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Ms.Ingrid Ferrell
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Public Service Commission of West Virginia
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CASENO. 15-17
APPALAC~IAN
WHEELING ~ O W E C
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Tariff Filing for Approval of Two New Riders for Demand
Response and a New StandRrd Backup and ~aintenance
Service Schedule and for Consent and Approval of Certain
~ t e r n ~fori nthe~Proposed DR Riders
Dear Ms.Ferrell:
Please find enclosed for filing on behalf of the West Virginia Energy Users Group in the
above-referenced matter an original and twelve copies of "The Wesr Virginia Energy Users Group's
First ,Ye! of Interroga?~r~@s,
Dam Requests and Requests for P r o ~ ~ c t i oonf Documents to
Appalachian Power Company ond Wheeling Power Company."
Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this filing.
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I, Ban A. Nauni, counsel to the West Virginia Energy Users Group, do hereby certify
that on this 7”Y day of January, 2016, a copy of the foregoing “The West Virginia Energy Users
Group‘s Flrsf Set of Intewogatories# Data Requests and Requests for Production of Documents to
~ ~ p a ~ a c hPower
~ a nCompany and heeling Power Company” was served upon the parties and/or
counsel of record in this proceeding 8s follows:
William 6,Po&, Esquire
Brian E. Caltibrese, Esquire
Robinson & McElwee PLLC
P.O. Box 1791
Charleston, WV 25326
and
James R.Bacha, Esquire
Hector Garcia, Esquire
A m e r i c ~Electric Power Setvice Corp.
1 Riverside Plaza
P.O.Box 16631
Columbus, OH 43215.663 I
Counselfor A p ~ a ~ ~ hPower
ian
Company and Wheeling Power
Company
Thomas E, Soarr, Esquire
Charles K.Oould, Esquire
Jenkins Fensterm~er,PLLC
325 8”’ Street, 2”dFloor
Huntington, WV 25701
and
Damon E. Xenopoulos, Esq,
Stone Mnttheis Xenopoulos & Brew,PC
1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, N.W.
Eighth Floor West Tower
Washington, DC 20007
Courrselfor SWVA, Inc.
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John Little, Esquire
Staff
Public Service Commission of West
Virginia
201 Brooks Street
Charleston, WV 25301
Counselfor Commission Stag
Jacqueline Lake Roberts, Esquire
Consumer Advooate Division
700 Union Building
723 Kanawha Boulevard, East
Charleston, WV 25301
~ o u ~ eConsumer
( ~ r Advocate Division
Jared MaTully, Esquire
Frost Brown Todd, LLC
500 Lee Street East, Suite 401
Clrarleston, WV 25301
Counselfor EnerNOC, Inc..
Gay L.Poling, D.O.
105 Mallard Court
Beokley, WV 25801
Intervenor
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Tariff Filing for Approval of Two New Riders
for Demand Response and a New S t ~ d a r d
Backup and M~ntenanceService Schedule and
for Consent and Approval of Certain
R a t e m ~ i nfor~ the Proposed DR Riders
and ~ E E L POWER
~ G COMPANY
TO: A P P A L A C ~ A NPOWER C O ~ A N Y
James R. Baeha, Esquire
Hector Garcia, Esquire
American E ~ e c Power
~ c Service Corp.
1 Riverslde P l ~ a
P.O. Box 16631
Columbus, OH 43215-663 1
William C. Porth, Esquire
Brian E. Calabrese, Esquire
Robinson & McElwee PLLC
P.O. Box 1791
Charleston, WV 25326
P i ~ sto~Rule
t 13.6 of the Public Sewice Co~ission'sRules a ~ ~ ~ f lf cl n~~ ~P rcaec e d ~ e ,
150 CSR 1, the West Virginia Energy Users Group ~ W V ~ ~ hereby
G " ) requests A p p ~ a c h i ~
Power Company ("APCo")and Wheeling Power Company ("WPCo") (collectively, "Companies")
to respond to the following Interrogatories, Data Requests or
1s for Rroduc~ionof D
oc~en~
discovery Requesrs") by January 27, 2016, or sooner, if practicable, The Companies should
adhere to the following instructions in responding to the Discovery Requests:
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Each response should be headed with a single sheet of paper which presents the
following info~ation:
a.
