20200731Notice_of_Suspension_of_Effective_Dates_Order_No_34745.pdf

NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF PROPOSED EFFECTIVE DATES
ORDER NO. 34745 1

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
July 31, 2020

BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER TO
CLOSE THE NET METERING PROGRAM
TO NEW SERVICE & IMPLEMENT A NET
BILLING PROGRAM TO COMPENSATE
CUSTOMER GENERATORS FOR
EXPORTED GENERATION
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CASE NO. PAC-E-19-08

NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF
PROPOSED EFFECTIVE DATES

ORDER NO. 34745

On June 14, 2019, Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp (“Rocky Mountain
Power” or “Company”) filed an application requesting the Commission close Electric Service
Schedule 135 – Net Metering Service (“Schedule 135”) to new customer participation as of
December 31, 2019, and open Electric Service Schedule 136 – Net Billing Service (“Schedule
136”) to new customer participation as of February 1, 2020 (“Original Application”).
On April 23, 2020, Rocky Mountain Power filed a supplemental application
(“Supplemental Application”) requesting the Commission close Schedule 135 to new customer
participation as of midnight local time July 31, 2020, and open Schedule 136 to new customer
participation as of September 1, 2020. The Supplemental Application superseded the original
application. The Supplemental Application also updated inputs to the Company’s proposed export
credit rate (“Export Credit Rate”). Order No. 34661.
The Original Application and the Supplemental Application both requested the
Commission grandfather existing customers into Schedule 135 as of the proposed closing date of
that schedule.
In its Supplemental Application, the Company states,
[T]he Company respectfully requests closure of Schedule 135 to
new customers as dictated under Idaho Code § 61-622, based on the
original closure date requested in its Application, by statute would
be effective July 31, 2020 at midnight local time, and recommends
that customers on Schedule 135 as of that date be grandfathered on
that schedule until July 31, 2030.
Application at ¶ 21. To the extent Idaho Code § 61-622 and Idaho Code § 61-307 require us to
suspend the Company’s proposed effective dates to prevent the closure of Schedule 135 as of
midnight July 31, 2020, and to prevent Schedule 136 from going into effect as of September 1,
NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF PROPOSED EFFECTIVE DATES
ORDER NO. 34745 2

2020, prior to the completion of the study, the Commission hereby suspends all proposed
effective dates in the Company’s Supplemental Application.
The Commission intends to issue an order addressing grandfathering and defining the
scope of the study the Company is to undertake shortly hereafter.
O R D E R
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that, in order to allow adequate time to issue an order
on grandfathering, and to conduct a comprehensive study of issues critical to a fair, just,
reasonable, and non-discriminatory on-site generation service offering, the Commission finds it
appropriate to suspend the proposed effective dates of July 31, 2020, and September 1, 2020, each
for a period of 30 days plus 5 months, unless the Commission issues an earlier Order accepting,
rejecting, or modifying the Company’s proposed effective date or the Application as a whole. See
Idaho Code § 61-622(4).
DONE by Order of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho this 31st
day of July, 2020.

PAUL KJELLANDER, PRESIDENT

KRISTINE RAPER, COMMISSIONER

ERIC ANDERSON, COMMISSIONER

ATTEST:

Diane M. Hanian
Commission Secretary

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