20230810Final_Order_No_35882.pdf

ORDER NO. 35882 1
Office of the Secretary
Service Date
August 10, 2023
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN
POWER’S APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL
OF A CAPACITY DEFICIENCY PERIOD TO
BE USED FOR AVOIDED COST
CALCUATIONS
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CASE NO. PAC-E-22-14

ORDER NO. 35882

On October 4, 2022, Rocky Mountain Power (“Company”), a division of PacifiCorp,
applied (“Application”) to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) for approval of
a capacity deficiency period determination beginning in the summer of 2023, to be used in
determining avoided cost rates and payments for qualifying facilities (“QF”) under the Public
Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (“PURPA”).
On December 21, 2022, the Commission issued a Notice of Extension of Comment
Deadlines. Order No. 35637. Staff filed comments to which the Company replied. No other
comments were received.
On June 29, 2023, a Final Order was issued instructing the Company to file a compliance
filing to address several compliance items. The Company was to submit this filing within 21 days.
On July 12, 2023, the Company filed a motion requesting that the Commission waive the
previously ordered compliance filing; the Company stated the compliance items could be fully
incorporated into the next capacity deficiency case—which could be filed immediately after the
acknowledgement of the 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (“IRP”).
At the Commission’s August 1, 2023, Decision Meeting, Staff presented a Decision
Memorandum recommending the Commission waive the compliance filing and direct the
Company to file its capacity deficiency case after the acknowledgement of the 2023 IRP—with
the compliance items incorporated into the application for the new capacity deficiency case.
COMMISSION DECISION
In Order No. 35834 the Commission conditionally approved the Company’s Application
providing the Company complied with the requirements of that Order. After reviewing the record
in this case, including the Company’s motion filed on July 12, 2023, and Staff’s August 1, 2023,
Decision Memorandum, we find it fair, just, and reasonable to conditionally grant the Company’s
request in this matter. Therefore, the Commission approves a waiver of the previously ordered
ORDER NO. 35882 2
compliance filing conditional upon the Company incorporating the unresolved compliance items
into the Company’s application for its 2023 capacity deficiency case after the acknowledgement
of the 2023 IRP.
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Commission approves the waiver of the compliance
filing ordered in Order No. 35834 conditional upon the Company incorporating those compliance
items which have not been previously addressed into the Company’s application for its 2023
capacity deficiency case.
THIS IS A FINAL ORDER. Any person interested in this Order may petition for
reconsideration within twenty-one (21) days of the service date of this Order regarding any matter
decided in this Order. Within seven (7) days after any person has petitioned for reconsideration,
any other person may cross-petition for reconsideration. Idaho Code § 61-626.
DONE by Order of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission at Boise, Idaho this 10th day of
August 2023.

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ERIC ANDERSON, PRESIDENT

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JOHN R. HAMMOND JR., COMMISSIONER

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EDWARD LODGE, COMMISSIONER
ATTEST:

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Jan Noriyuki
Commission Secretary

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