The name@) and title(s) of every person who p ~ c i p a t e din the p~paration
of the response;
b.
The name of the wbess(es) most likely to testie concerning the material or
info~ation~ n ~ n inethe
d response;
2.
c,
The date on which the response wm prepared; and
d.
The Companies' response Yo the requested item,
as
The C o m p ~ i e sshould view each requested item of these D i s c o ~ Requests
e~
being contin~ingin nature
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that as ~ d i ~ o n amore
l , current, or mor@a c c ~ a t ei ~ o r ~ a ~ i ~ n
becomes available, that information will be provided without undue delay.
3,
The C o m p ~should
i ~ treat these Discovery Requests as a request for production of
d o c ~ e n t where
s
specific requests for production Be made,
4,
Send a copy ofall responses to the following on behnlfof
Derrick Price Williamson, Esquire
Barry A. Naurn, Esquire
Spilman Thomas &Battle, PLLC
1100 Bent Creek Boulevard, Suite 101
Mechanicsb~g,PA 17050
Susan J. Riggs, Esquire
Lee F.Feinberg, Esquire
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC
Spilman Center
300 Kanawha Boulevard, East
Charleston, WV 25301
Stephen J, Bmon
J. Kennedy & Associates, Inc.
570 Colonial Park Drive, Suite 305
Roswell, GA 30075
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Please provide a copy of all responses that have been made to date, and all tesponses that
are made from this date forward, on behalf of the Companies, their affiliates, or their
parent company, to interrogatories or data requests served upon the C o m p a ~ e sor any of
their &iliatm or their parent c o m p ~ in
y the abov~~eferenced
proceeding,
Please provide all workpapers, in electronic spreadsheet format with formulas intact,
where available, suppo~ingeach of Mr.Vaughan's exhibits and analyses.
Please provide the. AEP Zone Net CON
used by Mr. Vaughan that reflect, at
et amounts. Please also provide the
source documents used to develop the Net CONE i~ormation,
minimL~,the Gross CONE and the
~ yeffect nt any
Please provide copies of any standby and/or maintemanc~tariffs c ~ r e n in
AEP Operating C o m p ~ y(including AEP West Companies). For each such tariff,
p~ovide an explanation ,of the methodology used to develop the standby and/or
maintenance rates.
Please provide the current number of customers, including Special Contract customers,
who utilize any standby, maintenance, or supplement^ power rates. For each such
customer taking standby service, please provide (without disclosing customer names):
a.
The standby kW demend;
b,
The maintenance kW demand; and
c,
The s u p p l e ~ e npower
~ l ItW demand.
Please identify each separate standby power eveiit during the past 12 months (or a recent
12.month period) in which the customer required standby power due to a forced outage
ofthe customer's generation; for each such event, please provide:
a,
The total number o f hours of the event;
b,
The dale and time that the event began; and
c.
The date and time that the event ended.
Please provide, for each of the past 36 months, the APCo/WPCo MW load at the time of
the monthly APGo/WPCo peak and the date and time of such monthly peak.
For each Special Contxact customer that has an i n ~ r ~ p t i bload
l e provision in its contract,
please provide a description of the methodoio~yused by the Companies 10 d e t ~ m i n ethe
inter~ptibleload credit amount included in the contract rate (without disclosing customer
names).
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Q9.
For each Special Contract customer that has standby, maintenance, or supplemental
power provisions in its contract, please provide a description of the methodology wed by
the C o m p ~ i e sto determine such standby, main ten an^, or supplemental power rates
included in the contract (without disclosing customer names),
QlO.
Please provide the number of APCol Co customers that currently p~ticipatein a PJM
DR p r o g r ~(either through a CSP or on their own). For each such customer, please
provide (without disclosing customer names):
a.
The PJM DR program(s) such custome~participa~esin, and
b,
The kW load registered iii the PJM DR em~rgencyprogram.
