20170605_5278.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: DAPHNE HUANG
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: JUNE 1, 2017

SUBJECT: JOINT MOTION TO LIFT SUSPENSION AND IMPLEMENT
PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE RE: IDAHO POWER’S APPLICATION TO
APPROVE OR REJECT ESA WITH CLARK CANYON HYDRO, CASE
NO. IPC-E-14-15

In June 2014, Idaho Power Company filed an Application for the Commission to
approve or reject its Energy Sales Agreement with Clark Canyon Hydro, LLC (Clark Canyon).
The Agreement between Idaho Power and Clark Canyon is a contract for the sale and purchase
of energy from the Clark Canyon Project under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
(PURPA). Under the Agreement, the Scheduled First Energy Date is April 1, 2017, and the
Scheduled Operation Date is June 1, 2017. Joint Motion at 2.
The Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of Modified Procedure
dated June 26, 2014. Order No. 33064. During Staff’s review of the Agreement, Staff
discovered discrepancies between Clark Canyon’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) license and its Agreement with Idaho Power. The parties made a joint request to
suspend the procedural schedule, which the Commission granted in August 2014. Order No.
33088.
On March 31, 2017, Clark Canyon received a renewed FERC license. Clark Canyon
and Idaho Power met with Staff on May 11, 2017, to discuss the status of the matter before this
Commission. The parties agreed to ask that the Commission to lift the suspension and adopt the
following procedural schedule:
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2

Idaho Power filed a joint motion with the parties’ agreed request, now before the Commission.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to lift the suspension entered in Order No. 33088, and
issue an Order adopting the parties’ agreed deadlines for comments?

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