20000504Order No 28349.doc

BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO FUND ITS CONTINUING PARTICIPATION IN THE NORTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE, INC. )
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ORDER NO.  28349

On December 30, 1999, Idaho Power Company filed an Application with the Commission requesting an order authorizing it to continue to participate in the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Inc. (NEEA) and to recover the costs for participation. NEEA is a nonprofit corporation established in 1996 for the purpose of increasing adoption and penetration of energy efficient technologies and practices in the Northwest.
On April 10, 2000, the Commission approved Idaho Power's Application to continue to participate in NEEA. Order No. 28333.  It also authorized Idaho Power to set aside a reserve of $5,462,388 through an offset to its 1999 revenue sharing balance and to recover its annual NEEA commitment from the reserve as its payments are made to NEEA. Furthermore, it ordered Idaho Power to allocate the offset among customer classes on the basis of customer class revenue and to report the results of that allocation within seven (7) days of the order.
On April 13, 2000, in response to Order No. 28333, Idaho Power filed its allocation of NEEA costs amongst the customer classes as a compliance filing and served it on all parties. Commission Staff reviewed those allocations in conjunction with its audit of Idaho Power's 1999 Earnings Compliance Filing.
Idaho Power Company filed its 1999 Earnings Compliance Filing on March 28, 2000 in Case No. IPC-E-00-4, pursuant to Order No. 26216. On April 14, 2000, the Commission determined the compliance filing could be considered under modified procedure. Order No. 28339. In Staff comments filed in IPC-E-00-4, Staff recommended certain changes to Idaho Power's revenue sharing compliance filing and as part of that recommendation recalculated the shared revenues to be allocated to each customer class based on the identified changes.
Therefore, based on that recalculation of revenue sharing, on May 1, 2000, Staff recommended changes to Idaho Power's allocation of NEEA costs filed in this case.

COMMISSION FINDINGS
The Commission reviewed the compliance filing filed in this case and Staff’s recommended recalculation and finds that the filing, as recalculated and shown in Exhibit A, complies with Order No. 28333 and faithfully represents the customer class revenue allocations. The allocations, as recalculated, are incorporated in this order as Exhibit A.
O R D E R
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Idaho Power Company allocate the costs for participation in NEEA previously ordered Order No. 28333 as disclosed in Exhibit A.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no part of Order No. 28333 is affected by this approval and Order No. 28333 remains a final order.

THIS IS A FINAL ORDER. Any person interested in this Order (or in issues finally decided by this Order) or in interlocutory Orders previously issued in this Case No. IPCE9913 may petition for reconsideration within twenty-one (21) days of the service date of this Order with regard to any matter decided in this Order or in interlocutory Orders previously issued in this Case No. IPCE-99-13. Within seven (7) days after any person has petitioned for reconsideration, any other person may cross-petition for reconsideration. See Idaho Code §  61626.
DONE by Order of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho this
day of May 2000.

DENNIS S. HANSEN, PRESIDENT

MARSHA H. SMITH, COMMISSIONER

PAUL KJELLANDER, COMMISSIONER
ATTEST:

Myrna J. Walters
Commission Secretary

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Service Date
May 4, 2000