20160805Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: DAPHNE HUANG
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: AUGUST 4, 2016

SUBJECT: NOTICE OF PROCEDURE FOR IDAHO POWER’S APPLICATION TO
APPROVE NEW TARIFF SCHEDULE 63, A COMMUNITY SOLAR
PILOT PROGRAM, CASE NO. IPC-E-16-14
On June 22, 2016, Idaho Power Company filed an Application with the Commission
seeking authority to implement an optional program, Schedule 63, Community Solar Pilot
Program. Under the Program, the Company proposes to build a 500 kilowatt (kW) single-axis
tracking community solar array in southeast Boise that will allow a limited number of Idaho
Power’s customers to subscribe to the generation output.
The Commission issued a Notice of Application and Order setting a deadline for
interested parties to intervene. Order No. 33552. The Commission received and granted
Petitions for intervention from Idaho Conservation League (ICL), Idaho Irrigation Pumpers
Association (IIPA), Industrial Customers of Idaho Power (ICIP), Sierra Club, Snake River
Alliance (SRA), and the City of Boise. Order Nos. 33552, 33557, 33560, 33562. The parties
conferred informally and agreed to proceed under Modified Procedure with a comment deadline
of September 1, 2016, and Company reply deadline of September 14, 2016. The parties also
agreed to meet to discuss negotiated solutions on Tuesday, August 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. in the Commission Hearing Room.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure with a deadline
of September 1, 2016 for comments, and deadline of September 14, 2016 for the Company’s
reply, if any?

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