20221221Notice_of_Extension_of_Comment_Deadlines_Order_No_35637.pdf

NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF COMMENT DEADLINES
ORDER NO. 35637 1

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
December 21, 2022
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

On October 4, 2022, PacifiCorp dba Rocky Mountain Power (“Company”) applied to the
Commission for an order approving “the capacity deficiency period determination to be used in
avoided cost calculations using the Surrogate Avoided Resource (“SAR”) methodology.”
Application at 2.
In addition to specifying that the case would be processed by modified procedure, Order
No. 35588 set public comment and Company reply deadlines for December 20, 2022, and January
3, 2023, respectively. Commission Staff (“Staff”) sent an initial production request to the
Company on October 25, 2022. On November 15, 2022, the Company supplied partial responses.
Staff filed its latest Production Request on December 7, 2022. In this request, Staff asked the
Company for an expedited response. On December 12, 2022, the Company provided a partial
response and requested until December 19, 2022, to respond to the remaining questions. At the
Commission’s December 13, 2022, decision meeting, Staff recommended the Commission extend
the respective public comment and Company reply deadlines by 14 days.
With this Order, the Commission provides a Notice of Extension of Comment Deadlines
setting new public comment and Company reply comment deadlines.
COMMISSION DECISION
Having reviewed the matters related to this request, we find good cause to grant Staff’s
and the Company’s joint request for extension of time to the public comment and reply comment
deadlines pursuant to Commission’s Rule of Procedure, IDAPA 31.01.01.322. Based on the
Company’s representation that it needed until December 19, 2022, to respond to Staff’s most
recent production request, it is reasonable to grant the parties request to extend their respective
comment deadlines. Staff noted that the Company’s complete response to its second set of
production requests will be necessary for Staff to fully analyze the issues involved and formulate
comments that, but for this Order, would be due on December 20, 2022. No one opposed the
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOR
APPROVAL OF A CAPACITY DEFICIENCY
PERIOD TO BE USED FOR AVOIDED COST
CALCUATIONS
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CASE NO. PAC-E-22-14

NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF
COMMENT DEADLINES

ORDER NO. 35637
NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF COMMENT DEADLINES
ORDER NO. 35637 2

request to extend both the public comment deadline and the Company’s reply deadline by 14 days
as described in Staff’s decision memorandum.
O R D E R
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that public comment deadline is extended to January 6, 2023,
and the Company reply deadline is extended to January 20, 2023.
THIS IS AN INTERLOCUTORY ORDER, not a final and appealable Order of the
Commission. The period of reconsideration will not begin until the final Order is issued.
DONE by order of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho this 20th day of
December 2022.

ERIC ANDERSON, PRESIDENT

JOHN CHATBURN, COMMISSIONER

JOHN R. HAMMOND JR., COMMISSIONER

ATTEST:

Jan Noriyuki
Commission Secretary

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