20201208_jh3.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: JOHN R. HAMMOND JR.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: DECEMBER 4, 2020

SUBJECT: INTERMOUNTAIN GAS COMPANY’S APPLICATION FOR
AUTHORITY TO IMPLEMENT A COMMERCIAL ENERGY
EFFICIENCY PROGRAM AND FUNDING MECHANISM; CASE NO.
INT-G-20-04.

On August 3, 2020, Intermountain Gas Company (“Company”) applied for authority
to implement a Commercial Energy Efficiency Program and Funding Mechanism. The Company
represents it has developed an equipment-based program for commercial customers predicated on
a Conservation Potential Assessment (“CPA”) performed by Dunsky Energy Consulting and input
from its Energy Efficiency Stakeholder group. Application at 4-6. The Company requested an
effective date of October 1, 2020.
On September 3, 2020, the Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of
Intervention Deadline ("Notice") setting a 21-day intervention deadline. See Order No. 34771.
The Commission also suspended the Company’s effective date for a period of five months and 30
days. Id. at 4. The Idaho Conservation League (“ICL”) filed a Petition to Intervene on September
17, 2020. The Commission granted ICL’s Petition to Intervene on September 29, 2020. See Order
No. 34790. On September 30, 2020, the Commission issued a Notice of Parties.
APPLICATION
The Company asserts the proposed Commercial Energy Efficiency Program focuses on
saving measures in three end-use sectors identified in the CPA: HVAC, commercial kitchen
appliances, and hot water savings. Id. at 6. The Company also requests authority to formalize a
mechanism to recover costs incurred in the administration and delivery of the proposed
Commercial Energy Efficiency Program through a proposed Rate Schedule EE – GS. Id. at 7.
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The Company also requests authority to revise existing tariffs to add a commercial component to
its Energy Efficiency Program. Id. at 9.
The Company represents it notified its GS-1 customers about the Application through
a Customer Notice and a Press Release sent to daily and weekly newspapers, and major radio and
television stations in the Company’s service area. Id. at 10. The Company requests that the
Application be processed by Modified Procedure and proposes an effective date of October 1,
2020, for the Commercial Energy Efficiency Program, Energy Efficiency Charge, and other
changes to associated tariffs, coincident with the effective date of the price change related to the
Company’s annual Purchased Gas Cost Adjustment. Id. at 9-10.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff has conferred with the Company and ICL and have agreed to the proposed
schedule subject to Commission review and approval. The parties propose that the Commission
issue a Notice of Application and Notice of Modified Procedure and set a January 26, 2021,
comment deadline for interested persons and a February 9, 2021, reply deadline for the Company.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Application and Notice of Modified
Procedure and set a January 26, 2021, comment deadline for interested persons and a February 9,
2021, reply deadline for the Company?

John R. Hammond Jr.
Deputy Attorney General

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