Q 11, For each Special Contract that includes an i n t e ~ ~ p t i bload
l e provision, please provide the
following (withou~disclosing customer name^):
a.
The amount of interrup~ible(DR) load regis$ered/accredited to the PJM DR
pro~ram.
b.
The name of the PJM DR program in which the Special Contract DR load is
registered,
c.
The PJM delivery years in which A P C o ~ P C ohas registered the interruptible
(DR)load.
d,
The amount of in$er~ptibleload reflected in the Special Contract for billing
purposes.
Ql2, Re~erencethe Direct Testimony of John Scalzo, pa
line 8. Please provide all
analyses that support the statement: "the pricing of the
der ConsideKation fairly and
reasonably reflects the value of the DR Riders to the C o m p ~ n i ecustomers."
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Q13. Refei,eiice the Direct Testimony of Alex Vaughan, page 8, lines 14-22.
a.
Please explain why it is ~ p r o p ~ atot eprovide "any energy payments from PJM
that the Companies would receive for c u i ~ ~ l m eunder
n ~ this rider" to all
customers through the ENE.C,
b,
Please confims that "all customers" would receive the capacity benefits received
by the Companies from registering the Rider D.R,S. RTO Load as "Load
M ~ a g e m e nDR
t Full."
c.
To the extent that these PJM capacity benefits that are received by "all customers''
offsets the Rider D.R.S.
- RTO capacity paymen~smade by all customers in the
ENEC, why should "all customers" receive the entirety of the energy payments
received by the C o m p ~ i e yfrom BJM?
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414, Reference the Direct Testimony of Alex Vaughw, page 15, line 15. Please provide an
illustration of the specific methodology/c~c~ilations
that the Companies' intend to use to
calculate "the former special contract customer's discount to the tariff rate schedule,"
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Reference the Direct Testimony of Alex Vaughan, page 15, line 15.
a.
Please provide the basis for the statement: "The discount so calculated represents
the amount all customers are currently paying for the special contract customer's
inter~ptiblecapacity through base rates."
b.
For each such Special Contract, provide the basis for the assumption that 100% of
the discount is associated with the customer's amount of interruptible load.
416. Reference proposed Rider D.R.S. - RTO Capacity.
a.
Please provide an explanation for the C o m p ~ i e sreservation
'
of rights to "limit
the aggregate amount of i n t ~ u p t i b l capacity
e
contracted for under this Rider."
b,
Pleese also explain the criteria that the Companies' will employ to determine any
such 1irni~tiQn~
THE WEST VIRQMIA ENERGY USERS GROUP
M e c h ~ i c ~ b u rPA
g , 17050
Phone: (717) 795-2741
Fax: (717) 795-2743
Susan J, Riggs, Esquire (WV State Bar #5246)
Lee P.Feinberg, Esquire (WV State Bar fll173)
Spilrnan Thomas & Battle, PLLC
Spilman Center
300 Kanawhn Boulevard, East
Cl~arleston,WV 25301
Phone: (304) 340.3867
Fax: (304) 340-3801
Counsel to the West Virginia Energy Users Group
Dated this 271h day of January,2016
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Phone: 717.795.2742
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304,340,0325
Phone:
304,340~0426
Date: Thursday, January 07,2016
CASENO. 15-1734-E-T-PC
APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY and
WHEELING POWER COMPANY
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Tariff Filing for Approval of Two New Riders for Demand
Response end a New StRndhrd Backiip and main ten^^
Service Schedule and for Consent and Approval of Certain
Ratemaking for the Proposed DR Riders
Re:
Pages: 8, including fax cover sheet
If you did not receive d l of the pages, please call SRrnh Stoner at 717.791.2015,
Notes:
Please find attached for filing "The West VirginiaEnergy Users Group's Flrst Set of
Interrogatories, Data Requests and Requestsjor P r o ~ c t l o nof Documents IO Appalachian Power
Company and Wheeling Power Company" in the above-referenced proceeding, The original and
twelve (12) copies are being sent via overnight Federal Express. Thank you.
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