20210201Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1

DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: JANUARY 28, 2021

SUBJECT: AVISTA’S APPLICATION FOR A PRUDENCY DETERMINATION FOR
2018-2019 ELECTRIC AND GAS ENERGY EFFICIENCY
EXPENDITURES: CASE NOS. AVU-E-20-13 and AVU-G-20-08.

On November 25, 2020, Avista Corporation dba Avista Utilities (“Company”) filed
two Applications, each requesting the Commission issue an order finding that the Company’s
electric or gas energy efficiency expenditures from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019
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 2018 and 2019 Annual Conservation Reports and the 2019
Idaho Research and Development Report. The Applications also include the 2018/2019 impact
evaluation reports for the Company’s electric and gas energy efficiency programs. The Company
requests that the Applications be processed by Modified Procedure.
On December 30, 2020, the Commission issued a Notice of Applications and Notice of
Intervention Deadline establishing a 21-day intervention period. Order No. 34879. With Order No.
34879 the Commission approved Staff’s recommendation to process the Applications as a single
case. No one petitioned to intervene. A Notice of Parties was issued on January 22, 2021.
After the Intervention Deadline passed, Staff conferred with the Company on
scheduling. Staff and the Company agreed that the Applications should be processed via modified
procedure with a 90-day public comment deadline and a two-week Company reply period.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing
a 90-day public comment deadline and a two-week Company reply deadline.

DECISION MEMORANDUM 2

COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a 90-
day public comment deadline and a two-week Company reply deadline?

Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General

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