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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20111019Cavanagh Di, Exhibits.pdf(\ C' f' /r: r,'''./ i;".. i 1/ ;~~". í,)' ZßIl Q¡r"'l I q Prl;1 i.: 21;..d tv ~ i.'1 BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO CONVERT SCHEDULE 54 -FIXED COST ADJUSTMENT - FROM A PILOT SCHEDULE TO AN ONGOING, PERMANENT SCHEDULE. CASE NO. IPC-E-11-19 I DAHO POWER COMPANY DIRECT TESTIMONY OF RALPH CAVANAGH 1 Q.Please state your name, address, and 2 employment. 3 A.My name is Ralph Cavanagh. I am the Energy 4 Program Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council 5 ("NRDC"), 111 Sutter Street, 20th Floor, San Francisco, 6 California 94104. 7 Q.Please outline your educational background and 8 professional experience. 9 A.I am a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law 10 School, and I joined NRDC in 1979. I am a member of the 11 faculty of the University of Idaho's Utility Executive 12 Course, and I have been a Visiting Professor of Law at 13 Stanford and the University of California. From 1993-2003, 14 I served as a member of the U. S. Secretary of Energy's 15 Advisory Board, and I am now a member of the U. S. 16 Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Board. My 17 current board memberships include the Bonneville 18 Environmental Foundation, the Center for Energy Efficiency 19 and Renewable Technologies, the Bipartisan Policy Center, 20 the Renewable Northwest Project, and the Northwest Energy 2 1 Coalition. I have received the Heinz Award for Public 22 Policy (1996) and the Bonneville Power Administration's 23 Award for Exceptional Public Service (1986). I first 24 appeared before the Idaho Public Utilities Commission 25 ("Commission") in 1987 as a Commission Staff-sponsored CAVANAGH, DI 1 Idaho Power Company 1 wi tness on energy conservation issues in Case No. U- 1500- 2 165. In 2004, I was a witness for the Northwest Energy 3 Coalition in Case No. IPC-E-03-13, and I appeared 4 subsequently as a witness for Idaho Power Company ("Idaho 5 Power" or "Company") in Case No. IPC-E-04-15. A 6 biographical summary is attached as Exhibit No.3. 7 Q.On whose behalf are you testifying? 8 A.I am testifying for Idaho Power. 9 Q.Are you being compensated for this testimony 10 by the Company or have you or NRDC ever received any 11 compensation or financial contributions from the Company? 12 A.No. 13 Q.What is the purpose of your testimony in this 14 proceeding? 15 A.My testimony supports the Company's proposal 16 to convert the Fixed Cost Adjustment ("FCA") mechanism that 17 the Commission established on a pilot basis in 2007 and 18 extended for two years in 2010 to an ongoing, permanent 19 tariff schedule. 20 Q.Summarize your conclusions and 21 recommendations. 22 A.In 2007, the Commission adopted a FCA 23 mechanism on a pilot basis for Idaho Power (IPC-E-04-15, 24 Order No. 30267), which subsequently was extended for two 25 years in 2010 (IPC-E-09-28, Order No. 31063). My testimony CAVANAGH, DI 2 Idaho Power Company 1 supports the Company's proposal to end the FCA's "pilot" 2 status, based on its obvious success in supporting the 3 Company's improved energy efficiency performance, and make 4 it permanent. 5 I agree strongly with Idaho Power that the FCA 6 should remain simple in design, and not be burdened with 7 unnecessary and inevitably contentious determinations of 8 what precisely accounts for increases and reductions in 9 electricity sales between rate cases. The principal 10 rationale for the FCA is not somehow to compensate the 11 Company for particular kinds of reductions in electricity 12 use, but rather to break the linkage between its financial 13 heal th and its retail commodity sales. FCA adj ustments 14 were never intended to reward or penalize the Company for 15 particular actions, but rather to remove a potent 16 disincentive to the Company's engagement with all forms of 17 energy efficiency progress by ensuring that the Company 18 recovers no more and no less than the fixed costs 19 previously authorized by the Commission, notwithstanding 20 any short-term fluctuations in electricity use. My 21 testimony shows that efforts to link FCA adjustments to 22 energy efficiency program impacts would have perverse 23 consequences and impede statewide progress in achieving 24 cost-effective savings. 25 CAVANAGH, DI 3 Idaho Power Company 1 My testimony also anticipates and rebuts claims that 2 extending the FCA should be linked to reductions in Idaho 3 Power's return on equity. I am aware of no evidence that 4 decoupling mechanisms have reduced Idaho Power's or any 5 other utility's cost of capital, and Idaho Power's 6 sacrifice of the upside from increased electricity sales 7 constitutes an offset, in terms of shareholder welfare, for 8 increased certainty about recovery of authorized costs. 