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IDAHOPUBLIC
UTILITIES COMMISSION
Lisa D. Nordstrom
An DACOnpCom9eny
LISA D. NORDSTROM
Lead Gounsel
[e-mail]
May 6, 2020
VIA ELECTRONIC FILING
Diane M. Hanian, Secretary
ldaho Public Utilities Commission
11331 W. Chinden Boulevard
Building 8, Suite 201-A
Boise, ldaho 83714
Re: Case No. !PC-E-20-23
ldaho Power Company's Application for Authority to Temporarily Modify
Schedule 8 Eligibility Requirements for Small General Service On-Site
Generation Customers
Dear Ms. Hanian:
Attached for electronic filing per Order No. 34602 is ldaho Power Company's
Application for Authority to Temporarily Modify Schedule 8 Eligibility Requirements for
Small General Service On-Site Generation Customers.
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LISA D. NORDSTROM (!SB No. 5733)
ldaho Power Company
1221West ldaho Street (83702)
P.O. Box 70
Boise, ldaho 83707
Telephone: [phone]
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Attomey for ldaho Power Company
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY'S APPLICATION FOR
AUTHORITY TO TEMPORARILY MODIFY
SCHEDULE 8 ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS FOR SMALL GENERAL
SERVICE ON.SITE GENERAITON
CUSTOMERS
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CASE NO. IPC-E-20-23
APPLICATION
ldaho Power Company ("!daho Power" or'Compan/), in accordance with ldaho
Code S 61-503 and RP 052, hereby respectfully makes application to the ldaho Public
Utilities Commission ("Commission") for an order approving the proposed temporary
changes to Schedule 8, Small General Service On-Site Generation ("Schedule 8").
ln support of this Application, ldaho Power represents as follows:
APPLICATION - 1
I. BACKGROUND
1. ldaho Power's Schedule 8 is applicable for small general service on-site
generation customers whose monthly usage is 2,000 kilowatt-hours ("kWh"), or !ess, for
10 or more months during the most recent 12 consecutive billing periods. On-site
generation customerswhose metered energy usage exceeds 2,000 kWh per billing period
three times during the most recent 12 consecutive billing periods no longer qualify for
service under Schedule 8, and instead qualify for Schedule g, Large General Service
("Schedule 9") in conjunction with Schedule 84, Customer Energy Production Net
Metering Service (.Schedule 84").
2. Schedule 8 currently utilizes a single utility meter to measure net monthly
consumption and exoess generation for billing. ln contrast, a customer qualifying for
service under Schedule 9 and Schedule 84 must install a second meter that is separate
from the retail Ioad metering at the Customer's Point of Delivery. The second meter allows
for the measurement of consumption and generation separately; a standard utility meter
measures the customer's demand and energy and a second utility meter measures the
energy provided by the customer's generation facility.
3. Because of the distinctly different meter requirements of Schedule 8 and
Schedule 84, when a customer is no longer eligible to continue taking service under
Schedule 8, they are required to move to Schedule 9/Schedule 84. Therefore, the
customer must install a second meter and reconfigure their on-site generation system to
accommodate the two-meter configuration. The conversion to a two-meter configuration
requires coordination between ldaho Power and the customer and requires the customer
to incur additiona! costs.
APPLICATION - 2
4. On April 5,2019, ldaho Powerfiled Case No. IPC-E-19-15 ("19-15 Case")
to explore modifications to Schedule 84 (available to commercial, industrial, and irrigation
on-site generation customers). The requirement for a two-meter configuration was to be
evaluated as part of that case. The Company has since withdrawn its Application in
anticipation of filing a future case related to compensation structure and uniform export
credit rate applicable to allclasses.
5. Without the two-meter configuration, ldaho Power's billing system is not
currently configured to extract the correct units for billing a single meter under Schedule
9/Schedule 84. Because ldaho Power anticipates a future case to explore modifications
to ldaho Power's on-site generation seryice, including meter configuration for Schedule
84 customers, ldaho Power requests the Commission grant a temporary exemption to the
eligibility requirements for service under Schedule I to provide any current Schedule 8
customer who has subsequently qualified for Schedule 84 the option of temporarily
remaining on Schedule 8. This option will provide eligible customers an opportunity to
avoid the installation of a second meter required for service under Schedule 9/Schedule
84 in the near-term.
