20101124PAC to PIIC 177-184.pdf

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November 23,2010
201 South Main, Suite 2300
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Melinda Davison
Davison Van Cleve, P.C.
333 S.W. Taylor St., Ste. 400
Portland, Oregon 97204
RE: ID PAC-E-1O-07
PILC Data Request (177-186)
Please find enclosed Rocky Mountain Power's responses to PIlC DataRequests 177-184. The
remainig responses will be provided separately. Provided on the enclosed CD are Attachments
PILC 177, 179, 180, and 184. Provided on the enclosed Confdential CD is Confdential
Attachment PILC 178. The Confdential Attachment is Confdential and is provided to paries
that have signed a protective order in this docket.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at (80l) 220-2963.
Sincerely,
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J. Ted Weston
Manager, Regulation
Enclosure:
cc: Jean JewelllPUC (C)/ 3 copies
Eric Olsen/IlPA (C)
Ben OttolICL (C)
Randall Budge/Monsanto (C)
James R. Smithonsanto (C)
Richard Anderson/onsanto (C)
George C. Carer, III/Monsanto (C)
Denns Peseau/onsanto (C)
Gareth R. Kajander/Monsanto (C)
Maurce Brubaker/Monsanto (C)
Brian Collns/Monsanto (C)
Michael GormanMonsanto (C)
Katln Ivernon/Monsanto (C)
Mark Widmer/Monsanto (C)
Greg Meyer/PIlC (C)
Greg Meyer/PIlC (C)
PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mountain Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 177
PIle Data Request 177
Please provide the anual number of employees who have left Rocky Mountain
Power durng the last 5 years which cited compensation as the reason for leaving
Rocky Mountain Power. Please provide the information by year.
Response to PIle Data Request 177
The Company objects to ths request to the extent it requests inormation from
time periods not relevant to this proceeding. Without waiving this objection, the
Company responds as follows:
Please refer to Attchment PIlC 177. Since 2006, the Company has offered
resignng non-unon employees the opportty to parcipate in an exit interview.
Only a small percentage of employees choose to paricipate. Durg the
interview, employees are asked to identify their priar and secondar reason for
resigng. Among the reasons listed on the questionnaie are "benefits" and
"salar," which the Company defies as compensation for the puroses of this
request.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mountain Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 178
PIle Data Request 178
Does Rocky Mountan Power/PacifiCorp conduct exit interviews or employee
exit sureys? Are these interviews or sureys documented? Please provide a copy
of any documentation used to conduct exit interviews or exit sureys.
Response to PUC Data Request 178
Please refer to the Company's response to PIlC Data Request 177. A copy of the
curent template used to document exit interviews is provided as Confdential
Attachment PILC 178.
Confdential information is provided pursuat to the terms of the protective
agreement in this proceeding.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 179
PIle Data Request 179
Whatis the average employment tenure of Rocky Mountain Power/PacifiCorp
employees over the past five years? Please provide the information on a unon and
non-unon basis.
Response to PUC Data Request 179
Please refer to Attchment PIlC 179. Please note that this information could only
be provided for the last three years on a total company basis, as prior to 2008
Mining was not par of the curent system of record.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
PAC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountan Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 180
PIle Data Request 180
For calendar years 2008 and 2009, please provide the number and percentage of
Rocky Mountain Power/PacifiCorp employees who did not receive any incentive
compensation payments. For the same period of time, please provide the number
and percentage of employees who received target, below taget and above target
incentive compensation payments.
Response to PUC Data Request 180
Please refer to Atthment PILC 180. The eligibilty for payment is based on ful
time or par time employment as of August 30, 2008, and August 30, 2009,
respectively. Employees who resigned, retired, or were on long term disabilty
afer the eligibilty date and before the payment date of December 17, 2008, and
December 17,2009, respectively were not eligible for incentive payments and
therefore did not receive payments.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
P AC-E-l 0-07/Rocky Mountain Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 181
PIle Data Request 181
Please indicate the last year when Rocky Mountan Power/PacifiCorp did not pay
incentive compensation to its employees. Please provide an explanation why there
was no incentive compensation paid for that year.
Response to PIle Data Request 181
PacifiCorp has not had a year in which incentive compensation was not provided
as an element of the employees' market competitive total compensation.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mountain Power
November 23,2010
PIlC Data Request 182
PIle Data Request 182
Please indicate the last year when the Rocky Mountan Power/PacifiCorp
workforce, as a whole, was paid incentive compensation below the taget leveL.
Response to PIle Data Request 182
Because incentive compensation is par of the Company's overall market-based
compensation approach, the Company's goal is to pay incentive compensation at
the overall workforce taget level each year. In 2009, the overall average award
was at roughly 93% of target due to not achieving the overall safety improvement
goal.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mountain Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 183
PIle Data Request 183
Historically has Rocky Mountain Power/PacifiCorp only made incentive
compensation payments up to the level that was determned to be recovered in
customer rates?
Response to PIle Data Request 183
Since 2006, the year in which the Company adjusted the approach to incentive
compensation as par of both the acquisition by MidAerican as well as
incorporating feedback from the commssions in the states in which the Company
provides service to customers, the Company has only sought to recover up to the
taget incentive leveL. As discussed in the Company's response to PILC Data
Request 182, the Company's goal is to pay overall workforce incentive
compensation at the target leveL.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Erich D. Wilson
Erich D. Wilson
PAC-E-I0-07/Rocky Mountain Power
November 23,2010
PILC Data Request 184
PIle Data Request 184
Please provide the 20 year normal for weather as calculated by Rocky Mountain
Power/PacifiCorp. Is the 20 year normal based off of 50 degree cooling degree
day temperatue? If so, please provide all rational for use of that level of CDn
temperatue. If not please provide the CDD temperatue used. What is NOAA's
temperatue for measurng CDD?
Response to PUC Data Request 184
Please refer to Attchment PILC 184. The Company uses CDD and HDD
temperatues with different base temperatues depending on the customer class.
The base temperatues which were used for each customer class was chosen based
on which temperatues provided the best fit of the data and having the expected
sign on the coeffcient. NOAA calculates a CDD based on a base temperatue of
65 degrees.
Recordholder:
Sponsor:
Pete Eelkema
Pete Eelkema