20191126MIN.pdf

IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
MINUTES OF DECISION MEETING
November 26, 2019 – 1:30 P.M.
In attendance was Commissioner Paul Kjellander, Commissioner Kristine Raper and Eric Anderson.
Commissioner Kjellander called the meeting to order.
The first order of business was APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE PREVIOUS MEETING
on November 12, 2019. The Commission voted unanimously to approve the minutes as written.
The second order of business was CONSENT AGENDA:
2. Action Item: John R. Hammond’s November 14, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: The 2019 Integrated
Resource Plan of Intermountain Gas Company; Case No. INT-G-19-07.
3. Action Item: Dayn Hardie’s November 14, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: Rocky Mountain Power’s
Petition to Update the Load and Gas Forecasts Used in its Integrated Resource Plan Avoided Cost Model;
Case No. PAC-E-19-18.
4. Action Item: Dayn Hardie’s November 14, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: In the Matter of Rocky
Mountain Power’s Petition to Increase the Blue Sky Block Valve from 100 to 200 Kilowatt Hours; Case No.
PAC-E-19-17.
5. Action Item: Dayn Hardie’s November 20, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: Rocky Mountain Power’s 2019
Electric Integrated Resource Plan; Case No. PAC-E-19-16.
6. Action Item: Daniel Klein’s November 21, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: Columbine Telephone Co.
D/B/A Silver Star Communications’ Tariff Advice Letter ID-19-01.
7. Action Item: Daniel Klein’s November 21, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: Millennium Networks, LLC.
Petition for a Safety Valve Waiver of FCC Threshold Requirements for Number Resources in the Pocatello,
Idaho Rate Center; Case No. MNL-T-19-01.
8. Action Item: Matt Hunter’s November 21, 2019, Decision Memorandum re: Avista Corporation’s Petition
for Limited Waiver of Penalty Terms Set Forth in its Natural Gas Tariff; Case No. AVU-G-19-08.
Commissioner Kjellander made a motion to move approve Staff’s recommendation for items 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7 and 8 under the Consent Agenda. A vote was taken on the motion and it carried unanimously.
The next order of business was FULLY SUBMITTED MATTERS:
9. Deliberation re: Avista Corporation’s Application to Approve Agreement Allocating Territory
with Kootenai Electric Cooperative; Case No. AVU-E-19-10. [John R. Hammond Jr., Attorney]
10. Deliberation re: Idaho Power Company’s Application for Approval or Rejection of an Energy
Sales Agreement with Snake River Pottery Power Company, Inc., Case No. IPC-E-19-29. [John R.
Hammond Jr., Attorney]

11. Deliberation re: Avista General Rate Case-Electric, Case No. AVU-E-19-04. [John R. Hammond
Jr., Attorney]

12. Deliberation re: In the Matter of the Application for Approval of the Lincoln Road Asset
Transfer Agreement between Rocky Mountain Power and the City of Idaho Falls; Case No. PAC-
E-19-13. [Dayn Hardie, Attorney]

Commissioner Kjellander stated that items 9, 10, 11 and 12 under Fully Submitted Matters would be
deliberated privately.

Commissioner Kjellander stated, there was no further business before the Commission and he adjourned
the meeting.

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