20210402Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO:COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
LEGAL
WORKING FILE
FROM:KEVIN KEYT
DATE:APRIL 2,2021
RE:IN THE MATTER OF INTERMOUNTAIN GAS COMPANY'S
APPLICATION FOR DETERMINATION OF 2019 ENERGY
EFFICIENCY EXPENSES AS PRUDENTLY INCURRED;
CASE NO.INT-G-20-06.
BACKGROUND
On September 1,2020,Intermountain Gas Company ("Company")applied to the
Commission to find the Company had prudently incurred $2,803,346 in Energy Efficiency
Program ("EE Program")expenses in 2019.The Commission then issued a Notice of
Application and set a deadline for interested persons to intervene as parties to the case.See
Order No.34801.The Idaho Conservation League was the sole intervenor.See Order No.
34804.
On December 7,2020,the Company filed a Supplement to Application.The Supplement
proposed changes to the EE Program and Residential Energy EfficiencyRebate Program tariff
based on the Company's recently completed Evaluation,Measurement,and Verification
("EM&V")study.The Company requested these changes take effect March 1,2021.
On February 2,2021,the Commission issued a Notice of Amended Application and set
deadlines for interested persons to comment on the Amended Application.The Commission also
suspended the Company's proposed effective date for its tariff changes until April 1,2021.See
Order No.34908.Commission Staff then filed comments,and the Company filed reply
comments.The Commission also received two customer comments:one from the City of Boise
("Boise City")and one from an individual customer.
DECISION MEMORANDUM -1 -APRIL 2,2021
On March 8,2021,the Commission issued Order No.34980,approving the Company's
Application,effective April 1,2021.After Exhibit No.9 (Tariff Schedules)was filed in this
case,the Commission issued Order No.34941 in INT-G-20-04,approving the Company's
Commercial Energy Efficiency Program,including an update to Rate Schedule EE-RS,effective
April 1,2021.The Company used this recently approved version of Rate Schedule EE-RS in a
compliance filing to reflect the modifications approved by the Commission in Order No.34980.
STAFF ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATION
Staff reviewed proposed Rate Schedule EE-RS and found the revised schedules to be
consistent with Commission Order No.34980.Therefore,Staff recommends that the Company's
proposed Rate Schedule EE-RS changes as displayed below from the Company's Compliance
Filing be approved with an effective date of April 1,2021.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to approve the Company's proposed changes to Rate
Schedule EE-RS with an effective date of April 1,2021?
Icevin Keyt
Udmemos/DecisionMemoTariffFiling INT-G-20-06 KK
DECISION MEMORANDUM -2 -APRIL 2,2021