 "excesses" over the respective average monthly demands are 21 calculated. Peseau, Di 16 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 a. 5 A. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 I computed the two alternative seasonal cost allocators by using two different definitions of summer and winter peak consumption. Please explain, For the first seasonal allocator, I computed the maximum excess maximum day and hour figures for the single highest peak excess for each season. I then compared the summer single month excess demand with the winter single month excess demand and used the relative differences to seasonalize the costs. The resulting seasonal allocations derived are: Seasonal Costs AllocatedSummer Winter Excess Day Excess Hour 77.4% 70.0% 22.6% 30.0% Schedule 4 provides the detailed calculations. A second alternative seasonal allocator is developed from the same excess demand data. However, for this second allocator, I summed, by season, all months of positive excess demand and used the sum of the total month summer excess demands to the sum of the total monthly winter demands to calculate the allocator. This second allocator results in the following cost allocations: Seasonal Costs AllocatedSummer Winter Excess Day Excess Hour 87.8% 87.9% 12.2% 12.1% Peseau, Di 17 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 a. 4 5 6 A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 a. 18 A. 19 20 21 22 How are the seasonal excess demand allocators combined with the volumetric and base capacity cost allocators to reach a seasonalization of all these costs? This step is shown for each of the two alternative excess demand allocators in Schedule 1. As shown in the now entitled "Total," the total seasonal costs allocated to the winter and summer seasons are $8,172,948 and $18,463,152 respectively for the single excess peak alternative allocator and $6,555,866 and $20,080,233 for the "sum of all months" excess demand allocator. On these same tables, the columns designated as winter and summer show the actual amounts of each category, that is volumetric, base capacity, excess maximum day and excess maximum hour capacity allocations to season. How are the cost of service-based rate differentials determined? The "Unit Cost" row on Schedule 1 reports the winter and summer unit rates required to exactly conform to cost of service. The unit rates under the single peak excess demand allocator are 1.1073 and 1.389 for winter and summer respectively. This is a 25% seasonal rate differential. Peseau, Di 18 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 a. 2 3 4 A. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 a. 13 14 15 A. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Do you propose that the commission adopt an "either/ot' policy on the choice between the 25% and 70% seasqnal cost differences? No. As with aU cost of service studies, this COSS serves as a check on the reasonableness of existing rates and provides an indication of the possible direction of movement in the future. This Commission has for decades used cost of service studies as a point of reference and a point of departure. There are, of course, numerous other considerations and factors that weigh on the Commission in setting rates and rate design that are fair, reasonable and in the public interest. Do you have recommendations for the commission in regard to the degree of cost-based seasonalization to adopt in these proceedings? Yes. First, as a point of reference, the present 25% winter/summer commodity rate differential now in place appears reasonable as it falls in the lower end ofthe range derived in the COSS. Second, as an indication of direction, the range of seasonal differentiation in the COSS suggests that the present 25% differential perhaps should not be reduced in this case and; over time, the Commission may look to broader seasonalization should future studies support this. Peseau, Oi 19 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 am in these proceedings very comfortable in 2 3 recommending that the present 25% seasonal rate spread be continued. A corresponding and very important aspect of 4 continuing with the 25% seasonal rate differential is that the 5 public already has faced this differential for many years and, 6 since it also is supported by the COSS, would not require 7 considerable education attached to making major changes to the 8 present differentiaL. This issue is, to a large extent also a rate 9 design issue and is discussed in the context of complete rate 10 design below. 11 RATE DESIGN 12 a.What is your overall rate design proposal? 13 A.i recommend that the Commission adopt a rate design that: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 . Raises private fire protection rates at the overage percentage increase in revenue requirement of 21.5%. 2. Raises customer charges by an approximate 36% over present levels. 3. Adopts seasonal commodity rates that have a 25% winter/summer differential. 4. Maintains the present distinction among customers on the basis of meter size. a.Why do you recommend a uniform rate increase for private fire 27 protection equal to the average system rate increase? 28 A.As this class is not metered, there is a lack of comparable known 29 and measurable data for private fire protection that is available Peseau, Oi 20 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 for the general service class. Rather than make additional 2 assumptions, i recommend the uniform average system rate 3 increase for this class. 4 a.Why do you recommend that customer charges be raised by 5 36%? 6 A.Again, I begin with references to the COSS. Schedule 1 discussed above not only reports the COSS results on seasonal7 8 costs, but also shows a companson of existing customer costs to 9 present customer charges. For example, page 1 and page 2 of 10 Schedule 1 indicates that to move customer charges to full cost 11 of service, revenues from this rate component would have to be 12 raised from $7.3 milion to $11 milion. And, while i know that 13 considering the raising of customer charges is typically 14 unpopular, the COSS results show that the present customer 15 charges would need to be raised about 51 % if brought 100% in 16 line with customer costs. I do not recommend this. 17 In this case i recommend that customer charges be raised to 18 a level that would approximately move one-half the distance from 19 existing to cost of service. Raising the present customer charge 20 by the average of the overall requested rate increase, 21.5%, 21 and the COSS level of 51%, for an approximate 36% increase 22 would achieve this objective. Peseau.Oi 21 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q. 2 3 A. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Q. 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Q. 21 22 What is the outcome of not moving customer charges a significant distance toward cost of service? Any and all costs not recovered in customer charges must be collected in commodity rates that are already well above rates that equal cost of service. In this case, both summer and winter commodity rates are considerably higher than justified on a cost of service basis. I believe that an increase of 36% in customer charges fairly balances the goals of gradualism and cost-based rates. Does raising the customer charges "mute" the seasonal commodity rate price signals? No. Commodity rate price signals should reflect cost causation. At proposed rates, customer charges wil continue to be approximately $1.1 milion below cost of service. Therefore, far from having "muted" commodity price signals, proposed commodity rates recover about $1.1 millon above cost of service. Again, i do not propose a move to full cost of service now, or probably anytime in the near future, but that some substantial increase be made in this case. Do you have other reasons for recommending that the winter/summer commodity rate differential be kept at 25%, which is at the lower end of your range? Peseau, Oi 22 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a. 10 11 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 a. A.22 23 Yes. As I discussed above the 25% seasonal differential has been in place for some time. But in addition, this Commission has favored gradual implementation of seasonal rates. For example, in the face of a broad range of seasonal cost differences in the recent Idaho Power Company general rate case, this Commission adopted a low end of a seasonal cost differential range of 12.5%. The present United seasonal commodity rate differential is twice that adopted for Idaho Power. How might the issue of customers that have flat monthly loads be addressed with regard to the issue of summer bils being higher than for the same uses in the winter? This is the "baths costing more in the summer" issue I referred to in the introduction to my testimony. While seasonal rates obviously cause different levels of biling for the same consumption occurring in different months, customers need to be made aware that there are nevertheless benefits of seasonal rates. For a customer whose consumption is relatively "flat" or level over the year, demonstrations can be made that seasonal rates result in his paying lower annual amounts than in the absence of seasonal rates. Please explain. The following table demonstrates that level consumption under the seasonal rates proposed in this case reduce annual Peseau. Di 23 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 customers bils. The table compares the annual bils of a 2 customer using the Company average monthly consumption of 3 10 CCF per month. Here it is assumed that this customer uses 4 7 this 10 CCF in every month of the year: Seasonal , Use Flat Rate Rate Seasonal Month (CCF))$/CCF $/CCF Flat Bil Bil January 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 February 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 March 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 April 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 May 10 1.29 1.39 $12.90 $13.90 June 10 1.29 1.39 $12.90 $13.90 July 10 1.29 1.39 $12.90 $13.90 August 10 1.29 1.39 $12.90 $13.90 September 10 1.29 1.39 $12.90 $13.90 October 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 November 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 December 10 1.29 1.11 $12.90 $11.10 Total $154.80 $147.20 The COSS estimates that the average annual commodity rate in this case is $1.29 per CCF.And, as shown in 5 6 8 Schedule 1, page 1, the proposed seasonal commodity rates in 9 this case are $1.11 and $1.39 per CCF for the winter and 10 summer seasons, respectively. The table prices out the level 11 consumption of 10 CCF under the average annual versus the 12 seasonal rates for this customer. In this instance, the customer 13 saves $7.60 per year, or over 5% with the seasonal rates. Thus 14 while this customer may pay more for a bath in the summer than 15 16 in the winter, he pays less for the two over the course of the year. Peseau, Di 24 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.Does this conclude your direct testimony? 