20220307Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: MARCH 8, 2022

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S APPLICATION TO
EXPAND OPTIONAL CUSTOMER CLEAN ENERGY OFFERINGS
THROUGH THE CLEAN ENERGY YOUR WAY PROGRAM; CASE NO.
IPC-E-21-40.

On December 2, 2021, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied for authority to
expand its optional clean energy offerings. The Company seeks to (1) rename the existing Schedule
62—Green Power Purchase Program Rider (optional) to Clean Energy Your Way; (2) maintain
and expand procurement options for the renewable energy certificate (“REC”) offering under the
name Clean Energy Your Way-Flexible; (3) establish a regulatory framework for a future
voluntary subscription green power service offering named Clean Energy Your Way-Subscription;
(4) offer a tailored renewables option to the Company’s largest customers (Special Contracts and
Large Power Service) named Clean Energy Your Way-Construction; and (5) procure associated
program renewable resources outside the Commission’s current competitive bidding requirements.
The Company requests its Application be processed under Modified Procedure and a procedural
schedule be established that would process this matter by April 2022.
On January 31, 2022, the Commission issued a Notice of Application and Notice of
Intervention Deadline. Order No. 35304. Order No. 35304 directed Staff to confer with the parties
regarding the procedural schedule after the Notice of Parties issued.
The Industrial Customers of Idaho Power (“ICIP”), Idaho Conservation League
(“ICL”), Clean Energy Opportunities (“CEO”), City of Boise City (“Boise City”), and Walmart
petitioned to intervene. The Commission granted their intervention. See Order Nos. 35285, 35301,
35311, and 35320.

DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
After conferring with the parties in this case, Staff recommends the Commission issue
a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a May 12, 2022, public comment deadline and a June
2, 2022, Company reply deadline.

COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a May
12, 2022, public comment deadline and a June 2, 2022, Company reply deadline?

Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General

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