20110413intervention_order_no_32222.pdf

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
April 13 2011
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF
IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR A
DETERMINA TION REGARDING A FIRM
ENERGY SALES AGREEMENT BETWEEN
IDAHO POWER AND GROUSE CREEK WIND
PARK, LLC
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF
IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR A
DETERMINATION REGARDING A FIRM
ENERGY SALES AGREEMENT BETWEEN
IDAHO POWER AND GROUSE CREEK WIND
PARK II, LLC
) CASE NO. IPC-IO-
) CASE NO. IPC-IO-
) ORDER NO. 32222
On February 24, 2011 , the Commission issued a combined Notice of Applications
and Notice of Modified Procedure in the two cases referenced above. In each Firm Energy Sales
Agreement, the respective wind developer agrees to sell electric energy to Idaho Power
Company for a 20-year term. Because the Commission determined that each of the Agreements
should be processed under Modified Procedure, there was not a provision in the consolidated
Notice that set a deadline for the filing of Petitions to Intervene. Order No. 32191.
On March 24 2011 , Grouse Creek Wind Park, LLC and Grouse Creek Wind Park
LLC each filed a Petition to Intervene in their respective cases.
COMMISSION FINDINGS
We decline to grant intervenor status to the two wind companies because we find that
they are parties to the Firm Energy Sales Agreements. As a counterparty to the Firm Energy
Sales Agreements with Idaho Power, each wind company is an actual party to the Agreement
submitted to the Commission for our consideration. In other words, each wind company is a
counterparty to Idaho Power and has a direct interest in their respective Firm Energy Sales
cases.
Agreement. Consequently, Petitions to Intervene to obtain party status are not necessary in these
ORDER NO. 32222
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Petitions to Intervene filed by Grouse Creek
Wind Park, LLC and Grouse Creek Wind Park II , LLC are denied as unnecessary because each
Petitioner is a party in the respective Firm Energy Sales Agreements identified above.
DONE by Order ofthe Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho this 13'11'
day of April 2011.
MACK A. REDFORD, COMMISSIONER
MARSHA H. SMITH, COMMISSIONER
ATTEST:
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Jie n D. Jewel
Commission Secretary
O:IPC-IO-61 IPC-IO-62 ks2 Intervention
ORDER NO. 32222