20170927_Sean2.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: SEAN COSTELLO
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH NEW SCHEDULES FOR
RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL GENERAL SERVICE CUSTOMERS WITH
ON-SITE GENERATION, CASE NO. IPC-E-17-13.

In this memo, Staff recommends that the Commission adopt an agreed-upon schedule
for the case, and suspend the proposed effective date according to Idaho Code § 61-622(4) and
IDAPA 31.01.01.123 (Rule 123).
On July 27, 2017, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied to the Commission
for authority to establish new schedules for residential and small general service customers
(“R&SGS”) with on-site generation. The Company requested a December 31, 2017, effective
date and prehearing conference. The Commission subsequently issued a Notice of Application
and Notice of Intervention Deadline. See Order No. 33843. The Commission also directed the
Company, Staff, and intervening parties to informally confer about a proposed schedule. See id.1
As directed, all parties2 received notice and informally met or otherwise conferred and the
participating parties have agreed to ask the Commission to adopt the following case schedule:
DATE ACTIVITY

1 Besides the Company and Staff, the parties include the following intervenors: Auric Solar, City of Boise, Idaho
Conservation League, Idaho Clean Energy Association, Idahydro, Intermountain Wind and Solar, Irrigation
Pumpers Association, Sierra Club, Snake River Alliance, NW Energy Coalition, and Vote Solar.

2 Intervenors Intermountain Wind and Solar and the Irrigation Pumpers Association were both provided notice and
informal email communications related to the scheduling meeting and proposed schedule, but chose not to respond
or object to the schedule.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
With this proposed schedule, the parties seek to enable the Commission to enter a
final Order by April 1, 2018. As the proposed schedule contemplates proceedings beyond the
Company’s proposed effective date of December 31, 2017, if the Commission adopts this
schedule, the Commission should also suspend the proposed effective date under Idaho Code §
61-622(4) (allowing the Commission to suspend proposed effective date for 30 days plus 5
months).
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission issue a scheduling Order that adopts the
parties’ proposed schedule and suspend the Company’s proposed effective date of December 31,
2017, for a period of 30 days plus 5 months, unless the Commission issues an earlier Order
accepting, rejecting, or modifying Idaho Power’s filing. See id.
Per standard practice, Staff recommends that the Commission Order also direct Staff
to convene customer workshops in the Company’s service territory (with the workshop date(s)
left to Staff’s discretion based on its staffing requirements), and note that the Commission will
schedule public hearings for customers at a later date.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a scheduling Order that adopts the parties’
proposed schedule, suspend the proposed effective date for 30 days plus 5 months (absent an
earlier Order stating otherwise), directs Staff to convene workshops for customers, and notes that
public hearings for customers will be scheduled at a later date?

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