BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF OREGON LC 41
In the Matter of ldaho Power Company's Application to include the Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line in its Acknowledged Integrated Resource Plan ('lRP")MOTION TO WITHDRAW
INTRODUCTION
Pursuant to OAR-860-013-0031, ldaho Power Company ("ldaho Power" or "Company") hereby requests the Public Utility Commission of Oregon ("Commission") issue an Order authorizing Idaho Power to withdraw its Application to Include the Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line in its Acknowledged Integrated Resource Plan ("lRP") filed in this docket on February 5, 2009 ("Addendum").DISCUSSION
On February 5, 2009, ldaho Power filed the Addendum, requesting that the Commission include its proposed Boardman to Hemingway 500 kV transmission line (“B2H Project") in its acknowledged 2006 l RP.At that time the Company had hoped to receive all necessary approvals –including Energy Facility Siting Council ("EFSC”) approval—in time to complete work and bring the B2H Project online by 2013. Since that time, however, the Company has extended the project in-service date to 2015 and has initiated a comprehensive public process to consider alternative routes. (The details of this public process are described in the Application for Modification of the Filing Date for its 2009 Integrated Resource Plan, filed in UM 1428, April 10, 2009.)
While unfortunate in some respects, this delay will provide the Company the additional time to perform an updated analysis of the B2H Project using current load forecasts and to include the project in the 2009 IRP as an uncommitted resource.Because the updated load information will not be available until August, and once it is available, the analysis will take several months to perform, the Company will be unable to complete the work for its 2009 IRP until the end of the year. For this reason the Company requested that it be allowed to delay the filing of its 2009I RP by approximately three months, from September of 2009 to the last business day December 2009. In that request, the Company stated that if the delay was granted, ldaho Power would withdraw the Addendum as moot.
On May 19, 2009 the Company's request to delay the 2009 IRP was included on the Consent Agenda of the Commission’s Public Meeting and was approved. For this reason, the Company requests that the Commission allow it to withdraw the Addendum.
DATED 6/16/2009
Signed, Lisa Rackner
McDowell & Rackner, PC
Attorneys for Idaho Power Company
520S W Sixth Avenue, Suite 830
Portland, OR 97204
