20120531certificate_no_506.pdf

BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF AVISTA )
CORPORATION’S APPLICATION FOR A )
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE )
AND NECESSITY FOR ITS SOLAR )
GENERATING RESOURCE NEAR )
RATHDRUM,IDAHO )
CASE NO.AVU-E-12-04
CERTIFICATE NO.506
On April 20,2012,Avista Corporation filed an Application for a Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity to operate a previously constructed solar generation test facility in
Kootenai County near Rathdrum,Idaho pursuant to Idaho Code §61-526.The facility is located
in one block of a six-block test complex immediately adjacent to Avista’s combustion turbine
generation plant on that site.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the future public convenience and necessity
requires and will require Avista Corporation to construct and subsequently operate a 15 kW solar
generation resource and related interconnection facilities at its existing plant site near Rathdrum.
Avista shall operate and maintain the solar generation resource to furnish electric energy to its
customers and to collect data on solar generation.
THIS CERTIFICATE is predicated upon and issued pursuant to the findings of fact,
conclusions of law,and conditions contained in Order No.32560.
DATED at Boise,Idaho this 3/day of May,2012.
ATTEST:
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Jan D.Jewel(J
C6mmission Secretary
MACK A REDFORD,COMMISSIONER
L/
ARSHA H.SMITH,COMMISSIONER
PA
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