2 A.Yes. Peseau, Oi 25 United Water Idaho Inc. Dean 1. Miler McDEVITT & MILER LLP 420 West Banock Street P.O. Box 2564-83701 Boise,ID 83702 Tel: 208.343.7500 Fax: 208.336.6912 joeØ)mcdevitt-miller.com Ida Pubj¡, '. ,.;¡ties Commission Of r-fi0f¡ SecretaryRECEIVED NOV 30 200 Bose, Idaho Attorneys for Applicant BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTIITIS COMMSSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INC. FOR AUTORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES Case No. UW-W-04-4 AND CHAGES FOR WATER SERVICE IN TI STATE OF IDAHO BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION ATTACHMENT 1 TO THE DIRECT TESTIONY OF DENNS E. PESEAU STATEMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND QUALIFICATIONS DENNIS E. PESEAU Dr. Peseau has conducted economic and financial studies for regulated industries for the past thirt years. In 1972, he was employed by Southern California Edison Company as Associate Economic Analyst, and later as Economic Analyst. His responsibilties included review of financial testimony, incremental cost studies, rate design, econometric estimation of, demand elasticities and various areas in the field of energy and economic growth. Also, he was asked by Edison Electrical Institute to study and evaluate several prominent energy models as. part of the Ad Hoc Committee on Economic Growth and Energy Pricing. From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Peseau was employed by the Public Utiity Commissioner of Oregon as Senior Economist. There he conducted a number of economic and financial studies and prepared testimony pertaining to public utilties. In 1978 Dr. Peseau established the Northwest offce of Zinder Companies, Inc. He has since submitted testimony on economic and financial matters before state regulatory commissions in Alaska, California, Idaho, Marylan~, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, the District of Columbia, the Bonnevile Power Administration and the Public Utilties Board of Alberta on over one hundred occasions. He has conducted marginal cost and rate design studies and prepared testimony on these matters in Alaska, California, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and in the District of Columbia. He has also conducted cost and rate studies regarding PURPA issues in the states of Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Washington, and Washington, D.C. Peseau,Di Attachment No. i Page 1 of 2 Dr. Peseau holds the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. He has co-authored a book in the field of industrial organization entiled, Size. Profis and Executive Compensation in the Large Corporation, which devotes a chapter to regulated industries. Dr. Peseau has published articles in the following professional journals: Review of Economics and Statistics, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal of Financial Management, and Journal of Regional Science. His articles have been read before the Econometric Society, the Western Economic Association, the Financial Management Association, the Regional Science Association and universities in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States. He has guest lectured on marginal costing methods in seminars in New Jersey and California for the Center of Professional Advancement. He has also guest lectured on cost of capital for the public utiity industry before the Pacific Coast Gas and Electric Association, and for the Executive Seminar at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. Dr. Peseau and his firm have participated with and been members of the American Economic Association, the American Financial Association, the Western Economic Association, the Atlantic Economic Association and the Financial Management Association. He was formerly a member of the Staff Subcommittee on Economics of the National Association of Regulatory Utilty Commissioners. Dr. Peseau has been President of Utilty Resources, Inc. since 1985. Peseau.Di Attachment No. i Page 2 of 2 Dean J. Miler McDEVIT & MILLE LL 420 West Banock Street P.O. Box 2564-83701 Boise, ID 83702 Tel: 208.343.7500 Fax: 208.336.6912 joe(gmcdevitt-miler.com Attorneys for Applicant BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIE COMMISSION IN THE MA ITR OF THE APPLICATION OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INC. FOR AUTHORITY TO INCRASE ITS RATE Case No. UW-W-04-04 AND CHAGES FOR WATER SERVICE IN TH STATE OF IDAHO BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION EXHIBIT 14 TO THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF DENNIS E. PESEAU United Water Idaho Cost of Service Study Seasonallzation and Comparison to Current Rates Alloation of Nel Revenue Reulremenllo General Wat Serice and Fire Proction General General Priate Water Water Public Fire Public Fire Fire Prite Fire Net Revenue Ser Service Serv Servic Servce Servce Cost Component Requirement Perce Dolars Percnt Dolars Pernt Daars Volumetric 4,706,249 99,500%4,682,718 0,435%20,472 0.065%3,059 Base Çaciy Cost 9,250,852 99,50%9,20,598 0.435%40,241 0,06%6,013 Excess Maximum Day Cot 9,158,346 95,699%8,764,407 1.971%180,510 2,330%213,30 Excess Maximum Hour Cost 4,381,129 90,94%3,984,377 4,595%201,296 4,461%195,58 Customr Expense 3,821,726 98.194%3,752,687 1,806%69,039 Custoer Meiers end Service 6,734,929 6,734,929 Fire Hydrants 88,281 100.00%88,281 Total Cost of Servic 38,141,514 37,123,716 530,800 486,998 Summary Rales or Revenues by Component Base on Ralio 01 Maximum Excess Demand by Season Priva Fire Coponent Winter Summer Custoer Proteon Totl Volumetri 1,685,778 2,996,940 20,472 3,059 4,706,249 Base Capciy 3,313,65 5,890,943 40,241 6,13 9,250,852 Exce Maximum Day Capaci 1,978,517 6,785,889 180,510 213,30 9,158,346 Excess Maximum Hour Capaty 1,194,997 2,789,38 201,296 195,456 4,381,129 Custr Expense 3,752,687 69,039 3,821.726 Cuslomr Meters and Serves '6.734,929 6,734,929 Public Fire Proteon 88,281 88,281 Private Firr Proecn 0 Total 8,172,948 18,63,152 11,018,17 486,998 38,141,514 Usage (CCF)7.380,841 13.290,982 Unit Costs ($ per CCF)1,1073 1,389 Existing Revenue ( $/CCF or $)0,9825 1,2281 7,296,820 518,175 31,389,327 Percent Change fro Current 12,704%13,114%51,003%-6,017%21.511% Ratios of Summer Commodity Rate to Winter Rate 1,2545151 _fl 14e-No,__u___ltl,P.lci2 United Water Idaho Cost of Service Study Seasonallzation and Comparison to Current Rates Summar Rates or Revenues by Compoent Base on Ratio of Sum of Monthly Exce Demands by Seasn Compoent Winler 1,685,778 3.313,655 1,072,492 483,94 Volumetric Base Capacity Excess Maximum Day Capaciy Exces Maximum Hour Capacity Customer Expense Customer Meters and Seices Public Fire Protection Private Flrr Protecion Total Summer 2,996,940 5,890,943 7,691,914 3,500,437 Custmer 20,472 40,241 180,510 201,296 3,752,687 6,734,929 88,281 Usage (CCF) 6,555,866 20,080,233 11,018,417 7,380,841 13,290,982 Unit Costs ($ per CCF) Existing Revenue ( $/CCF or $) Percnt Change fr Current 0,8882 1.511 Priata Fire Protaclon 3,059 6,013 213,430 195,56 69,039 486,998 Totl 4,706,249 9,250,852 9,158,346 4,381,129 3,821,726 6,734,929 88,281 ° 38,141.514 0,9825 1,2281 7,296,820 518,175 31,389,327 21,511%-9,595% 23,021% 51,00% -6,017% Ratis of Summer Commodit Rate to Winter Rate 1,700934 &l No. 14CaNo,_P_,Un__1,P.2012 Un i t e d W a t e r I d a h l o Co s t o f S e n / I c e S t u d y Tw e l v e M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 Su m m a r y R e s u l t s Ex c e s s E x c e s Ma x i m u m D a y M a x i m u m H o u C u s t o m e r Cu s t r Me t e r s an d Pu b l i c Fi r e Co m o o n e n r- a c i o r IO l a l " , m o u r n VU l U T l l t Dc i ; i U & " I I I C l I I U .. 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M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 39 6 , 5 6 8 0 14 7 , 4 5 8 14 5 , 9 8 53 , 8 5 0 0 48 , 2 0 2 1,0 7 4 Ne t D e D e b i t s a l M a y 3 1 , 2 0 5 2, 0 3 1 , 6 9 2 0 68 4 , 1 4 0 87 5 , 2 9 9 18 3 , 0 0 1 0 87 . 3 0 8 1,9 4 5 Wo r k g C a p i i a l a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 5 E2 2, 0 4 5 , 1 2 6 62 0 , 8 2 0 28 1 , 6 2 5 27 8 , 8 0 9 13 2 , 8 8 7 50 4 , 1 3 9 22 3 , 1 6 2 3,6 8 4 Ra t e B a s D e u c t o n s Ac c u m u l a t e d D e f e r r I n c o m e T a x e s a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 (1 3 , 6 8 5 , 9 1 0 ) 0 (4 , 2 6 2 , 1 3 9 ) (4 , 2 1 9 , 5 1 9 ) (2 , 1 9 1 , 3 6 1 ) 0 (2 , 9 7 7 , 0 5 3 ) (3 5 , 8 3 9 ) Pr e 1 9 7 1 I T C P1 (1 3 , 2 5 7 ) 0 (3 , 6 3 9 ) (3 , 6 0 3 ) (2 , 9 4 ) 0 (3 , 0 0 2 ) (6 7 ) Ad v a n c e s a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 4 (7 , 0 7 2 , 3 3 7 ) 0 (2 . 2 8 5 , 7 2 2 ) (2 , 2 6 2 , 8 6 5 ) (1 . 8 9 4 , 4 8 ) 0 (8 2 1 , 8 5 0 ) (7 , 4 1 2 ) Ad v a n c e A u g 1 , 2 0 0 4 - M y 3 1 . 2 0 5 70 6 , 9 8 0 0 27 5 , 0 2 6 27 2 , 2 7 6 11 9 , 1 3 4 0 40 , 5 1 2 32 Ne t A d n c e s a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 (6 , 3 6 5 , 3 5 7 ) 0 (2 , 0 1 0 , 6 9 6 ) ( 1 , 9 9 0 , 5 8 9 ) (1 . 7 7 5 , 3 5 ) 0 (5 8 1 . 3 3 8 ) (7 , 3 8 0 ) CI A C N e t a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 (4 4 , 1 2 5 , 7 3 2 ) 0 (1 1 , 2 4 3 , 7 6 0 ) (1 1 , 1 3 1 , 3 2 5 ) (1 5 , 6 3 8 , 7 8 6 ) 0 (5 , 5 9 2 , 1 9 3 ) (5 1 9 , 6 8 9 ) CI A C A c M t y A u I , 2 0 t o M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 1, 1 1 6 , 0 3 3 0 28 9 , 8 5 8 28 8 , 9 6 0 35 3 , 4 1 0 0 16 3 , 8 5 9 21 , 9 4 6 CIA C N e t a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 (4 3 , 0 0 9 , 6 9 9 ) 0 (1 0 . 9 5 3 , 9 0 1 ) (1 0 . 8 4 , 3 6 5 ) (1 5 , 2 8 5 , 3 7 5 ) 0 (5 , 4 2 8 , 3 3 ) (4 9 7 , 7 2 3 ) Ne t R a t e B a s e a t M a v 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 14 0 0 6 2 , 5 4 5 62 , 8 2 0 43 , 5 1 5 , 2 9 1 43 , 0 8 0 . 1 5 0 21 , 3 8 , 6 4 5 50 , 1 3 9 30 , 4 9 6 , 8 3 5 46 4 6 6 6 Ex h l No . ,. Ca N o ~ _. , U _ _ r _. 2 , " ' 2 0 1 2 Un i t e W a t e I d a h o Co t o f S e r v c e S t u d y Tw e l v M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 All o c a t i o n t o S e r v c e C o m p o n e n t Ex E x c e s C u s t o m e C u s t m e r Ma x i m u m D a y M a x i m u m H o u r O & M M e t e r s a n d P u b l i c F i r e Co m p o e n t .- a c t r IO t a A m U m vO l u m e Oi l l f l J l l n u U'l l l l l a l U VI C l t i I I U ~- ~ ... . . . . ,. . . . u . . . . Pl a n t i n S e r v a s o f J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 4 So u o f S u p p l y 02 31 , 0 3 3 , 6 2 9 0 15 , 5 9 , 7 8 6 15 , 4 3 8 , 8 4 3 0 0 0 0 Pu p i P l a n t D2 1,3 1 9 , 3 8 8 0 66 3 , 0 0 9 65 6 , 3 7 9 0 0 0 0 Wa t e r T r e a t m e n t 02 22 , 9 1 2 . 7 9 9 0 11 , 5 1 3 , 9 6 11 , 3 9 8 , 8 3 1 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s i o a n d D i s t b u t i o n 03 10 8 , 9 8 . 9 4 7 ' 0 30 , 8 9 7 . 7 2 2 30 , 5 8 8 , 7 5 2 47 , 4 9 4 , 4 7 3 0 0 0 Cu s t e r S e r v c e & M e t e r s C2 48 , 4 0 0 , 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 48 . 4 0 0 , 2 3 4 0 Fi r e H y a n t s F1 1,0 7 8 . 4 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,0 7 8 , 4 0 Ge n i P1 13 , 6 4 . 9 2 3 0 3, 7 4 4 , 5 5 2 3, 7 0 7 , 1 0 8 3,0 3 1 , 3 1 2 0 3, 0 8 9 , 1 2 2 68 , 8 2 9 In t a n g i b l e s P1 11 7 . 0 7 1 0 32 , 1 3 7 31 . 8 1 6 26 , 0 1 6 0 26 , 5 1 2 59 1 To t a l 22 7 , 4 8 3 . 3 9 6 0 62 , 4 4 6 , 1 7 4 61 , 8 2 1 . 7 2 8 50 , 5 5 1 , 8 0 1 0 51 , 5 1 5 , 8 6 8 1,1 4 7 , 8 2 4 Ne t P l a n A d e d A u g , 1 . 2 0 0 4 t o M a y 3 1 . 2 0 So u r c o f S u p p l y 02 5.5 0 6 . 8 7 2 0 2, 7 6 7 , 2 7 2 2.7 3 9 . 6 0 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 wa t a r T r e a t m e n l 02 19 . 4 8 5 , 4 1 8 0 9, 7 9 1 , 6 6 6 9, 6 9 3 . 7 5 2 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s i o n a n D i t r i u t o n 03 3, 9 4 6 , 5 5 3 0 1,1 1 8 , 9 0 7 1, 1 0 7 , 7 1 8 1, 7 1 9 , 9 2 9 0 0 0 Cu s t r S e r c e & M e t a r s C2 49 4 , 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 49 4 . 6 6 1 0 Fir e H y r a n t s F1 (1 0 , 7 6 3 ) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1 0 , 7 6 3 ) Ge n e r a l P1 1,7 4 3 . 6 6 0 0 47 8 , 6 5 0 47 3 . 8 6 3 38 7 . 4 8 0 39 4 , 8 6 8,7 9 8 In t a n g i b e s P1 (9 , 8 7 8 ) 0 (2 , 7 1 2 ) (2 , 6 8 4 ) (2 . 1 9 5 ) 0 (2 . 2 3 7 ) (5 0 ) To t l 31 , 1 5 8 , 5 2 3 0 14 , 1 5 3 , 7 8 3 14 . 0 1 2 , 2 4 9 2,1 0 5 . 2 1 3 0 88 7 . 2 9 3 (2 . 0 1 5 ) To t P l t I n S e r v c e M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 25 8 , 6 3 9 , 9 1 9 0 76 , 5 9 9 , 9 5 7 75 . 8 3 3 , 9 7 7 52 , 6 5 . 0 1 4 0 52 , 4 0 3 . 1 6 1 1,1 4 5 . 8 1 0 Ac m u l a t e D e p r t i n a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 4 So u o f S u p p l y 02 8, 0 2 7 , 2 2 7 0 4,0 3 3 , 7 8 2 3,9 9 . 4 4 5 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i P l a n t D2 5, 4 6 0 , 2 3 8 0 2, 7 4 3 , 8 3 8 2,7 1 6 , 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 W_ T r e t m n t 02 1,3 5 0 , 6 7 3 0 67 8 , 7 3 0 67 1 . 9 4 3 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s i a n d D i s t r u t o n 03 23 . 5 5 6 , 3 8 0 6,6 7 8 , 5 7 9 6.6 1 1 , 7 9 5 10 , 2 6 5 , 9 8 6 0 0 0 Cu _ S e r v l c & M e t e r C2 11 , 0 8 . 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 11 , 0 8 7 , 2 0 0 Fi r e H y r a n t F1 98 . 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98 . 7 6 0 Ge r a l P1 5,7 0 7 , 3 4 2 0 1,5 6 , 7 1 5 1,5 1 , 0 4 8 1, 2 6 . 2 9 7 0 1, 2 , 4 8 4 28 . 7 9 8 In t n g i b l e s P1 14 0 4 4 3 0 3 0 To t l 55 , 2 8 7 , 8 1 8 0 15 , 7 0 1 . 6 4 8 15 , 5 4 . 6 3 5 11 . 5 3 . 2 8 6 0 12 . 3 7 . 6 9 2 12 7 , 5 5 Ac m u l a t e d D e p r t i o n A c v i t y A u g I , 2 0 0 t h r o g h M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 So u . . o f S u p p l y D2 65 5 , 6 8 6 0 32 9 , 4 9 0 32 6 , 1 9 6 0 0 0 0 Pu m p I n g P t a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e r T r e l 02 83 7 . 