20220830Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSIONER CHATBURN
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: RILEY NEWTON
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: AUGUST 30, 2022

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER
COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A NEW SCHEDULE TO
SERVE SPECULATIVE HIGH-DENSITY LOAD CUSTOMERS; CASE
NO. IPC-E-21-37.

On November 4, 2021, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied to the
Commission for authority to establish a new schedule to serve speculative high-density customers,
specifically, large-scale cryptocurrency mining operators.
On December 1, 2021, the Commission issued Notice of the Company’s Application
and Notice of an Intervention Deadline. See Order No. 35241. The Commission granted
intervention into this case to the Industrial Customers of Idaho Power, and 2140 Labs LLC. See
Order No. 35276.
On June 15, 2022, the Commission issued Order No. 35428 therein approving the
Company’s Application.
On July 6, 2022, GeoBitmine, LLC (“GeoBitmine”) filed a petition requesting the
Commission reconsider its findings in Order No. 35428 and grant it intervention.
On August 3, 2022, the Commission issued Order No. 35488 therein granting
GeoBitmine’s petition to reconsider and directing the Company and Commission Staff (“Staff”)
to file comments regarding the issues raised in GeoBitmine’s petition by August 24, 2022. The
Commission gave GeoBitmine until August 31, 2022, to file a reply.
Staff and the Company filed comments on August 24, 2022.
On August 26, 2022, GeoBitmine filed a Motion for Extension of Time to File Reply
Comments (“Motion”) therein requesting an additional six days from August 31, 2022, to file reply
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comments (September 6, 2022). Counsel for GeoBitmine explained that he had been consumed by
other prior cases with pressing deadlines making him unavailable to devise “thoughtful and
thorough Reply Comments.” Motion at 1. Counsel represented that the Company and Staff had no
objection to the granting of the Motion.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff does not object to giving GeoBitmine additional time to file reply comments.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to grant GeoBitmine’s Motion thereby giving it until
September 6, 2022, to file reply comments?

_______________________
Riley Newton
Deputy Attorney General

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