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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20100820PAC to Staff 167-201.pdf. ~ROCKY MOUNTAINPOER A DISION OF PAFtCOP RECE!\!F:D 201 South Main. Suite 2300 Salt Lake City. Uth 84111 20m AUG 20 AM 9: 46 August 19,2010 Scott Woodbur Idaho Public Utilties Commission 472 W. Washington Boise, ID 83702-5918 Neil Price Idao Public Utilties Commission 472 W. Washington Boise, ID 83702-5918 RE: ID PAC-E-10-07 IPUC Data Requests (167-201) Please find enclosed Rocky Mounta Power's responses to IPUC Data Requests 167-201. Provided on the enclosed CD are Attchments IPUC 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 181, 186, 187 -1, 187 -2, 188, 196, and 197. Provided on the enclosed Confdential CD ar Confdential Atthments IPUC 179 and 184. Confdential Attchments are Confdential and are provided to paries tht have signed a protective order in this docket. Regarding IPUC Data Request 180, the Company was required to obta consent from the counterpar to produce the contract requested. The atthment to IPUC Data Request 180 is being provided to the requesting par only. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at (801) 220-2963. Sincerely,iee0~jC€ J. Ted Weston Manager, Reguation Enclosure: C.c. Rady BudgelMonsanto Jean JeweillPUC Eric Olsen/IP A Ben Oto/lCL 1 P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power August 19, 2010 IPUC Production Data Request 167 IPUC Producton Data Request 167 Company workpaper page 4.1.1 indicates the amounts of Miscellaneous Genera Expens removed from the 2009 Results of Operations. Pleas provide an itemized schedule of each expenditue that was removed tht reconciles with page 4.1.1. Please include the date, vendor, amount of the expense, and the Idao allocation. Response to IPUC Production Data Request 167 Please refer to Atthment IPUC 167. Recordholder: Sponsor: Brian Dickman Steven R. McDougal PAC-E-10-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 168 IPUc Production Data Request 168 Please provide in Excel format with all formulas intat pages 4.3 though 4.3.14 of the Company's workpapers. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 168 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 168. Recordholder: Sponsor: Brian Dickman Steven R. McDougal P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 169 IPUc Producton Data Request 169 Please provide the Company's policies on overtime pay and overtime meals. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 169 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 169. Recordholder: Sponsor: Erich D. Wilson Erich D. Wilson P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 170 IPUC Production Data Request 170 Please provide a schedule of the listings in Account 500250 (Overtime Meals) comparng expenss for calenda year 2005-2009 and year-to-date 2010. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 170 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 170 Recordholder: Sponsor: HenrE. Lay Steven R. McDougal P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 171 IPUc Production Data Request 171 Please provide a narative of Account 500700 (Severace/ Redundacy) and a complete listig of all charges made to tht account durg 2009. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 171 Account 500700 is used to record pay and benefits for employees who have left the company. Please refer to Attchment IPUC 171 for a listig of all chages made to 500700 durng 2009. Please note that the "Idaho MEHC 2006 Transition Costs amortiztion" expense of$610,194 included in account 500700 was removed in adjustment no. 4.4, since the amortization will end December 31,2010. Recordholder: Sponsor: Henr E. Lay / Steven R. McDougal Steven R. McDougal P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 172 IPUc Production Data Request 172 Please provide a nartive of Account 500850 (Other Salar/Labor Cost) and a complete listing of all charges made to tht account durg 2009. Please include date, vendor, a brief explantion of the charge, and the Idaho allocation. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 172 SAP Account 500850 is used for other labor expenses including, but not limted to, stadby pay, ta grss ups, and hing hall benefits. Please refer to Attchment IPUC 172 for the complete listing of charges made to Account 500850 durng 2009. The amount included in the fiing for the test year is $7,077,706 on a tota Company basis as shown in Exhbit No.2, page 4.3.4. Other Salar/Labor Costs are added to wages and benefits to arve at tota labor and benefits before being allocated to accounts and jursdictions. For ths reason only tota labor and benefits allocated to FERC accounts and jursdictions can be produced. Idao's overall allocation of tota wages and benefits is approximately 5.54% of tota Company utilty labor. Recordholder: Sponsor: Henr E. Lay / Steven R. McDougal Steven R. McDougal l P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 173 IPUC Production Data Request 173 Please provide the Company's policies on Education Assistace. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 173 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 173. Recordholder: Sponsor: Erich D. Wilson Erich D. Wilson PAC-E-1O-07/Rocky Mountain Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 174 IPUC Production Data Request 174 In Portland (August 16 thr 20,2010 audit), please have available all information supporting the 2010 budgeted amounts listed in Colum D of workpape page 4.3.9. Response to IPUc Producton Data Request 174 The Company discussed ths request with IPUC Sta in Portland, Oregon on August 16,2010. Recordholder: Sponsor: J. Ted Weston J. Ted Weston "P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 175 IPUc Production Data Request 175 Please provide a complete itemized listing of "Settlement Fees" tht were removed from the 2009 Results of Operations (see workpaper page 4.7.1). Please include the date, vendor, FERC account, amount and the Idaho Allocation. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 175 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 175. Recordolder: Sponsor: HenrE. Lay Steven R. McDougal PAC-E-10-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 176 IPUc Production Data Request 176 Please provide a listing of all restitutions paid under the Avian Settlement and to which accounts the restitution payments are booked. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 176 Two payments of $450,000 each were paid to the Clerk of United States Distrct Cour. The restitution is booked $650,000 to FERC account 590 and $250,000 to FERC account 426.5. Recordholder: Brian Dickman Sponsor: Steven R. McDougal PAC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 177 IPUC Producton Data Request 177 Please provide the details of the Company's leas for the offce space located with the One Utah Center. Please provide the Company's short-term, intermediate, and long-term plans for that offce space. Please provide justification for the Company maitag the lease. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 177 PacifiCorp entered into a 30-year agreement with Boyer Company that expirs on 5/31/2021. PacifiCorp also ha an option for an additional0-year term with 12- months notice. The tota gross rentable offce space is 120,610 sq. ft. The anua renta payment to Boyer is curntly $2,569,667, which is increased by CPI each year. The short-term plans for the space are: There are no signficant changes for this space planed within the next two years. The intermediate plan for the space are: The Compay will continue to occupy OUC23 and OUC24. The spac serves the Company well with its centr location in Salt Lake City. The thee major subtenants at One Uta Center ar Ballard Spah, Stoel Rives, and Chapman Cutler. These fis have proven to be excellent subtenants as expected. Those subleases do not expir until 2017 and 2018 and wil remain in place though that period. Each of those subtenats have extension options that will tae them up to the termation of the master lease in 2021. The curent plan is to purue those subleases though the end of the master lease. The long-term plans for the space are: Upon expiration of the master lease in 2021, the Company will vacate all offce space not occupied by Company employees. The subleases will be termated. The Company will evaluate its need for leasing offce space at One Uta Center at that time. Recordholder: Sponsor: Jana Mejdell To Be Determed .P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 178 IPUC Production Data Request 178 Does the Company sublet any of its offce space with the One Uta Center to other businesses? Is so, pleas provide the details of the sub-lease. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 178 One Utah Center - Sublease Rents as of August, 2010 10: UTSL-5010H UTSL-5010C UTSL-5010F UTSL-5010G UTSL-5004B Sublessee Chapman & Cutler Ballard Spahr Utah Sports Commission Economic Dev Commission of Utah Stoel Rives Recordholder: Sponsor: lana Mejdell Steven R. McDougal Gross Rentable SF 15,621 53,379 3,261 4,428 24,642 Annual Rent $ 318,240 $ 927,727 $12 $12 $ 484,730 .P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 179 IPUc Production Data Request 179 Please provide the lease agreements for the real propert used for the wid generation projects known as Seven Mile Hil, Seven Mile Hil II, High Plai and McFadden Ridge. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 179 Please refer to Confdential Attchment IPUC 179 for copies of the leae agreements pertaining to Seven Mile Hil, Seven Mile Hil II, High Plais, and McFadden Ridge. Confdential inormation is provided subject to the terms and conditions of the protective agement. Recordholder: Sponsor: Jayson Branch Mark R. Tallm P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 180 IPUc Production Data Request 180 Please provide the Puchase Agreement for the real property used for the wid generation project known as Dunap (Dunap propert). Response to IPUc Production Data Request 180 Please refer to Confdential Attchment IPUC 180. Ths document is confdential and is being provided subject to the terms and conditions of the protective agreement in this proceeding. It is being provided with the consent of the counterpar and is being provided to the requesting par only. Recordholder: Sponsor: Chuck Moulton Stefan Bird PAC-E-10-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 181 IPUC Production Data Request 181 Please provide documentation of real propert taes for the Dunap propert for 2009 and 2010. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 181 The requested information pertg to the 2009 assessment year is provided within Attchment IPUC 181. Tax bils for the 2010 assessment year will not arve until later ths year. Recordholder: Sponsor: Norman K. Ross Steven R. McDougal PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mounta Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 182 IPUC Production Data Request 182 Please provide a description of any personal propert that was purchased as par of the Dunap propert purchas, the value assigned to such pesonal propert, and the curent use of such propert. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 182 Personal property listed in Exhbit C of the Dunap Ranch Agreement to Sell and Purchase includes, "All stockwater systems, fences, atthes gates, corrals, cattle chutes, headcatches, together with all household appliances, stoves or wood stoves, owned propane tas, widow coverigs and attched floor coverigs, plus wind data tower and phone tower and system." No separate valuation was made for these items since the propert was purchaed solely for its capacity for wind generation. These persona propert items and the improvements on the propert are used by the curent raching leaseholder. Please refer to the Agrcultual Lease included in Confdential Attchment IPUC 184. Recordholder: Sponsor: Chuck Moulton 1 Ken Clark Stefan Bird P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 ¡PUC Production Data Request 183 IPUC Production Data Request 183 Please provide a description of any improvements to the real proper tht wer included in the purchae price of the property, the value of such improvements and the curent use of the improvements. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 183 Pleas refer to the Company's responses to IPUC Data Request 180 and 182. Recordholder: Sponsor: Chuck Moulton Stefan Bird "P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 184 IPUC Production Data Request 184 Please provide any/all leases with any thd par tht relates to the operation of the Dunap propert as a wid generation project. Ths would include any leae for the grazing rights, mineral rights, or any other ancilar propert right associated with the propert. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 184 Please refer to Confdential Attchment IPUC 184. Confdential inormation is provided subject to the terms and conditions of the protective agrment. Recordholder: Sponsor: Jayson Branch Stefan Bird P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 185 IPUC Producton Data Request 185 Please provide any plang projection for the placement of any futue use of the Dunap property. This would include any generation, transmission or distbution use. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 185 The Company curently ha no definitive planng projection for the placement or futue use of generation, transmission or distrbution facilities at the Dunap propert. The decision to place any such facilties in the futue on the Dunlap property will be based on then-curent information. Recordholder: Sponsor: Mark Tallman Stefan Bird . ,P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 186 IPUc Production Data Request 186 Company workpaper 4.1 7 (Avian Settlement) states "Ths adjustment removes the April 2009 reversal of a December 2008 entr." Please provide all entres related to ths adjustment with dates and accounts; please provide ths data in excel format. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 186 Please refer to Atthment IPUC i 86. Recordholder: Sponsor: HenrE. Lay Steven R. McDougal . I P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 187 IPUc Production Data Request 187 Regardig mine strpping costs at Bridger Coal Mine: (1) Please provide the total estimated strpping costs per year begig with FY2009 and continuing until 95% of overburden is removed; please provide documentation supporting ths estimate. (2) Please provide the estimated tota tons of coal contained in the new vein tht will be uncovered; please provide documentation supporting ths estimate. (3) Please provide the estimated tons of coal expected to be removed per year until the vein is 95% depleted; pleas provide documentation supporting ths estimate. (4) Wht is the impact of strppin costs on the inventory valuation of the coal stockpile inventory at Bridger. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 187 Note. Typically coal companes do not reference coal reseres as veins of coal but rather in seams. Bridger Coal's surace operation mines coal from multiple seams. Each coal seam's thickness, overburden ratio and quaity determe whether that coal seam can be economically extracted. The Company's surace reserve represents the estimated amount of the remaing coal that can be economically mied from the multiple coal seams. Bridger Coal Company does not track coal production by vein. The Company is providing strpping costs and coal production based on the Company's most recent mine plan for 2010 though 2020 as well as actu quatities for 2009. Please refer to Attchment IPUC 187 -1 for the mine strpping costs and Attachment IPUC 187 -2 for the Company's estimated surace mine reserves as of December 31, 2009. Recordholder: Sponsor: Brian Durng Cindy Crane . 