2 5 2 0 42 0 , 7 3 41 6 , 5 2 2 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s o n a n d D i s t r b u o n 03 1,7 4 8 , 0 6 8 0 49 5 , 6 0 3 49 0 , 6 4 7 76 1 . 8 1 7 0 0 0 Cu s t o S e r c e & M e t e r s C2 77 6 , 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 n6 , 3 8 0 0 Fi r e H y r a n t s F1 21 . 1 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 , 1 9 8 Ge n e r a l P1 85 , 3 2 0 23 , 5 2 0 23 2 , 1 7 5 18 9 . 8 5 0 19 3 . 4 7 1 4,3 1 1 In t a n g i b e s P1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 To t l 4.8 9 2 . 9 1 2 0 1, 4 8 , 3 4 1. 4 6 , 5 4 1 95 1 . 6 6 8 0 96 9 , 8 5 1 25 , 5 0 9 To t a l P r o F o r m A c l a t e D e p r a t i o n M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 60 , 1 6 0 , 7 3 0 0 17 . 1 8 1 , 9 9 1 17 . 0 1 0 . 1 7 6 12 , 4 6 . 9 5 0 13 , 3 4 9 , 5 4 15 3 , 0 6 6 Ne t P l a n t i n S e r a t M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 19 8 . 4 5 9 , 1 8 9 0 59 . 4 1 7 , 9 6 56 , 8 2 3 . 8 0 1 40 , 1 7 1 . 0 6 1 0 39 , 0 5 3 . 6 1 8 99 2 , 7 4 3 &f . . f . . .. . . . . -- - Sc 1 . P . . 1 o f l Un i t e d W a t e r I d a h o Co s o f S e r v i c e S t u y Tw e e M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 An t i O n t o S e r v i c e C o m p o n e n t s Ex c e s E x c e s s C u s t o e r C u s t o e r Ma x m u m D a y M a x i m u m H o u r O & M M e t a n d P u b l i c F i r e Co n n e n l Fa c t o r ro t a l A m o n t vO l u m e Da s e u e m a n o uR n l è : I I U L.C l n a i i U n. . I G L ' l U .. . . . . . . " " . . ii . . . . . . . _ CIA C i n S e r v i c e a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 4 So r c o f S u p p l y 02 2, 1 2 3 , 2 1 8 0 1, 0 6 , 9 4 1, 0 5 6 , 2 7 4 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e r T r e a t m e n t 02 2,6 8 8 0 1, 3 5 1 1,3 3 7 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s i s s i o n a n d D i s t r b u t i o n 03 35 , 8 7 8 , 5 6 1 0 10 , 1 7 2 , 1 0 6 10 , 0 7 0 , 3 8 8 15 , 6 3 6 , 0 6 7 0 0 0 Cu s t o m e r S e r i c e & M e t r s C2 5, 5 6 9 , 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 5, 5 8 , 4 2 2 0 Fi r e H y d r a n t Fl 51 9 , 6 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 51 9 , 6 0 7 Ge n e r a l P1 2,3 5 8 0 64 7 64 1 52 4 0 53 4 12 In l a n g i b l e s P1 9,8 7 8 0 2, 7 1 2 2, 6 8 4 2,1 9 5 0 2,2 3 7 SO To l a l 44 , 1 2 5 , 7 3 2 0 11 , 2 4 3 , 7 6 0 11 , 1 3 1 , 3 2 5 15 , 6 3 8 , 7 8 6 0 5,5 9 2 , 1 9 3 51 9 , 8 6 9 CI A C A c l t y A u g I , 2 0 0 4 t o M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 So r c o f S u p p l y 02 (1 1 4 , 9 4 5 ) 0 (5 7 , 7 6 1 ) (5 7 , 1 8 4 ) 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e r T r e a t m e n t 02 (1 , 5 3 6 ) 0 (7 7 2 ) (7 6 4 ) 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s i o n a n d D i t r i b u t i n 03 (8 0 5 , 3 9 3 ) 0 (2 2 8 , 3 4 1 ) (2 2 6 , 5 8 ) (3 5 0 , 9 9 5 ) 0 0 0 Cu s t m e r S e r v i c e & M e t e s C2 (1 6 1 , 3 9 7 ) 0 0 0 0 0 (1 6 1 , 3 9 7 ) 0 Fi r e H y d n l s F1 (2 1 , 8 9 1 ) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (2 1 , 8 9 1 ) Ge e r a l P1 (9 9 3 ) 0 (2 7 3 ) (2 7 0 ) (2 2 1 ) 0 (2 2 5 ) (5 ) In t a n g i b l e s P1 (9 , 8 7 8 ) 0 (2 , 7 1 2 ) (2 , 6 8 ) (2 , 1 9 5 ) 0 (2 , 2 3 7 ) (S O ) To t l (1 . 1 1 6 , 0 3 3 ) 0 (2 8 9 , 8 5 8 ) (2 8 6 , 9 6 0 ) (3 5 3 , 4 1 0 ) 0 (1 6 3 , 8 5 9 ) (2 1 , 9 4 6 ) To t l C I A C a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 43 , 0 0 . 6 9 0 10 , 9 5 3 , 9 0 1 10 , 8 4 , 3 6 5 15 , 2 8 5 , 3 7 5 0 5,4 2 8 , 3 3 4 49 7 , 7 2 3 Ad v a n c e i n S e r v c e a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 4 So u r c o f S u p p l y 02 2, 0 7 0 , 7 7 4 0 1,0 4 0 , 5 9 0 1, 0 3 0 , 1 6 4 0 0 0 0 Pu p i n 9 P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e r T r e a t m e n t 02 3,3 8 4 0 1, 7 0 1 1,6 8 3 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s i o n a n d D i s t r o n 03 4,3 0 , 0 6 7 0 1,2 2 0 , 2 6 7 1, 2 0 8 , 0 6 5 1,8 7 5 , 7 3 5 0 0 0 C\ s t m e r S e r v & M e l e ' " C2 60 2 , 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 60 2 , 7 4 0 0 Fi r e H y r e n t F1 6,9 8 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,9 8 6 Ge n r a l P1 77 , 4 0 0 0 21 , 2 4 7 21 , 0 3 5 17 , 2 0 0 0 17 , 5 2 8 39 1 In t a n g I b l e s P1 6,9 6 6 0 1,9 1 8 1,6 9 9 1, 5 5 2 0 1, 5 8 35 To l a l 7, 0 7 2 , 3 3 7 0 2,2 8 5 , 7 2 2 2,2 6 2 . 6 6 5 1, 8 9 , 4 8 8 0 62 1 , 8 5 7, 4 1 2 Ad a n c e s I n S e c e a l J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 So r c o f S u p p l y 02 (3 9 1 , 4 4 8 ) 0 (1 9 6 . 7 0 8 ) (1 9 4 , 7 4 0 ) 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e T r e a t m e n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s i s s i o a n d O l s b u o o n 03 (2 7 0 , 1 6 4 ) 0 (7 6 , 5 9 ) (7 5 , 8 3 0 ) (1 1 7 , 7 3 9 ) 0 0 0 Cu s t S e c e & M e t ' " C2 (3 9 , 0 9 ) 0 0 0 0 0 (3 9 , 0 9 0 ) 0 Fi r e H y r a n t F1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ge r a l P1 (6 , 2 7 8 ) 0 (1 , 7 2 1 (1 , 7 0 6 ) (1 . 3 9 5 ) 0 (1 , 4 2 2 ) (3 2 ) In t n g i b l e s PL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 To t (7 0 6 , 9 8 0 ) 0 (2 7 5 , 0 2 6 ) (2 , 2 7 6 ) (1 1 9 . 1 3 4 ) 0 (4 0 , 5 1 2 ) . (3 2 ) To t a l A d n c a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 5 6,3 8 5 , 3 5 7 0 2, 0 1 0 , 6 9 6 1. 9 9 , 5 9 1, 7 7 5 . 3 5 4 0 58 1 , 3 3 7,3 8 0 Ex N o 1 4 c. . N o l J ,. . . u . W l .. . . . . 2 0 1 . Un i t e W a t e r I d a h o Co s 0 1 S e M c e S t u d y Tw e M o n s E n d e d M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 Al l o t i t o S e r v C o m p e n t Ex c e s s E x C u s t m e r C u s Ma x m u m D a M a x i m u m H o r O & M M e i e r s a n d P u b l i c F i r e Co m o o n t ~a c i 10 0 I A m o u m vO l u m e oa : s U l I f R : f l U LlC ' I I U l I I I U ..I i : n l i a l l U "" " I I ,. . .. . . . . . . . . - Ne t U P A A a t J u l y 3 1 . 2 0 0 4 So u r c o f S u p p 02 12 6 . 9 7 2 0 63 . 8 0 5 63 . 1 6 7 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i n g P l n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e T r e t m t 02 30 9 0 15 5 15 4 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m i s s i o n a n d D i s t u t i n 03 33 6 . 5 0 0 95 , 4 0 3 94 . 4 4 9 14 6 , 6 4 8 0 0 0 Cu s t o S e i c e & M e i e C2 12 0 , 3 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 . 3 5 1 0 Fir e H y r a n t s F1 7.2 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 7. 2 5 5 Ge n e r a l P1 5. 1 5 8 0 1,4 1 6 1, 4 0 2 1.1 4 6 0 1. 1 6 8 26 In t a n g i b l e s P1 4,2 1 6 0 1.1 5 7 1.1 4 6 93 7 0 95 5 21 To t l 60 . 7 6 1 0 16 1 , 9 3 6 16 0 , 3 1 7 14 6 . 7 3 2 0 12 2 , 4 7 4 7. 3 0 2 UP A A A c l i v t y A u g 1 . 2 0 0 - M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 So u r c o f S u 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pu n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa l e r T r e a l m n l 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s m s s i o n a n d D i s t b u o n 03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cu s t o S e M c e & M e i e r s C2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fi r e H y r e n t F1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ge n e r e l P1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 In t n g i b l e s P1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 To t a l 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ne U P A A a t M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 60 . 7 6 1 0 16 1 . 9 3 6 16 0 . 3 1 7 14 8 , 7 3 2 0 12 2 . 4 7 4 7,3 0 2 OF I T a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 So r c o f S u p p l y 02 1,7 2 8 . 9 8 6 0 86 . 8 3 7 86 0 . 1 4 9 0 0 0 0 Pu m p I n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t e T r e a t m e n 02 1,5 1 7 . 9 9 5 0 76 2 , 8 1 1 75 5 . 1 8 4 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s i s s i o n a n d D i s t r b u t i n 03 4, 2 7 2 , 8 9 5 0 1.2 1 1 . 4 2 9 1. 1 9 9 . 3 1 5 1.8 6 2 . 1 5 0 0 0 0 Cu t o m e r S e r v C2 2, 7 0 0 , 3 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 2. 7 0 0 , 3 1 7 0 Fi r e H y d r a n t F1 32 , 5 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 . 5 1 9 Ge n r a l P1 88 5 . 1 3 7 0 24 2 . 9 7 8 24 0 . 5 4 19 6 , 6 9 7 0 20 0 . 4 4 6 4. 4 6 8 In t a n g i b l e s P1 6. 5 3 9 0 1. 7 9 5 1. 7 7 7 1,4 5 3 0 1, 4 8 1 33 To t a l 11 , 1 4 4 , 3 8 0 3. 0 8 7 . 8 5 1 3. 0 5 6 . 9 7 3 2, 0 6 , 3 0 0 2. 9 0 . 2 4 6 37 . 0 1 8 DF r r A c t y A u g I . 2 0 0 t o M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 So u r c o f S u p l y 02 84 0 . _ 0 42 2 . 4 1 5 41 8 , 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa l e r T r e e n t 02 1. 2 8 5 . 8 3 0 0 64 . 1 4 6 83 9 . 6 8 4 0 0 0 0 Tr a m i s s i o n a n d D i s t r i b t i o n 03 22 0 , 4 2 0 0 62 . 4 9 2 61 , 8 7 96 . 0 6 0 0 0 0 Cu s t m e r S e r v i c & M e i C2 39 , 1 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 39 . 1 3 9 0 Fi r e H y r a n t s F1 (1 . 9 7 4 ) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1 . 9 7 4 ) Ge l P1 15 9 . 3 1 3 0 43 . 7 3 3 43 . 2 9 35 , 4 0 3 0 36 , 0 7 8 80 In t a g i b l P1 (1 , 8 1 2 ) 0 (4 9 7 ) (4 9 2 ) (4 0 3 ) 0 (4 1 0 ) (9 ) To t a l 2,5 4 1 . 5 2 2 0 1,1 7 4 . 2 8 8 1.1 6 2 , 5 4 6 13 1 . 0 6 0 74 , 8 0 7 (1 . 1 7 9 ) To t a l O A T a t M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 13 . 6 8 5 . 9 1 0 0 4.2 6 2 . 1 3 9 4,2 1 9 . 5 1 9 2, 1 9 1 . 3 6 1 0 2.9 7 7 . 0 5 3 35 . 8 3 9 " EiI J N D . 1 4 Cø N a . ~ hs . 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B 0 0 17 0 . 3 3 7 16 8 . 6 3 4 26 1 . 8 3 4 0 0 0 Cu s t o e r S e r v c e & M a t e r s C2 52 2 . 5 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 52 2 . 5 8 1 0 Fir e H y d r a n t s F1 5.9 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 5. 9 2 7 Ge n e r a l E1 17 7 . 2 1 5 56 . 6 0 20 , 5 1 1 20 . 3 0 6 9.7 7 3 53 . 6 8 2 16 , 0 3 5 30 1 In t a n g i b l e s El 1.3 3 5 42 6 15 5 15 3 74 40 4 12 1 2 1. 8 5 0 . 6 9 0 57 , 0 3 4 46 3 , 7 8 0 45 9 . 1 4 3 27 1 . 6 8 1 54 . 0 8 53 8 . 7 3 6 6. 2 3 0 Ge e r a l T a x A c v i l y A u g , 1 , 2 0 0 4 - M a y 3 1 . 2 0 5 So u r c o f S u p p l y 02 11 . 6 6 1 0 5.8 6 0 5.6 0 1 0 0 0 0 Pu m p i n g P l a n t 02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wa t r T r e n t 02 8; 5 1 1 0 4,2 7 7 4,2 3 4 0 0 0 0 Tr a n s i s s i o n a n d D i s t r i b u o n 03 19 , 9 9 4 0 5, 6 8 5,6 1 2 8. 7 1 4 0 0 0 Cu r 5 e c e & M e t e r s C2 21 . 3 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 21 . 3 1 7 0 Fi r H y d r a n t F1 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 4 Ge n r a l E1 10 . 7 9 8 3, 4 4 9 1.2 5 0 1.2 3 7 59 5 3,2 7 1 97 7 18 In t a n g i b l e s E1 37 12 4 4 2 11 3 0 72 . 5 2 3. 4 6 1 17 . 0 5 9 18 . 8 8 9 9. 3 1 1 3, 2 8 2 22 . 2 9 7 22 3 To t l G e n e r a l T a x e s a t M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 1. 9 2 3 , 2 1 2 60 . 4 9 5 48 0 . 8 4 0 47 6 . 0 3 1 28 0 . 9 9 2 57 . 3 6 8 56 1 . 0 3 3 6, 4 5 3 To t P r o F o r a x O p e r a n g E x p e n s e a l M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 21 . 7 2 2 , 5 6 3 4.6 5 2 . 5 9 0 4. 1 3 8 . 7 8 4 4.0 9 . 3 9 8 1. 8 6 . 6 9 3 3.7 7 8 . 1 5 2 3. 1 5 3 , 2 7 33 . 6 4 9 In c o T a x e s St a t e I n c o m e T a x e s RB (2 3 4 , 0 0 9 ) (1 . 0 3 7 ) (7 2 , 7 0 3 ) (7 1 . 9 7 6 ) (3 . 7 2 2 ) (8 4 ) (5 0 . 9 5 2 ) (7 7 6 ) Fe d r a In c o m e T a x e s RB 1. 5 5 2 , 4 7 5 6. 8 8 1 48 2 , 3 3 47 7 , 5 0 7 23 9 8 6 5. 5 8 8 33 8 , 0 3 2 5. 1 5 0 To t a l In c o m e T a x e s 1. 3 1 8 . 4 6 6 5.8 4 4 40 , 6 2 7 40 5 . 5 3 1 20 1 , 2 6 5 4. 7 4 6 28 7 . 0 7 9 4. 3 7 4 On A r a t i n n I n c o m e a t E x i s l n n R a t e RB 8, 4 9 3 3 1 9 37 6 4 6 2. 6 3 8 , 7 4 4 '.6 1 2 . 3 5 8 1. 2 9 5 1 1 30 . 5 7 1 1, 8 4 9 . 3 1 2 28 . 