20100205Vol I Boise.pdf

ORIGINAL
.BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR
AUTHORITY TO SELL TO PACIFICORP
THE GOSHEN SERIES CAPACITOR
BANK.
CASE NO. IPC-E-09-32
BEFORE
COMMISSIONER MACK REDFORD (Presiding)
COMMISSIONER MARSHA SMITH
COMMISSIONER JIM KEMPTON
.PLACE:Commission Hearing Room
472 West Washington Street
Boise, Idaho
DATE:January 26, 2010
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3 For the Staff:Ms.Kristine A.Sasser,Esq.
Deputy Attorney General
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Boise,Idaho 83720-0074
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6 For Idaho Power Company:Ms.Lisa D.Nordstrom,Esq.
Idaho Power Company
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Boise,Idaho 83707-0070
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1 BOISE, IDAHO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010, 10:00 A. M.
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4 COMMISSIONER REDFORD: We'll go on the
5 record and this morning we're at the Idaho Public
6 Utili ties Commission in Boise, Idaho. All Commissioners
7 are present, Commissioner Marsha Smith, Commissioner Jim
8 Kempton and myself, Mack Redford. I'll be the Chairman
9 and this is in Case IPC-E-09-32 and I will ask the
10 attorneys please to make their appearances. Lisa?
11 MS. NORDSTROM: I'm Lisa Nordstrom and I
12 represent Idaho Power Company and seated with me is Mike
13 Brachy who is an engineering proj ect leader.
14 COMMISSIONER REDFORD: And--
15 MS. SASSER: Kristine Sasser representing
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17 COMMISSIONER REDFORD: Okay, and we have a
18 court reporter. There are no other parties or other
19 attorneys here to make an appearance. I'll just read a
20 little bit into the record. On November 13, 2009, Idaho
21 Power Company filed an application requesting authority
22 to sell to PacifiCorp the Goshen series capacitor bank.
23 I understand the Goshen series capacitor bank is located
24 near Shelley in eastern Idaho. The Goshen series
25 capaci tor bank is a 345 kV, 3-phase, 60 Hz, 2 equal
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1 segment, outdoor series capacitor bank. The bank is part
2 of the larger Jim Bridger transmission system that is
3 jointly -- that is owned jointly by Idaho Power and
4 PacifiCorp.
5 We have -- originally when Idaho Power
6 filed the application to sell this piece of equipment,
7 Idaho Power asked that this matter be handled by modified
8 procedure. The Commission agreed; however, we discovered
9 that for sales of equipment of this nature, there was a
10 requirement that we have a public hearing pursuant to
11 Idaho Code 61-328. That is the reason we're here today
12 to take public comment and there will be no testimony by
13 the Commission or by the Staff.
14 Lisa, if you wouldn't mind, we'd like to
15 have a brief statement from the Company as to this sale.
16 It doesn't need to be very long, but we need it for the
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18 MS. NORDSTROM: Thank you,
19 Mr. Commissioner.Idaho Power is seeking to sell its
20 Goshen series capacitor bank at this time.It is part of
21 the larger Jim Bridger transmission system that Idaho
22 Power jointly owns with PacifiCorp and it is located in
23 eastern Idaho, and Idaho Power works closely with
24 PacifiCorp with regards to transmission-related issues
25 for power coming from the Jim Bridger plant and as the
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1 utili ties are working together to upgrade and enhance
2 their transmission system out there, Idaho Power no
3 longer had need for this capacitor bank and it is
4 configured in a way that is beneficial to PacifiCorp.
5 It is not something that there is a wide
6 market for and because it's designed for this particular
7 system and PacifiCorp has need for it, it seemed logical
8 that we would sell this particular piece of equipment to
9 PacifiCorp for its system, and both parties believe it is
10 in the best interest and will enhance our overall system
11 given how interconnected we are.
12 COMMISSIONER REDFORD: Thank you. This
13 is, as I stated previously, a public hearing.
14 Notwi thstanding that there does not appear to be anyone
15 here to testify, I'd like the record nevertheless to show
16 that if there is anyone here to testify or comes in in
17 the next few seconds, people are able to testify under
18 oath as to their feelings about this asset transfer. As
19 I stated previously, this is a requirement of the Idaho
20 Code on assets of this nature and I believe the asset
21 value is somewhere higher than $6 million.
22 At this time I'll call for any public
23 testimony. Seeing and hearing no one offering to
24 testify, I will declare this hearing at an end and the
25 Commission will take under consideration the application
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.1 and Staff's comments and I'll declare this hearing at an
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3 MS.NORDSTROM:Thank you.
4 (The Hearing concluded at 10: 07 a.m. )
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4 This is to certify that the foregoing
5 proceedings held in the matter of the application of
6 Idaho Power Company for authority to sell to PacifiCorp
7 the Goshen series capacitor bank, commencing at 10: 00
8 a.m., on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, at the Commission
9 Hearing Room, 472 West Washington Street, Boise, Idaho,
10 is a true and correct transcript of said proceedings and
11 the original thereof for the file of the Commission.
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