1 PAC-E-10-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 188 IPUC Production Data Request 188 Please provide a bil frequency analysis for Schedule 1 customers from Janua 2009 though the most curent month. Please use 100 kWh bin for 0-1,200 kWh 200kWh bins for 1,201-2,000 kWh and 500kWh bins for 2,001+. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 188 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 188 for the requested data for Schedule 1 customers from Janua 2009 though the most curent month June 2010. Recordholder: Sponsor: James Zhag Wiliam R. Grth . )P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 189 IPUC Production Data Request 189 Please provide a bil frequency analysis for Schedule 36 customer from Janua 2009 through the most curnt month. Please use 100 kWh bin for 0-1,200 kWh, 200kWh bins for 1,201-2,000 kWh, and 500kWh bin for 2,001+. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 189 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 188 for the requested data for Schedule 36 customers from Janua 2009 thugh the most curent month June 2010. Recordholder: Sponsor: James Zhg Willam R. Grffth . \P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 190 IPUC Production Data Request 190 Please identify the costs associated with meter reading and biling for Schedules 1 and 36 customers withn the Company's COS modeL. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 190 The cost of service study allocates the followig meter reading and biling costs to residential customers: Schedule 1 - Account 902 = $ 1,013,809 Account 903 = $ 1,396,935 Schedule 36 - Account 902 = $ 358,951 Account 903 = $ 494,601 Please refer to Exhbit 49, Tab, 4.1, page 7. Recordholder: Sponsor: C. Crag Paice C. Craig Paice . \ I.P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 191 IPUC Production Data Request 191 With regards to residential Schedules 1 and 36 customers, has the Company recently conducted any end-use studies? If not, does it plan to? If not, why? Response to IPUc Production Data Request 191 Yes, the most recent customer surey was completed in 2006. The Company has also updated appliance satution and effciency based on information from the Energy Inormation Admstration. The Company conducts end-use studies by customer class instead of by rate schedule. Recordholder: Sponsor: Pete Eelkema To Be Determined . ì l ..P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 192 IPUC Production Data Request 192 What percentage of Schedule 1 and 36 customers rely on electric space heatig in the witer? Response to IPUc Production Data Request 192 The Company has estimated the percentage of Idao residential customers that use electrc space heatig as the priar heating source as approximately 21.0 percent. The Company estimates satuation for the customer class intead of rate schedule. Recordholder: Sponsor: Pete Eelkema To Be Determned . "PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mountain Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 193 IPUc Production Data Request 193 In light of the Company's proposal to implement tiered rates in non-sumer months, what rate mitigation or assistace options has the Company considered to assist low income customers, specifically those using electrc heat in the witer? Response to IPUc Production Data Request 193 Rocky Mountan Power has progrs in place to help limited income cusomers reduce their kWh usage which lowers their bils, and offers energy assistace to help with financial emergencies. The Low Income Weatherization program is offered though Schedule 21. The Company parers with local agencies that leverage the Company's fuding with governent grants so that they can increase completions and provide energy effciency services at no cost to income eligible households. In addition, the Company provides effciency tips though its Bright Ideas booklets and its website, as well as incentives on effciency measures, which are available to all customers regardless of income. Rocky Mountan Power contrbutes directly to and solicits donations to Lend-A- Hand. This non-profit energy assistance program is adstered by Southastern Idao Communty Action Communty Action Agency and Eastern Idaho Communty Action Parership. Customers with incomes at or below 150 percent of federal povert gudelines are eligible for Lend-A-Hand assistace and the previously mentioned Low Income Weatherization program. There are additional services available to all residential customers that can benefit low income households including time payment plan, the equa payment plan the gif payment progr and requesting a chage to the customer's bil due date. Recordholder: Sponsor: Becky Eberle Wiliam R. Grffth . .Ii P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 194 IPUC Producton Data Request 194 Does the Company plan to install AM devices or an AMI system with its system? Pleas explai why or why not, and the proposed timig if so. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 194 In its Idaho jursdiction, Rocky Mountan Power has installed residential meters equipped with radio frequency modules tht can be read off-site by the curent hadheld meter readg system since 2003. These meters have been insled only in those Idaho locations that present a safety had to meter readg employees. There are no plan to inll grater numbers of these meters or an advanced metering system in Idao at ths time. The costs associated with these systems are excessive and offsets in operational costs do not wart the investment at ths time. Furermore, advanced meterig systems are not fuly matued and the interoperabilty stadads are not finaized. Ths presents a potential for early obsolescence of any system that would be considerd for instalation in the near futue. Recordholder: Sponsor: Douglas Mar To Be Determined . "P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 195 IPUC Production Data Request 195 Has the Company attempted to quatify the benefits, both to the system and the Idao jursdiction, of its tie-of-use rates offered in Idao? If so, please provide the results. If not, explain why not. Response to IPUC Production Data Request 195 The Company ha not attempted to quatify the benefits, both to the system and the Idaho jursdiction, of its time-of-use rates offered in Idaho. The Company ha no such inormation to quatify the benefits at ths time. Recordholder: Sponsor: Wiliam R. Grffth Wiliam R. Grffth . .¡ .P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power Augut 19, 2010 IPUC Production Data Request 196 IPUc Production Data Request 196 Please provide actu energy sales by Idaho cusomer class for all available months for 2010. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 196 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 196. Recordholder: Sponsor: Pete Eelkema To Be Determed . ì )PAC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 197 IPUc Production Data Request 197 Please provide weather normalized energy sales by Idaho customer class for all available months for 2010. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 197 Please refer to Attchment IPUC 197. Recordholder: Sponsor: Pete Eelkema To Be Determed . l .P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power Augst 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 198 IPUc Production Data Request 198 Please list all curent or closed general rate case proceedings that involved a 2010 test year by jursdiction. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 198 Jurisdiction Oregon Utah Wyoming Recordholder: Sponsor: OocketNo. UE-210 09-035-23 20000-352-ER-Q9 Test Period December 2010 June 2010 December 2010 Steven R. McDougal Steven R. McDougal Status closed closed closed . \ .P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power Augut 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 199 IPUc Production Data Request 199 For any proceedings listed in the Company's response to Production Request No. 11, did the Company adjust Idao jursdictional load as it has in ths proceeding, resulting in adjusted jursdictional allocation factors? If so, pleas explain. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 199 Yes. In each of the general rate case filings listed in IPUC Production Data Request 198 the Company computed jursdictiona allocation using forecast load for the test period. In each cas, Idao jursdictiona load was adjusted for the Idaho irrgation load control progr and special contrcts, consistent with the Revised Protocol. Note: The Company contacted IPUC and verified that the question above should have referenced the Company's response to Production Request No. 198 instead of1l. Recordholder: Sponsor: Steven R. McDougal Steven R. McDougal r ') ..P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 200 IPUc Production Data Request 200 Please provide all instaces over the past the year where the Company ha pedormed a load normalization to customer classes in all jursdictions in genera rate case proceedings similar to what the Company ha down with irrgation and industral customers in Idaho. Response to IPUc Production Data Request 200 In all instaces where the Company ha filed based on a forecast test penod, a load normalization to customer classes in all jursdictions ha been pedormed simlar to what the Company ha done with irgation and industral cusomers in Idaho in the present filing. LIP A Data Request 73 provides a list of recent filings; the Company's general rate cases in Californa, Oregon, Uta, and Wyomig have relied on forecast test periods for at least the last three years. Recordholder: Sponsor: Steven R. McDougal Steven R. McDougal ,. s,j: ~P AC-E-1 0-07/Rocky Mounta Power August 19,2010 IPUC Production Data Request 201 IPUc Production Data Request 201 Please provide the energy savings for 2009 attbuted to the followig Company progrs: a. Irrgation Energy Serices b. Finswer Express c. Home Energy Savings Response to IPUc Production Data Request 201 The 2009 energy savings attbuted to each program are listed below. In addition, the 2009 Annual Report of Idaho Demand Side Management Activities was filed with the Commission on March 15,2010 and contans all savings values for each demand-side management program offered in Idao. A copy of the report can also be accessed at http://ww.pacificorp.com/es/dsm.htmL. 2009 kWhNr Savings at site 3,994,349 838,395 1 349279 Recordholder: Sponsr: Jeff Bumgarer To Be Determed