20210929Minute_Order.pdf

MINUTE ORDER 1
Office of the Secretary
Service Date
September 29, 2021
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY’S APPLICATION FOR A
DETERMINATION ACKNOWLEDGING ITS
NORTH VALMY POWER PLANT EXIT
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CASE NO. IPC-E-21-12

MINUTE ORDER

On April 30, 2021, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied for Commission
acknowledgment that its December 31, 2025, exit date from the North Valmy Power Plant
(“Valmy”) Unit 2 is appropriate based on currently available information. The Company requested
its Application be processed by Modified Procedure with an effective date of September 29, 2021.
On May 21, 2021, the Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of
Intervention Deadline, setting a June 11, 2021 deadline for persons to petition for intervenor status.
Order No. 35051. The order directed that “after the Notice of Parties is issued, Commission Staff
shall confer with the parties regarding a procedural schedule for this matter.” Id. at 3. Boise City,
the Industrial Customers of Idaho Power, the Idaho Conservation League (“ICL”), and Micron
Technology, Inc. petitioned to intervene, and the Commission granted their petitions. Order Nos.
35061 and 35083. The Notice of Parties issued on June 25, 2021.
On July 14, 2021, the Commission set public comment and Company reply deadlines
and scheduled a telephonic public workshop and a telephonic customer hearing. Order No. 35109.
On August 24, 2021, the Commission held a customer hearing. No one offered
testimony at the hearing.
Staff, Boise City, ICL, and eight members of the public filed comments. The Company
filed a reply.
Having reviewed the record in this case, we issue this Minute Order finding it just and
reasonable to acknowledge December 31, 2025 as the appropriate exit date from Valmy. A formal
order will follow.
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MINUTE ORDER 2
DONE by Order of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho this 29th day
of September 2021.

PAUL KJELLANDER, PRESIDENT

KRISTINE RAPER, COMMISSIONER

ERIC ANDERSON, COMMISSIONER

ATTEST:

Jan Noriyuki
Commission Secretary

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