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Home My WebLink About20030617Acceptance Idaho Power.pdfBARTON L. KLINE ISB #1526 Idaho Power Company P. O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-2682 FAX Telephone: (208) 388-6936 1\ECEIVED ;::LF:=:1"1 .. - 20D3 JU~'J ! 7 M1 7: 57 I, , I, ": , ,. L i ' ll j":i:;'~ (1i..I'lj"!fiU ._, ,~..... ,U.III, ,) . Ull Attorney for Idaho Power Company Street Address for Express Mail 1221 West Idaho Street Boise, Idaho 83702 BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE ANNUALREVISION AND UPDATED CALCULATION OF THE ADJUSTABLE PORTION OF THE AVOIDED COST RATES FOR A VISTA CORPORATION DBA AVISTA UTILITIES FOR EXISTING PURPA CONTRACTS, FOR IDAHO POWER COMPANY, AND FOR PACIFICORP DBA UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY. CASE NO. GNR-03- IDAHO POWER COMPANY' ACCEPTANCE OF UPDATED CALCULATION OF PUBLISHED AVOIDED COST RATES COMES NOW Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or "the Company and hereby accepts the annual revisions and updated calculation of the adjustable portion of avoided cost rates as proposed by IPUC Staff in the May 29 2003 letter from Scott Woodbury. Idaho Power Company s acceptance in this case is based on the following: IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S ACCEPTANCE , Page Rate Adjustments Based On Colstrip Costs. The proposal presented by Staff in its May 29 , 2003 letter revises the variable cost components of the rates paid under certain contracts signed by Idaho Power during the late 1980's and early 1990's. These contracts provide that a portion of the rate paid by Idaho Power will be adjusted annually based on changes in fuel and variable operating costs at the Colstrip coal-fired generating plant in Montana. As a result, the discussion and computation of the Colstrip-related fuel costs and variable O&M costs described in the May 29 2003 letter only apply to a specific group of existing contracts. No new contracts containing rates tied to Colstrip operating costs are being signed. For contracts of that vintage, Idaho Power accepts the computation of the revised Colstrip-related fuel costs and variable O&M costs as specified in the May 29 2003 letter. Changes To Variable Rates Based On Gas Prices At Sumas Washington. The second part of the May 29 2003 letter addresses changes in certain OF purchase rates based on changes in gas prices as measured at Sumas Washington. As in the case of the Colstrip-related variable cost component, there is a group of OF contracts where a portion of the rate paid to the OFs will be adjusted annually based on changes in the cost of natural gas as measured at Sumas Washington. Idaho Power has only one contract that utilizes the changes in the Sumas gas price to adjust a portion of the price paid to the existing OF seller. For purposes of adjusting the rates in that one contract, Idaho Power accepts the changes in the cost IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S ACCEPTANCE , Page 2 component based on changes in gas prices at Sumas as presented in the May 29 2003 Letter. DATED This 16th day of June, 2003. ICL- BARTON , KLINE Attorney for Idaho Power Company IDAHO POWER COMPANY'S ACCEPTANCE, Page 3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 16th day of June, 2003, I caused a true and correct copy of the within and foregoing IDAHO POWER COMPANY' ACCEPTANCE OF UPDATED CALCULATION OF PUBLISHED AVOIDED COST RATES to be served upon the following named parties by the method indicated below and addressed to the following: Scott D. Woodbury Deputy Attorney General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 W. Washington Street O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Blair Strong Paine , Hamblen , et al 717 W. Sprague Avenue, Suite 1200 Spokane , W A 99201-3505 Doug Young Avista Utilities-WWP 1411 E. Mission , P.O. Box 3727 Spokane, W A 99220-3727 John M. Eriksson Stoel Rives LLP One Utah Center 201 S. Main Street, Suite 1100 Salt Lake City, UT 84111-4904 Rodger Weaver PacifiCorp 825 N.E. Multnomah , Suite 600 Portland , OR 97232 Mark Widmer PacifiCorp 825 N.E. Multnomah Street Portland, OR 97232 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail BARTON L. KLINE CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE