20210924Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: ERICK SHANER
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OR REJECTION OF THE FIRST
AMENDMENT TO THE ENERGY SALES AGREEMENT WTH
SHOROCK HYDRO, INC. FOR THE SALE AND PURCHASE OF
ELECTRIC ENERGY FROM THE ROCK CREEK #1 HYDRO PROJECT;
IPC-E-21-31.

On August 26, 2021, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied to the Commission
for approval or rejection of the First Amendment to Energy Sales Agreement (“First Amendment”)
with Shorock Hydro, Inc. (“Seller”) for the energy generated by the Rock Creek #1 Hydro project
(“Facility”). Application at 1. The Facility is a Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
(“PURPA”) Qualifying Facility. Id.
THE APPLICATION
The Seller has been delivering energy to the Company under a firm energy sales
agreement for the Facility that was executed on September 25, 2017 and approved under
Commission Order No. 33949 on December 13, 2017. Id. at 2.
The First Amendment provides for the Seller to change the net energy amounts
adjustment time period so that the Seller “can make adjustments by the 25th day of the preceding
month in which a change is requested, similar to other such 25th day of the month provisions
previously approved by the Commission.”
The Company requests that the Commission set a procedural schedule that would result
in a final Commission determination on the First Amendment and that the case be processed by
modified procedure. Id. at 4.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Commission issue a Notice of Application and Notice of
Modified Procedure and establish a 21-day comment deadline and a 7-day reply comment
deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Application and Notice of Modified
Procedure and establish a 21-day comment deadline and a 7-day reply comment deadline?

__________________________
Erick Shaner
Deputy Attorney General

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