1 7 7 El1 l N a 1 C e- N o _ -- - -. . . . . . . . United Water Idaho Cost of Service Allocation and 8easonalization Factors Servic Compont Anocto Custome FweDeptionNsmeVolumeBaseMax Dey Ma Hour Cus Ei Servce Hydn..To"l Volumeet V1 100,000%100,000% Base 01 100,000%100,00% Base.MaDay 02 50,251%49,749%100,000 Base. Me. Dey. Ma Hour 03 28,351%28.068%43,581%100.000% O&M - So of Supply ES 65,00%17,58%17,412%100,00% O&M . Wate Tretment EW 63,000%18,593%18.407%100,00 O&M.T&D ET 20.00 22,681%22,454%34,864%100.000% Customr O&M C1 n,OO%23,00%100,00% Customr Services C2 100,00%100,00% Customr Meter C3 0.00% Fire Hydran"F1 100.00 100.00% Plant in Seric P1 0,000%27,451%27.176%22.222%0,00%22,646%0,505%100.00% Payrol Allotor L1 25,874%10,957%10,848%7,638%34,203%10,217%0.262%100.000 O&M less Gel. Intagible, Dep & Am E1 31,943%11.574%11,458%5,515%30292%9,048%0,170%100.000 O&M les Depr and Amoriztion E2 30,356%13,771%13,633%6.498%24,651%10.912%0,180%100,00 Ra Base RB 0,443%3U168%30,758%15,265%0,36%21,774%0.332%100,00 Payrol Alloator 2 4 6 7 8 Intangibes ° Sourc of Supply 545,355 ES 354,481 95,917 94,958 0 0 0 Pumpng Plant ° Water Tretment 274,168 EW 172,726 50.976 50,466 0 0 0 ° Transmssion & Distbution 537,427 ET 107,485 121,895 120,676 187,371 0 0 ° Mele and Serces 1,089,626 Cl 0 0 0 °83,012 250,614 0 Flre ProteCton 6,437 F1 °0 °0 0 °6,437 Generl 935,126 241,954 102,466 101,441 71,429 319,644 95,53 2,454 Total 3,388,139 878,64 371,253 367,541 258,799 1,158,856 346,152 8,892 Percet 0.258739743 0,109574398 0,10878682 0,07638395 0,3420332 0,10216576 0,0026243 MonUy Aveage and Maximum Demnd Ma. Hr.Max Max Day- Month Ma. Hour (GPM Av ,De 98,823.89 31 38,549,28 29,465.76 97,372,25 30 37,097,64 19,527.51 68,207,11 31 7,932,49 8,742,78 45,205,45 30 0.00 0,00 24,734,22 31 0,00 0.00 24,555:11 31 0,00 0,00 24,719,50 29 0,00 0,00 34,002.16 31 0,00 0,00 80,220,67 30 19,946,06 8,182,40Ma~101,98,n 31 41,712.15 16,863,80Jun-106,833,00 30 46,558,39 25,744.47Ju~98,008,28 31 37,733,68 29.985.87 Max 106,833,00 60,274,61 46,558,39 29,985,87 AYg 30,288,75 ExhlltN..14Ci.. No, l/01 Ptu, Unlld Wi.. So_Ie 4, Pagel of2 United Water Idaho Cost of Service Allocation and Seasonalization Factors Units Millio Gallons pe DayPert General Water Servic ' 43.616 99,50% Prte FlraPrecton 0,028 0.06% Seasonal AUocaUon Fact Raos of Single Meximum Seosl Ei Deand Exce Max Day Amt Pornt Winter 8,742.78 22,574% Summer 29,98,87 77426% 38,728.65 Exc Max Hor Winter 19,94,06 29,992% Summer 46,558,39 70,008% 66,504,44 Ratios of Seasol Sum of Monhly PoslI Exces Deands Winte 16.925,18 12,237% Summer 121,387,41 87,763% 138,312,60 Exces Max Hour Winter 27,878,55 12,146% Summer 201,651.12 87,85% 229,529.67 Stlk:. Alloca Flllor Component Annual Consummptio Maximum Day Demad Maximum Hour Demand Number of Bills Public Fire Protelon 0,191 0,435% Milios Gallons per Day 86,795 1,080 1,080 Excess Max Day 43.180 0.889 1,052 Percent 95.699%1.971%2,330% Millions Gallos por Day 153,840 6,460 6,460 Exces Max Hour 110,660 5.591 5,428 90,944%4,596%4.461% 450,067 8,280 98,194%0,000%1,80% Total 43,835 100,00% 88.955 45,120 100.000% 166.80 121,679 100,00% 458,347 100,000% Ex_No. 14C..No,-- -. Unit Wa,&c_4,P.2012 Un i t e d W a t e r I d a h o Co s t o f S e r v i c e S t u d y Tw e l v e M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 Fu n c t l o n a l l z a t i o n o f P l a n t I n S e r v i c e (A ) (S ) (C ) (D ) (E ) (G ) (H ) (I ) (K ) (J ) Cu s t o . . AR o c S o u c e o f P u m p i n g W a t e T r a n s m i s s i o n M e t r s & Pl a n t I n S e r v c e a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 0 4 a t o r T o t l . I n t a n g i b l e . S u p p l y P l a n t T r a a b e n t & D l o I b u t l o n S e r c e F l r a P r o o n G e n e r a 30 1 . 1 0 O r a n i z a U o n 1 1 6 , 9 2 6 1 1 6 . 9 2 6 30 3 2 0 L a d & l a n d R i g h t s , W a l e r R I h t s . S O S 30 0 L a n d & l a n d R i g h i W a l r T r e b n e n t La n d & l a n d R i g h t T r a n s m s s i o a n d 3l D i s t r b u t i 30 L a n d & l a n d R i g h t G e n r a l P l n t 30 4 2 0 S t r u c r e & I m p r o a n t s . S O S 30 4 S t r u c r e & I m p r o e n t s . W I T r t St r r e & I m p r v e t s . T r a n s & 30 4 D i s t i b u i o n St r c t u r e & I m v e m e n t s . G a n a r a l 30 5 0 P l n t 30 5 - 2 0 C o l l e c i n g & I m p n d i n g R e s r v i r . 5 0 30 6 - 2 0 L a k e . R i v e r & O t e r I n t k e 30 . 2 0 W e l l s & S p r i 30 . 2 0 I n f l t r a U o n G a ø a r & T u n n e l s 30 9 2 0 S u p y M a i n s 31 0 - 2 0 P o r G a n r a U o n E q u i p m e n t Po r E l e c r i c P u m p i n g E q u i p m e n t . 31 1 . 2 0 S o r c 0 1 S u p p Po w r D i e s e P u m p i n g E q u i p m e t - 31 1 . 2 0 S o u r c o f S u p Po w r P u m p i n g E q u i p m e t . W a t e r 31 1 - 3 T r e a i Po w r P u m p i n g E q u i p m a n t . T r a n s , & 31 1 - 4 0 D i s t b , 32 0 W a t r T r e a t m E q u i p m t 32 0 W a l e r T r a t m t E q u i p m e n t . M e m b r n e s 33 0 - 4 D i s t b u t i o n R e s e r v r s & S t n d p i p e Tr a s , & D i s b . M a i n s & A c s o r i e s . 33 1 . 1 0 I n t a i b l e Tr a s , & D i s t r b , M a i n s & A c c s o r i e s 33 1 - 2 0 50 33 1 - 4 0 T r a n s , & D l s b , M a i n s & A c r i 33 3 0 S e r v 3~ 0 M e t a n d M e ' n s i a l a U o n 33 5 - 4 0 H y n t s 33 6 0 B a e k P r e n t i o n D e c e 33 9 . 1 0 O t P l a t & M i s e . E q u i p m n t . I n t a n g i b l e Ot e r P l n t & M i s e E q u i p m e n t . S o o f 33 9 - 2 S u p p l y Ot e r P l a t & M i s e E q u i p t . W a l e r 33 T r e t 6, 2 5 6 6 1 9 88 9 , 0 3 4 41 1 . 8 2 6 21 3 , 3 8 3 3, 8 5 9 , 7 7 5 8. 0 0 2 . 0 5 0 35 , 3 8 8 3,1 9 3 . 8 8 8 83 , 2 1 7 53 5 , 5 3 9, 2 5 . 9 4 1 34 . 8 5 59 2 . 8 2 5 38 1 . 1 2 5 10 . 2 4 6 6 4 1 . 35 7 . 9 9 8 98 1 , 3 9 0 13 . 9 7 8 . 1 9 0 . 8, 8 4 8 . 5 2 8 14 5 14 5 14 4 99 . 5 9 8 . 9 8 38 , 8 2 4 , 7 8 8 11 . 5 7 5 . 4 4 1, 0 7 8 , 4 .. 37 . 1 5 7 G, 5 5 6. 2 5 6 . 1 9 3,6 5 9 , 7 7 5 83 , 2 1 7 53 5 , 5 3 3 9, 2 0 5 , 9 4 1 34 . 8 5 59 2 , 8 2 5 38 1 , 1 2 5 10 , 2 4 6 , 6 4 1 35 7 , 9 9 96 1 , 3 9 14 4 37 , 1 5 7 88 9 , 0 3 4 8, 0 0 2 , 0 5 0 13 , 9 7 8 , 1 9 0 43 , 5 2 5 41 1 , 6 2 6 35 , 3 8 8,8 4 , 5 2 8 99 . 5 , 9 8 4 21 3 . 3 8 3 3, 1 9 3 , 6 8 8 36 , 8 2 4 , 7 8 6 11 , 5 7 5 , 4 4 1, 0 7 8 , 4 0 5 Ei N o . 1 4 Cu N . . ~ _ _U n W _ _I e s . ' i g t ' " 5 Oth e r P l a n t & M i s c , E q u i p m e n t - T r a n , & 33 9 - 0 D l s t r i b , Ot h e r P l a n l & M i s , E q u i p m e n t - G e n e r l 33 9 - 5 0 P l t 34 O f c e F u m l t u r a n d E q u i p m e n t 34 0 - A M I F M S y s - M a p p 34 O - S A C o m p u e r H a r d w a r e & S o f r e 34 O - S A I F M S I W N o I P e o p l e S o 34 o - C u s t o r I n f r m a t i o n S y s t e m 34 1 - 5 0 T r a n s p o r t a t i o E q u i p m e n t 34 2 - 5 S t o r e s E q u i p m n t 34 3 - 5 0 T o o l s . S h o p a n d G a r e g e E q u i p m e n t Co f i n e S p a M o n ~ o r , G e n e r a t o r , 34 3 - 5 T r e n c h S h i e l d 34 L a b r e t o E q u i p m e n 34 5 - P o w r O p e r E q u i p m e n t 34 5 - P o w O p e r E q u i p m e n t 34 6 C ø i c a t i o n s E q u i p m e n t 34 7 - 5 M i s l a n e o u s E q u i p m e n t 34 8 - O t h e r T a n g i b l e P r e r y 34 8 - 5 M a s t P l a n Ro u n d l n g Pla n t In S e r v c e a t J u l y 3 1 , 2 0 4 Me l p l n t A d d s A u g I , 2 0 0 4 t o M a y 3 1 , 20 5 30 1 - 1 0 O r a n i z a t i o n 30 - 2 0 L a n d & L a n d R i g h t s , W a t R i g h l s , S O S 30 - 3 0 L a n d & L a n d R i g h t W a t e r T r e a t m n t La n d & L a n d R i g h t T r a m i s s a n d 30 - 4 D i s t b u t i o n 30 3 - 5 0 L a d & L a n d R i g h t s G e e r P l n t 30 4 . 2 0 S b u c i s & I m p r o e m e - S O S 30 4 - 3 0 S b u c t r e & I m p r m e - W t T r t Sb u c l u r e & I m p m e - T r a & 30 4 - 4 0 D i s t r b u t i o n St r r e & I m p m e t s - G e n e l 30 4 5 0 P l a n 30 5 2 0 C o l e c i n & I m p o n d i n g R e s i r s . S O S 30 2 0 L a k e , R I & O t r I n t a k e s 30 - 2 0 W e l l & S p r s 30 8 - 2 0 I n f t l l r G a l l r i e s & T u n n e 30 2 0 S u p p M a i n 31 0 - 2 0 P o r G e n r a t i E q u i p e n t Po r E l e c t c P u m p n g E q u i p m e n t - 31 1 - 2 0 S o o f S u p p l y _ D i e s P u m p n g E q u i p m l - 31 1 - 2 0 S o o r c 0 1 Su p p Un i t e W a t e r I d a h o Co s t o f S e r v i c e S t u d y Tw e l v e M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 Fu n c t i o n a l i z t l o n o f P l a n t I n S e r v i c e (A ) (8 ) (D ) (C l 88 . 4 4 1 15 , 7 9 8 68 4 , 5 7 9 55 2 , 9 1 0 1, 7 2 3 , 5 6 2,8 7 0 , 1 0 5 1,7 9 5 , 0 6 9 13 4 , 1 1 1 24 , 4 4 45 5 , 9 4 5 62 , 5 3 11 6 , 6 4 3 58 , 8 1 7 62 , 8 8 2 1,3 0 0 , 4 4 7 10 7 , 6 2 1 26 8 , 3 8 1 IE ) (G l (H ) 88 , 4 4 1 0) (J ) (K )15 , 7 9 68 4 , 5 7 9 55 2 , 9 1 0 1,7 2 3 , 5 6 3 2, 8 7 0 , 1 0 5 1,7 9 5 , 0 6 9 13 4 , 1 1 1 24 , 4 4 8 45 5 , 9 4 5 62 , 5 3 3 11 6 , 6 4 3 58 , 8 1 7 62 , 8 8 2 1,3 0 0 , 4 4 7 10 7 , 6 2 1 22 , 4 8 3 , 3 9 8 1 1 7 , 0 7 1 3 1 . 0 3 3 , 6 2 9 1 . 3 1 9 1 3 8 8 2 2 , 9 1 2 , 7 9 9 1 0 8 . 8 0 , 9 4 7 4 8 , 4 0 0 . 2 3 4 - - 1 , 0 7 . 4 5 1 3 , 6 4 , 9 2 26 , 3 8 1 AU o c at r So r c e of Su p p l y Pu m p i n g Pl a n t To t l s (9 , 8 7 8 ) In t n g i b l e (9 , 8 7 8 ) 11 2 , 4 1 8 11 2 , 4 1 8 Ws t e Tr e a t m e n t Tr a n s m l e l o & D l s l r u l l o n Cu s t o e r Me l e r e & Se r v c e Fl r e P n o n Ge n e r a l 1, 3 0 . 7 1 4 1, 3 0 0 , 7 1 4 5,4 6 2 , 6 2 5, 4 6 2 , 8 6 5, 5 7 5 5, 5 7 5 81 , 6 5 8 81 , 6 5 8 . 73 , 7 4 2 73 6 , 7 4 2 88 , 6 6 2 88 , 6 9 1. 6 2 . 8 4 1, 6 2 , 6 4 2 93 , 4 0 8 93 , 4 0 8 1, 5 4 5 4 1 9 1,5 4 5 , 4 1 9 Ei l b l N o , l l ca N o , u w _ _U n l i o _ _1 ' ' ' 2 0 1 $ Po w P u m n g E q u i p m e n t - W a t e 31 1 - 3 0 T r e a t t Po r P u m p i n g E q u i p m e n t - T r a n s , & 31 1 - ' 1 0 D i s l i b , 32 0 W a t e r T r e a t m e n E q u i p m e t 32 0 - 3 0 W a t e r T r e m e E q u i p m t - M e m b r n e s 33 0 0 D i t r b u t i o n R e s e r r s & S t a n d p i s Tr a n s . & O i s t r i . M a i n s & A c e s - 33 1 . 1 0 I n t n g i b l e Tr a s . & O i s t r i b . M a i n s & A c s o r e s 33 1 - 2 0 50 s 33 1 - 4 T r a n s , & o ; s t n b . M a i n s & A c s s o 33 3 - 0 S e r 33 4 - 4 M e t S f a n d M e l e r I n s t a l l a l l n s 33 5 - H y d r a n t s 33 6 - 4 B a c k o w P r e n t i D e i c e 33 9 - 1 0 O t r P l a n t & M i s , E q u i p n t - I n t a n g i b l e Ot e r P l n t & M i s e E q u i p m n t - S o u r c o f 33 9 - 2 0 S u p Oth e r P l a n t & M i s e E q u i p m e n t - w a i 33 9 - 3 0 T r e e n t Ot h e r P l a n t & M i s e , E q u i p m e n l - T r a n s , & 33 9 0 D l s t , OI h e r P l a n t & M i s e , E q u i - G e r a l 33 9 - 5 0 P l t 34 O f c e F u m l t r e a n d E q u i p m e n t 34 l l A M , F M S y s t e m - M _ i n g 34 5 A C o m r H a r d r e & S o r e 34 D - 5 A I F M S , W A N ' P e o e S o 34 C u s t m e r I n f r m t i o n S y s m 34 1 - 5 T r a n s p o E q u i p m e n t 34 2 - 5 0 S t o r e E q u i p m n t 34 T o o l s , S h o p a n d G a r g e E q u i p m e n Co n e d S p a c e M o n ~ o r . G e n e r o r . 34 T r e r i S h i e l 34 4 - 5 L a b o r E q u i p m e n t 34 5 - P o w r O p e t e E q u i p m e n 34 0 P o w r O p e t e e q u i p m e n t 34 0 C o m n l c a s E q u i p m n t 34 7 - 5 M i s a n e o u s E q u i p m e n t 34 5 0 O t T e n g ; e P r o r t 34 - 5 0 M a s e r P l a n Ro u n d i n 9 Ni o p l a n t A d s A u g I. 2 0 0 4 t o M a 3 1 . 20 0 5 (A ) Un i t e d W a t e r I d a h o Co s o f S e r v i c e S t u d y Tw e l v e M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 . 2 0 0 5 Fu n c t i o n a l l u t l o n o f P l a n t I n S e r v i c e (B ) (e ) (0 ) (E ) (G ) (H ) (n IJ ) (K ) 5. 1 8 5 , 6 2 7 5.1 8 5 , 6 2 7 (5 , 4 2 2 (5 , 4 2 2 ) 8. 3 3 6 , 9 2 9 8,3 3 6 , 9 2 9 50 0 . 0 0 0 50 0 , 0 0 22 6 . 9 6 7 22 , 9 6 7 . 3, 7 1 9 , 4 3, 7 1 9 , 4 3 3 51 4 . 4 8 51 4 . 4 8 8 (1 9 , 8 2 7 (1 9 . 8 2 7 ) (1 0 . 7 6 3 ) (1 0 , 7 6 3 ) 6, 6 3 7 8.6 3 7 12 , 8 69 . 2 1 5 1,1 9 7 , 3 7 9 2. 0 0 8. 0 0 0 (1 4 , 9 1 0 ) 21 . 0 0 (1 , 4 5 ) 36 7 . 6 1 7 12 , æ a 69 , 2 1 5 1.1 9 7 , 3 7 9 2. 0 0 0 8, 0 0 (1 4 , 9 1 0 ) 21 , 3 0 0 (1 , 4 6 5 ) 36 7 , 6 1 7 31 . 1 5 6 , 5 2 (9 , 8 7 8 ) 5 , 5 0 6 , 8 7 2 1 9 . 4 6 5 , 4 1 ' 3 , 9 4 , 5 5 4 9 4 6 6 1 ( 1 0 . 7 6 3 ) 1 , 7 4 3 Ex l No . 14 Cu M o , u w _ Pt u , U R l e d w a Sc h e u l 5, Pa g 3 01 5 Un i t e d W a t e r I d a h o Co s t o f s e r v i c S t u d y Tw e l v e M o n t h s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 Fu n c t o n a l l % l o n o f P l a n t i n 8 e r v l ç e (A ) (B ) (C ) (0 ) (E ) (G ) (H ) (I ) (J ) (K ) Cu s r Al l o c So u r c e o f Pu m p i g Wa t e r Tr a n s m i s s i o n Me t e n i & To t l P l a n t I n S e r v i c e a t M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 at o r To t a s In t a n g i b l e s Su p p l y Pl a n t Tr e a t e n t & D i s t i b t i n Se r v c e Fi r e r o t e t i o n Ge n e r a l 30 1 - 1 0 O r g a n i z t i o n 10 7 . 