9 Customer benefits from the FCA are being abundantly 10 delivered in the form of cost-effective savings (up more 11 than ninefold from 2004-2010). Reducing the Company's 12 authorized return on equity ("ROE") would send the perverse 13 signal to management that no good deed goes unpunished, 14 even as it undercut the principal rationale for the FCA, 15 which was to remove a financial barrier to the Company's 16 energy efficiency progress. 17 Q.What is the basis for your conclusion that the 18 FCA is achieving the Commission's objectives? 19 A.It rests both on personal engagement and a 20 review of results achieved by the Company's programs and 21 other efforts. Since the Commission' s initial order, I 22 have addressed meetings of the Company's entire energy 23 efficiency team, and had the opportunity to experience 24 first-hand its enthusiasm and commitment. I have also 25 CAVANAGH, DI 4 Idaho Power Company 1 worked with the Company's leadership directly on 2 enhancement of Idaho's energy efficiency infrastructure. 3 When the Commission adopted the FCA, it noted that: 4 Promotion of cost-effective energy 5 efficiency and demand-side management 6 (DSM), we find, is an integral part of7 least-cost electric service 8 Making the Company indifferent to reduced 9 energy consumption and demand is but one10 half of the quid pro quo agreed to by the11 stipulating parties. In return for the12 FCA, the Company is expected to 13 demonstrate an enhanced commitment to 14 energy efficiency and DSM. Evidence of15 enhanced commitment will include, but not16 be limited to, efforts to improve17 and enforce state building codes and18 appliance efficiency standards, as well19 as expansions and improvements to its 20 load efficiency, load management and DSM21 programs. 2223 Order No. 30267, pp. 13-14. 2425 On all these counts, I believe that the Company has 26 met and surpassed the Commission's expectations. 27 Q.Summarize the "evidence of enhanced 28 commitment" that has emerged since the Commission 29 established these goals. 30 A.As a powerful indication of the Company's 31 "enhanced commitment" to energy efficiency, one need look 32 no further than the front page of the Business Section from 33 the New York Times of January 24, 2010, where Idaho Power 34 was highlighted as "in the vanguard" of utilities that help 35 their customers save energy, and Tom Eckman of the CAVANAGH, DI 5 Idaho Power Company 1 Northwest Power and Conservation Council was quoted as 2 concluding that the Company "is clearly iconic in terms of 3 a utility that's turned the corner."(K. Galbraith, Why Is 4 A Utili ty Paying Customers?, New York Times, Sunday 5 Business, January 24, p. 1.) Eckman's conclusion is 6 abundantly supported in the Company's Demand-Side 7 Management 2010 Annual Report (March 15, 2011), which 8 chronicles the evolution of a modest program that was 9 saving less than 20,000 megawatt-hours ("MWh") in 2004 to a 10 robust portfolio that was reaching toward 200,000 MWh by 11 the close of 2010 (Id., p. 4), with an increase of more 12 than 30 percent in just the past year (Id., p. 3). Today 13 Idaho Power's energy efficiency programs address all maj or 14 economic sectors and represent, by any measure, an 15 aggressi ve and innovative effort to capture all available 16 cost-effective energy efficiency. For load management, the 17 Company's progress is equally impressive; a 43 megawatt 18 ("MW") demand reduction capability for 2005 had grown to 19 336 MW by 2010.Id., p. 4. 20 Q.What energy efficiency progress has the 21 Company contributed to outside the specific context of its 22 programs? 23 A.Idaho Power was an early and effective 24 supporter of the U. S. Department of Energy's new efficiency 25 standards for gas and electric water heaters, and Idaho CAVANAGH, DI 6 Idaho Power Company 1 Power provided crucial leadership in the process that 2 convinced the Regional Council to raise i ts five-year 3 regional efficiency targets by more than 70 percent in 4 2010. I was a member of the advisory group that provided 5 technical assistance on the targets, which were raised from 6 700 average megawatts to a minimum goal of 1,200 average 7 megawatts over the next five years. 8 In October of last year, in a huge coup for the 9 state of Idaho, Idaho Power helped launch the Northwest's 10 first Center on Energy Efficiency Research (see Exhibit No. 11 4, a copy of the proclamation by Governor Otter, 12 memorializing an event in which I was proud to participate 13 in also). Boise's newly expanded Integrated Design Lab is 14 an important part of that ini tiati ve and another 15 illustration of the robustness of an energy efficiency 16 infrastructure that Idaho Power helped create. Also, in 17 2011, the Company was a leader in the effort to redesign 18 and upgrade the Regional Technical Forum of the Northwest 19 Power and Conservation Council, which makes a crucial 20 contribution to low-cost validation and evaluation of 21 energy efficiency savings from both programs and standards 22 in Idaho. 