20150715Hearing Transcript Volume V.pdf

BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY'S PETITION TO MODIFY
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PURPA
PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
IN THE MATTER OF AVISTA
CORPORATION'S PETITION TO MODIFY
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PURPA
PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
IN THE MATTER OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN
POWER COMPANY'S PETITION TO
MODIFY TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
PURPA PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
BEFORE
CASE NO. IPC-E-15-01
CASE NO. AVU-E-15-01
CASE NO. PAC-E-15-03
COMMISSIONER PAUL KJELLANDER (Presiding)
COMMISSIONER KRISTINE RAPER
PLACE:
DATE:
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ORIGINAL CSB REPORTING
Certified Shorthand Reporters
Post Office Box 9774
Boise, Idaho 83707
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Ph: 208-890-5198 Fax: [phone]
Reporter:
Constance Bucy,
CSR
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For the Staff:
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Daphne Huang, Esq.
Deputy Attorney General
472 West Washington Street
Boise, Idaho 83720-0074
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For Idaho Power Company:
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Donovan E. Walker, Esq.
Idaho Power Company
Post Office Box 70
Boise, Idaho 83707-0070
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BOISE, IDAHO, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015, 7:00 P. M.
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: Well, good evening.
5 This is the time and place for a telephonic hearing in
6 Case Nos. IPC-E-15-01, AVU-E-15-01, PAC-E-15-03. My name
7 is Paul Kjellander. I am the Chairman of this evening's
8 telephonic public hearing. To my left, which you can't
9 see on the telephone, is Commissioner Kristine Raper.
10 Commissioner Mack Redford is excused from these
11 proceedings and will have an opportunity to review the
12 record once it's finally submitted to the Commission as
13 we head towards deliberation.
14 The purpose of tonight's hearing is to take
15 testimony from the public regarding this case. This is
16 an opportunity for members of the public to get their
17 statement entered in the record to ultimately assist the
18 Commission in its deliberative process.
19 As further background, the Commission serves in
20 a similar capacity as a District Court and we generally
21 follow District Court rules. We're here this evening to
22 help create a fully developed record. We are not here
23 today to pass judgment on comments or statements made for
24 the official record.
25 The Commissioners serve as judges and
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1 accordingly, we do not answer questions related to the
2 case other than questions regarding procedure. The
3 Commission will not begin to deliberate on the merits of
4 this case until the official record is closed.
5 Additionally, the Commission, like judges, only speaks
6 through its Orders as it relates to final rulings in this
7 matter.
8 Tonight's hearing, as I mentioned, is a
9 telephonic hearing. All callers will be placed on mute,
10 but you'll still be able to listen to the hearing. All
11 calls will be taken in the order in which they came in.
12 When it's your turn to testify, you'll hear a prompt that
13 says your line is now unmuted. You will then be asked by
14 our Staff attorney to state your name and address after
15 which you will be able to present your testimony to the
16 Commissioners.
17 There is a court reporter here who will take
18 down your testimony. After you testify, you will again
19 be muted, but you will still be able to listen to the
20 rest of the hearing. If when your line is unmuted and
21 you decide not to testify, just say pass and we'll move
22 on to the next caller.
23 At present, there are no callers on the line.
24 We hope that there will be some. We will stay here live
25 for at least another 15 minutes, and we also have several
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1 parties to the case, but given the fact that all parties
2 were recognized during the technical hearing, we won't
3 require any specific notification unless for purposes of
4 identification parties to the case wish to be identified.
5 If so, we would be happy to get that on the record.
6 Otherwise, we will go off the record until such time as
7 we have a caller.
8 At approximately 15 minutes past the hour of
9 7:00 o'clock, which is now roughly 10 minutes away, if we
10 have no callers, we will come on and officially adjourn
11 this proceeding, so with that said, we are officially off
12 the record.
13 (Recess. )
14 COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: We'll go back on the
15 record. Officially for the record, we opened up the
16 hearing at about a minute past the top of the hour, but
17 we haven't had any callers who were on the line to
18 testify. We do recognize that the telephone bridge does
19 work as we had a caller who's a member of the parties
20 join us during our recess to just let us know that it
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22 One of the things that we intend to do as a
23 Commission is to further investigate the use of
24 telephonic hearings and also perhaps investigating the
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1 control of that, as well as any messages that may be
2 associated with the initial access to the prompts that
3 might be on that system, so, again, we certainly are not
4 abandoning our desire to look at telephonic hearing as a
5 piece of our process, but also recognize that tonight we
6 did not have any participants and will continue to
7 explore the value of telephonic hearing, as well as the
8 opportunity to control our own system and perhaps our own
9 messages that may be there when people call in.
10 With that said, we will conclude this
11 telephonic hearing and officially, then, this portion of
12 the proceeding is closed as far as the record is
13 concerned. We gave until July 10th for parties to the
14 case to get in their requests for intervenor funding, and
15 we mentioned today during our public hearing that it is
16 our hope, to the extent that we can and the record is
17 officially finalized and fully presented to the
18 Commission, that we can begin deliberation and perhaps
19 have a final Order out in this case by the end of July,
20 so with that, this telephonic hearing is concluded.
21 (The hearing concluded at 7:20 p.m.)
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A U T H E N T I C A T I O N
4 This is to certify that the foregoing
5 proceedings held in the matter of Idaho Power Company's,
6 Avista Corporation's, and Rocky Mountain Power Company's
7 petition to modify terms and conditions of PURPA purchase
8 agreements, commencing on June 24, 2015, and continuing
9 on June 29 through June 30, 2015, at the Commission
10 Hearing Room, 472 West Washington Street, Boise, Idaho,
11 is a true and correct transcript of said proceedings and
12 the original thereof for the file of the Commission.
13 Accuracy of all prefiled testimony as
14 originally submitted to the Reporter and incorporated
15 herein at the direction of the Commission is the sole
16 responsibility of the submitting parties.
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