0 4 8 10 7 , 0 4 8 30 2 0 L a n d & L a n d R i g h t s . W a l e R i g h t s . S O S 6. 3 6 9 . 0 3 7 6.3 6 9 . 0 3 7 30 3 3 0 L a & L a n d R i g h t W a t e r T r e a t m e n l 88 9 , 0 3 4 88 9 . 0 3 4 La n d & L a n d R i g h t T r a s m i s s i o n a n d 30 3 0 D i s t r b u t i o n 41 1 . 6 2 6 41 1 , 6 2 6 30 3 - 0 L a n d & L a n d R i g h t s G e n e r a l P l a n t 21 3 . 3 8 3 21 3 . 3 8 3 30 2 0 S t c t r e & I m p r o m e n t s . S O S 4.9 6 0 . 4 8 9 4,9 6 0 , 4 8 9 30 4 . J S t r r e & I m p r e m e n t s . W l r T r t 13 . 4 6 9 1 2 13 , 4 6 4 . 9 1 2 St r u c t u r e & I m p r m e n t s . T r a n s & 30 4 0 D i s t i b u o n 40 . 9 6 3 40 , 9 6 3 St r c t & i m p r a m e n t s - G e n e r a l 3l J 5 0 P l a n t 3, 2 7 5 , 3 4 3, 2 7 5 , 3 4 30 5 2 0 C o l e c i n g & I m p o n d i n g R e s r v i r s . 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E n m l n l o L o b b y n g & C h a r i e G i v e 92 1 1 1 0 , 9 2 1 3 0 , 9 3 0 3 0 0 (1 4 , 0 0 5 ) (1 4 . 0 0 5 ) In f m i a l l o n T e c n o l o g 92 3 1 4 0 51 . 0 4 8 51 , 0 4 8 En h a n c d S e v e n c e P r r a m 93 2 5 0 (2 . 9 9 5 ) (4 8 2 ) (2 4 2 ) (4 7 5 ) (9 6 3 ) (6 ) (8 2 7 ) Ex p s e R e l a t e d t o C u s t G r o Va r i 73 . 0 2 2 17 , 9 8 9 6.8 7 9 10 . 3 3 1 16 , 0 9 21 , 7 3 1 Ex R e l a t e d t o W e a t e r N o r m l i z l l n Va r i o u s (8 . 7 9 2 ) (4 . 3 9 ) (4 , 3 6 8 1 To I o n 92 1 . 1 2 0 OU t s i d e S o i v L e a l 92 0 8 0 (2 7 . 2 8 2 ) (2 , 2 8 2 ) Ol O p e r a e n d M a i n t e a n c e E x p e s e Va r i (9 H ) (9 ) To t O p t l a n d M a l n i e e n . . 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N o _ _U n W _ "'_ 1 3 , " , 2 0 1 3 Un i t e d W a t e r I d a h o Co s t o f S e r v i c e S t u d y Tw e l " " M o n t s E n d e d M a y 3 1 , 2 0 0 5 Fu n c t l o n a l l z a t i o n o f O & M E x p e n s e s (A ) (8 ) (C ) (0 ) (E ) (6 ) (H ) (I ) (J I (I ) To I i r P Y F o n n i O p e i r t n g E x p e n s e . a t M a y 3 1 . So u r c e of Pu m p i n g Wa t r Tr a n s m i s o n Me t r s _ Fir s 20 5 Al l o t o r To t l s In t a n g i b l e s Su p p l Pla n t Tr e m e n t & D i s t b u t o n - PY _ G. . r a l Pa y r l l t o O & M Co s t T y p e 1 & 2 3, 3 8 8 , 1 3 8 54 5 , 3 5 5 27 4 . 1 8 8 53 7 , 4 2 7 1, 0 8 9 , 8 2 8 8. 4 3 7 93 5 , 1 2 8 Th r i Pl a n 92 6 7 0 0 91 , 4 n 14 . 7 2 4 7,4 0 2 14 . 5 1 0 29 , 4 1 8 17 4 25 , 2 4 8 He a h h c a r e 92 5 0 1 0 / 67 1 . 5 6 1 10 8 . 0 9 4 54 , 3 4 3 10 6 , 5 2 21 5 . 9 7 4 1,2 7 6 18 5 , 3 5 1 Pe i o 92 6 0 0 63 7 , 0 4 6 10 2 , 5 3 9 51 , 5 5 0 10 1 , 0 8 20 4 . 8 7 4 1,2 1 0 17 5 . 8 2 5 PE B O P 92 6 1 0 5 1 0 6 1 1 0 46 9 . 5 0 2 75 , 5 7 1 37 . 9 9 2 74 . 4 7 2 15 0 . 9 9 2 89 2 12 9 . 5 8 3 Pa y r U O v e r h e a d 92 - 0 (9 1 2 . 7 5 1 ) (1 4 6 , 9 1 8 ) (7 3 , 8 6 0 ) (1 4 4 . 7 6 1 ) (2 9 3 , 5 4 1 ) (1 , 7 3 4 ) (2 1 . 9 1 9 ) De r r E a r l R e t r e m e t C o t A m o o n 92 8 . 5 9 ( p o r ) 30 7 - " 4 30 7 , 4 8 4 Pu r c a s e W _ 80 - 0 19 5 , 3 1 8 19 5 , 3 1 8 Ta n k P a i n t g A r r t o n - O l d 87 2 0 9.1 8 7 9, 1 8 7 Po r 82 1, 7 5 6 8 0 3 1. 1 4 7 , 4 0 1 41 7 . 2 3 5 19 2 . 1 8 6 A_ l i o f O e l d P o r 82 3 - 51 6 , 8 6 7 40 3 , 9 8 63 . 9 6 3 48 . 7 2 Ch e i c l . 84 1 - 0 31 4 , 1 7 4 18 6 , 2 6 14 7 . 9 O Wa t e r Q u a l t T e s 9 ( O u t s l a b O n l y ) 84 2 - 0 86 , 0 1 0 88 . 0 1 0 Ma j o M a i n t n a n c e : T V l e v e V e r y L o l l l l ! l ! Va r i s Co l u m b l W a t e T r e a t e n t P l a n t M i s e O p e x - T e l e p h o n e . Wa l i r Q u a l i T e s n g , N a t a l G a . . o I r Ut i t e s , s e r l A l a r m M c n i t n g , S a n i t n Va r i s 57 , 2 1 0 57 . 2 1 0 Va r i a b l C o s t S a v i n D u e t o C W T O p r a t i o n Va r s (1 3 9 . 5 8 0 ) (1 3 9 , 5 8 0 ) Tr e n s p r t a t o n E x p e s e Co s T y p 4 0 & 9 6 40 6 2 8 5 11 3 , 9 3 7 20 , 6 1 4 11 4 . 0 3 0 14 9 . 6 5 6 2. 2 5 5,7 6 Cu s t o m e r P o t a g e 90 2 0 17 8 , 3 4 1 17 8 , 3 1 Ou l s i d C o m p u t e r 90 3 39 8 , 8 9 8 39 6 . 8 9 8 Ou l s C o U e c 90 3 79 - " 5 79 , 4 8 5 Cu s t o m e r R e c o s & C o l l e c E x p e n s e I i s c l a n e Cu s t o A c l i n g E x p e 90 0 5 0 0 0 7,1 3 0 7.1 3 0 Un c l e c t i b l lJ 13 1 . 0 4 5 18 2 . 7 0 6 (3 1 . 8 6 1 ) IP U C A n l A s s e m e n t 92 8 - 75 , 8 3 75 . 8 2 3 Ra C a . . 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E l i m i n a e l o b b y n g & C h a i i b l e G i v 92 1 1 1 0 . 9 2 1 3 0 , 9 3 0 3 0 0 In f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o 92 3 - 1 4 0 15 8 , 1 4 0 15 8 . 1 4 J l En h a n c e S a n c P i r e m 93 G 2 5 0 Ex p e n s s R e l a t t o C u s t o m r G r o Va r i 73 , 0 2 2 17 . 9 8 9 6. 8 7 9 10 . 3 3 1 18 . 0 9 2 21 , 7 3 1 Ex p e n s R e l a t t o W e a t N o r l i z a Va r i (8 , 7 9 2 ) (4 . 3 9 6 ) (4 , 3 9 6 ) Te l e p h o n e 92 1 . 1 2 0 Ou t s l d S a r v c e l e g a l 92 55 , 5 8 9 55 . 5 8 Ot r O p t i o a n d M a i n t e n a n c E x p e n s Va r i u s 1, 2 , 4 7 3 22 0 . 5 7 89 . 9 1 4 11 0 , 2 8 1 27 4 , 2 1, 1 8 6 50 7 . 2 3 To l l O p e r s l i o a n d M i l n t n c e A d j u s i m n t 13 , 4 0 , 5 1 3 2. 6 5 , 0 8 1,4 4 5 . 5 9 2 1,2 0 0 . 0 7 3 2.7 1 6 . 9 5 4 12 . 0 1 4 5, 3 7 6 . 7 9 De r e a t 40 3 - 0 0 8, 3 8 5 0 3 89 3 7 6 1.7 0 4 , 1 8 9 1,3 9 8 . 8 7 4 1. 2 1 3 , _ 1.1 7 4 , 2 3 Am o r t z a t o n o f P l H e l d f o F u t U . . 40 5 - Am r t i z t i o n o f U t i l i t P l i n t A c u i s i i o A d j u s t 40 8 - 0 9, 3 65 l, 9 n 5 5,2 2 1, 8 8 11 3 80 To t D e p a t a n d A m o r i z a o n 8,3 9 , 8 3 7 88 89 6 , 3 4 7 1,7 0 , 1 9 3 1.4 0 3 , 9 0 1, 2 1 4 , 9 1 3 11 3 1, 1 7 4 , 3 0 3 Ad V a l o æ m T a x 40 1 2 0 1.5 7 0 , 9 4 1 1.3 7 2 25 , 4 2 1 22 . 3 7 0 56 , 9 2 3 43 0 . 8 0 7 5, 4 8 2 90 . 7 8 8 Pa y r l T l l 40 8 1 3 0 1 3 1 / 1 3 4 35 2 , 1 58 , 7 0 2 28 . 5 0 55 . a n 11 3 . 2 9 88 9 97 , 2 2 7 TO U l t G e r a l T a x e s 1. 9 2 , 2 1 2 1.3 7 2 30 , 1 2 3 25 , 8 7 6 62 0 . 8 0 54 , 8 9 7 8. 1 3 1 18 8 , 0 1 3 To 1 l P r o F o l O p r t n g E x p o n a t M a y 3 1 . 20 0 5 ( p r o r t o r e _ o f ¡ p u c l e & b i d d o b l ) 21 , 7 2 5 8 3 1,4 4 0 3, 8 5 9 , 5 5 3 3,4 0 3 , 8 8 1 3,2 2 4 , n 3 4, 4 7 5 , 7 6 4 18 , 5 8 6,7 3 , 1 1 4 Vo l u m e R e l a 84 , 7 8 8 % 82 , 9 8 % 20 , 0 7 3 % ex N o 1 4 e- N o I J _ _U n _ _' 3 , " ' 1 I 3 o F 3 UNITED WATER IDAHO Cost of Service Study Summary Bil Analysis for Pro Forma Rate Year THRU MAY 2005 RESIDENTIAL i:quivaem Meter and Bills Servic Equivalenl 2005 Rended Custoni Revenue Multpl Mete Curre Rate BILLS & CUSTS MeIer 5IS"61,486 13,581 1 13,581 14,57 Size 314"264,239 47,373 1,1 52,110 14,57 1"34,798 5,800 1.4 8,120 19,19 1112"705 117 1.8 211 31.05 2"396 66 2,9 193 44.88 3"8 1 11 14 82.494.0 14 0 13126 O.0 21 0 252,63 S"0 29 0 381,2 Flat Rate Servic 269 45 Total 401,633 66,984 WATER USE USE DIST Winter 4,601,552 34%0,9825 Summer 6999 377 66%1.2281 Total Use 13,600,929 COMMERCIAL isiiia Rendere Custors BILLS & CUSTS Meter 5/"2,984 497 1 497 14,57 Size 314"12,606 2,101 1.1 2,311 14,57 1"14,426 2,404 1.4 3,366 19,19 1112"8,991 1,499 1,6 2,697 31.05 2"8,06 1,343 2,9 3,896 44,68 3"606 101 11 1,112 S2,49 4"205 34 14 479 131,26 6.16 3 21 63 252,63 8"6 1 29 30 381,2 Flat Ra Service Total 47,903 7,984 WATER USE USE DIST Winter 2,751.251 40%0.9825 Summer 4,200567 60%1.2281 Total Use 6,951,818 PUBLIC AUTHORITY isiiia Rendered Customer BILLS & CUSTS Meter 5/8"9 2 1 2 Size 314"57 9 1,1 10 1"152 25 1,4 35 1112"105 18 1.6 32 2"202 34 2,9 98 3"6 1 11 11 4"0 14 0 6"0 21 0 6"0 29 0 Flat Rate Service Total 531 8l WATER USE USE DIST Winter 28,039 24% Summer 91038 76% Total Use 119,076 EihlNo14c.No___,lJd_, S_'4, Polof2 UNITED WATER IDAHO Cost of Service Study Summary Bil Analysis for Pro Forma Rate Year OTAL ALL SECTORS Tolal Tolal Bills Cuslomen BILLS & CUSTS MeIer 5/8"84,479 14.080 1,230,856 1 14,080 14,57 Size 3/4"296,901 49.4l3 4,325,843 1,;54,432 14.57 1"49,376 8.229 947,53 1.4 11,521 19.19 11/2"9,801 1.634 30,326 1,8 2,940 31,05 2"8,661 1,443 388,699 2,9 4,186 44.88 3"620 103 51,141 11 1,137 82.49 4"205 34 26,922 14 479 131.28 6"18 3 4,524 21 63 252.63 8"6 1 2,371 29 30 381,2 Flal Rate Service 269 45 14604:0 0 54.29 Total 450,067 75,056 7,296,820 -88,867 WATER USE USE DIST Winter 7,380,841 36%7,251,6n 0.9825 Summer 13290982 64%16,32265 1,2281 Total Use 20,671,823 23,574,332 Totl Revenue 30,871,152 _No,14CIHNil.P_UnW..S,_'4, PI i of i Prite Fire Hydrants 3. Subtotal Public Fire Hydrants 6" UNITED WATER IDAHO Cost of Service Study Pnvate Fire Protection Revenue at Current Rats, Bils and Equivalent Connections 170 1,00 170.00 4059,111 12.62% 690 4,00 2760,00 87.18% Total Equivalent Conneions 8.280Total Prate Fire Proction Bßls 31659,111 NOTE: . Access to hydrants for street cleaning by Ada County DPW ExhRNo.14 CHI No.IJ__.UnidWaI, S_it 15, I'l 011 Dean J. Miler McDEVm & MllER LLP 420 West Bannock Street P.O. Box 2564-83701 Boise, ID 83702 Tel: 208.343.7500 Fax: 208.336.6912 joe (Smcdevitt -miler.com '.r.....r.I\¡lO ~', ':~_ L, L~. '- f:¡LFdD (Z) 1'--1L." 1.íJG5 lRY t I PM 5: 16 ¡ -;, ., i' ¡ ~.; U¡ ill ¡ itS COhl'IISSION Attorneys for Applicant BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTU..TIES COMMISSION IN THE MA TIR OF THE APPLICATION OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INC. FOR AUTHORITY TO INCRESE ITS RATES Case No. UWI-W-04-04 AN CHAGES FOR WATER SERVICE IN THE STATE OF IDAHO BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION REBUIT AL TESTIMONY OF DENNIS PESEAU 1 Q.Please state your namè and business address. 2 A.My name is Dennis E. Peseau. My business address is Suite 250,1500 3 Liberty Street, S.E., Salem, Oregon 97302. 4 Q.By whom and in what capacity are you employed? 5 A.I am President of Utilty Resources, Inc. My firm consults on a 6 number of economic, financial and engineering matters for various 7 private and public entities. 8 Q.On whose behalf are you testifying in this proceeding? 9 A.I am testifying on behalf of United Water Idaho Inc. 10 Q.Are you the same Dennis E. Peseau who prefied direct testimony in 11 these proceedings? 12 A.Yes. 13 Q.What is the purpose of your testimony? 14 A.As a follow-up to my direct testimony, I wil address rate design issues 15 discussed by Staff witness Sterling and Idaho Rivers United Witness 16 Wojcik. Additionally, United Water has asked me to analyze and 17 critique Staffs proposal to employ a 13-month average rate base.I 18 wil discuss the rate base issue first, followed by a discussion of rate 19 design issues, 20 Q.Please describe the Staff proposal to employ a 13-month average rate 21 base, as you understand it. 22 A.Staff calculates a rate base by averaging the monthly balances from 23 July 31, 2003 though July 31, 2004 for Plant in Service, Customer D. Peseau, Re - 1 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Advances and Contrbutions in Aid of Constrction. Except for 2 investment associated with the Columbia Water Treatment Plant 3 (CWTP) post-test year investments, though December 31,200, are 4 treated as if it occurred in the last month of the test year, and in 5 consequence, that investment is included in rate base at 1/13 of the 6 amount actually invested. (See Hars, Di. Pg 6). 7 Q.In contrast, how did the Company calculate its proposed rate base? 8 A.The Company employed an end of period or year end rate base using 9 the twelve-month period ended July 31,200. Normalizing and 10 anualizing adjustments were made to the test period and known and 11 measurable adjustments to revenue, operating expense and rate base 12 through May 31, 2005. (See Healy, Di. Pg 2). In addition, as 13 described in the testimony of Company Witness Wyatt at pp. 10-13, an 14 adjustment was made to reflect the impact on revenue and expense of 15 post test year plant additions, and to match revenue, expense and rate 16 base, in accordance with the policy stated by the Commission in Idaho 17 Power. 18 Q.Is the year end methodology proposed by the Company consistent with 19 prior Commission orders with respect to United Water and its 20 predecessor, Boise Water Corporation? 21 A.Yes. I have reviewed the previous four rate orders for United 22 Water/Boise Water, commencing in 1993 with Case No. BOI-W-93-1, 23 Order No. 25062. (See also, Case Nos. BOI-W-93-3, Order No. D. Peseau, Re - 2 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 25640; UWI-W-97-6, Order No. 27617 and Case No. UWI-W-OO-1, 2 Order No. 28585). The year-end with pro-forma adjustments method 3 proposed by the Company in this case is identical, in all material 4 respects, to the method proposed by the Company, and accepted by the 5 Commission in these previous cases. 