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Home My WebLink About20130130IPC to Staff 9.pdf:' An IDACORP Company 21? JAN30 P9 3 3 LISA D. NORDSTROM Lead Counsel lnordstrom(idahopower.com T11 COMMIs RN January 30,'2013 VIA HAND DELIVERY Jean D. Jewell, Secretary Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Re: Case No. IPC-E-12-27 Net Metering Service - Idaho Power Company's Response to the Second Production Request of the Commission Staff Dear Ms. Jewell: Enclosed for filing in the above matter are an original and three (3) copies of Idaho Power Company's Response to the Second Production Request of the Commission Staff ("Staff') to Idaho Power Company. In addition, enclosed are four (4) copies of a confidential disk containing data responsive to Staff's Request. Please handle the confidential information in accordance with the Protective Agreement executed in this matter. Very truly yours, Lisa D. Nordstrom LDN :csb Enclosures 1221 W. Idaho St. (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, ID 83707 LISA D. NORDSTROM (ISB No. 5733) JULIA A. HILTON (ISB No. 7740) Idaho Power company 1221 West Idaho Street (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-5825 Facsimile: (208) 388-6936 Inordstromidahopower.com ihiItonidahopower.com 20 13 JAN 30 PM 3: 34 uTILmES LcM.M.iSstO::. Attorneys for Idaho Power Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO MODIFY ITS NET METERING SERVICE AND TO INCREASE THE GENERATION CAPACITY LIMIT. CASE NO. IPC-E-12-27 IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company ("Company"), and in response to the Second Production Request of the Commission Staff to Idaho Power Company dated January 9, 2013, herewith submits the following information: IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY -1 REQUEST NO. 9: For each customer taking Net Metering Service, please provide an annual comparison of bills calculated using the current rates versus the proposed rates. As part of your response, please include each customer's monthly energy consumption, demand, generation, and excess energy. RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 9: Please see the Excel confidential file provided on the confidential CD. The confidential CD will be provided to those parties that have executed the Protective Agreement in this matter. This Excel file contains a bill comparison of current rates and proposed rates utilizing billing data from January 2012 through December 2012. Because the proposed rates only apply to Residential Service and Small General Service, the analysis included on the confidential CD is limited to these rate classes. The confidential Excel file contains three worksheets. The worksheets labeled "Current Bill CaIc" and "Proposed Bill CaIc" calculate monthly base charges on a customer-by-customer basis for the twelve months ending December 2012 under current rates and proposed rates, respectively. The worksheet labeled "Summary" contains a comparison of these calculated bill amounts in table format. The column labeled "Premise No." in the "Summary" worksheet aligns with the information provided in the Company's confidential supplemental response to Staffs Production Request No. 8. Please note that not all premise numbers in the attachment to this Request are present in the Company's confidential supplemental response to Staff's Production Request No. 8 due to the time periods reflected in each response; the Company's response to Staffs Production Request No. 8 lists all active customers as of December 31, 2012, while the Company's response to Staff's Production Request No. 9 lists all net IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY -2 metering customers with billing data in the twelve billing months of 2012. It should also be noted that the confidential Excel file reflects the most complete set of actual billing data for the most currently available twelve-month billing year. This data is not weather normalized, and a number of customers either ended or started net metering service over the historical time frame. Therefore, the bill comparison does not reflect a full twelve months of data for certain customers. In regard to the request for "each customer's monthly energy consumption, demand, generation, and excess energy," the Company has provided all available data for each customer on a monthly basis on the "Proposed Bill CaIc" and "Current Bill CaIc" worksheets. However, due to the nature of net metering service and the use of a single meter, a single kilowatt-hour ("kWh") value is recorded for each billing month reflecting net usage (consumption less generation). Consequently, it is not possible to provide separate kWh figures for energy consumption and generation. Excess net energy is represented on these worksheets as negative energy billed in each month. Please note that the worksheets labeled "Proposed Bill CaIc" and "Current Bill CaIc" contain a number of cells with the Excel message "#VALUE!" within this confidential Excel file, this indicates a customer who ended or started net metering service during the twelve month period and lacks billing data for certain months. The presence of this message does not indicate an error, but rather a month without billing data. Summing formulas are adjusted accordingly to allow the bill impacts to calculate properly based on all available data. In regard to the "Summary" worksheet and the bill comparison calculated within the attachment, it is important to note that the impacts reflect the Company's entire net IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY -3 metering proposal, which includes both the proposed pricing modifications and the modification to the treatment of Excess Net Energy. While the Company's rate design proposal is designed to be revenue neutral, the discontinuance of financial payments for Excess Net Energy is also reflected in this billing comparison. To illustrate, the total bill impact of the Company's analysis, listed on line 282 of the "Summary" worksheet, is an increase of $65,538.74, while total financial payments made to net metering customers for Excess Net Energy over the same time period totaled $61,649.38. The response to this Request was prepared by Matthew T. Larkin, Regulatory Analyst II, Idaho Power Company, in consultation with Lisa D. Nordstrom, Lead Counsel, Idaho Power Company. DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 30th day of January 2013. LISA D. NORDSTROM Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY -4 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 30th day of January 2013 I served a true and correct copy of IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY, upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Commission Staff Karl T. Klein Deputy Attorney General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington (83702) P.O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Idaho Conservation League Benjamin J. Otto Idaho Conservation League 710 North Sixth Street Boise, Idaho 83702 PowerWorks LLC Chris Aepelbacher, Project Engineer PowerWorks LLC 5420 West Wicher Road Glenns Ferry, Idaho 83623 Pioneer Power, LLC Peter J. Richardson RICHARDSON & O'LEARY, PLLC 515 North 27th Street (83702) P.O. Box 7218 Boise, Idaho 83707 John Steiner 24597 Collett Road Oreana, Idaho 83650-5070 X Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email Karl. Kleinpuc.idaho.Qov Hand Delivered X U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email boUocidahoconservation.orQ Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email ca(powerworks.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email Pete rcrichardsonando lea ry.com Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email isteinerrtci.net IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY -5 City of Boise R. Stephen Rutherford Chief Deputy City Attorney Boise City Attorney's Office 150 North Capital Boulevard P.O. Box 500 Boise, Idaho 83701-0500 Clean Energy Association Inc. Dean J. Miller McDEVITT & MILLER LLP 420 West Bannock Street P.O. Box 2564-83701 Boise, Idaho 83702 Board of Directors Idaho Clean Energy Association Inc. P.O. Box 1221 Boise, Idaho 83701 Snake River Alliance Ken Miller, Clean Energy Program Director Snake River Alliance P.O. Box 1731 Boise, Idaho 83701 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email BoiseCityAttorney(äcityofboise.orq Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email joemcdevitt-miIler.com Hand Delivered X U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Email Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX X Email kmiIIercsnakeriveralliance.orq Cluj, [(j2LLLcQ4 - Christa Bearry, Legal Assistant (j IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY -6