20110421Staff 1-15 to IPC.pdf

WELDON B. STUTZMAN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
472 WEST WASHINGTON STREET
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074
[phone]
BARNO. 3283
RECEIVED
ZOIl APR 2 i PH 1:22
Street Address for Express Mail:
472 W. WASHINGTON
BOISE, IDAHO 83702-5918
Attorney for the Commission Staff
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
)
) CASE NO. IPC-E-11-05
)
) FIRST PRODUCTION
) REQUEST OF THE
) COMMISSION STAFF TO
) IDAHO POWER COMPANY
)
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR A
PRUDENCY DETERMINATION OF
ENERGY EFFICIENCY RIDER FUNDS
SPENT IN 2010
The Staff of the Idaho Public Utilties Commission, by and through its attorney of record,
Weldon B. Stutzman, Deputy Attorney General, requests that Idaho Power Company (Company;
IPC) provide the following documents and information as soon as possible, but no later than
THURSDAY, MAY 12,2011.
This Production Request is to be considered as continuing, and Idaho Power Company is
requested to provide, by way of supplementary responses, additional documents that it or any
person acting on its behalf may later obtain that wil augment the documents produced.
For each item, please indicate the name of the person(s) preparing the answers, along with
the job title of such person(s) and the witness who can sponsor the answer at hearing.
FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST TO
IDAHO POWER COMPANY 1 APRIL 21, 2011
REQUEST NO.1: Please provide a complete listing of all expenses charged to the DSM
taiff rider during 2010. Please include date, vender, amount, a brief description of the expense,
and the account to which the charges were booked. Please separate all expenses by program type
so that the expenditures provided reconcile with the amounts reported in the 2010 DSM Annual
Report. If any amounts are allocated among different programs, please ilustrate the allocation
method. Please also identify if each expense is an incentive payment, purchased service,
labor/administration expense, or materials and other expense. Please provide the requested
information in Excel format.
REQUEST NO.2: Please provide the total amount of wages for Idaho Power Company
employees included in the DSM tariff rider for 2010.
REQUEST NO.3: Did Idaho Power Company award any wage increases to DSM
employees during 201 O? If so, please provide the date and percentage of the increase along with
the total amount of 20 10 wage increases included in the DSM tariff rider balance.
REQUEST NO.4: Please explain the use ofthe Weighted Average Cost of Capital as the
discount rate when determining the Net Present Value of costs and benefits.
REQUEST NO.5: For energy efficiency measures where the Paricipant Cost Test has
been provided, was the Weighted Average Cost of Capital used as the discount rate? If not, please
identify the discount rate used and explain why it was used.
REQUEST NO.6: Please provide the explanation for the 10.9% for loss assumption and
the 13.00% summer peak line loss assumption.
REQUEST NO.7: Please provide a curent organization char by title and name showing
Major Customer Representatives, Legal staff, Regulatory staff, Corporate Publishing, Printers,
Regional Managers, Customer Service Representatives, Regional Customer Relation Managers,
and any other Idaho Power employees who charges times to the Energy Efficiency Tariff Rider.
FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST TO
IDAHO POWER COMPANY 2 APRIL 21, 2011
Please provide the contact information for an Idaho Power employee with whom we may arrange
an on-site audit in the event that employee names are confidentiaL.
a. Please provide complete job descriptions, required qualifications, salar ranges,
bonus opportunities, and total compensation ranges, including benefits, for all
employees identified above.
REQUEST NO.8: Please provide a spreadsheet containing the following information for
each customer and each measure incented under the Custom Efficiency 2010 program year. If the
entirety of this program data is not available in this format, please supply the contact information
for an Idaho Power employee with whom we can arange an on-site audit of the remaining
materials:
. Customer Name
. Contact name
. Customer address and phone number
. Measure(s) implemented
. Energy savings
. Demand reduction
. Method of energy savings and demand reduction calculation
. Incentive amount
. Customer investment
. Measure Implementation date
. Incentive date
. Installation verification date
REQUEST NO.9: For the AC Cool Credit program, please provide the complete criteria
used for selecting customers to whom marketing materials, excluding bil stuffers, are mailed.
REQUEST NO. 10: Please provide the installation verification rates for the Easy
Upgrades, Building Efficiency, Irrigation Efficiency, and Home Products Program.
REQUEST NO. 11: Please provide a detailed budget breakdown for the Energy Efficient
Lighting program.
FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST TO
IDAHO POWER COMPANY 3 APRIL 21, 2011
REQUEST NO. 12: Please provide the 201 1 process evaluation, referenced in the 2010
Evaluation Plan, for the Flex Peak Management program.
REQUEST NO. 13: Please explain why Idaho Power did not conduct or plan to conduct a
process or impact evaluation for the Energy Efficient Lighting program between 2010 and 2012.
REQUEST NO. 14: Regarding the changes between the 2009 Evaluation Plan and the
2010 Evaluation Plan, please explain the discrepancies in the following programs:
a. AC Cool Credit: moving the impact evaluation from 2010 to 2011 and delaying
the process evaluation by 6 months.
b. Ductless Heat Pump Pilot: delaying the impact evaluation from 2010 to 201 1
and shortening it by 7 months, and shortening the process evaluation by 7
months.
c. ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest: eliminating the impact evaluation and
delaying the process evaluation supervised by Idaho Power from 2010 to 2012.
d. Home Products Program: eliminating the process evaluation scheduled for
2010.
e. Rebate Advantage: eliminating the process evaluation scheduled for 2010.
f. See ya later, refrigerator: delaying the impact evaluation from mid- 2011 to
mid-2012.
g. Residential Energy Effciency Education Initiative: consolidating three annual
process evaluations into one process evaluation completed in 2011.
h. Easy Upgrades: eliminating the impact evaluation scheduled for 2011.
1. Flex Peak Management: eliminating the 2010 impact evaluation and shortening
the 2011 impact evaluation by half.
J. Irrigation Peak Rewards: moving the impact and process evaluations from late
2011 to 2010.
REQUEST NO. 15: Please provide a breakdown of the DSM evaluation expenses for
2010, including vendor name, date of payment, amount of payment, and a brief description of the
expense. Please also identify if each expense is an incentive payment, purchased service,
FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST TO
IDAHO POWER COMPANY 4 APRIL 21, 2011
labor/administration expense, other expense, or materials. Please provide the requested
information in Excel format.
DATED at Boise, Idaho, thisll l day of April 2011.
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Deputy Attorney General
Technical Staff: Donn English/I-6
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FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST TO
IDAHO POWER COMPANY 5 APRIL 21, 2011
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE THIS 21sT DAY OF APRIL 2011,
SERVED THE FOREGOING FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE
COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY, IN CASE NO.
IPC-E-II-05, BY MAILING A COPY THEREOF, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO THE
FOLLOWING:
JASON B WILLIAMS
LISA D NORDSTROM
IDAHO POWER COMPANY
PO BOX 70
BOISE ID 83707-0070
E-MAIL: jwiliams~idahopower.com
lnordstrom~idahopower.com
DARLENE NEMNICH
GREG SAID
IDAHO POWER COMPANY
PO BOX 70
BOISE ID 83707-0070
E-MAIL: dnemnich~idahopower.com
gsaid~idahopower.com
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE