UTC Case Docket Details

Docket Number 000972

Case Docket Details Table
Docket Number UE-000972
Advice
Company Avista Corporation
DBA Avista Utilities
Filing Type Petition
Industry (Code) Electric (140)
Status Closed
Lead Staff Martin, Roland (UTC)
Filed Date 06/23/2000
Effective Date 01/24/2001
Summary Request for modification of original petition of Avista regarding the accounting treatment of certain wholesale power costs to serve firm load obligations.

Event History

  • 02/03/2001 -- End of Pending - Reconsideration
  • 08/19/2000 -- End of Pending - Reconsideration
  • 01/24/2001 -- Approved (Commissioner Hemstad moved to grant Avista's request and order the Company to file by mid-March, 2001, a proposal that will address: a) the prudency of the incurred power costs, b) the optimization of Company-owned resources to the benefit of retail customers, c) the appropriateness of recovery of power costs through a deferral mechanism, d) a proposal for cost of capital offsets to recognize the shift in risk from shareholders to ratepayers, and e) the Company plan to mitigate the deferred power costs. Chairwoman Showalter seconded the motion. The motion carried (2:0).)
  • 01/11/2001 -- Deferred (This item was removed from the 1/11/01 Open Meeting Agenda.)
  • 12/21/2000 -- Re-open (Request for Modification of Original Petition of Avista Corporation on behalf of Avista Corporation from Thomas D. Dukich.)
  • 08/09/2000 -- Approved (Grant the company's request to defer certain power cost expenses in the period from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001. Order that recovery of these deferrals will not be allowed until a demonstration of the prudency of the costs is made in a future filing, including that recover of such costs through a deferral mechanism is appropriate. Direct the company to include a footnote disclosure in all regulatory reporting or financial disclosure statements that include these deferrals, that regulatory approval of their recovery will not be received until the showing of prudence, including a demonstration that the company-owned facilities were optimized to the benefit of retail ratepayers.)