20181220Gas Standards Manual 2019.pdf

Avista Corp.
1411 East Mission P.O.Box3727
Spokane, Washington 99220-0500
Telephone [phone]
Toll Free 800-727-9170
December 20,2018
Diane Hanian, Secretary
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
W. 472 Washington Street
Boise, Idaho 83720
Re: AVU-G-18-07
Dear Ms. Hanian:
In Compliance with Order No. 34178 in Case No. AVU-G- I 8-07, enclosed for electronic filing
with the Commission is Avista Corporation's dba Avista Utilities (o'Avista" or "the Company") 2019
Gas Standards Manual ("Manual"). ln its Final Order, the Commission found that:
...it is appropriate for the Company to add a tariffprovision that requires the Company to
furnish the Commission with an electronic copy of its Gas Standards Manual and the
Standard Operating Procedures for the Gas Meter Measurement Performance Program
upon request or whenever substantive changes are made.
Avista frled the requested tariffsheets to include the above provision on November 19, 2018,
and as such is providing the2019 updates to its Gas Standards Manual. Due to the voluminous nature
of this Manual, the first 31 pages of the document provide a sunmary of the changes made.
There have been no updates to the Company's Standard Operating Procedures for the Gas
Meter Measurement Performance Program at this time; revisions to this document are anticipated
during calendar year 2019 and will be filed once available.
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If you have any questions regarding this filing, please contact Jaime Majure at [phone]
or i aime.majure@avistacorp. com.
Sincerely,
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Linda Gervais
Senior Manager, Regulatory Policy
Avista Utilities
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Rernoved BR Please provide the analysis you relied on to determine Avista will
pay Clearwater Paper no more under the 2018 Agreement, than they did under the 2013
Agreement.
Removed Y Please provide the customer impact (revenue requirement) for the
following three alternatives using the most recent 12 months that Avista has data
available: under the 2013 Agreement, under the 2018 Agreement, and under IRP-based
avoided cost pricing. Please provide all the workpapers associated with the analysis with
formula intact.
Added B Please estimate the cost impact of replacing the current2013
Agreement with a.) the 2018 Agreement and b. ) an agreernent based on IRP-based
avoided cost pricing. For part b, please provide a detailed explanation of the calculation
of the IRP-based avoided cost price. These analyses may be based on either test-year
data from the last general rate case or data for a recent consecutive l2-month period.
Please provide workpapers in Excel, with formulae intact.