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Home My WebLink About20231005IPC to Staff Supplemental 307.pdf LISA D. NORDSTROM Lead Counsel lnordstrom@idahopower.com October 5, 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 Supplemental Response to the Twenty-Second Production Request of the Commission Staff 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 attachments to these requests to the secure FTP site to allow parties to view the requested information remotely unless otherwise noted in the response. Because certain attachments contain confidential information, the FTP site is divided between confidential and non-confidential information. The login information for the non-confidential portion of the FTP site has been provided to all parties that have intervened to date. The login information for the confidential portion of the FTP site has been provided to the parties that have executed the Protective Agreement in this matter. If you have any questions about the attached filing, please do not hesitate to contact me. Very truly yours, Lisa D. Nordstrom LDN: cd Enclosures RECEIVED 2023 OCTOBER 5, 2023 2:42PM IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION CERTIFICATE OF ATTORNEY ASSERTION THAT INFORMATION CONTAINED IN AN IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION FILING IS PROTECTED FROM PUBLIC INSPECTION Case No. IPC-E-23-11 In the Matter of the Application of Idaho Power Company for Authority to Increase Its Rates and Charges for Electric Service to Its Customers In the State of Idaho and For Associated Regulatory Accounting Treatment The undersigned attorney, in accordance with Commission Rules of Procedure 67, believes that an attachment in Response to Requests No. 307 to Idaho Power Company’s Response to the Twenty-Second Production Request of the Commission Staff dated September 8, 2023, contains information that Idaho Power Company claims are trade secrets and/or business records of a private enterprise required by law to be submitted to or inspected by a public agency as described in Idaho Code § 74-101, et seq., and/or § 48-801, et seq. As such, it is protected from public disclosure and exempt from public inspection, examination, or copying. DATED this 5th day of October, 2023. LISA D. NORDSTROM Counsel for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 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 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY COMES NOW, Idaho Power Company (“Idaho Power” or “Company”), and in response to the Twenty-Second Production Request of the Commission Staff (“Commission” or “Staff”) dated September 8, 2023, herewith submits the following supplemental information: IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 2 REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 307: According to the Company's response to Staff's Production Request No. 35 (Confidential Attachment 1-Response to Staff Request No. 35), the total actual (Jan 2012 thru May 2023) amount for Budget ID - CHQBl00145 - Hatcheries - NSFS – Hatchery Expansion/Renovation, is significantly over the total budget amount. Please provide the following information: a. Overall and year-by-year budget-to-actual comparisons; b. A baseline schedule-to-actual schedule comparison; and c. A list and a detailed explanation of all the specific reasons that the actual cost exceeded the budgeted amount and the cost impact of each reason. SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION NO. 307: a-b. Please see Attachment 1 – Supplemental Response to Staff Request No. 307. The first tab, titled DRs 306-309 Budget vs Actuals, presents a year-by-year budget to actuals comparison for each of the projects identified in Staff’s Request for Production Nos. 306 through 309. The second tab, titled DRs 306-309 Budget Update, presents the budget updates that revised each of the original budget amounts presented in the first tab for the projects identified in Staff’s Request for Production Nos. 306 through 309. Please note, the first two tabs are identical to the information previously submitted as Attachment 1 –Response to Staff Request No. 306 but are being provided again because they support the information provided in third tab, titled CHQB100145. c. See the tab titled CHQB100145 of Attachment 1 – Supplemental Response to Staff Request No. 307 for the detailed explanation of the variances between budget and actuals. Confidential Attachment 2 –Response to Staff Request No. 306 provides IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 3 a screenshot from the Company’s Customer Load & Research Information System reflecting the initial pre-authorization request. Note, for the projects included in the Company’s initial Response to the Twenty-Second Production Request of the Commission Staff, Idaho Power included additional project notes from the Company’s capital projects budgeting and tracking tools including the project pre- authorization notes, the project description, need, and consequence notes, and Microsoft Project Schedule notes that supported changes to the budget. However, due to the nature of this project which included both an expansion and a renovation of the hatchery, and because the Microsoft Project Schedule notes individually do not easily follow the work performed for the project, Idaho Power believes the review of budget to actuals that is presented chronologically on the CHQB100145 tab best provides the detailed explanation of all the specific reasons for changes to the original budget amount. The response to this Request is sponsored by Mitch Colburn, Vice President of Planning, Engineering and Construction, Idaho Power Company. IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 4 DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 5th day of October 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 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 5 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 5th day of October 2023, I served a true and correct copy of Idaho Power Company’s Supplemental Response to the Twenty-Second Production Request of the Commission Staff 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 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF - 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. 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