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VIA HAND DELIVERY
Jean D. Jewell, Secretary
ldaho Public Utilities Commission
47 2 W esl Washington Street
Boise, ldaho 83702
Re: Case No. !PC-E-16-03
2015 Demand-Side Management Expenses - ldaho Power Company's
Response to the Third Production Request of the Commission Staff
Dear Ms. Jewell:
Enclosed forfiling in the above matter please find an originaland three (3) copies of
ldaho Power Company's Response to the Third Production Request of the Commission
Staff.
Also enclosed are four (4) copies each of non-confidential and confidential disks
containing information responsive to Staffs production requests. Please handle the
confidential information in accordance with the Protective Agreement executed in this
matter.
Very truly yours,
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Lisa D. Nordstrom
1221 W. ldaho St. (83702)
P.O. Box 70
Boise, lD 83707
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 no rd strom @ id a h opowe r. com
Attorney for Idaho Power Company
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR A
DETERMINATION OF 2015 DEMAND-SIDE
MANAGEMENT EXPENDITURES AS
PRUDENTLY INCURRED
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BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
CASE NO. IPC-E-16-03
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S
RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF
THE COMMISSION STAFF
COMES NOW, ldaho Power Company ("ldaho Power" or "Comp?ny"), and in
response to the Third Production Request of the Commission Staff to ldaho Power
Company dated June 21,2016, herewith submits the following information:
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 1
REQUEST NO. 27: Please provide all presentations made to the EEAG about
the 2010 DSM MOU in2014 and 2015.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 27: ldaho Power did not make any
presentations to the Energy Efficiency Advisory Group ("EEAG') about the 2010
Demand-Side Management ('DSM") Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") in 2014
or 2015.
The most recent presentation ldaho Power made to the EEAG about the 2010
DSM MOU was in the final EEAG meeting of 2013, which was held on November 14,
2013. A copy of the presentation is provided on the non-confidential CD.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Tami White, Rate Design
Manager, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 2
REQUEST NO. 28: Please provide the tota! amount spent marketing the
Company's non-DSM activities in 2014 and 2015.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 28: ldaho Power spent $773,987 in non-DSM
marketing/advertising activities in 2014 and $1,029,388 in 2015. By comparison, as
noted on page 19 of lhe Demand-Side Management 2015 Annual Report,ldaho Power
spent $960,055 system wide on DSM marketing expenses in 2015.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Bill Shawver, Corporate
Communications Director, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 3
REQUEST NO. 29: Please provide the total amount spent on the Company's
texting-and-driving campaign in 2014 and 201 5.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 29: Idaho Power spent $71,406 on the "Just
Drive" campaign in2014 and $33,406 in 2015.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Bill Shawver, Corporate
Communications Director, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 4
REQUEST NO. 30: Please provide the weekly News Briefs emails that were
distributed to media in ldaho Power's service territory in 2015.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 30: ldaho Power's weekly News Briefs for 2015
can be found at:
https://www.idahopower.com/NewsCommunitv/News/weeklyNews/default.cfm?yr=2015.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Bill Shawver, Corporate
Communications Director, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 5
REQUEST NO. 31: Did ldaho Power claim duct sealing savings for the 34
homes that were serviced as test-only in the Energy House Calls Program?
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO.31: No.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
and Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 6
REQUEST NO. 32: Please explain the significant decrease in expenses for the
Residential Education lnitiative trom 2014 to 2015 cited on page 172 of Appendix 5 in
the 2015 DSM report.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 32: What appears in Appendix 4, page 172, as
a decrease in 2015 Residential Energy Efficiency Education lnitiative expenses from
2014 is a result of reporting $432,185 in Educational Distributions lnitiative expenses in
its own category in Appendix 4, page 160. ln 2014, these two initiatives were
combined. ln 2015, ldaho Power actually spent a combined total of $582,088
($149,903 for the Residential Energy Efficiency Education lnitiative and $432,185 for
the Educational Distributions Initiative) compared to the combined total of $423,091 in
2014, representing a 37.6 percent increase in expenses related to ldaho Power's total
residential ed ucational efforts.
