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ELLEN F. ROSENBLUM Attorney General
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GENERAL COUNSEL DIVISION
MARY H. WILLIAMS Deputy Attorney General
July 25, 2013
Public Utility Commission of Oregon Attn: Filing Center 550 Capitol Street, NE 215 P.O. Box 2148 Salem, Oregon 97308-2148
Re: Docket No. UE 266
Dear Filing Center:
Enclosed for filing please find the original and one copy of the Staff Motion to Admit Exhibit. The motion concerns Staff Exhibit 100, which is the Staffs Joint Reply Testimony. Attached to the motion are affidavits of staff witnesses John Crider and Jorge Ordonez attesting to the truthfulness of Joint Reply Testimony.
The affidavit of Jorge Ordonez is a copy of the original. The original will be filed early next week (between July 29-31, 2013).
Thank you for your attention.
DATED this a) day of July 2013.
Respectfully submitted,
ELLEN F. ROSENBLUM Attorney General
Stephanie S. Andrus, #92512 Senior Assistant Attorney General Of Attorneys for Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon
1162 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4096 Telephone: (503) 947-4342 Fax: (503) 378-3784 TTY: (800) 735-2900 www.doj.state.or.us
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Page 1 - STAFF MOTION TO ADMIT EXHIBIT
ha Stephani S\An s, #92512 Senior Assistant Attorney General Of Attorneys for Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF OREGON
UE 266
In the Matter of STAFF MOTION TO ADMIT EXHIBIT
PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Net Variable Power Costs and Annual Power Cost Update
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon ("Staff') moves to admit Staff Exhibit
100, the Joint Reply Testimony of Staff witnesses John Crider and Jorge Ordonez. Staff filed
Staff Exhibit 100 in the above-captioned docket on May 21, 2013. Accompanying this motion
are affidavits by John Crider and Jorge Ordonez attesting to the truthfulness of their testimony.
These witness qualification statements are attached to the witnesses' affidavits.
•kv\ DATED this day of July 2013.
Respectfully submitted,
ELLEN F. ROSENBLUM Attorney General
Department of Justice 1162 Court Street NE
Salem, OR 97301-4096 (503) 947-4342 / Fax: (503) 378-3784
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BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
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UE 266
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6 PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC 7 COMPANY
Net Variable Power Costs and Annual Power 8 Cost Update
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ss. 11 County of Marion
AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN CRIDER
12 I, JOHN CRIDER, hereby depose and say:
13 1. I am employed as Senior Utility Analyst in the Energy Resources and Planning Section of
14 the Energy Division of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.
15 2. In the course of my employment, I drafted Joint Staff Reply Testimony with Jorge
16 Ordonez, which was labeled Staff Exhibit 100 and pre-filed in this docket on May 21,
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18 3. My witness qualification statement is attached to this affidavit.
19 4. The statements in my witness qualification statement are true and accurate, as is my
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OFFICIAL SEAL MELANIE R FORSYTH
NOTARY PUBLIC - OREGON COMMISSION NO. 460254
MY COMMISSION EXPIRES JULY 20, 2015 Notary Public for Ore My Commission Expires:
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WITNESS QUALIFICATION STATEMENT
NAME: JOHN CRIDER
EMPLOYER: PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF OREGON
TITLE: SENIOR UTILITY ANALYST, ELECTRIC RESOURCES AND PLANNING
ADDRESS: 550 CAPITOL ST. NE, SALEM, OR 97308-2148
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science, Engineering, University of Maryland
EXPERIENCE: I have been employed at the Oregon Public Utility Commission (Commission) since August of 2012. My current responsibilities include analysis and technical support for electric power cost recovery proceedings, with an emphasis on variable power costs and purchases from qualifying facilities. Prior to working for the OPUC I was an engineer in the Strategic Planning division for Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) in Gainesville, Florida. My responsibilities at GRU included analysis, design and support for generation economic dispatch modeling, wholesale power transactions, net metering, distributed solar generation and fuel (coal and natural gas) planning. Previous to working for GRU, I was a staff design engineer for Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) where my responsibilities included design of control and communications system in support of water and hydro operations. I am a registered professional engineer in both Oregon and Florida.
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UE 266
In the Matter of
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AFFIDAVIT OF JORGE ORDONEZ
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1. I am employed as Senior Financial Economist in the Energy Resources and Planning
Section of the Energy Division of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.