23 Those examples underscore a point that figures 24 clearly in the Commission's initial goals for the FCA¡ 25 Idaho Power's capacity to influence efficiency progress CAVANAGH, DI 7 Idaho Power Company 1 extends well beyond the incentive programs that the Company 2 administers (meritorious though they clearly are) . 3 Lifting the historic addiction to throughput has freed the 4 Company to be a much stronger efficiency educator and 5 advocate as well as investor. 6 Q.What do you say to those who are concerned 7 that the FCA significantly reduces incentives to save 8 energy by raising rates in the aftermath of consumption 9 reductions? 10 A.Idaho's experience proves the opposite. The 11 FCA resulted in trivial rate adjustments that went both 12 ways, and did not materially affect rewards for saving 13 electricity. As the Public Utility Commission of Oregon 14 found when it followed Idaho's good example by adopting a 15 decoupling mechanism for Portland General Electric in 16 January 2009, responding to analogous claims that 17 decoupling would rob customers of the rewards of 18 conservation: 19 We believe the opposite is true: an20 individual customer's action to reduce21 usage will have no perceptible effect on22 the decoupling adjustment, and the23 prospect of a higher rate because of24 actions by others may actually provide25 more incentive for an individual customer26 to become more energy efficient. 27 28 Oregon PUC Order No. 09-020, p. 28 (Jan. 2009). CAVANAGH, DI 8 Idaho Power Company 1 Q.Describe your experience with revenue 2 decoupling elsewhere in the country. 3 A.In the West, Hawaii, California, and Oregon, 4 like Idaho, have adopted decoupling for at least one 5 electric utility. The Washington and Arizona Commissions 6 have adopted policy statements broadly supportive of the 7 policy and invited filings by their electric utilities (and 8 in Arizona's case, by natural gas utilities as well). 9 California, Utah, Oregon, and Washington have adopted gas 10 decoupling mechanisms. New Mexico's Public Service 11 Commission has left open "the determination of whether a 12 decoupling mechanism should be approved or required for any 13 utility," and the New Mexico Legislature has underscored 14 the urgent need to "identify regulatory disincentives or 15 barriers for public utility expenditures on energy 16 efficiency and load management measures and ensure that 17 they are removed in a manner that balances the public 18 interest, consumers' interests and investors' interests." 19 Nationally, the count of states with decoupling for at 20 least one utility stands at 14 for electricity and 22 for 21 natural gas. 22 Q.What about rate impacts of revenue decoupling? 23 A.Nei ther revenue decoupling in general nor the 24 FCA in particular add any additional costs to utility 25 bills; they simply ensure that previously approved fixed CAVANAGH, DI 9 Idaho Power Company 1 costs are neither over- nor under-recovered. In terms of 2 rate adjustments to achieve this objective, Idaho's 3 experience is typical; effects are minimal in practice, 4 with adjustments that go in both directions.( See Exhibit 5 No.5. ) A comprehensive industry-wide assessment found 6 that, of 88 gas and electric rate adjustments from 2000- 7 2009 under decoupling mechanisms, less than one-seventh 8 invol ved increases exceeding 3 percent.(Refunds accounted 9 for a much larger fraction.) Typical adj ustments in 10 utility bills "amount (ed) to less than $1.50 per month in 11 higher or lower charges for residential gas customers and 12 less than $2.00 per month . . . for residential electric 13 customers. "That represents about a dime a day for the 14 average household, which hardly seems like dangerous rate 15 volatility, particularly since it sometimes comes in the 16 form of a rebate - and serves only to ensure that the 17 utility recovers no more and no less than the fixed costs 18 of service that regulators have reviewed and approved. 19 Q.Explain your conclusion that extending the FCA 20 should not result in an adj ustment in Idaho Power's 21 authorized ROE. 22 A.The data that I just presented are part of the 23 basis for my recommendation here; rate impacts this modest 24 simply do not imply appreciable consequences for Company- 25 wide cost of capital. Reducing ROE in the aftermath of CAVANAGH, DI 10 Idaho Power Company 1 decoupling would overlook both what shareholders give up 2 when utili ties lose the capacity to profit from electricity 3 sales increases, and what customers stand to gain from 4 accelerated progress in energy efficiency (and protection 5 from higher utility bills linked to extreme weather). Any 6 gains to utili ties in the form of insurance against lower 7 sales are offset by reduced opportunities for financial 8 gains when sales increase, and it seems unreasonable to 9 prej udge how that tradeoff might affect the Company's 10 overall risk profile and cost of capital. 