20211008Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL

DATE: OCTOBER 8, 2021

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER’S APPLICATION
FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES AND CHARGES IN
IDAHO AND APPROVAL OF PROPOSED ELECTRIC SERVICE
SCHEDULES AND REGULATIONS; CASE NO. PAC-E-21-07.

On May 27, 2021, PacifiCorp dba Rocky Mountain Power (“Company”) applied to the
Commission requesting authority to increase its Idaho jurisdictional revenue requirement by $19.0
million, or approximately 7.0 percent. The Company requests a July 1, 2021, effective date.
On June 17, 2021, the Commission issued a Notice of Application, a suspension of the
proposed effective date, and a Notice of Intervention Deadline. Order No. 35079. The Commission
suspended the proposed effective date of July 1, 2021, for the statutory maximum period of 30
days plus five (5) months pursuant to Idaho Code § 61-622(4).
On August 24, 2021, the Commission issued a Notice of Scheduling, Notice of Public
Workshop, Notice of Customer Hearing, and Notice of Technical Hearing. Order No. 35144. Order
No. 35144 established that a customer hearing would take place at 6:00 PM on November 15, 2021
and included call-in information for customers who wished to participate.
Since Order No. 35144 was issued, the Commission made plans to use a new platform
for hearings allowing participants to be more easily divided into groups of those who wish to listen
and those who wish to testify. The Commission will use this platform for the customer hearing in
this case.

DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Commission issue an Amended Notice of Customer Hearing
updating the call-in information to allow participants to select either a listen only or testify option.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue an Amended Notice of Customer Hearing updating
the call-in information to allow participants to select either a listen only or testify option?

__________________________
Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General

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