20160912_5069.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF

FROM: DAPHNE HUANG
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

SUBJECT: AGREEMENT TO SUSPEND SCHEDULE IN IDAHO POWER’S
APPLICATION TO APPROVE NEW TARIFF SCHEDULE 63, A
COMMUNITY SOLAR PILOT PROGRAM, CASE NO. IPC-E-16-14

On June 22, 2016, Idaho Power Company filed an Application with the Commission
to authorize it to implement an optional program, Schedule 63, Community Solar Pilot Program.
The Commission issued a Notice of Application and set a deadline for interested parties to
intervene. Order No. 3352. The following parties petitioned for and were granted intervention:
Idaho Conservation League (ICL), Idaho Irrigation Pumpers Association (IIPA), Industrial
Customers of Idaho Power (ICIP), Sierra Club, Snake River Alliance (SRA), and the City of
Boise. Order Nos. 33552, 33557, 33560, 33562.
The Commission issued a Notice of Modified Procedure adopting the parties’
proposed schedule. Order No. 33569. In keeping with that schedule, the parties convened a
settlement conference on August 23, 2016, and submitted comments by September 1, 2016. The
parties agreed to a second settlement conference on September 9, 2016, at which all parties
attended, except for IIPA.1
At the second settlement conference, the parties agreed to suspend the schedule
(which includes the Company’s reply deadline of September 14, 2016). The parties further
agreed that Idaho Power would provide the parties with a draft settlement stipulation by
September 16, 2016. If the parties do not all agree and sign the stipulation by September 23,
2016, the parties agree that Idaho Power will submit its reply by September 30, 2016. If a

1 All parties received notice of both settlement conferences. Representatives from the City of Boise attended most
of the second settlement conference.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
settlement is reached, the Company will present an agreed motion on the Settlement Stipulation
to the Commission.
JOINT RECOMMENDATION
The parties jointly recommend that the Commission suspend the schedule adopted in
Order No. 33569 and adopt the new proposed schedule:
Draft Settlement Stipulation from Idaho Power to the parties by September 16, 2016
Agreed Settlement Stipulation signed by September 23, 2016
If no agreement reached, Company Reply due by September 30, 2016
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to suspend the schedule adopted in Order No. 33569 and
instead adopt the new proposed schedule set forth herein?

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