20230307Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

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

FROM: RILEY NEWTON
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: MARCH 7, 2023

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S APPLICATION
FOR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH COMPENSATION FOR THE
MANDATORY INTERRUPTION REQUIREMENT OF SCHEDULE 20 –
SPECULATIVE HIGH-DENSITY LOAD; CASE NO. IPC-E-22-30.

On December 28, 2022, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied to the Idaho Public
Utilities Commission (“Commission”) for an order prior to the start of the June 15 – September
15 interruption period: (1) establishing a compensation rate of $0.0734 per kilowatt (“kW”) per
hour of interruption for Large General Service Rates under Schedule 20, and $0.0835 per kW per
hour of interruption for Large Power Service Rates or, in the alternative, (2) deferring
implementation of a compensation structure for the mandatory interruption requirement of
Schedule 20 until evaluation of cost assignment responsibility for Schedule 20 was completed at
a general rate case. Application at 1-2. The Company requested its Application be processed by
Modified Procedure.
On January 18, 2023, the Commission issued a Notice of Application, and Notice of
Intervention Deadline. Order No. 35666. The Commission ordered Commission Staff (“Staff”) to
“confer with the parties regarding a procedural schedule for processing this case” after the Notice
of Parties issued. Id. at 4.
The Notice of Parties was issued on February 14, 2023. No party intervened. The Company
filed a Scheduling Request on February 22, 2023, after conferring with Staff, stating that it no
longer sought a Commission order in this case before the June 15, 2023, interruption period.

DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
The Company and Staff both agreed to processing this case by Modified Procedure with a
June 7, 2023, Staff and public comment deadline and a June 21, 2023, Company reply comment
deadline.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff notes the Company’s representations that there are no customers currently taking
service under Schedule 20 and that it would take approximately one year for customers who wish
to take service under Schedule 20 to interconnect to the Company’s system. Staff further notes
there are no intervenors in this case and the anticipated workload associated with annual spring
regulatory filings. Staff recommends the Commission issue a Notice of Modified procedure and
set a June 7, 2023, Staff and public comment deadline, and a June 21, 2023, Company Reply
comment deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure setting a June 7, 2023,
Staff and public comment deadline, and a June 21, 2023, Company Reply comment deadline?

____________________________
Riley Newton
Deputy Attorney General

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