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Jean D. Jewell, Secretary
!daho Public Utilities Commission
472 West Washington Street
Boise, ldaho 83702
Re: Case No. IPC-E-15-06
2014 Demand-Side Management Expenses - ldaho Power Company's
Response to the First Production Request of the Commission Staff
Dear Ms. Jewell:
Enclosed for filing in the above matter please find an original and three (3) copies of
ldaho Power Company's Response to the First Production Request of the Commission
Staff to ldaho Power Company.
Also, enclosed are four (4) copies of non-confidential disks containing information
responsive to Staffs production requests.
Very truly yours,
LDN:kkt
Enclosures
LISA D. NORDSTROM (lSB No. 5733)
Idaho Power Company
1221West ldaho Street (83702)
P.O. Box 70
Boise, ldaho 83707
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
I n o rd strom @ id a hopowe r. co m
Attorney for ldaho Power Company
!N THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR A
DETERMINATION OF 2014 DEMAND-SIDE
MANAGEMENT ('DSM") EXPENSES AS
PRUDENTLY INCURRED.
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BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
CASE NO. IPC-E-15-06
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S
RESPONSE TO THE FIRST
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE
COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO
POWER COMPANY
COMES NOW, ldaho Power Company ("ldaho Powe/' or "Comp?ry"), and in
response to the First Production Request of the Commission Staff to ldaho Power
Company dated April 10, 2015, herewith submits the following information:
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REOUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 1
REQUEST NO. 1: Please provide a list of all expenses charged to the demand-
side management (DSM) tariff rider during 2014. Please include date, vendor, amount,
a brief description of the expense, and the account to which the charges were booked.
Please separate all expenses by program so that expenditures provided reconcile with
the amounts Iisted in the Company's 2014 DSM Annua! Report. Please also identify if
each expense is an incentive payment, purchased service, labor/administrative,
materials and equipment, or other expense. Please provide the requested information
in Excel format with all formulas intact.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 1: The requested information is voluminous,
proprietary, and confidential. lt will be made available for audit pursuant to ldaho Code
S 61-610 and Rule of Procedure 227 (IDAPA 31.01 .01.227) at Idaho Power's corporate
headquarters. Please contact Doug Jones at [phone] or Camilla Victoria at
[phone] to arrange a time to review the requested material.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
& Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 2
REQUEST NO. 2: Please provide the same information requested above for
demand response payments not included in the tariff rider.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 2: The requested information is voluminous,
proprietary, and confidential. lt will be made available for audit pursuant to ldaho Code $
61-610 and Rule of Procedure 227 (IDAPA 31.01 .01.227) at ldaho Power's corporate
headquarters. Please contact Doug Jones at [phone] or Camilla Victoria at
[phone] to arrange a time to review the requested materia!.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
& Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 3
REQUEST NO. 3: Please provide the calculation of the interest accrued to the
DSM tariff rider account.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 3: Please see the attached Excel file. The
Company calculates interest based on the average of the beginning and ending
balances for the month. lnterest is recorded on a one-month lag.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
& Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 4
REQUEST NO. 4: Page Please provide the revenue received (excluding
interest) by class and tariff schedule for the DSM tariff rider in 2014.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 4: Please see the attached Excelfile.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
& Analysis Leader, Idaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 5
REQUEST NO. 5: Please provide the cost-effectiveness work papers and
calculations for each DSM program in 2014 in Excel format with all formulas intact.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 5: Please see the attached Excelfile.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
& Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 6
REQUEST NO. 6: On Page 10 of the DSM Annual Report, it states that 18 new
ideas were introduced to the Program Planning Group, of which three were identified as
viable offerings. PIease provide a list and explanation of all 18 measures/ideas
introduced to the Group and identify the three viable offerings.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 6: As stated on page 10 of ldaho Power's
Demand-Side Management 2014 Annual Report, the three ideas that were identified as
viable offerings are:
They are Single-Family Home Duct Sealing, which is prescriptive duct-
sealing for heat pumps and electric resistance heated homes; Residential
Electronically Commutated Motor (ECM), which is the more efficient
replacement for a failed permanent split capacitor (PSC) motors with
ECMs in forced-air systems; and a Residential Whole House Fan Pilot,
which is the installation of a whole house fan between a home's attic and
the conditioned space that displaces forced air and zonal direct expansion
cooling.
The other 15 ideas that were introduced tn 2014 are listed in the table below.
Local Energy Efficiency Funds
(LEEF) Retooling
High School Student Energy
Efficiency Kits
Clothes Line Distribution
Manual Home Economizer
Gommercial Gustom
Efficiency
Smart Thermostats
Revamp existing Local Energy Efficiency
Funds offering
Distribute energy efficiency kits and
curriculum to high-school age students
Give away or highly incentivize clothes
lines for homes
lncentivize to install a manual damper and
duct work so that cool outside air can be
drawn into the house in the evening to do
an effective night flush
Expand Custom Efficiency to include sma!!
commercial projects where there is no
prescriptive offering
lncentivize smart thermostats for residential
customers
Offer incentives for fine-tuning equipment,
controls and processes to ensure that
buildings are operating efficiently.Retro-commissioning
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 7
Residential MAX
Non-Programmatic Savings
Multifamily
Home Energy Reports
Direct Install for Small
Commercial Customers
Gas Energy Star Homes
Claiming
Gapital Mall potential and
project plan
lndows Windows (window
inserts)
When customers implement 3 or more
Home lmprovement Program measures in
one project, incentivize as a custom project
at up to 70% of incremental costs
Find non-programmatic savings that may
be occurring in weatherization measures in
both gas/electric homes.
!nvestigate all options for multifamily
offerings
Produce and deliver custom energy use
reports to homeowners at regular intervals.
Hire contractors to complete direct install
lighting projects for small commercial
customers
Reinvestigate potentia! to incent Energy
Star certified gas homes using all lighting,
furnace fan and appliance electric savings
Assist with comprehensive audit and a long
term capital project plan to carry out
efficiency projects in state capital buildings
lncentivize window inserts to replace
installinq new windows
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
& Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
DATED at Boise, ldaho, this 1" day of May 2015.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 8
. NORDSTROM
Attorney for ldaho Power Company
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 1't day of May 2015 I served a true and correct
copy of IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER upon the following
named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following:
Commission Staff
Karl Klein
Deputy Attorney Genera!
ldaho Public Utilities Commission
47 2 W est Washington (83702)
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, ldaho 83720-007 4
Industrial Customers of Idaho Power
Peter J. Richardson
RICHARDSON ADAMS, PLLC
515 North 27th Street (83702)
P.O. Box 7218
Boise, Idaho 83707
Dr. Don Reading
6070 Hill Road
Boise, ldaho 83703
ldaho Conservation
Benjamin J. Otto
ldaho Conservation
710 North 6th Street
Boise, ldaho 83702
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