20220830_dh1.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
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DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSIONER CHATBURN
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF

FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: AUGUST 30, 2022

SUBJECT: AVISTA CORPORATION’S APPLICATION FOR A DETERMINATION
OF 2020-2021 ELECTRIC AND NATURAL GAS ENERGY EFFICIENCY
EXPENSES AS PRUDENTLY INCURRED; CASE NOS. AVU-E-22-13 and
AVU-G-22-05.

On August 1, 2022, Avista Corporation dba Avista Utilities (“Company”) filed two
Applications, each requesting the Commission issue an order finding that the Company’s electric
or natural gas energy efficiency expenditures from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021
were prudently incurred (referred to collectively as the “Applications”). The Applications
summarize the Company’s energy efficiency activities and their cost-effectiveness. The
Applications include the Company’s 2020 and 2021 Annual Conservation Reports and Idaho
Incentive Modification Methodology document. The Applications also include the 2020/2021
impact evaluation reports of the Company’s electric and natural gas energy efficiency programs.
The Company requests that the Applications be processed by Modified Procedure.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Due to the similarities in each Application, Staff recommends processing the
Applications together. Staff also recommends that the Commission issue a Notice of Application
and Notice of Intervention Deadline establishing a 21-day intervention deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to process the Applications together? Does the Commission
also wish to issue a Notice of Application and Notice of Intervention Deadline establishing a 21-
day intervention deadline?

Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General