19860123Certificate No 300.pdf

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
JAN 2 3 1986
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF THE ATLANTA POWER COMPANY, INC.
FOR A CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CON-
VENIENCE AND NECESS ITY AND FOR
APPROVAL OF INTERIM RATES AND
CHARGES
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CASE NO. U-1147-
CERTIFICATE NO. 300
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFICATED that the public convenience
and necessity requires and will require, the Atlanta Power Com-
pany, Inc., its successors and ass igns, to hold, construct or
otherwise acquire and to maintain and operate an electric sys-
tern in and supply electricity to that certain terri tory wi thin
and surrounding the community of Atlanta, Idaho that it is ser~
ving as of the date of this Certificate, and for such ~urpose
to own, hold, construct or otherwise acquire and to maintain
and operate wi thin said terri tories all plant necessary for the
maintenance of an electrical corporation and the provision to
its customers of electrical energy in, upon, over, under,
along, through and across all streets, avenues, alleys,
streams, highways, roads and other public places in said terri-
tory, and to exercise the rights and privileges granted, or
which may hereafter be granted Atlanta Power Company, Inc., its
successors or assigns by any franchise conferred by any poli ti-
cal subdivision of the State of Idaho.
CERTIFICATE NO. 300
This Certificate is predicated upon and issued pur~u-
ant to the findings and provisions of Order No. 20237 issued
this~~ndnay of January, 1986, in Case No~ U-1147-1 to which
reference is hereby made.
DATED at Boise, Idaho, this~~day of January, 1986.
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Of!lce of the Secretary
Service Date
JUN 2 - 1987
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF THE ATLANTA POWER COMPANY FOR)APPROVAL OF A MORE SPECIFIC
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCEAND NECESSITY
CASE NO. U-1147-
ORDER NO. 21261
On January 5, 1987, the Atlanta Power Company (Atlanta; Company) filed an
Applicati~m with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (Commission) seeking to
demarcate, in metes and bounds, the extent of its certificated service area. (reference
Certificate No. 300)
On December 6 , 1985, Atlanta filed an application to be granted a Certificate
of Public Convenience and Necessity for an area of approximately 600 square miles in
South Central Idaho. The Company s request included parts of Boise, Camas, Blaine and
Elmore Counties. - Prairie Power Cooperative objected.Prairie questioned whether
Atlanta had the resources to serve the vast and geographically rugged
territory it was
attempting to carve out for itself. We refused to rule on Atlanta s application at that
time. We said in Order No. 20327:
Because Atlanta is committed to filing a general rate case on March, 1986, we deny Prairie s request for an immediate hearing on theissue of Atlanta s proposed certificated area. Rather, we herebycertificate to Atlanta Power Company only that territory it actually currently serving and no more. We hold in abeyance,pending the filing of Atlanta s March 1 , 1986 rate case, the questionof the remainder of the requested service area. Prairie Power ishereby notified that the question of Atlanta s requested certificatedarea will be addressed in Atlanta s March 1 , 1986 rate case.
As a result, we issued Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity No. 300
to the Atlanta Power Company. That Certificate provided that Atlanta may serve only:
that certain territory within and surrounding the community ofAtlanta, Idaho that it is serving as of the date of this Certificate(January 23, 1986).
ORDER No. 21261
Atlanta s March 1986, rate filing did not mention the Company s previous
application for a certificate to serve the large section of South Central Idaho initially
requested. However , on March 11 , 1986, the Company filed a separate application
requesting that its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity be expanded to
include the area denied in Order No. 20237. By Order No. 20367 , we also denied the
Company s Applicationfor an expanded service area:
We are left in the same posture referred to in Order No.20237--Atlanta . Power has not provided sufficient data to supportits application. Because we have no information on which to base adecision, we deny Atlanta s request to expand its territory. WhenAtlanta files an Application with sufficient supporting data, we willof course consider its request.
On March 13, 1987 , the Commission issued Order No. 21110 inviting comment
or protest concerning the proposed delineation of Atlanta Power s certificated area. A
letter of protest was filed on March 18, 1987 by Atlanta residents objecting to the
proposed "expansion of borders" by Atlanta Power. The protesters, comprised of a mix of
utility customers and non-customers, expressed concern regarding the present quality of
service and safety standards and the capacity of the system to meet additional demand.