11 Q.Why should the Commission not amend the FCA so 12 that adj ustments track only electricity savings 13 attributable to the Company's energy efficiency programs? 14 A.This would undercut the whole purpose of the 15 mechanism, while introducing a whole new set of perverse 16 incentives. It would reintroduce automatic penalties, in 17 the form of reduced fixed cost recovery, for all cost- 18 effective electricity savings not directly associated with 19 Idaho Power's programs, even when the Company by action or 20 inaction could make a material difference in prospects for 21 those savings (see my earlier discussion of all Idaho 22 Power's contributions to energy efficiency outside the 23 context of specific programs). It would create a powerful 24 and perverse new incentive for the Company to promote 25 programs that looked good on paper but delivered little or CAVANAGH, DIll Idaho Power Company 1 no savings in practice. And it would ensure adversarial 2 discord over every savings calculation, since significant 3 financial stakes would then hinge on the results. 4 Q.Does your recommendation risk paying Idaho 5 Power for savings that it did not help achieve? 6 A.No, because the FCA does not "pay" Idaho Power 7 any incremental amount for anything; it is simply a 8 mechanism that allows the Company to receive no more and no 9 less than the fixed cost revenue requirement per customer 10 that the Commission has reviewed and approved. 11 Q.Does this conclude your testimony? 12 A.The most important thing for me to say in 13 conclusion is that I had high expectations when the FCA 14 pilot program began, and that Idaho Power has met them 15 fully. The Company has earned a long-term FCA as part of 16 its appropriately aggressive energy efficiency initiative, 17 and I strongly encourage the Commission to approve it. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 CAVANAGH, DI 12 Idaho Power Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTiliTIES COMMISSION CASE NO. IPC-E-11-19 IDAHO POWER COMPANY / CAVANAGH, 01 TESTIMONY EXHIBIT NO.3 BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMY FOR RALPH CAVANAGH RALPH CAVANAGH is a senior attorney and co-director ofNRDC's energy program, which he joined in 1979. Ralph has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Staford and UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and a Lectuer on Law at the Harvard Law School; he has also been a faculty member for the University ofIdaho's Public Utilty Executives Course for more than fifteen years. From 1993-2003 he served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board. His curent board memberships include the Biparsan Policy Center, the Bonnevile Environmental Foundation, the Californa Clean Energy Fund, the Center for Energy Effciency and Renewable Technologies, the Nortwest Energy Coalition, and the Renewable Nortwest Project. Ralph has received the Hein Award for Public Policy, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Mar Kilmar Award, the Yale Law School's Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, the Lifetie Achievement in Energy Effciency Award from California's Flex Your Power Campaign, the Nortwest Energy Coalition's Headwaters Award, and the Bonnevile Power Administration's Award for Exceptional Public Service. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law SchooL. He is mared to Deborah Rhode, who is the MacFarland Professor of Law at Staford Law SchooL. 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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 19th day of October 2011 I served a true and correct copy of the within and foregoing DIRECT TESTIMONY OF RALPH CAVANAGH IN SUPPORT OF THE APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONVERT SCHEDULE 54 (FIXED COST ADJUSTMENT) TO A PERMANENT SCHEDULE upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Commission Staff Donald L. Howell, II Karl T. Klein Deputy Attorneys General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington (83702) P.O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 -- Hand Delivered U.S. Mail _ Overnight Mail FAX -- Email Don.Howell(âpuc.idaho.gov Karl. Klein(âpuc. idaho.gov Industrial Customers of Idaho Power Peter J. Richardson Gregory M. Adams RICHARDSON & O'LEARY, PLLC 515 North 2th Street (83702) P.O. 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