20170126NWIGU to INT 11-12.pdf

Chad M. Stokes (OSB No. 004007)
Tommy A. Brooks (OSB No. 076071)
Cable Huston LLP
1001 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 2000
Portland, OR 97204-1136
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
Michael C. Creamer (ISB No. 4030)(Local Counsel)
Givens Pursley LLP
601 W. Bannock St.
Boise, ID 83702
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: (208) -388-1300
[e-mail]
Attorneys for Northwest Industrial Gas Users
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
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IN THE MATTER OF INTERMOUNTAIN GAS )
COMPANY'S APPLICATION TO CHANGE )
ITS RATES AND CHARGES FOR NATURAL )
GAS SERVICE )
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Case No. INT-G-16-02
NORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL GAS
USERS' RESPONSE TO SECOND
PRODUCTION REQUEST OF
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS
COMPANY
COMES NOW, Northwest Industrial Gas Users, and in response to the Second
Production Request oflntermountain Gas Company dated January 6, 2017, submits the
following responses:
REQUEST NO. 11. Referring to the direct testimony of Staff witness Morrison, page 4,
lines 14-21, is Mr. Gorman aware of any natural gas distribution utility that performs load
studies for class cost of service studies? If yes, please provide a list of these utilities.
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RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 11:
Mr. Gorman has not compiled a list of other utilities, but he does understand that gas
utilities develop statistics on load characteristics of its system and customers using load studies.
These studies are used to identify peak period demands, operating constraints and loading
characteristics throughout the delivery system. These same studies are generally then used to
help describe customers' contribution to these delivery capacity requirements and to identify
operating constraints.
REQUEST NO. 12. Referring to the direct testimony of Staff witness Morrison, page 5,
lines 22-23, is Mr. Gorman aware of other natural gas distribution utilities that determine CP
allocators using data for multiple peak days? If yes, please provide a list of these utilities?
RESPONSE TO REQUEST NO. 12.
Mr. Gorman has not compiled a specific list of utilities, but he does understand that using
multiple peak days is often a means of creating a normalized contribution to design day peaks for
use in ensuring a more accurate measmement of a design day demand allocator across rate
classes. Because design day, or peak, demands can vary throughout the peak season, and class
contributions to the design day demand can vary within any given year, or day, using multiple
days to measure a class coincident peak demand allocator can help produce a normalized design
day or peak day demand allocator.
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DATED in Portland, Oregon this 261h day of January 2017.
Respectfully submitted,
ad M. Stokes, OSB No. 004007
Tommy A. Brooks, OSB No. 076071
Cable Huston, LLP
1001 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 2000
Portland, OR 97204-1136
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail]
[e-mail]
Of Attorneys for
Northwest Industrial Gas Users
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I CERTIFY that on this January 26, 2017, I served the foregoing Northwest Industrial
Gas Users Responses to IGC's Second Production Request upon all parties ofrecord in this
proceeding via electronic mail pursuant to the Amended Notice of Parties.
Karl Klein
Sean Costello
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
427 W Washington
PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0074
[e-mail]
Sean.costel I o(a),puc.idaho. gov
Scott Dale Blickenstaff
Amalgamated Sugar Co LLC
1951 S Saturn Way Ste 100
Boise, ID 83702
[e-mail]
Ronald L. Williams
Williams Bradbury, P.C.
1015 W. Hays Street
Boise, ID 83702
[e-mail]
Benjamin Otto
Idaho Conservation League
710 N 6th Street
Boise, ID 83 702
[e-mail]
Michael P. McGrath
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Intermountain Gas Company
PO Box 7608
Boise, ID 83707
[e-mail]
Peter J. Richardson
Gregory M. Adams
Richardson Adams, PLLC
515 N 27th Street
Boise, ID 83 702
[e-mail]
greg@ri chardsonadams. com
Michael C. Creamer
Givens Pursley, LLP
601 West Bannock Street
Boise, ID 83702
[e-mail]
Andrew Unsicker
Lanny L. Zieman
Natalie A. Cepak
Thomas A. Jernigan
Ebony M. Payton
139 Barnes Dr Suite 1
Tyndall AFB, GL 32403
[e-mail]
Lanny.zieman. l @us.af.mil
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
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Brad M. Purdy
2019 N 17th Street
Boise, ID 93702
[e-mail]
F. Diego Rivas
NW Energy Coalition
1101 grh Avenue
Helena, MT 59601
[e-mail]
Dated in Portland, Oregon, this 26th d-~-o_f_n~u~a-ry_2_0_1_7_. ----------­
Chad M. Stokes, OSB No. 004007
Tommy A. Brooks, OSB No. 076071
Cable Huston LLP
1001 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 2000
Portland, OR 97204-1136
Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail]
[e-mail]
Of Attorneys for
Northwest Industrial Gas Users
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