20050603Petition.pdf

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Idaho Power Company
1221 West Idaho Street
O. Box 70
Boise, Idaho 83707
Telephone: [phone]FAX: [phone]
E-mail: BKline (fY idahopower.com
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UTIL1TiES COM.MISSION
Attorney for Idaho Power Company
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY'S PETITION FOR AN ORDER
PROVIDING A LIMITED WAIVER OF
UTILITY CUSTOMER RELATION RULE
201.03 AS IT IS APPLIED TO TIME-
VARIANT PRICING SERVICE.
CASE NO. IPC-05-
PETITION
COMES NOW Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or the "Company
and pursuant to RP 053 , hereby requests that the Commission issue its order providing
Idaho Power with a limited waiver of Utility Customer Relation Rule 201.03 to allow bills
for customers taking time-variant pricing service facilitated by advanced meter reading
to display total consumption information but not beginning and ending meter readings.
This request for a limited waiver is based on the following:
Rule 201 .03 of the Commission s Utility Customer Relation Rules
(IDAPA 31.21.01) provides that customer bills based on metered service will display the
beginning and ending meter readings.
PETITION , Page
Idaho Power s recently approved Schedules 4 and 5, which
implement the Energy Watch and Time-of-Day Programs for residential customers, and
Idaho Power s Schedule 19, all utilize advanced meter reading ("AMR") to facilitate
time-variant pricing. Because of the time-variant nature of the service under Schedules
5 and 19, customers' hourly usage throughout the billing period is accumulated into
the appropriate time blocks (e., on-peak, mid-peak, and off-peak) in order to process
the billings. The meter data translation system used to accumulate the hourly usage
data into the appropriate time periods will provide to the Company s billing system the
total energy consumption for each of the time periods. However, the meter data
accumulation process described above precludes the display of beginning and ending
meter readings on customers' bills. As a result , beginning and ending meter readings
are not available where time-variant pricing is facilitated by AMR.
Modifying the meter data translation system, which is owned and
maintained by a third party, to provide both beginning and ending meter readings and
the accumulated hourly usage data in the appropriate time periods is not economically
feasible.
As previously noted , customer bills will display the total metered
energy consumption broken into each of the time periods. As a result , customers will
receive the total consumption data as well as all of the other data required by Rule 201.
The Company requests that this Petition be processed under
RP 201 et seq.allowing for consideration of issues to be processed under Modified
Procedure, i.e., by written submissions rather than by an evidentiary hearing.
PETITION , Page 2
Service of pleadings, exhibits, orders and other documents relating
to this proceeding should be served on the following:
Barton L. Kline
Senior Attorney
Idaho Power Company
O. Box 70
Boise, ID 83707
bkline (fY idahopower.com
Maggie Brilz
Manager, Rate Design
Idaho Power Company
O. Box 70
Boise, ID 83707
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WHEREFORE, based on the foregoing, the Company respectfully
requests that the Commission issue its order providing a limited exception to
Rule 201.03 and allow Idaho Power s bills for those metering installations where time
variant pricing is facilitated by advanced meter reading to provide total metered monthly
energy consumption data but not provide beginning and ending monthly meter readings.
Respectfully submitted this 2nd day of June , 2005.
BART N L. KLINE
Attorney for Idaho Power Company
PETITION , Page 3