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An IDACORP Company
DONOVAN E. WALKER
Corporate Counsel
May 12, 2009
VIA HAND DELIVERY
Jean D. Jewell, Secretary
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
472 West Washington Street
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720-0074
Re: Case No. IPC-E-09-11
POWER COST ADJUSTMENT ("PCA') RATES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE
FROM JUNE 1, 2009, THROUGH MAY 31, 2010
Dear Ms. Jewell:
Enclosed for filing please find an original and three (3) copies of Idaho Power
Company's Responses to the Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association, Inc.'s First Ðata
Requests to Idaho Power Company in the above matter.
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P.O. Box 70 (83707)
1221 W. Idaho St.
Boise. ID 83702
DONOVAN E. WALKER (ISB No. 5921)
BARTON L. KLINE (ISB No. 1526)
Idaho Power Company
P.O. Box 70
Boise, Idaho 83707
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Attorneys for Idaho Power Company
Street Address for Express Mail:
1221 West Idaho Street
Boise, Idaho 83702
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE )
APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER ) CASE NO.IPC-E-09-11
COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO )
IMPLEMENT POWER COST ) IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S
ADJUSTMENT ("PCA") RATES FOR ) RESPONSES TO THE IDAHO
ELECTRIC SERVICE FROM JUNE 1, ) IRRIGATION PUMPERS ASSOCIATION,
2009, THROUGH MAY 31,2010. ) INC.'S FIRST DATA REQUESTS TO
) IDAHO POWER COMPANY
)
COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or "the Company"), and in
response to the Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association, Inc.'s First Data Requests to
Idaho Power Company dated April 29, 2009, herewith submits the following information:
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.'S FIRST DATA REQUESTS TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 1
REQUEST NO.1: Please provide in electronic format, on an hourly basis, for
the period January 1, 2007 through the most recent month available the following data:
a. Total system input;
b. System input from Company owned generation (stating hydro, coal,
and other generation separately);
c. System input from firm purchases, stating each purchase
separately by source and type of purchase (LF, IF, SF, etc.)
d. The cost of each firm purchase listed in "c" above;
e. System input from non-firm and/or economy purchases, stating
each purchase separately;
f. The cost of each non-firm and/or economy purchase listed in "E"
above;
g. System input from exchanges into the system, stating each
exchange separately;
h. System input from Unit purchases;
i. Other system inputs, stating for each "othet' input the type and the
source of the input;
j. System losses;
k. Requirements Wholesale sales (RQ);
i. Long-term firm Wholesale sales (LF), stating each on separately;
m. Intermediate-term firm Wholesale sales (IF), stating each one
separately;
n. Short-term Wholesale sales (SF), stating each one separately;
o. Unit sales, Wholesale (LU) or otherwise, stated separately;
p. Non-firm and/or economy Wholesale sales (OS), stated separately;
q. The revenue collected each hour from each non-firm and/or
economy purchased listed in "P" above.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.'S FIRST DATA REQUESTS TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 2
r. Exchanges out of the system, stating each exchange separately;
s. Other system outputs, stating for each "other" output the type and
recipient of the output;
t. Inadvertent power flows into or out of the system;
u. The power available (at input level) to supply retail load once
Wholesale, Exchange, Wheeling, and Inadvertent has been
subtracted;
v. Losses assigned to each retail jurisdiction;
w. Losses assigned to Wholesale sales;
x. Total retail load by jurisdiction;
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO.1:
a-j and I-u: Please see information on the enclosed CD.
The response to this Request was prepared by Sandy Ward, Accountant ", Idaho
Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Corporate Counsel, Idaho
Power .Company.
k. The requested data for Requirements Wholesale sales ('lRQ") is included
on the enclosed CD.
The response to this Request was prepared by Paul Werner, Load Research
Leader, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Corporate
Counsel, Idaho Power Company.
v. Hourly losses assigned to each retail jurisdiction are not available.
Monthly coincident demands and energy values, with and without losses, are contained
in the Demands2007 Actual.xls and Demands2008Actual.xls workbooks on the enclosed
CD. Loss factors for peak demand and energy by voltage for each jurisdiction are
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.'S FIRST DATA REQUESTS TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 3
contained in the RefTables spreadsheets in these workbooks. These are system loss
factors by voltage level and are not calculated on an hourly basis.
The response to this Request was prepared by Paul Werner, Load Research
Leader, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Corporate
Counsel, Idaho Power Company.
w. Hourly losses assigned to wholesale sales are not available. Monthly
coincident demands and energy values, with and without losses, are contained in the
Demands2007Actual.xls and Demands2008Actual.xls workbooks on the enclosed CD.
Loss factors for peak demand and energy by voltage are contained in the RefTables
spreadsheet of these workbooks. These are system loss factors by voltage level and
are not calculated on an hourly basis.
The response to this Request was prepared by Paul Werner, Load Research
Leader, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Corporate
Counsel, Idaho Power Company.
x. Hourly retail load by jurisdiction is not available. Monthly coincident
demands and energy values, with and without losses, are contained in the
Demands2007 Actual.xls and Demands2008Actual.xls workbooks on the enclosed CD.
The response to this Request was prepared by Paul Werner, Load Research
Leader, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Donovan E. Walker, Corporate
Counsel, Idaho Power Company.
DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 12th day of May 20
VAN E. WALKER
Attorney for Idaho Power Company
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION PUMPERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.'S FIRST DATA REQUESTS TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 4
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 1ih day of May 2009 I served a true and correct
copy of IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSES TO THE IDAHO IRRIGATION
PUMPERS ASSOCIATION, INC.'S FIRST DATA REQUESTS TO IDAHO POWER
COMPANY up on the following named parties by the method indicated below, and
addressed to the following:
Commission Staff
Weldon B. Stutzman
Deputy Attorney General
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
472 West Washington
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720-0074
Idaho Irrigation Pumpers
Association, Inc.
Eric L. Olsen
RACINE, OLSON, NYE, BUDGE &
BAILEY, CHARTERED
P.O. Box 1391
201 East Center
Pocatello, Idaho 83204-1391
Anthony Yankel
Yankel & Associates, Inc.
29814 Lake Road
Bay Vilage, Ohio 44140
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Donovan E. Walker
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