20170918AVU to Staff 77 Supplemental.doc

AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

JURISDICTION: IDAHO DATE PREPARED: 09/11/2017
CASE NO.: AVU-E-17-01/AVU-G-17-01 WITNESS: Elizabeth Andrews
REQUESTER: IPUC RESPONDER: Annette Brandon
TYPE: Production Request DEPARTMENT: State & Federal Regulation
REQUEST NO.: Staff – 077 Supplemental TELEPHONE: [phone]

REQUEST:

Please update the Executive Labor adjustment for 2017 with each executive making a new declaration of the percentage of their time spend working on utility vs. non-utility operations. Please note that for purposes of this request, any executive time spent working on the Hydro One acquisition of Avista should be separately identified or considered non-utility operations.

REVISED RESPONSE:

Please see Avista's response 077C Supplemental, which contains TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY or CONFIDENTIAL information and exempt from public view and is separately filed under IDAPA 31.01.01, Rule 067 and 233, and Section 9-340D, Idaho Code.

Please see Staff_PR_077C Confidential Supplemental Attachment A for the Executive Officer Timekeeping Survey completed in August 2017.

Staff_PR_077C Confidential Supplemental Attachment B is a revised Adjustment 3.04 Executive Labor reflecting the new estimates provided on the survey using the 2017/2018 (pre-closing) estimates. In addition, an error was discovered in the formula calculating the amount of one-leave which was corrected in this attachment. The net result of these two changes is a decrease of $24,522 in Idaho electric expense (from reduction in expense of $15,493 to $40,015) and a decrease of $6,425 in Idaho natural gas expense (from reduction of $4,060 to $10,485).

ORIGINAL RESPONSE:

The Company is currently in the process of conducting a more recent survey of executive officers’ utility vs. non-utility allocations. We will supplement this data response as soon as available.