Avista's 2009 plan was filed with the Washington State, Idaho, and Oregon commissions on December 31, 2009. Please contact Greg Rahn, Avista's Manager of Natural Gas Planning, with any questions.

2009 IRP Highlights:

• Our philosophy is to reliably provide natural gas to our customers with an appropriate balance of price stability and prudent cost using our portfolio of purchase contracts, storage and firm pipeline capacity rights
• The Company forecasts sufficient natural gas resources well into the future with resource needs not occuring until 2018-2019 in Oregon and 2022-2023 in Washington and Idaho  
• The major change from the 2007 IRP is a lower demand forecast driven by lower economic growth in our service territories
• Resource needs will be met by demand-side management measures and incremental pipeline transportation capacity
• We continue our pursuit of cost effective demand-side management solutions establishing a 2010 goal to reduce demand by 2,193,000 therms in Washington and Idaho and 303,000 therms in Oregon
• As forecasted demand is relatively flat, we will monitor actual demand for signs of increased growth which could accelerate resource needs 

   2009 Natural Gas IRP  (PDF: 3.0 MB)

   2009 Natural Gas IRP Appendices  (PDF: 2.9 MB)

fourth Technical Advisory Committee Meeting

July 16, 2009. 9:30 am to 3:30 pm in the Multnomah Conference Room at Portland International Airport

 

    Meeting Agenda (46 KB)

    Meeting Presentations (579 KB)

 

    Meeting Agenda (20 KB)

    Meeting Presentations (249 KB)

   Meeting Agenda (20 KB)

   TAC 2 Presentations (1,411 KB)

 

First Technical Advisory Committee Meeting
April 28, 2009. 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at the Embassy Suites, Portland Oregon

   Meeting Agenda (20 KB)
   TAC 1 Presentations (10,230 KB)

   2006 Natural Gas IRP (PDF: 2.3 MB)

   2006 Natural Gas IRP Appendices (PDF: 1.6 MB)

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