6 Q.Is the effect of Staff s proposed change in rate making methodology 7 material? 8 A.Very much so. According to Staff witness Hars, the 13-Month 9 Average rate base is approximately $12 milion lower that the Rate 10 Base fied by the Company. Solely due to the difference in rate base, 11 Staff's revenue requirement is approximately $2 milionlower than the 12 Company's. A $12 milion reduction in rate base, compared to the 13 Company's total rate base of $140 milion represents a 9% reduction, 14 solely from a change in rate making methodology. 15 Q.What conclusions have you reached with regard to Staffs position to 16 change from the policy of an end of period rate base to a thirteen- 17 month average rate base for the Company in these proceedings? 18 A.I conclude that: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1.Staff has erred in its conclusion that United Water Idaho did not normalize revenues completely to May 31,2005 and so did not cause a "mismatch of expenses and revenues" as Staf alleges. 2.The Company's rate base, expense and revenues treatment in its fiing are consistent, while Staff's are not; D. Peseau, Re - 3 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 3. There is a fudamental test used below thatthe Commission can use to distinguish between when to apply the thirteen month average rate base method it uses for the electric utilities, and the year end rate base method it has used for some time for the more capital intensive United Water Idaho. 4. Because Stas case is so inconsistent, and unless the Commission continues with the methodology it used in the four previous United Water Idaho rate cases, there wil result an absolute inability for United Water Idaho to ear its allowed rate of retur, and shareholder property wil be confiscated. United Water Idaho Matches, but Staff Mismatches Revenues and Expenses 16 Q.What is the issue with respect to the matching of revenues and 17 expenses in this case? 18 A.Staff alleges in this case that the Company's filing, although entirely 19 consistent with and nealy identical in method to its previous thee rate 20 case filings, does not match normalized revenues with normalized 21 expenses. The issue here is whether or not it is necessary in the case 22 of United Water to change from its established end of period rate base 23 method to a thirteen-month average method proposed by Staff in order 24 to match revenues and expenses. 25 I argue that in at least two respects, the year-end or end-of- 26 period rate base method is more appropriate for a water utilty with the 27 Company's characteristics. I say this knowing that for some time the 28 Commission has endorsed and approved the thirteen-month average 29 rate base period for the electrics Idaho Power and A vista, which it 30 regulates. D. Peseau, Re - 4 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.What is the first reason it is appropriate to allow United Water to 2 establish rates based upon an end-of-period rate base? 3 A.The first reason is for accuracy and ease of application. For a water 4 utilty that has its investment, and therefore rate base growing as 5 quickly as the Company, it is far easier to anualize revenues to end of 6 period, than to reverse the numerous expense and rate base entries. In 7 the recent Idaho Power rate case No. IPC-E-03-13, I testified: 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Q. A. Q. A. How should this mismatch be corrected? There are basically two alternative remedies available. The first would be to reverse the anualizing entres and properly match test year averages on both sides of the ledger. The second alternative is to anualize revenues in the same maner as rate base and expenses. Do you have a preference between these two alternatives? On the whole, I think anualizing revenues to 2003 year- end levels is the preferable course for two reasons. First, it is much simpler to anualize revenues than to back out Idaho Power's annualizing adjustments from numerous cost and rate base categories. Moreover, annualizing revenues produces a more forward-looking result than reversing the expense and rate base annualizations. I recognize, however, that when faced with a similar mismatch problem in the last Idaho Power rate case, the Commission ordered a reversal of the improper anualization of expenses. Order No. 25880, pp. 3-4. In theory this course of action is equally acceptable, but it poses a greater risk of computational errors just because of the number of adjustments required. Consequently, I continue to recommend annualizing earnings instead. (Peseau direct, Case No. IPC-E-03-13, Pages 5-6) 31 Q.Has, in fact, Staff failed to properly match its proposed thirteen-month 32 expense and rate base estimates with corresponding revenues? 33 A.Yes. This can be demonstrated by determining that Staf used 34 essentially the same level of anualized revenues, those for the period D. Peseau, Re - 5 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 ending May 31, 2005 that are contained in the Company's fiing. In 2 following its suggestion to use the thirteen-month average rate base, 3 Staff should also have reduced the May 31, 20051 anualized revenues 4 in the Company's fiing back to the actual test year revenues centered 5 at Januar, 200. But Staff did not. The test year revenues used by 6 Staff are actually the very same test year revenues developed by the 7 Company for its end of period method, with one very small exception. 8 On Company Exhibit 8, Page 2 of 2, proposed test year revenues are 9 $31,534,832. To verify that Staffs case calculates anualized 10 revenues identically to the end of period May 31, 2005 calculated by 11 the Company, I refer to Staf Exhibit 126. On this exhibit (column (6), 12 line (12)) appears the same anualized revenue levels of $31, 13 534,832.2 In other words, Staff mismatches rate base and expenses on 14 a thirteen-month average basis, with a higher level of revenues 15 calculated on a forward anualized period May 31, 2005. Thus there 16 is a gross mismatch. 17 Contrastingly, the Company's filng is consistent, in that it 18 matches the higher level of end of period May 31, 2005 revenues with 19 its end of period expenses and rate base. Staf, on the other hand, 20 mismatches these components by using the smaller than actual rate 21 base, its thireen month average, with the 'higher level of end of period IThese May 31, 2005 annualized revenues are derived by adjusting twelve-month ending July 31,200 revenues for South County, weather normalization and growt though May 31, 2005. ~his figure is adjuste by $5,628 for Carriage Hil on Staff Exhibit i i i, Page 2 of 2. D. Peseau, Re - 6 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Q. 7 8 9 A. 10 11 12 Q. 13 14 A. 15 16 17 18 Q. 19 20 A. 21 22 23 revenues. This is a mismatch that eventually guarantees an under recovery of revenues sufficient to ear the allowed rate of retur. Again, in my opinion, the most appropriate means by which to most accurately match the Company's expenses and revenues is to use the end of period rate base. For puroses of consistency between the rate base treatment of the local electrics, and United Water should the Commission require United Water to use a thirteen-month average rate base? No, there are significant and peculiar differences here that, in my opinion, argue strongly for allowing United Water to continue with its end of period rate base method. This second reason is argued below. Does not Staff argue that the Commission has recently changed policies regarding rate base treatment? Yes. Staf Witness Mr. Lobb, on Pages 6-9, suggests that because the Commission approved the thirteen-month average rate base methods fied by Idaho Power and A vista, that consistency requires this policy be extended to United Water. Did the Commission orders in those cases mandate use of an average test year for all utilties? Not as I understand them. Order Numbers 29505 (IPCo) and 29602 (A VU) advised utilties that when proposing post-test year additions to rate base a corresponding revenue and expense adjustment should be made. United Water has attempted to comply with that directive in D. Peseau, Re - 7 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 Q. 4 5 A. 6 7 8 Q. 9 A. 10 11 12 13 14 15 Q. 16 17 18 19 A. 20 21 22 23 this case. Neither order, however, advised utilties that an average test year must be presented. Have Order Numbers 29505 and 29602 created some level of uncertinty among companies regulated by the Idaho Commission. I believe so. Neither Order identified the calculations used to produce the proxy adjustment and the IPCo Order indicated that the proxy was not intended as precedent for use in futue cases. Are the Idaho Power and A vista cases distinguishable in other ways? Yes. In each case the utilty, as par of its initial Application, proposed use of an average test year, which was, with some modifications, accepted without dispute in each case. In both cases the question of average versus year-end test year was not a debated issue. Neither case reflects a conscious policy decision to require an average test year in all cases for all utilities. Are there examples of instances in which the Commission has simultaeously used an average rate base for some companies and a year-end rate base for others, depending on the circumstaces of each company? Yes. In Case BOI-W-93-3, fied in December of 1993 and decided in August of 1994, the Commission employed a year-end test year for Boise Water. At about the same time the Commission in Case No. IPC-94-5 (fied in June of 1994, decided in February of 1995) employed an average rate base for Idaho Power Company. D. Peseau, Re - 8 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.Do you agree that requiring United Water to use a thirteen-month 2 average rate base in setting rates would place the Company in a 3 position consistent with Idaho Power and Avista? 4 A.No. First let me acknowledge that in some if not many circumstances 5 normalizing and anualizing accounting adjustments ca be made that 6 make the thirteen-month average rate base and year-end rate base 7 nearly financially equivalent. But such is not the case for United 8 Water. 9 Q.Why? 10 A.The key determinants of whether use of a thirteen-month average rate 11 base and a year-end rate base wil produce rates that generate revenues 12 sufficient to keep the utilty financially whole for the first year or so 13 after those rates go in effect are 1) capital intensity and 2) growth in 14 rate base per customer. 15 That is, once rates are set in these proceeings, for 16 example, if each new customer added to the system requires greater 17 (less) than the average investment per customer then rates charged 18 each new customer wil cause a retur shortfall (excess) on average 19 investment. In the 1990s, many electrc utilties, including Idaho 20 Power, were able to freeze and even reduce existing rates despite 21 significant anual rates of customer and rate base growth, with no 22 adverse financial consequences. In fact, some utilties were able to 23 ear returns in excess of allowed returs and agreed to share these D. Peseau, Re - 9 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 excess returs with ratepayers. The reason that this was possible was 2 because new customers were able to be served with incrmental 3 investment or rate base of less than system average rate base per 4 customer. At fixed rates therefore, these new customers cost less than 5 system average rate base cost to serve and provide higher than average 6 revenue margins than set in the prior rate case.3 7 In such cases where the rate base additions to serve a 8 growing customer base is below or equal to average cost, the 9 application of either a thirteen month average or year-end rate base 10 should be nearly financially equivalent. But for capital intensive 11 utilities that incur above average rate base costs to serve new 12 customers, the thirteen-month average rate base is far less likely to 13 produce rates that generate revenues necessar to produce the allowed 14 returns. This is tre simply because a thireen-month rate base is not 15 as current or "forward-looking" as the year-end rate base adjusted for 16 rate base additions. 