20220802CEO 1-3 to IPC.pdf

i.,:l i;i.ji,i *i Pi-l ir 00Kelsey Jae (ISB No. 7899)
Law for Conscious Leadership
920 N. Clover Dr.
Boise,ID 83703
Phone: [phone]
[e-mail]
Attorney for the Clean Eneryy Opportunities of ldaho
IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO
POWER COMPANY'S
APPLICATION TO COMPLETE
THE STUDY REVIEW PTIASE OF
THE COMPREIfiNSryE STUDY
OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF
ON-SITE CUSTOMER
GENERATION & FOR
AUTHORTTY TO IMPLEMENT
CIIANGES TO SCIIEDULES 6,8,
AND 84
BEFORE TIIE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
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CASE NO. IPC-E.22.22
CLEAN ENERGY OPPORTUNITIES
FOR IDAHO'S FIRST
PRODUCTION REQUEST TO
IDAHO POWER COMPANY
COMES NOW Clean Energy Oppornrnities for Idaho (CEO), by and through its attorney
of record, Kelsey Jae of the firm Kelsey Jae LLC, request that Idaho Power Company ("Idaho
Powef'or "the Company") provide 0re following documents within 21 days.
This Production Request is continuing, and Idaho Power is requested to provide, by way of
supplemenary responses, additional documents that it or any person acting on is behaU may later
obtain that will augment the documents produced. Please provide answers to each question with
supporting workpapers that provide detail or are the source of information used in calculations.
Please provide any Excel files with formulas active. Additionally, please include the name and
phone number of the person preparing the document, and the name, location, and phone number of
the record holder and, if different, the witress who can sponsor the answer at hearing if need be.
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As allowed by IDAPA 31.01.01.228.01, CEO agrees to Idaho Power depositing the response in
an elecnonic depository.
REOUEST NO 1. In section 4.1.1.2 of the VODER study, the Company explains that:
"for purposes of the study, the value for the ECR uses a historically based indicative
price based on a 3-year average of the ICE Mid-C [ndex."
A similar 3-year averaging is used in section 4.L.1.3 with ELAP price data. Please explain why
3-year averages were utjlized for calculating ICE MID-C Index and ELAP ECR values in light
of Commission direction to use the "most current data possible".
REOUEST NO 2. Please provide in Excel formag similar to that used in the Appendices
referenced below, the most curcnt 2022 hourly data possible (with no averaging of prior years)
for:
a. 2022 IRP hourly prices as per that provided in Appendix 4.1
b. 2022ICE MID-C hourly prices as per Appendix 4.2
c. 2022 Energy Irnbalance Market Load Aggregation Point (ELAP) hourly prices as
per Appendix 4.3
d. 2022 Net hourly exports as per Appendix 4.4
REOUEST NO 3. Figure 10.3 at page 109 in ttre VODER study presents "Idaho Power
webpage of examples of a typical home's payback under a Net Energy Metering and Hourly Net
Billing compensation stucturc." Please provide in Excel format all formulas and data used to
compute the eight break-even poins in Figure L0.3, specifically:
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a. Current compensation - Net monthly: pay cash up-ftrong simple payback
b. Cunent compensation - Net monthly: pay cash up-firont, discounted payback
c. Modified compensation - Net hourly: pay cash up-ftront, simple payback
d. Modified compensation - Net hourly: pay cash up-front, discounted payback
e. Current compensation - Net monthly: 20-year loan financing, simple payback
f. Cunent compensation - Net monthly: 20-year loan financing, discounted payback
g. Modified compensation - Nethourly: 20-year loan financing, simple payback
h. Modified compensation - Nethourly: 20-year loan financing, discounted payback
Dated ttris 2nd day of Augusg 2022.
Respecdully submitted,
tn1 ht
Kelsey Jae, Afromey for CEO
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this 2nd day of Augus! I delivered tue and corect copies of ttre
foregoing PRODUCTION REQUEST to the following persons via the me0rod of service noted:
Elecronic Mail Deliverv (See Order No. 34602)
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
Jan Noriyuki
Commission Secrctary
[e-mail]. gov
Idaho Power Company
Lisa D. Nordsrom
Megan Goicoechea Allen
Timottry Tatum
Connie Aschenbrenner
Grant Anderson
lnordstom@ idahop ower. com
[e-mail]
ttatum@ idahopow er. com
caschenbrenner@ idahop ower. com
ganderson@idahopower. com
dockes@idahopower. com
City of Boise
Mary Grang Deputy City Attomey
Boise City Attomey's Office
B oiseC ityAttomey@ cityofboise. ory
mrgrant@cityofboise. org
Wil Gehl, Energy Program Manager
Boise City Dept Of Public Wor}s
w [e-mail]
Idaho Conseruation League
Emma E. Sperry
esperry@idahoconservation. org
Idaho PUC Staff
Riley Newton
Deputy Atomey General
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
[e-mail]. gov
Idaho Irrig ation P ump ers Asso ciotion;
Eric L. Olsen
ECHO HAWK & OLSEN, PLLC
[e-mail]
Lance Kaufman, Ph.D.
[e-mail]
IdaHydro:
C. Tom Arkoosh
Amber Dresslar
Arkoosh Law Offices
tom. arkoosh@arkoosh. com
amber. dresslar@ arkoo sh. com
[e-mail]
Industial Customers of ldaho Power
Peter J. Richardson Richardson Adams,
peter@ richardsonadams. com
Dr. Don Reading
dreading@mindspring. com
Richard E. Klucl&ohn
Wesley A. Klucl&ohn
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
W\e
Kelsey Jae, Aftorney for CEO
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