20170815Utah_DPU Set 1 (1-16).docx

PATRICIA E. SCHMID (#4908)
JUSTIN JETTER (#13257)
Assistant Attorney GeneralsCounsel for the DIVISION OF PUBLIC UTILITIESSEAN REYES (#7969)Attorney General of Utah
160 E 300 S, 5th Floor
P.O. Box 140857
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-0857
Telephone [phone]
BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF UTAH
In the Matter of Rocky Mountain Power’s Application for Approval of Resource Decision to Repower Wind Facilities
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DOCKET NO. 17-035-39
Division of Public Utilities
1stSet of Data Requests to
ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER
July 17, 2017
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Please send an electronic copy and a paper copy of your Data Response to:
Erika Tedder – Paralegal
Division of Public Utilities
160 E 300 S, 4th Floor
Salt Lake City, UT 84114
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RESPONSE TO ERIKA TEDDER
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Response should include where applicable native WORD and EXCEL documents with intact formulae.
Your Data Response is not consideredreceived until an electronic copy is furnished and received.
Please provide copies of all of PacifiCorp’s responses to data requests submitted by all parties in this docket. In addition, please provide copies of PacifiCorp’s responses to wind repowering data requests submitted by all parties in the states of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, and California in addition to those in Utah. This includes public and confidential data responses. Please provide the responses at, or shortly after, the time when the Company files its responses to other parties. This is an ongoing request.
Please provide the respective docket numbers of any related wind repowering filings in any of the Company’s other state jurisdictions.
The following questions pertain to the Company’s procurement activities with GE and Vestus:
Please provide a copy of the non-competitively bid contract with General Electric International, Inc. (GE). Did the Company actually purchase equipment or just enter into a contract to purchase equipment? What are the liquidated damages if the Company cancels the contract or purchase?
Please explain, per the Company’s Notice of Non-Competitive Procurement letter filed on January 15, 2017 with the Commission, what the “related services to retrofit several of PacifiCorp’s wind energy projects” includes. Please provide supporting documentation for the ‘related services.”
Please provide a breakdown of the $52,640,700 referenced in the January 15, 2017 letter to the Commission as well as supporting documentation for this number.
Please provide a copy of the contract or other document that the Company signed with Vestus with respect to wind repowering. Did the Company actually purchase equipment or just enter into a contract to purchase equipment? What are the liquidated damages if the Company cancels the contract or purchase?
Please identify with a map of the WTGs for each wind farm site that clearly marks each WTG that has (or did have) a defective gearboxes on it. Please circle or otherwise indicate the WTGs that have had the gearbox replaced to date. Please state how many gearboxes at each site have been replaced, how many still need to be replaced, and how many the Company intends not to replace. Please provide the dates of replacement for each respective gearbox. Please state the manufacturer of the defective gearboxes and state whether there was an insurance, warranty, or other maintenance agreement that covers the cost of the defective WTGs. Please state exactly what is defective in the gear boxes.
If the Company provided notice of non-competitive procurement to the Utah Public Service Commission (or any other state commission) with respect to the Vestus equipment, please provide a copy of that letter.
Please provide, where applicable, the following supporting documentation for each of the wind turbine generators that the Company proposes to repower:
a.Expenditure requisitions
b.Appropriation requests
c.Investment appraisal documents (IADs)
d.Engineering service agreement studies
e.Cost benefit analysis
f.Any other relevant studies, analyses, reports and spreadsheets (with formulae intact).
Please provide a copy of the Black Veatch report for the wind repowering. Please provide any summary reports or supporting documentation that was used in the report or study.
Please state the earliest date that the Company was made aware of the opportunity to repower the wind turbines. Also, please state if the repowering projects were in the Company’s 2016 ten-year Business Plan. Please provide supporting documentation
Please state if the Company has filed any LGIA’s to date with respect to wind repowering. If so, please provide all copies of LGIA filings. If not, please state when the Company intends to file each respective LGIA. Please provide copies of the LGIAs as they are made available. Please provide a breakdown of all costs associated with transmission upgrades or other investments pertaining to each respective LGIA.
Mr. Hemstreet’s Testimony, pages 16-17, lines 360-367. Please provide the details of the blade failures: (a) the frequency and location by year; (b) the cost to replace; (c) the expected replacement rate of these blades at the time of original purchase and installation and the warranties associated with the blades.
Confidential Exhibit RMP___(RTL-1). Please provide the detailed costs including the derivation of those costs that are shown in the bottom panel of Confidential Exhibit RMP___(RTL-1) under the heading “Increase/(Decrease) in Run-Rate Operating Costs Due to Repowering($m).”
Please provide detailed depreciation expenses for the property and equipment the Company intends to replace in its wind repowering but keep in rates. Include for each wind site, a description of the property and equipment, the remaining life, and the annual depreciation expense over the remaining life. If any property and equipment is not located at the site of any of the wind projects to be repowered, include that property and equipment separately.
Does the approximate $1.3 billion repowering cost figure include removal and disposition costs associated with the property and equipment that is being replaced? Please provide the detail of those costs including any on-going costs such as storage costs. Please provide detail showing how removal and disposition costs are included in the total repowering costs.
Mr.Link’s Testimony, page 35, lines 710-713. What are the system fixed costs that are affected by the wind repowering? What are the non-NPC variable costs? (See, e.g., Link page 35, lines 710-713).
Production Tax Credits. Please describe in detail the analysis that was done to determine the fair market value of the property that will remain in the project as part of complying with the “80/20” rule.
Production Tax Credits. Please provide a high-level breakdown of the fair market value for the assets that will remain in the project, as well as their original costs.
Production Tax Credits. Please provide a high-level breakdown for the expenditures that are being treated as “qualifying expenses” for purposes of the “80/20” rule.
In reference to Jeff Larsen’s testimony, please provide the accounting treatment of the (RTM) as it relates to the repowering. Please provide the “T” accounting journal entries for the years leading up to capturing the repowering cost/benefits in base rates (GRC) and then two additional years after. Please include the FERC Account number for each entry. Please provide an example of how the surcharge cap would affect the journal entries or would be accounted for.
DPU Requestor:Division(801) 530-6653
Erika Tedder - [phone]
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