17 Under what such capital intensive and growth category does UnitedQ. 18 Water service fall? 19 The Company definitely qualifies as a capital intensive utility thatA. 20 must make higher than average cost incremental rate base additions to 21 meet its growing load. 3The technical term is that the marginal cost to service new customers is less than the average cost to serve, and existing rates are matched to average, not marginal costs. D. Peseau, Re - 10 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.Do you have evidence that recent customer and usage growth 2 experienced by the Company has been met with higher than average 3 rate base costs per customer? 4 A.Yes; This is shown in the following table. This table simply 5 calculates the percentage changes in rate base costs per customer (in 6 two different ways). As shown, rate base cost per customer has grown 7 recently by over 20%, while customer or usage growth has been 8 approximately 2% or less. 9 Q.Do the high rates of growt in rate base cost per customer reflect the 10 large cost increment resulting from the Columbia plant addition? 11 A.Yes, and Staff has, in my opinion acted responsibly in incorporating 12 the Columbia plant in rate base for the entire test year. But my point 13 here is that the recent large rate base additions, and those planned in 14 the coming year wil be at incremental costs higher than rates in 15 place. Under these circumstaces, a forward looking end of period 16 rate base calculation wil do much more to reduce (but wil not 17 eliminate) the Company's earings attrtion than wil a thirteen-month 18 average rate base calculation. 19 Q.Are there other factual circumstaces that United Water faces that 20 compound this earings attrition and revenue shortfall? 21 A.Yes. Not only is the Company experiencing incremental investment 22 that is higher than average, it also is adding customers whose revenues 23 or bils are below system average. I understand that this decrease in D. Peseau, Re - 11 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 revenue per new or growth customer is due largely to a high 2 percentage of such customers taking service in areas where alternative 3 sources of irrigation water are available and thus only use United' 4 Water service for domestic purses. This phenomenon only 5 accentuates revenue shortall between rate cases. United Water Idaho Change in Rate Base per Billng Unit Test Year Ending July Pro Forra 31,2004 Year Ending Percent Item Adjusted May 31,20005 Change Rate Base(1)$113,575,180 $140,148,149 23.40% Commodity Use (CCF) (2)20,407,679 20,671,823 1.29% Rate Base per CCF $5.57 $6.78 21.72% Bils Rendered (3)440,686 450,336 2.19% Rate Base Per Bil Rendered $257.72 $311.21 20.76% Source: (1) Exhibit No.1, Page 1 of 9. (revised) (2) Exhibit 6, Schedule 3, Pages 7, 13 and 22. (3) Exhibit 6, Schedule 3, Pages 9 and 22. 6 7 What conclusions do you draw from this?Q. 8 I conclude that Commission consistency does not and should notA. 9 require the same rate base evaluation methods between the electric and 10 water utilities that it regulates. 11 In fact, I conclude that consistency, defined as equal 12 opportunities to ear the allowed rates of retur granted, actually 13 requires maintaining the long-time end of period method used for D. Peseau, Re - 12 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 United Water. I am not at all persuaded by Staffs proposal to make 2 all utilties fit into a thirteen-month average rate base valuation. 3 Has the Commission in the past relied on analysis similar to yours, asQ. 4 discussed above? 5 Yes, in 1993, when the Commission abandoned use of an average testA. 6 year in Order No. 25640 the Commission said; 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 According to Staff, Boise Water's rate base would be $1,163,281 lower if calculated based on a 13-month average as opposed to year end. While it might be advantageous to ratepayers to have a lower rate base, no pary challenges Boise Water's proposal to utilize a year end rate base. Boise Water's customer base and its investment in plant are both growing rapidly. A year-end calculation of rate base for a utility experiencing rapid growt is, in this case, a more accurate reflection of that utilty's investment in plant. In light of the foregoing and the absence of objection, we find that a year-end calculation of rate base for Boise Water is fair, just and reasonable. 19 Wil the use of Staffs thirteen-month average rate base cause UnitedQ. 20 Water to suffer rates of return attrition from the very first year rates are 21 in effect? 22 Yes.4 This earnings attrition or rate of return shortfall is shown in myA. 23 rebutt Exhibit 17. 24 What doe Exhibit 17 show?Q. 25 "Tis conclusion is reached even assuming that Staff corrects its revenue mismatch by deducting $752,289 from its normalized revenue estimate. D. Peseau, Re - 13 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 A.Exhibit 17 compares the actual or realized rates of retu under Staff s 2 proposed thirteen month average rate base to the fair or allowed rate of 3 return that it proposes. The right-most column of the exhibit 4 summarzes the total rate of return on equity and overall rate of retu 5 that result from Staff s changing from the present year-end method to 6 the thirteen-month average rate base method. Stas proposal ensures 7 an overall rate of retum shortall of 88 basis points, the difference 8 between the proposed 8.10% overall rate of return and the 7.22% rate 9 of return that results solely from not including the ending rate base 10 investment. 11 Thus, according to this exhibit, Staff s proposal, and the 12 high marginal cost of serving new customers virtally assures that 13 United Water wil suffer earings deficiencies from the time that new 14 rates go into effect. 15 Q.In your opinion would such an earings shortall constitute a denial of 16 shareholders of an opportunity to ear a fair rate of retur 17 commensurate with investments with commensurate risks? 18 A.Yes. In my effort over the years to estimate fair rates of return for 19 utilities, I have relied upon the financial interpretations of certain key 20 court decisions in evaluating the reasonableness of rate making 21 adjustments. Three key decisions are the Bluefield (Bluefield Water 22 Works v. Public Servo Comm'n, 2672 U.S. (1922)), Hope (Federal Power 23 Commission V. Hope Natural Gas, 320 U.S. 591 (1944)) and more recent D. Peseau, Re - 14 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Duquesne (Duquesne Light Co. v. Barasch, 488 U.S. 299 (l989))cases, My interpretation has always been that irrespective of the method or actual estimate for the fair rate of return, a check of reasonableness is always that the sum of the rate case decisions allow for, or even ensure the opportunity for the utilty to ear the fair rate ofreturn determined in the case. In your opinion does Staff's proposed thirteen-month average rate base method allow United Water the opportunity to ear its allowed return? No, as I have explained, Exhibit 17 shows that Stas thirteen-month average rate base causes actual returs to be below the fair or allowed return. This in my opinion results in a denial of fair earings and a confiscation of shareholder property Turning now to the Staff recmmendation to allow in rate base 1/13 of post test year investment, what is the practical effect of this proposal? It means, obviously, that the Company is denied a retur on up to 92% of post test year investment in plant that is devoted to public service during the rate period. To the extent the proposal is aimed at solving a perceived problem of mis-matched revenue and expense, does it make sense? It does not. It canot conceivably be tre that the revenue producing or expense reducing effects of new investment are of such a magnitude that 92% of the investment should be disallowed. D. Peseau, Re - 15 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.Is the end result of the Staff proposal out of proportion with the end 2 result of adjustments recently made by the Commission in other cases 3 to take into account revenue producing, expense reducing effects? 4 A.Yes it is. In the recently concluded A vista rate case, the Commission, 5 with some reluctance, employed a varant of a proxy approach 6 developed in the preceding Idaho Power Company rate case. (See 7 Order No. 29602, pgs 16-17). This resulted in approximately 12% of 8 post test year investment being excluded. Without debating the merits 9 of the adjustment methodology in A vista it is obvious that Staf s 10 proposal in this case produces an end result totally disproportionate to 11 the end result believed to be reasonable by the Commission in A vista. 12 Rate Design and Cost of Service Issues 13 Q.Are there numerous differences in the cost of service and rate design 14 issues proposed by you and by Staff witness Sterling? 15 A.No. In fact, there is really only one significant difference between the 16 rate design proposal I offer on behalf of United Water Idaho and that 17 proposed by Mr. Sterling. That difference is in the level at which to 18 set the bimonthly customer charge. I propose a bimonthly customer 19 charge of $19.86 while Mr. Sterling proposes to keep in place the 20 present bimonthly customer charge of $14.57. I argue this issue 21 below. D. Peseau, Re - 16 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.Is there a significant difference in your cost of service analysis on 2 seasonal commodity cost differences and the seasonal rate design 3 proposed by you and Mr. Sterling? 4 A.No, in fact there is no difference that I can determine. In my direct 5 testimony, I explained that for the first time we were able in this case 6 to incorporate an actual seasonal cost of service study to set 7 parameters for seasonal rate differences. That is, the seasonal rate 8 design I propose and Mr. Sterling endorses is based on seasonal cost 9 differences. In this regard Mr. Sterling indicates: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Q. Do you believe that the 25 percent summer/winter rate differential should be maintained? A. Yes, I do. By having a commodity rate that is 25 percent higher in the summer than in the winter, customer are sent a strong conservation signal that helps to lessen United Water's peak summertime demands. Furermore, I agree with United Water witness Peseau's conclusion from his cost of service study that there is a substatial difference in commodity costs of service between the winter and summer. Q. Do you believe that the summer/winter commodity rate differential should be increased to more than 25 percent? A. No, I do not .... (Sterling, Direct, Page 58, Lines 12-25) I point out the agreement between Staf and Company on the seasonal 25 rate design issue because both Mr. Sterling and Idaho Rivers United 26 (IRU) witness Mr. Wojcik go on to discuss possible inverted rate 27 alternatives to the present seasonal rate design structure. And, while I 28 strongly believe that, given the initial consumption block design 29 agreed to between Company and Community Action Parership 30 Association of Idaho (CAPAI), and the discussion in rebuttal by Mr. D. Peseau, Re - 17 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Wyatt agreeing to Staff's proposal to move toward monthly billng, 2 additional rate inversion should be avoided. Additionally, I do not see 3 the nee at this time to follow Mr. Sterling's proposal to begin a 4 separate docket to review other rate designs until such time as the 5 present one is evaluated. Any consideration of new, alternative rate 6 design proposals, perhaps including inverted rates, could be postponed 7 to a the next genera rate case, provided paries express their interests 8 and undertake discovery early in the process. Inverted rates should not 9 be attempted in the present proceedings. 10 Level of Customer Charges 11 Q.In light of the potential move to a monthly billng cycle, what is your 12 recommendation with regard to the appropriate level of customer 13 charges? 14 A.I disagree with Mr. Sterling's suggestion that there is any economic 15 justification for limiting or restraining customer costs to the narow 16 definition of "direct costs" of meter reading and biling. The only 17 other cost categories included in my customer cost of service study are 18 the direct costs of meters and services. I canot think of any cost more 19 directly related to individual customers than those of their own meter 20 and service line. These two items can serve the individual and only 21 the individual customer and are the most direct cost imaginable. 