The Company in a letter of response dated May 26, 1987, relates that it is
engaged in "an ongoing program to improve the status and operation of the system" and is
providing power to anyone who wants it and is willing to pay for it." The Company
stresses the need for building customer base as a means for improving the viability of the
utility and the quality of its service. We encourage the Company in its efforts.
For reasons stated below the Commission does not view the Company s filiRg as
an Application for "expansion of borders.It is merely a demarcation with more
specificity of its presently authorized service territory.We continue to hold the
ORDER No. 21261
Company to its commitment to provide transmission and distribution facilities in
. compliance with National Electric Safety Code standards. We trust that the improvement
of system safety will translate to improvements in service and reliability. But , as we
stated in Order No. 20785, "at this point in the evolution of the Atlanta Power Company
. the primary objective of all concerned must be a safe system-investments made solely in
the name of improving the quality of service must, of necessity, take a secondary role to
safety." We appreciate the concerns raised by Atlanta customers over system safety.
share in those concerns and trust in the Company s commitment to safety. We remind the
customers of Atlanta, however, that system safety also extends to the electrical hazards
presented by defective and substandard inside wiring. We encourage them to be ever
vigilant and to report perceived system dangers to the utility and to this Commission.
The Commission is sensitive to the potential impact of a new and major mining
operation on system 10ad. It is unreasonable to expect the current customer base to
absorb and assume responsibility for the increased costs attendant to the construction of
new generating plant to meet new and exponentially greater demands on system load
especially a demand that is tied to such vagaries as the market price of precious metals.
For that reason we will expect such mining operation to provide its own power or to
provide the utility with the contribution and advance of construction funds needed for the
required changes and addition to generating plant to meet its demand.
The current Application requests an area to be included in Atlanta s Certificate
of Convenience and Necessity that includes just the townsite of Atlanta and its
immediate environs. We find that the proposed demarcation is simply a definition, in
ORDER No. 21261
cartographic terms, of the territory we contemplated in its approved Certificate of
Convenience and Necessity No. 300. We further find that it is fair just and reasonable to
grant the Company s application to specifically delimit its certificated area in the
following manner:
Begin at NW Corner Section 19, Township 6 North, Range 11 E.thence eastward to NE corner of Section 22; thence southward toNE corner Section 34; thence eastward to NE corner Section 31Township 6 N, Range 12 E.; thence southwaTd to SE cornerSection 19, Township 5 N, Range 12 E.; thence westward to . corner Section 24, Township 5 N , Range 10 E.B.M.; thencenorthward to NW corner Section 1; thence eastward to SW cornerSection 31 , Township 6 N, Range 11 E.B.M.; thence northward to NWcorner Section 19 , Township 6 N, Range 11 E.B.M., the POINT OFBEGINNING
Attached to this Order is a map showing both the area initially requested by
Atlanta in its previous applications and the area requested by the Company that we grant
in this proceeding.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Application of the Atlanta Power
Company in Case No. 1147-5 be approved as an addendum to Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity No. 300 delimiting, in metes and bounds its certificated
service area.
THIS IS A FINAL ORDER. Any person interested in this Order (or in issues
finally decided by this Order) or in interlocutory
Orders previously issued in this Case No.
1147-5 may petition for reconsideration within twenty-one (21) days of the service
date of this Order with regard to any matter decided in this Order or in interlocutory
Orders previously issued in this Case No. U-1147-5. Within seven (7) days after any
person has petitioned for reconsideration, any other person may cross-petition for
reconsideration. See Idaho Code ~61-626.
ORDER No. 21261
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DONE by Order of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho,
this /s/.day of June, 1987.
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Office of the ::;ecretary
Service Date
JUN 2 - 1987
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF THE ATLANTA POWER COMPANY FOR
APPROVAL OF A MORE SPECIFIC
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
AND NECESSITY
. .
CASE NO, U-1147-
ERRATUM to O,N. 21261
On June 1, 1987, IPUC Order No. 21261 was issued by this
Commission.The following changes should be made to that Order:
Page 1, paragraph 2, line 7
READS:
t ime.We said in Order No. 20327
SHOULD READ:
II time.We said in Order No. 20237:
DATED at Boise, Idaho, this.....7nc::L day of June,1987.
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ERRATUM TO O.N. 21261