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Home My WebLink About20180410PAC to Staff UT DPU Set 23 (1-4).pdf1407 W.NorthTemple ROCKY MOUNTAIN Salt Lake City,UT 84116 POWER A DIVISION OF PACIFICORP March 29,2018 Erika Tedder Division of Public Utilities 160 E 300 S,4th Floor Salt Lake City,UT 84114 etedder@utah gov (C) RE:UT Docket No.17-035-40 DPU 23rd Set Data Request (1-4) Please find enclosed Rocky Mountain Power's Response to DPU 23rd Set Data Request 23.1. If you have any questions,please call me at (801)220-2823. Sincerely, Jana Saba Manager,Regulation Enclosures C.c.:Dan Kohler/DPU dkoehler@daymarkea.com(C) Aliea Afnan/DPUaafnan@daymarkea.com (W) jbower@davmarkea.com (W) Dan Peaco/DPU dpeaco@daymarkea.com (C)(W) Kevin Higgins/UAEkhiggins@eneravstrat.com(C) Neal Townsend/UAE ntownsend@energystrat.com(C)(W) Gary A.Dodge/UAE edodge@hidlaw.com (C) Phillip Russell/UAE prussell@hidlaw.com (C) Philip Hayet/OCS phayet@ikenn.com (C) Béla Vastag/OCS bvastag@utah.gov(C) Sophie Hays/UCE sophie@utahcleanenergy.org(C) Kate Bowman/UCE kate@utaheleanenergy.org(C)(W) Emma Rieves/UCE (C)(W) Lisa Tormoen Hickey/Interwestlisahickey@newlawaroup.com (C) Mitch Longson/Interwest mlongson@mc2b.com (C) Nancy Kelly/WRAnkelly@westernresources.org(C) Jennifer Gardner/WRA jennifer.gardner@westernresources.org(C) Penny Anderson/WRA penny.anderson@westernresources.org (W) Peter J.Mattheis/Nucor pim@smxblaw.com (C) Eric J.Lacey/Nucor eil@smxblaw.com (C)(W) William J.Evans/UIEC bevans@parsonsbehle.com Vicki M.Baldwin/UIECvbaldwin@parsonsbehle.com(W) Chad C.Baker/UIEC ebaker@parsonsbehle.com (W) 17-035-40 /Rocky Mountain Power March 29,2018 DPU Data Request 23.1 DPU Data Request 23.1 With respect to DPU Data Request 2.1,the Company provided some IAD summary reports, but did not provide the full IAD or other documents listed below.For each project identified in DPU 2.1,provide the followingdocuments that have been completed to date.Please include those documents pertaining to the 230/345 kilovolt (kV)supporting transmission projects (for all short list wind farms).If the Company does not provide any documents for items (a)through (g)below,please provide an explanation of why it was not provided. Explain when it will be provided.With respect to this request,please provide items (a) through (g)for each project as they are created or otherwise become available. (a)Investment Appraisal Documents (IAD); (b)Expenditure requests or requisitions; (c)Appropriation requests; (d)Project change notices; (e)Engineering service agreements and engineering studies not already provided; (f)Cost benefit analysis not already provided;and (g)Any other relevant studies,analyses,reports and spreadsheets (with formulae intact). Response to DPU Data Request 23.1 (a)Please refer to the Company's response to DPU Data Request 2.lfor all available investment appraisal documents (IAD)for the projects were provided in the referenced data request.Once agreements are signed with the "short list wind farms" full fundinginvestment appraisal documents will be completed. (b)The Appropriation Requests (APR)for each project were included in Confidential Attachment DPU 2.1.Once agreements are signed with the "short list wind farms" full fundingAPRs will be completed. (c)Please refer to the Company's response to subpart (b)above. (d)As of March 2018 no project change notices (PCN)have been completed.PCNs will be completed prior to the award of construction bid currentlyforecasted for 2019 for the Energy Gateway West D.2 project,and once agreements are signed with the "short list wind farms"in separate documents. (e)Please refer to the interconnection studies filed as part of Mr.Vail's testimony and,a copy of the preliminarydraft of the updated Aeolus West Transmission Path Transfer Capability Assessment report (completed on February 12,2018)included in Attachment DPU 21.1. 17-035-40 /Rocky Mountain Power March 29,2018 DPU Data Request 23.1 (f)The cost benefit analysis used for the routing of the Aeolus-to-Bridger/Anticline project APR is provided in section 9 of the IAD for that project (file "Aeolus- Bridger AnticlineSegD2IADO41417final"). (g)No other relevant studies,analyses,reports and spreadsheets were completed as part of the IADs or APRs.Due to the ongoing nature of the overall competitive bid process,the requested information is considered commercially sensitive and highly confidential.Please contact Jana Saba at (801)220-2823 or Yvonne Hogle at (801) 220-4050 to make arrangements for review.