2. In the course of my employment, I drafted Joint Staff Reply Testimony with John Crider,
which was labeled Staff Exhibit 100 and pre-filed in this docket on May 21, 2013.
3. My witness qualification statement is attached to this affidavit.
4. The statements in my witness qualification statement are true and accurate, as is my
testimony.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 2-1day of JU1Vk , 2013.
ublic for Oregon My Commission Expires: In 22.2-010
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WITNESS QUALIFICATION STATEMENT
NAME Jorge D. Ordonez
EMPLOYER Public Utility Commission of Oregon
TITLE Senior Financial Economist, Energy Resources and Planning Section
ADDRESS 550 Capitol Street NE, Suite 215, Salem, Oregon 97301-2115
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Utility Management Certificate Willamette University, Oregon, 2008
Certificate in Management of Hydropower Development Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sweden, 2006 & South Africa, 2007
Fulbright Scholar, MBA, concentration in finance Willamette University, Oregon, 2005
Certificate in Project Appraisal and Management Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, 2002
BS, Mechanical Engineering, thermal power efficiency Electrical & Mechanical Engineering School San Antonio Abad University, Peru, 1998
EXPERIENCE I received a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering School at San Antonio Abad University in Cusco, Peru in 1998. Subsequently, as a Fulbright Scholar, I received an MBA with an emphasis in finance from Willamette University in 2005. From 1999 to 2008, I worked for a Peruvian power generation company and was promoted many times, working as an Engineer, Resource Scheduler, Manager of Economic Planning and Vice-President of Generation, Commercial and Trading. Since January 2009, I have been employed by the Public Utility Commission of Oregon as a Senior Financial Economist, evaluating utilities' issuance of securities, cost of capital, mergers and acquisitions, cost studies, rate spread and rate design, integrated resource plans, automatic demand response programs, prudency of investments, and power costs.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE/SERVICE LIST
I hereby certify that on July 25, 2013, I served the foregoing STAFF MOTION TO
ADMIT EXHIBIT upon the persons named on the service list below, who have waived such
service by mail, by serving a full, true and correct copy thereof at their e-mail address, as
follows.
Gregory M. Adams Richardson & O'Leary [email protected]
Kurt J. Boehm Boehm Kurtz & Lowry [email protected]
R. Bryce Dalley Pacific Power [email protected]
Maja Haium League of Oregon Cities [email protected]
Jody Kyler Cohn Boehm, Kurtz & Lowry [email protected]
Oregon Dockets PacifiCorp, dba Pacific Power [email protected]
Tracy Rutten League of Oregon Cities [email protected]
Nona Soltero Fred Meyer Stores/Kroger [email protected]
Stephan Andrus (C) PUC Staff—Department of Justice Business Activities Section [email protected]
Tommy A. Brooks Cable Huston Benedict Haagensen & Lloyd [email protected]
Megan Walseth Decker (C) Renewable Northwest Project [email protected]
Kevin Higgins Energy Strategies LLC [email protected]
G. Catriona McCracken (C) Citizens' Utility Board of Oregon [email protected]
Lisa F. Rackner McDowell Rackner & Gibson PC [email protected]
Irion A. Sanger (C) Davison Van Cleve [email protected]
Chad M. Stokes Cable Huston Benedict Haagensen & Lloyd LLP [email protected]
Gregg Bass Noble Americas Energy Solutions, LLC [email protected]
John Crider (C) Public Utility Commission of Oregon john.crider@state . or. us
E-Filing Northwest Natural [email protected]
Robert Jenks (C) Citizens' Utility Board of Oregon [email protected]
OPUC Dockets Citizens' Utility Board of Oregon [email protected]
Johanna Riemenschneider (C) PUC-Staff Oregon Department of Justice j ohanna.riemenschneider@doj . state. or. us
Donald W. Schoenbeck (C) Regulatory & Cogeneration Services Inc. [email protected]
Mark R. Thompson Northwest Natural [email protected]
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S. Bradley Van Cleve (C) Davison Van Cleve PC [email protected]
Jay Tinker (C) Portland General Electric [email protected]
Douglas Tingey (C) Portland General Electric [email protected]
Sarah Wallace Pacific Power [email protected]
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