20170602Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDI]M
TO:COMMISSIONER ISELLAI\IDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMNISSIONER AI\DERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
FROM:DAPHNE HUAITG
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: JUNE 1,2017
STJBJECT:JOINT MOTION TO LIFT SUSPENSION AI\ID IMPLEMENT
PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE RE: IDAHO POWER'S APPLICATION TO
APPROYE OR REJECT ESA WITH CLARK CAI\IYON IIYDRO, CASE
NO.IPC-E-14-15
In June 2014, Idaho Power Company filed an Application for the Commission to
approve or reject its Energy Sales Agreement with Clark Canyon Hydro, LLC (Clark Canyon).
The Agreement between Idaho Power and Clark Canyon is a contract for the sale and purchase
of energy from the Clark Canyon Project under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
(PLIRPA). Under the Agreement, the Scheduled First Energy Date is April L,2Ol7, and the
Scheduled Operation Date is June l, 2017. Joint Motion at 2.
The Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of Modified Procedure
dated June 26, 2014. Order No. 33064. During Staffs review of the Agreement, Staff
discovered discrepancies between Clark Canyon's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) license and its Agreement with Idaho Power. The parties made a joint request to
suspend the procedural schedule, which the Commission granted in August 2014. Order No.
33088.
On March 31, 2017, Clark Canyon received a renewed FERC license. Clark Canyon
and Idaho Power met with Staff on May I l, 2017 , to discuss the status of the matter before this
Commission. The parties agreed to ask that the Commission to lift the suspension and adopt the
following procedural schedule :
DECISION MEMORANDUM
Idaho Power and C1ark Canyon Hydro
Comments
All party Response
All party Reply
due 21 days from service date of
Commission Order on this motion
due 14 days from initial Comments
due 14 days from Response
Idaho Power filed a joint motion with the parties' agreed request, now before the Commission.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to lift the suspension entered in Order No. 33088, and
issue an Order adopting the parties' agreed deadlines for comments?
Huang
Deputy Attomey
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