20100924PAC to Monsanto 13 (1).pdf

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Randall C. Budge
RACINE, OLSON, NYE, BUDGE &
BAILEY, CHATERED
P.O. Box 1391; 201 E. Center
Pocatello, Idaho 83204-1391
RE: il PAC-E-I0-07
Monsanto 13th Set Data Request (1)
201 South'Main, Suite 2300
Salt Lake City,Utah84111
Please find enclosed Rocky Mountain Power's response to Monsanto 13th Set Data Request 13.1.
Provided on the enclosed CD are Attachments Monsanto 13.1-(b,d).
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at (801)"220-2963.
Sincerely,
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J. Ted Weston
Manager, Regulation
Enclosure:
cc: Jean JewelllIPUC (C)/ 3 copies
Eric Olsen/IIPA (C)
Ben OttolICL (C)
James R. Smithonsanto (C)
Richard Anderson/onsanto (C)
George C. Carer, IIIIonsanto (C)
Denns Peseau/onsanto (C)
Gareth R. Kajander/Monsanto (C)
Maurce Brubaker/Monsanto (C)
Brian Collins/Monsanto (C)
Michael Gormanonsanto (C)
Kathryn Iverson/Monsanto (C)
Mark Widmer/Monsanto (C)
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PAC-E-IO-07/Rocky Mountain Power
September 23,2010
.... . MonsanQData Request 13.1
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Referring to the monthly Idaho energy loads found in the JAM study and the
Idaho Class Cost of Service Study:
a. Please confirm or deny these monthly energy amounts should match. If
denied, please explain why.
b. Please provide the forecasted monthly residential, commercial, irrigation,
lighting, public authority and industrial sales used to develop the JAM
energy sales.
c. Please explain how losses were applied to the total monthly sales in (b)
above. For example, did the Company apply a five-year average line loss
to the total? What five years were used and what were those annual losses
used for the five-year average?
d. Please reconcile the Idaho monthly energy sales in the JAM study with the
Idaho monthly energy sales in the Class Cost of Service Study. If the
energy canot be reconciled, please explain the basis of any difference.
Response to Monsanto Data Request 13.1
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a. The Company confirms that the monthly energy amounts match. Both the
Idaho energy sales found in the JAM study and the Idaho Class Cost of
Service Study are based on the same sales forecast. Please refer to the
column labeled "0" in Attachment Monsanto 13.1 b and the column
labeled "B"in Attachment Monsanto 13.ld.
b. Please refer to Attachment Monsänto 13.1 b.
c. Average anual line losses were applied to test year sales to develop the
test year energy at the generator for allocation factor puroses. The five-
year period which was used for the line loss calculation was 2005 to 2009.
Idaho
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
9.26%
10.40%
9.45%
11.37%
8.94%
d. Please refer to Attachment Mònsanto 13.1 d for a comparison of MWhs
values, at sales, used in Class Cost of Service Study and MWhs (at the
generator) used in Jurisdictional Allocation Model (JAM). Please note
PAC-E-1O-07/Rocky Mountain Power
September 23,2010
Monsanto Data Request 13.
thatthe colum labeled "A" ties to Exhibit 2. page 10.13; the column .-
labeled "BOO is the sales forecast and does not have losses; the column
labeled "C" is Idaho industrial interrption; the column labeled "D" is
necessary to smooth the rate schedule forecast between months; the
column labeled "E" is because the test period had one month of actual data
that requires temperatue normalizåtion; and the column labeled "F" ties
out to Exhibit49, tab 5, page 16.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Pete Eelkema
Pete Eelkema
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