II. PROPOSAL TO MODIFY SCHEDULE 8
6. Idaho Power wishes to provide Schedule 8 customers the opportunity to
avoid a second meter investment to meet a Schedule 84 tariff requirement that is likely to
be reevaluated soon. The Company proposes this modification to Schedule 8 would
remain in effect until December 31,2020, or until an order is issued that addresses
metering configuration for Schedule 84 customers.
APPLICATION.3
7. To maintain compliance with the Company's tariffs amid evaluation of ldaho
Power's on-site generation services, the Company requests the Commission approve the
enclosed revised Schedule 8 tariff sheet to reflect the requested modifications to the
eligibility requirements for Schedule 8. The modification would allow for customers who
initially qualify for Schedule 8 to remain on Schedule 8 if their metered energy usage
exceeds 2,000 kWh per billing period three times during the most recent 12 consecutive
billing periods. However, a customer could voluntarilv choose to move to Schedule
9/Schedule 84 if they agreed to install a second meter in compliance with Schedule 84.
8. This modification would not impact on-site generation customers who
initially qualify for service under Schedule g/Schedule 84; these customers will continue
to take service under Schedule 9/Schedule 84.
9. The proposed tariff change for Schedule 8 is reflected in Attachment 1 to
this Application (in both legislative and clean formats).
III. TARIFF ADVICE OR IFIED PROCEDURE
10. Due to the time-limited and voluntary option this tariff modification would
afford Schedule 8 customers, ldaho Power believes this request to be "a minor change"
to an existing schedule that could be expeditiously reviewed as a tariff advice under RP
134 without need for a procedural schedule. No customer would be negatively impacted
by adding this voluntary option to the tariff.
11. In the event the Commission wishes to afford greater public participation in
the review of this matter, ldaho Power has filed this request as an Application to facilitate
its review under Modified Procedure. ldaho Power believes that a hearing is not
necessary to consider the issues presented herein and respectfully requests that this
APPLICATION - 4
Application be processed under Modified Procedure; i.e., by written submissions rather
than by hearing. RP 201, ef seg.
'12. ldaho Power believes that expeditiously processing its request as a tariff
advice would benefit Schedule I customers who wish to avoid additional meter
investment this summer before a final order could be issued under Modified Procedure.
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13. Communications and service of pleadings wlth reference to this Application
should be sent to the following:
V. CONCLUSION
14. For the reasons set forth above, ldaho Power respectfully requests that the
Commission issue an order authorizing the proposed changes to Schedule 8, Small
General Service On-Site Generation, effective the date of the Commission's order if
processed by modified procedure or June 5,2020, if processed as a tariff advice.
Respectfully submitted this 6h day of May 2020.
Lisa D. Nordstrom
ldaho Power Company
1221West ldaho Street (83702)
P.O. Box 70
Boise, ldaho 83707
I n o rd strom @ ida hopower. com
[e-mail]
Connie Aschenbrenner
ldaho Power Company
1221 West ldaho Street (83702)
P.O. Box 70
Boise, ldaho 83707
ca schen bren ner@ ida hopower. com
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LISA D. NORDSTROM
Attorney for ldaho Power Company
APPLICATION - 5
BEFORE THE
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
GASE NO. IPC-E-20-23
IDAHO POWER GOMPANY
ATTACHMENT 1
GLEAN FORMAT
ldaho Power Company First Revised Sheet No. &1
Cancels
|.P.U.C. No. 29. Tariff No. 101 OriqinalSheet No. 8-1
SCHEDULE 8
SMALL GENERAL SERVICE
ON-SITE GENERATION
AVAILABILITY
Service under this schedule is available at points on the Company's interconnected system within
the State of ldaho where existing facilities of adequate capacity and desired phase and voltage are
adjacent to the location where Small General Service, On-Site Generation is desired, and where
additional investment by the Company for new transmission, substation or terminal facilities is not
necessary to supply the desired service. This service is available to Customers intending to operate
Small On-Site Generation Systems under this schedule to generate electricity to reduec all or part of their
monthly energy usage.
APPLICABILITY
Effective unlil1213112020, existing Schedule I customers who no longer meet the energy
usage requirements of Schedule 8 can elect to remain on Schedule 8.
Service under this schedule is applicable to Electric Service supplied to a Customer at one Point
of Delivery and measured through one meter. This schedule is applicable to Customers whose metered
energy usage is 2,000 kWh, or less, per Billing Period for ten or more Billing Periods during the most
recent 12 consecutive Billing Periods. When the Customer's Billing Period is less lhan 27 days or greater
than 36 days, the energy usage will be prorated to 30 days for purposes of determining eligibility under
this schedule. Customers whose metered energy usage exceeds 2,000 kWh per Billing Period on an
actualor prorated basis three times during the most recent 12 consecutive Billing Periods are not eligible
for service under this schedule and will be automatically transfened to the applicable schedule effective
with the next Billing Period. New customers may initially be placed on this schedule based on estimated
usage.
