20200114_jh1.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO:COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM:EDWARD JEWELL
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE:JANUARY 10,2019
SUBJECT:IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER'S APPLICATION TO
EVALUATE SCHEDULE 84 -NET METERING;CASE NO.IPC-E-19-15.
On April 5,2019,the Company filed an Application requesting the Commission
initiate a collaborative process to study the continued reasonableness of terms in Schedule 84 for
commercial,industrial,and irrigation ("CI&I")net metering customers.The Company requested
Schedule 84 be suspended to new applicants as of April 5,2019 while the case was processed.
On April 18,2019,the Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of
Procedural Comment Deadline.Order No.34315.The Commission determined the Company
had not demonstrated Schedule 84 should be closed to new applicants during the pendency of the
case,and therefore suspended the Company's proposed effective date.Id.;Order No.34335.
By statute,the maximum amount of time the Commission could initially suspend the proposed
effective date was for 5 months plus 30 days.Idaho Code §61-622(4).The Commission
suspended the effective date for the maximum initial statutory amount,which was until October
7,2019.
On September 10,2019,the Company submitted a letter consenting to extend the
suspension of the proposed effective date until November 15,2019.
On November 15,2019,the Commission issued a Notice of Continued Suspension of
Effective Date,which suspended the proposed effective date for sixty days,until January 14,
2020,in order for the parties to continue to pursue settlement.Order No.34488.
Parties to IPC-E-18-15 were able to achieve a Settlement Agreement,which was
submitted to the Commission on October 11,2019.On December 20,2019,the Commission
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rejected the proposed Settlement Agreement in IPC-E-18-15 upon finding the public was not on
adequate notice that fundamental changes to the net metering program might result from the
docket,that the record did not support approval of the Settlement Agreement,and that a
settlement without a comprehensive study did not comply with the Commission's directive in
Order No.34046.Order No.34509.
Findings in IPC-E-18-15 are to be presumptively reasonable,though not binding in
this docket.Order No.34335.The parties in IPC-E-19-15 have not yet met to discuss what
impact Order No.34509 will have on this docket.Pursuant to Idaho Code §61-622(4),Staff
requests an extension of an additional sixty days in order to give the parties an opportunity to
determine the proper course of action in light of Order No.34509.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Commission suspend the effective date in this case for an
additional sixty days,until March 16,2020.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to suspend the effective date in this case for an additional
sixty days,until March 16,2020?
Edward 1.Jw l
Deputy Atto General
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