22 Placing these direct and individual customer costs on the 23 commodity rate in the name of conservation only ensures that these D. Peseau, Re - 18 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 fixed costs wil not be recovered by the Company between rate cases, 2 and wil be made to be subsidized by customers whose consumption 3 canot be shifted (have "inelastic" demand) after subsequent rate cases 4 attempt to distribute these revenue shortalls. 5 Q.What is the problem you see in keeping customer charges far below 6 actual costs of service? 7 A.While I do not favor moving customer charges to full cost of service at 8 this time, I neverteless recommend that they be raised to some degree 9 in every rate case. Absent this, United Water Idaho and the 10 Commission wil be facing significant revenue shortall and rate equity 11 problems. 12 Q.Please explain the revenue shortall problem. 13 A.Both the Staff and IRU discuss keeping customer charges below costs 14 in order to facilitate conservation. I am absolutely in support of 15 facilitating any and all conservation that results from rate design based 16 on costs. This is precisely how so-called "economic efficiency" and 17 responsible consumption are promoted. 18 The problem is that collecting the capital costs of physical, 19 fixed customer meters and service lines outside a customer charge by 20 spreading it as if they were volumetric or commodity costs canot be 21 argued to promote economic levels of conservation. This is best done 22 within the seasonalization of the commodity costs that is contained in 23 my cost of service study_ D. Peseau, Re - 19 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Q. A. Q. A. In the context of proper rate design and the recovery of allowed revenue requirement for United Water, "force" or excessive levels of conservation do nothing but leave capital costs and therefore allowed rates of return unrecovered. Taken as a fixed customer charge, meter and biling costs, both expenses and capital, afford some level of revenue stabilty for this extremely capital cost intensive water utilty company. Has not the Commission recently decided to omit certin fixed costs from the monthly customer charges of both Idaho Power and Avista? Yes. However, there is a long history and rationale for this costing method in the electric utility industry. The proportionately larger share of variable costs for electric utilities as a percentage of total cost of service, and the common practice of laying off of some customer- related costs to the transmission and even generation functions has allowed for historically lower monthly customer charges. But for a utilty as capital intensive as United Water, the subsidizing of the cost of dedicated meters and service lines in usage sensitive commodity rates wil lead to revenue shortalls for Company. Can the revenue shortfalls caused by a highly subsidized customer charge be lessened by more frequent rate cases? Yes. In this instance, however, more frequent rate cases result in the customer charge subsidy being transferred from United Water shareholders to other customers. Not only do more frequent rate cases D. Peseau, Re - 20 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 involve higher administrative costs for the Company, the Commission 2 and others, but are likely to result in more inequitable rates among 3 customers, over time. 4 Q.Why does significant under-recovery of customer charges cause 5 inequities among rates of customers? 6 A.The costs of meters and service lines benefit none other than the 7 specific customer for whom the meter and service is installed. Staffs 8 limiting of customer charges reflective only of meter reading, biling 9 and customer accounting results in 65% of customer-specific costs 10 being shifted to the usage-sensitive commodity rate. Consequently, 11 those in a position to invest in devices to reduce water consumption 12 avoid payig their reasonable share of their own meters and service 13 lines. 14 Q.Isn't this type of pricing good for conservation? 15 A.No. As valuable and socially responsible that the conserving of our 16 water is, equitable pricing requires that conservation be induced 17 primarily though rates that reflect costs, in this case commodity costs. 18 My seasonal commodity rate differentiation accomplishes this. 19 Furter and additional adding on of fixed customer costs to commodity 20 rates is merely punitive to some degree. 21 Q.Does the raising of monthly or bimonthly customer charges closer to 22 actual costs "blunt price signals"? D. Peseau, Re - 21 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 A.No. All the economic benefits attained though pricing are based on 2 the theory that rates bring about optimal levels of consumption of a 3 commodity, water or otherwise, by pricing according to costs. The 4 seasonal rates I propose are based primarily on seasonal commodity 5 cost differences and are adequate for inducing conservation. 6 Q.Do the seasonal commodity rates proposed by you in Exhibit 14 7 already contain a considerable amount of customer costs not collected 8 by the $19.86 proposed bimonthly customer charge? 9 A.Yes. In my direct testimony and my Exhibit No. 14, Schedule 1, Page 10 1 of 2, the implied full cost of service charge would be approximately 11 $22.00, which I do not propose. 12 Q.Would the enactment of monthly rather than bimonthly biling of 13 customers provide an opportunity to raise the current customer charge? 14 A.I believe that it would. Obviously, the commodity portion of a 15 monthly bil wil be approximately one-half of the bimonthly amount. 16 While the anual amount biled should be same, movement to monthly 17 biling should make the customer charge more acceptable. The 18 monthly customer charge under my rate design would be 19 approximately $9.93. 20 Q.Please summarize your position on the appropriate level of customer 21 charge to set in these procedings. 22 A.An increase in the existing customer charge is necessar to maintain 23 some level of revenue stabilty for the capital intensive nature of the D. Peseau, Re - 22 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Company's water service. A monthly customer charge of $9.93, while 2 significantly below the monthly fixed costs of serving customer, is a 3 move in the right direction. 4 Furtermore, this level of customer charge would lessen the 5 inequities of cross subsidies in rates for customers wh~ do not pay a 6 fair portion of their specific meter and service line costs. 7 Alternative Inverted Rates 8 Q.What is the purpose of your discussing the issue here of an inverted 9 block rate design? 10 A.As I referred to in the introduction, while Staff Witness Sterling agrees 11 with the level and seasonal design of my proposed rates, he does go on 12 to indicate that, while not recommending an inverted block rate design 13 in this case, he offers discussion on same in the event that the 14 Commission should wish to consider it (Direct, Page 62, Lines 2-11). 15 Q.Do you believe that an inverted rate design for United Water is 16 preferable to your proposed seasonal rate design? 17 A.No. Before I could endorse an inverted block rate design for United 18 Water I would need to have the benefit of considerable consumption, 19 elasticity, biling and other information upon which to base inverted 20 block rates. This information is not available at this time. 21 Secondly, implementing multi-block inverted rates may 22 add considerable confusion for customers. I agree with Mr. Sterling's 23 assessment (Direct, Page 58, Lines 2-10) that: D. Peseau, Re - 23 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Any time a new rate design is implemented, however, there is a period - sometimes a very lengty one - during' which customers must lear and become aware of the new rate design. Moreover, even more time is required for customers to adjust their usage patterns before the objectives of a new rate design can be achieved. I believe the decision of whether to implement a new rate design should be based on an evaluation of whether the advantages of a new rate design outweigh the tradeoffs. Q.With study, can new rate designs be adequately evaluated at some 12 point? 13 A.Yes, although the process can be involved. Given the lack of specific 14 proposals that could be evaluated in these proceeding, and the cost of 15 administering proceedings on inverted blocks, I recommend that any 16 , such interest be expressed early in the next general rate case. 17 Q.Do you have comments on the testimony of Mr. Wojcik who testifies 18 on behalf of Idaho Rivers United? 19 A.Only briefly. Mr. Wojcik proposes significant rate design changes, 20 including multiple block inverted rates. However, the justification for 21 most of the proposals contains no Company or Idaho-specific data. 22 For the reasons cited by Mr. Sterling and me, these general rate design 23 suggestions referred to by Mr. Wojcik should be studied thoroughly 24 for applicability to the Company and its customers before being given 25 any serious consideration. D. Peseau, Re - 24 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Q.Do you agree with Mr. Wojcik's suggestion that the initial summer 2 block be increased by approximately three times the proposed 3CCF 3 bimonthly quantity? (Wolcik, pg. 7, lines 16-17)? 4 A.No. This proposal is intended to discount usage of water equal to the 5 average indoor consumption per customer. In my opinion this is an 6 excessive discount and has no cost or rate design benefit over the 7 smaller proposed 3 CCF discount. A more prudent policy would be to 8 begin with the smaller initial block, study customer responses and 9 assess the acceptabilty at a later date. 10 Q.Does the larger intial block proposed by Mr. Wojcik blunt an 11 appropriate summer price signal? 12 A.Yes. This larger initial summer block in effect shields the customer 13 from facing the consequences of the higher cost summer consumption. 14 After all, all consumption in the summer contrbutes to summer peak 15 and the need for additional supply at higher marginal costs, regardless 16 of whether the consumption is for inside or outside uses. 17 Q.Has Company Witness Mr. Wyatt agreed to a higher than 3 CCF initial 18 minimum block in his rebuttal testimony? 19 A.Yes. It is my understanding that in agreeing to transition to a monthly 20 biling cycle, Mr. Wyatt accepts as a monthly minimum block a 2CCF 21 quantity. This has the effect of increasing the original bimonthly block 22 by 33%, from 3 CCF to 4 CCF. D. Peseau, Re - 25 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 Mr. Wojcik acknowledged on page 7, lines 5-6 of his 2 testimony that the original3CCF was slightly higher that average 3 toilet and shower usage. The 4 CCF initial block would provide a ' 4 significantly higher cushion in this initial block. 5 Q.Do you have any additional comments on the testimony of Mr. 6 Wojcik? 7 A.I have just two comments.One, one Pages 3 and 4 of his testimony, 8 Mr. Wojcik suggests that higher customer charges may weaken 9 customers' incentives to conserve because they are unavoidable. This 10 is tre only in a social engineerig sense, as the optimal level of 11 conservation is never attained by adding inappropriate charges to 12 commodity rates, but rather by properly designing commodity rates. 13 Two, Mr. Wocjik makes a common, but mistaken 14 assumption that high-volume water users place the "highest strain on 15 the water supply system" (Direct, Page 3, Lines 16-18). This is simply 16 not tre; all water users, whether large or small, who consume during 17 system peak equally "strain" the system and drive the need for 18 additional plant and equipment to serve these system peaks. This 19 usage issue is better understood in terms of usage load factors as in the 20 electric and natural gas industries. For example, a large, high load 21 factor user may contribute little to system peak and therefore not be 22 contrbuting disproportionately to higher seasonal costs. 23 Q.Does this conclude your testimony? D. Peseau, Re - 26 United Water Idaho Inc. 1 A.Yes. D. Peseau, Re - 27 United Water Idaho Inc. 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