This schedule is also applicable to non-profit or tax supported ball fields, fairgrounds or rodeo
grounds with high demands and intermittent use exceeding 2,000 kWh per month. This schedule is not
applicable to standby service, service for resale, shared service, to individualor multiple family dwellings
first served through one meter after February 9, 1982, or to agricultural inigation service after October
31,2004.
Service under this schedule is also subject to the following conditions:
1. Customer owns/and or operates a Generation Facility fueled by solar, wind, biomass,
geothermal, hydropower or represents fuel celltechnology, with a total nameplate capacity rating of 25
kilowatts (kW) or less, that is connected in parallelwith the ldaho Power System.
2. The Generation Facility is interconnected to the Customer's individual electric system on
the Customer's side of the Point of Delivery, thus all energy received and delivered by the Company is
through the Company's existing watt-hour retail meter.
3. Customer meets all requirements applicable to Small On-Site Generation Systems
detailed in the Company's Schedule 72, lnterconnections to Non-Utility Generation.
IDAHO
lssued per Order No.
Effective - June 5,2020
lssued by IDAHO POWER COMPANY
Timothy E. Tatum, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
1221West ldaho Street, Boise, ldaho
LEGISLATIVE FORMAT
ldaho Power Company First Revised Sheet No. 8-1
Cancels
I.P.U.C. No. 29. Tariff No. 101 OriqinalSheet No. 8-1
SCHEDULE 8
SMALL GENERAL SERVICE
ON-SITE GENERATION
AVAILABILITY
Service under this schedule is available at points on the Company's interconnected system within
the State of ldaho where existing facilities of adequate capacity and desired phase and voltage are
adjacent to the location where Small General Service, On-Site Generation is desired, and where
additional investment by the Company for new transmission, substation or terminal facilities is not
necessary to supply the desired service. This service is available to Customers intending to operate
Small On-Site Generation Systems under this schedule to generate electricity to reduce all or part of their
monthly energy usage.
APPLICABILITY
Effective until 12131/2020. existins Schedule 8 customers who no lonser meet the enerov
usaqe requirements of Schedule 8 can elect to remain on Schedule 8.
Service under this schedule is applicable to Electric Service supplied to a Customer at one Point
of Delivery and measured through one meter. This schedule is applicable to Customers whose metered
energy usage is 2,000 kWh, or less, per Billing Period for ten or more Billing Periods during the most
recent 12 consecutive Billing Periods. When the Customer's Billing Period is less than 27 days or greater
than 36 days, the energy usage will be prorated to 30 days for purposes of determining eligibility under
this schedule. Customers whose metered energy usage exceeds 2,000 kWh per Billing Period on an
actual or prorated basis three times during the most recent 12 consecutive Billing Periods are not eligible
for service under this schedule and will be automatically transferred to the applicable schedule effective
with the next Billing Period. New customers may initially be placed on this schedule based on estimated
usage.
This schedule is also applicable to non-profit or tax supported ball fields, fairgrounds or rodeo
grounds with high demands and intermittent use exceeding 2,000 kWh per month. This schedule is not
applicable to standby seryice, service for resale, shared service, to individualor multiple family dwellings
first served through one meter after February 9, 1982, or to agricultural inigation service after October
31,2004.
Service under this schedule is also subject to the following conditions:
1. Customer owns/and or operates a Generation Facility fueled by solar, wind, biomass,
geothermal, hydropower or represents fuel cell technology, with a total nameplate capacity rating of 25
kilowatts (kW) or less, that is connected in parallelwith the ldaho Power System.
2. The Generation Facility is interconnected to the Customer's individual electric system on
the Customer's side of the Point of Delivery, thus all energy received and delivered by the Company is
through the Company's existing watt-hour retail meter.
3. Customer meets all requirements applicable to Small On-Site Generation Systems
detailed in the Company's Schedule 72, lnterconnections to Non-Utility Generation.
IDAHO
lssued per Order No.34O46
Effective - June +5,2018p
lssued by IDAHO POWER COMPANY
Timothy E. Tatum, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
1221 West ldaho Street, Boise, ldaho