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Home My WebLink About20230815Errata to Direct Testimony of J. Ellsworth.pdf MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN Corporate Counsel mgoicoecheaallen@idahopower.com August 15, 2023 Jan Noriyuki, Secretary Idaho Public Utilities Commission 11331 W. Chinden Boulevard Building 8, Suite 201-A Boise, Idaho 83714 Re: Case No. IPC-E-23-14 Application for Authority to Implement Changes to the Compensation Structure Applicable to Customer On-Site Generation Under Schedules 6, 8, and 84 and to Establish an Export Credit Rate Methodology Dear Ms. Noriyuki: Attached for electronic filing is the Errata to the Direct Testimony of Jared L. Ellsworth in the above-entitled matter. If you have any questions about the attached documents, please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Megan Goicoechea Allen MGA:cd Enclosures RECEIVED Tuesday, August 15, 2023 12:05:05 PM IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION ERRATA TO THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF JARED L. ELLSWORTH - 1 MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN (ISB No. 7623) LISA D. NORDSTROM (ISB No. 5733) Idaho Power Company 1221 West Idaho Street (83702) P.O. Box 70 Boise, Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-2664 Facsimile: (208) 388-6936 mgoicoecheaallen@idahopower.com lnordstrom@idahopower.com Attorneys for Idaho Power Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO IMPLEMENT CHANGES TO THE COMPENSATION STRUCTURE APPLICABLE TO CUSTOMER ON-SITE GENERATION UNDER SCHEDULES 6, 8, AND 84 AND TO ESTABLISH AN EXPORT CREDIT RATE METHODOLOGY ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO. IPC-E-23-14 ERRATA TO THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF JARED L. ELLSWORTH Idaho Power Company (“Idaho Power” or “Company”) hereby respectfully submits to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) this Errata to the Direct Testimony of Jared L. Ellsworth (“Ellsworth Testimony”) in support of the Company’s Application to implement changes to its on-site, self-generation tariffs in accordance with ERRATA TO THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF JARED L. ELLSWORTH - 2 Order No. 35631,1 to make the following changes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and clarity of the record as follows. 1. The Company recently became aware of a discrepancy in the Ellsworth Testimony filed on May 1, 2023, regarding the source for one of the inputs used to determine the avoided generation capacity component of the Export Credit Rate (“ECR”). 2. More specifically, in describing the resource the Company proposes be utilized as a proxy resource in determining the avoided cost of a generation resource, the Ellsworth Testimony states on page 16 (lines 10-13): The Company proposes to rely on the levelized fixed cost associated with the least-cost dispatchable resource from the Company’s most recently acknowledged [Integrated Resource Plan]. In the 2021 IRP, that was a simple-cycle combustion turbine (“SCCT”). . . 3. While the current value of the levelized cost of the avoided resource would be based on the 2021 IRP, which does happen to be the Company’s most recently acknowledged Integrated Resource Plan (“IRP”), the statement is not reflective of the Company’s proposed timing for updating this input generally (i.e. based on the most recently filed IRP). 4. As described in the Direct Testimony of Grant T. Anderson (“Anderson Testimony”), the Company is proposing that those ECR inputs that are informed by the Company’s IRP be set/updated at its filing, not upon acknowledgment.2 1 In the Matter of Idaho Power Company’s Application to Complete the Study Review Phase of the Comprehensive Study of Costs and Benefits of On-Site Customer Generation & for Authority to Implement Changes to Schedules 6, 8, and 84, Case No. IPC-E-22-22, Order No. 35631 at 31 (Dec. 19, 2022). 2 See Anderson Testimony at 30-32. ERRATA TO THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF JARED L. ELLSWORTH - 3 5. Though not material to the Company’s request in this proceeding, for the sake of consistency and clarity of the record the Company provides the following substitution to incorporate within Ellsworth Testimony:  On page 16, in the answer provided on lines 10 through 13, replace the word “acknowledged” on line 12 with “filed”, to wit: ”The Company proposes to rely on the levelized fixed cost associated with the least- cost dispatchable resource from the Company’s most recently acknowledged filed IRP . . .” This update does not change anything else about the Application or the Ellsworth Testimony. DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 15th day of August 2023. MEGAN GOICOECHEA ALLEN Attorney for Idaho Power Company ERRATA TO THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF JARED L. ELLSWORTH - 4 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 15th day of August, 2023, I served a true and correct copy of Errata to the Direct Testimony of Jared L. 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