20170912Utah_OCS Set 7 (1-9) Redacted.docx

BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF UTAHIn the Matter of the Voluntary Request:Docket No. 17-035-39Of Rocky Mountain Power for Approval:Office of Consumer ServicesOf Resource Decision to Repower:Seventh Data Request toWind Facilities:Rocky Mountain Power:August 29, 2017Please provide responses to:Gavin MangelsonPhilip HayetOffice of Consumer ServicesJ. Kennedy and Associates, Inc.160 East 300 South 570 Colonial Park Drive, Suite 305Salt Lake City, Utah 84111Roswell, GA 30075(801) 530-6480(770) [e-mail]@jkenn.comREDACTED
Refer to the Direct Testimony of Rick Link, Table 2. Please provide a revised version of this table and supply all workpapers electronically used to develop the results, based on replacing the 35% federal income tax rate assumed in the calculations with a federal income tax rate of:15%;20%; and25%.
Refer to the Direct Testimony of Rick Link, Table 3. Please provide a revised version of this table and supply all workpapers electronically used to develop the results, based on replacing the 35% federal income tax rate assumed in the calculations with a federal income tax rate of:15%;20%; and25%.
Refer to the Direct Testimony of Rick Link, Table 4. Please provide a revised version of this table and supply all workpapers electronically used to develop the results, based on replacing the 35% federal income tax rate assumed in the calculations with a federal income tax rate of:15%;20%; and25%.
Refer to the Direct Testimony of Rick Link, Table 5. Please provide the sensitivity results of doing both the repowering and new wind/ transmission projects for each of the 9 price-policy case scenarios. Please provide these results for SO Model, PaR Stochastic-Mean, PaR Risk-Adjusted, and the analysis with impacts quantified through 2050 (consistent with Link Table 3).
For the results produced in the question immediately above, please provide a revised version of these results and supply all workpapers electronically used to develop the results, based on replacing the 35% federal income tax rate assumed in the calculations with a federal income tax rate of:15%;20%; and25%.Explain why the Company expects that it will achieve such a significant percentage increase in generation at the Washington and Oregon Repower projects, compared to the Wyoming projects (more than double the percentage increase expected at the Wyoming projects). Explain why Exhibit TJH-3, Page 2 of 2 shows a projected generation increase for Leaning Juniper of about xx%, but in the Company’s internal decision making process, discussed in a document supplied in response to DPU 1.4,APR20005145_Proj_Proposal_REDACTED CONF.pdf, at page 5, it indicates the percent increase is expected to be much lower, XX%. The file in the Question above at page 7, states that Wyoming XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.Please state if and how PacifiCorp will allocate the impact of that decision entirely to Wyoming thereby ensuring that benefits promised to Utah will remain.At page 9 of the document supplied in response to DPU 1-4 (APR20005145_Proj_Proposal_REDACTED CONF.pdf), it states that “XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” Explain why XXXXXXXXXare being included that would protect in the case higher capital costs of construction are incurred. Will PacifiCorp absorb the higher costs if any? Also, at line 266 in Mr. Teply’s testimony in Docket 17-035-40, Mr. Teply indicate that the Company applied XXX XXXXX in deriving cost assumptions for the new wind projects. Explain why XXXXXXXX were accounted for with regard to the new wind projects, but not the repowered wind projects.