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Home My WebLink About20230810IPC to IdaHydro 1-2.pdf LISA D. NORDSTROM Lead Counsel lnordstrom@idahopower.com August 10, 2023 VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Jan Noriyuki, Secretary Idaho Public Utilities Commission 11331 W. Chinden Blvd., Bldg 8, Suite 201-A (83714) PO Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Re: Case No. IPC-E-23-11 Idaho Power Company’s General Rate Case Dear Ms. Noriyuki: Enclosed for electronic filing, please find Idaho Power Company’s Response to IdaHydro’s First Production Request to Idaho Power Company. Due to the collectively voluminous confidential and non-confidential information provided in response to data requests in this case, the Company is posting the attachment to this request to the secure FTP site to allow parties to view the requested information remotely unless otherwise noted in the response. The login information for the non-confidential portion of the FTP site has been provided to all parties that have intervened to date. If you have any questions about the attached filing, please do not hesitate to contact me. Very truly yours, Lisa D. Nordstrom LDN:sg Enclosures RECEIVED Thursday, August 10, 2023 2:09:25 PM IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 1 LISA D. NORDSTROM (ISB No. 5733) DONOVAN E. WALKER (ISB No. 5921) MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN (ISB No. 7623) Idaho Power Company 1221 West Idaho Street (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-5825 Facsimile: (208) 388-6936 lnordstrom@idahopower.com dwalker@idahopower.com mgoicoecheaallen@idahopower.com Attorneys for Idaho Power Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES AND CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE IN THE STATE OF IDAHO AND FOR ASSOCIATED REGULATORY ACCOUNTING TREATMENT. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO. IPC-E-23-11 IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company (“Idaho Power” or “Company”), and in response to Idaho Hydroelectric Power Producers Trust, an Idaho Trust, d/b/a IdaHydro First Production Request to Idaho Power Company dated July 20, 2023, herewith submits the following information: IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 2 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 1: Schedule 72, starting at 72-12, shows percentages of Construction Cost and Transfer Costs charged to a PURPA project by Idaho Power for operation and maintenance. Please identify the dollar amount Idaho Power has charged each PURPA project in Idaho for operation and maintenance from the first energy date to current date. Please delineate for each project. RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 1: See “Attachment - Response to IdaHydro’s Request No. 1” for the dollar amount charged to each PURPA project in Idaho for the operations and maintenance under Schedule 72 through June 30, 2023. The response to this Request is sponsored by Paula Jeppsen, Forecasting and Planning Director, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 3 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 2: Schedule 72, starting at 72-12, shows percentages of Construction Cost and Transfer Costs charged to a PURPA project by Idaho Power for operation and maintenance. Please identify the dollar amount Idaho Power has spent or expended on each PURPA project in Idaho for operation and maintenance from the first energy date to current date. Please delineate for each project. RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 2: Idaho Power does not separately track actual costs incurred for operation and maintenance expenses on Qualifying Facilities (“QF”) interconnections. Once these projects are placed into service, they are deemed a part of Idaho Power’s plant the same as any other plant that is non- customer funded and the cost of maintaining (or replacing) this equipment is paid for by all Idaho Power customers, with an offsetting revenue credit for the amounts collected through the operations and maintenance charge assessed to QF interconnections. The response to this Request is sponsored by Paula Jeppsen, Forecasting and Planning Director, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 4 DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 10th day of August 2023. LISA D. NORDSTROM Attorney for Idaho Power Company DONOVAN E. WALKER Attorney for Idaho Power Company MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 5 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 10th day of August 2023, I served a true and correct copy of Idaho Power Company’s Response to the First Production Request of IdaHydro to Idaho Power Company upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Commission Staff Dayn Hardie Chris Burdin Deputy Attorney General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 11331 W. Chinden Blvd., Bldg No. 8 Suite 201-A (83714) PO Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0074 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email Dayn.Hardie@puc.idaho.gov Chris.Burdin@puc.idaho.gov Clean Energy Opportunities for Idaho Kelsey Jae Law for Conscious Leadership 920 N. Clover Dr. Boise, ID 83703 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email Kelsey@kelseyjae.com Courtney White Mike Heckler Clean Energy Opportunities for Idaho 3778 Plantation River Drive, Suite 102 Boise, ID 83703 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email courtney@cleanenergyopportunities.com mike@cleanenergyopportunities.com Industrial Customers of Idaho Power Peter J. Richardson Richardson Adams, PLLC 515 N. 27th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email peter@richardsonadams.com IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 6 Dr. Don Reading 280 Silverwood Way Eagle, Idaho 83616 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email dreading@mindspring.com Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association, Inc. Eric L. Olsen ECHO HAWK & OLSEN, PLLC 505 Pershing Avenue, Suite 100 P.O. Box 6119 Pocatello, Idaho 83205 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email elo@echohawk.com Lance Kaufman, Ph.D. 2623 NW Bluebell Place Corvallis, OR 97330 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email lance@aegisinsight.com Micron Technology, Inc. Austin Rueschhoff Thorvald A. Nelson Austin W. Jensen Holland & Hart, LLP 555 Seventeenth Street, Suite 3200 Denver, Colorado 80202 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email darueschhoff@hollandhart.com tnelson@hollandhart.com awjensen@hollandhart.com aclee@hollandhart.com clmoser@hollandhart.com Jim Swier Micron Technology, Inc. 8000 South Federal Way Boise, Idaho 83707 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email jswier@micron.com IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 7 City of Boise Ed Jewell Darrell Early Boise City Attorney’s Office 150 N. Capitol Blvd. Boise, ID 83701 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email ejewell@cityofboise.org dearly@cityofboise.org boca@cityofboise.org Wil Gehl Boise City Dept. of Public Works 150 N. Capitol Blvd. P.O. Box 500 Boise, Idaho 83701-0500 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email wgehl@cityofboise.org Idaho Conservation League Marie Callaway Kellner Idaho Conservation League 710 N. 6th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email mkellner@idahoconservation.org Brad Heusinkveld Idaho Conservation League 710 N. 6th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email bheusinkveld@idahoconservation.org IdaHydro C. Tom Arkoosh Arkoosh Law Offices 913 W. River Street, Suite 450 P.O. Box 2900 Boise, Idaho 83701 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email tom.arkoosh@arkoosh.com erin.cecil@arkoosh.com IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF IDAHYDRO TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY - 8 Federal Executive Agencies Peter Meier U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20585 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email peter.meier@hq.doe.gov Dwight Etheridge Exeter Associates 5565 Sterrett Place, Suite 310 Columbia, MD 21044 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email detheridge@exeterassociates.com NW Energy Coalition F. Diego Rivas 1101 8th Ave Helena, MT 59601 Hand Delivered U.S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX FTP Site X Email diego@nwenergy.org Stacy Gust, Regulatory Administrative Assistant