COMMITMENTS: Commitments Level 3 (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Contracts for Purchase of Electric Power

At December 31, 2019, Idaho Power had the following long-term commitments relating to purchases of energy, capacity, transmission rights, and fuel (in thousands of dollars):



	2020		2021		2022		2023		2024		Thereafter
Cogeneration and power production	$	241,835	$	248,481	$	251,964	$	262,735	$	266,061	$	2,739,123
Fuel	55,693		36,069		8,389		8,379		8,371		75,074

Long-term Purchase Commitment

Idaho Power also has the following long-term commitments (in thousands of dollars):



	2020		2021		2022		2023		2024		Thereafter
Joint-operating agreement payments⁽¹⁾	$	2,678	$	2,678	$	2,678	$	2,678	$	2,678	$	13,391
Easements and other payments	269		1,124		1,072		1,062		1,055		16,408
Maintenance and service agreements⁽¹⁾	47,547		13,797		16,468		7,143		7,354		55,768
FERC and other industry-related fees⁽¹⁾	14,178		13,874		13,056		13,056		13,056		65,278

(1) Approximately $27 million, $48 million, and $131 million of the obligations included in joint-operating agreement payments, maintenance and service agreements, and FERC and other industry-related fees, respectively, have contracts that do not specify terms related to expiration. As these contracts are presumed to continue indefinitely, ten years of information, estimated based on current contract terms, has been included in the table for presentation purposes.