The Educational Distributions lnitiative, which is administered through the
Residential Energy Efficiency Education lnitiative, distributes energy savings items
directly to customers with the goal to drive behavioral change and create awareness of
and demand for ldaho Power's energy efficiency programs. The majority of these costs
are associated with the Student Energy Efficiency Kit (SEEK) program.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
and Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 7
REQUEST NO. 33: Please provide an estimate for the number of low-income
households on the waiting list for weatherization services in its service territory. Staff
understands that the Company does not maintain this waiting list, but believes that the
Company may have an understanding about the need for low-income weatherization
services through its close collaboration with the CAP agencies in its service territory.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 33: ldaho Power does not have an estimate for
the number of low-income households on the waiting list for weatherization services in
its service territory. ldaho Public Utilities Commission Staff is correct in asserting that
ldaho Power does not maintain the list of households on the waiting list for
weatherization services. While ldaho Power collaborates with regional Community
Action Partnership ("CAP") agencies on many aspects of their programs, each CAP
agency manages its own waiting list based on state and federal guidelines, which
include information that ldaho Power does not collect or have knowledge of. The
individual service territories of the CAP agencies do not align with the Company's utility
service area and the existence of fuel specific waiting lists of each agency prevents
maintaining an ldaho Power system-wide waiting list.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
and Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 8
REQUEST NO. 34: ln Request No. 22, Stafl asked for information on the dates
that demand response programs were used in 2015. Please provide the same
informationlor 2014.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 34: Please see the table below for each date in
2014 that demand response programs were used, with the estimated load reduction by
program. ln addition, please see the Excel spreadsheet showing the hourly load data
from each day with the system load for each day provided on the non-confidentia! CD.
2014 Demand Response Event Results Adjusted for Line Losses to Reflect
711012014 Time 2-3 PM 3-4 PM 4-5 PM 5-6 PM 6-7 PM 7-8 PM 8-9 PM
lrrigation Peak Rewards
Totals
75.9 170.4 226.4 295.0 244.0 169.4 108.5
75.9 170.4 226.4 295.0 244.0 169.4 108.5
711412014 Time 2-3 PM 3-4 PM 4-5 PM 5-6 PM 6-7 PM 7-8 PM 8-9 PM
A/C CoolCredit
Flex Peak Management
lrrigation Peak Rewards
Totals
43.7 42.9 42.4
39.6 38.1 36.8 36.2
64.2 152.9 204.6 274.8 229.3 156.3 89.5
64.2 152.9 287.9 355.9 308.5 192.5 89.5
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
and Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 9
Generation-Level Load Reduction (MW)
71212014 Time 2-3 PM 34 PM 4-5 PM 5-6 PM 6-7 PM 7-8 PM 8-9 PM
lrrigation Peak Rewards
Totals
78.9 165.9 216.4 282.9 229.4 162.5 102.2
78.9 165.9 216.4 282.9 229.4 162.5 102.2
713112014 Time 2-3 PM 3-4 PM 4-5 PM 5-6 PM 6-7 PM 7-8 PM 8-9 PM
A/C CoolCredit
Flex Peak Management
Totals
24.2
34.6
29.5
34.6
29.6
35.3 35.7
58.8 64.0 64.9 35.7
811112014 Time 2-3 PM 34 PM 4-5 PM 5-6 PM 6-7 PM 7-8 PM 8-9 PM
A/C CoolCredit
Flex Peak Management
Totals
26.0
27.9
27.0
34.8
26.3
34.5
29.3
26.0 54.9 61.1 63.8
REQUEST NO. 35: Please provide the available capacity the Company had to
meet demand on the dates in 2014 and 2015 in which demand response programs
were used. Please separate the available capacity by resource.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 35: Please see the confidential Excel
spreadsheet provided on the confidential CD. The confidential Excel spreadsheet
consists of five tabs: "Plant Capacity for Hour," "Unit Outages Reduction," "Plant
Capacity Less Outages," "Actual Generation," and "Available Capacity after CRO"
(Contingency Reserve Obligation). The confidential CD will only be provided to those
parties that have executed the Protective Agreement in this matter.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Benjamin Brandt, Load Serving
Operations Director, ldaho Power Company.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 1O
REQUEST NO. 36: Please provide the number of participants in the A/C Cool
Credit program for each month since the implementation of the program.
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 36: Please see the Excel spreadsheet provided
on the non-confidential CD. Because the number of participants varies by day and the
exact number depends on the date the information was queried, A/C Cool Gredit
participation by month wil! not exactly match the annual participants listed in the
Demand-Side Management 2015 Annual Repoft, Appendix 4, page 159.
The response to this Request is sponsored by Pete Pengilly, Customer Research
and Analysis Leader, ldaho Power Company.
DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 8th day of July 2016.
IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 11
Attorney for ldaho
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 8th day of July 2016 I served a true and correct
copy of IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PRODUCTION
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF upon the following named parties by the
method indicated below, and addressed to the following:
Commission Staff
Brandon Karpen
Deputy Attorney General
ldaho Public Utilities Commission
47 2 W est Washington (83702)
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, ldaho 83720-007 4
ldaho Conservation League
Benjamin J. Otto
ldaho Conservation League
710 North Sixth Street
Boise, ldaho 83702
lndustrial Gustomers of ldaho Power
Peter J. Richardson
Gregory M. Adams
RICHARDSON ADAMS, PLLC
515 North 27th Street (83702)
P.O. Box 7218
Boise, ldaho 83707
Dr. Don Reading
6070 Hill Road
Boise, ldaho 83703
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