20250422Comments_8.pdf

From: Kevin Ehle ([e-mail]) Sent You a Personal Message
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:11 AM
To: secretary<[e-mail]>
Subject: IPC-E-25-15 Public Comment
Dear Idaho Public Utilities Commission,
We added 35 solar panels in 2022 to my home. The purpose was to power my home and
reduce my energy bills. It has worked well for the first 2 years. We are absolutely shocked
that Idaho Power can just steal our power like this.We tried to do the right thing, and we are
being criminalized.We should at the very least be grandfathered in before these
outrageous rate changes go into effect. We feel for the other newer solar owners who are in
this same situation.
I?m very concerned about Idaho Power?s proposal to slash rooftop solar compensation
rates by up to 80%. Paying rooftop solar owners less than 1 ?/kWh for the power they put
onto the grid for eight months out of the year, while then charging regular customers at
Least 8?/kWh for that same electricity, is extremely unfair.
Last year's solar rate changes, coupled with the increased fixed service charges, were
already devastating for Idaho Power customers. Please do a thorough review to check the
utility's math and assumptions, listen to outside experts and customers, and don't let this
monopoly utility unfairly squeeze money out of its customers and undercut their right to
generate their own power.
Also, please improve the public process by adding a virtual testimony option (as is provided
at Public Service Commissions in all neighboring states)to help ensure you can hear the
important perspectives from everyone who will be impacted by Idaho Power?s changes.
Written comments and public hearings with limited times and locations are not enough.
Thankyou.
Sincerely,
Kevin Ehle
738 south tiburon avenue
Meridian, ID 83642
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Ryan Pett
Submission Time: Apr 21 2025 8:44PM
Email: pettman77Pyahoo.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 16795 Abram Ave
Caldwell, ID 83607
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-15
Comment: "Dear Idaho Public Utilities Commission,
I am writing to voice my strong opposition to Idaho Power's proposed update to the Export
Credit Rate (ECR)for non-legacy on-site generation customers.
I installed my solar system nearly two years before the first ECR cut, yet I missed the legacy
customer deadline by two years. At the time of installation, it never even occurred to me
that I wouldn't be grandfathered in under the previous rate structure. Almost every
regulation I've heard of includes some form of grandfathering for those who made
decisions under the old rules. Now, having an additional 80% decrease proposed feels like
a complete departure from that standard—and a betrayal of those who installed/invested
before the changes were even announced.
Had I known that Idaho Power would later change the rules without protection for most
adopters, I would never have made the decision to invest in solar. With the proposed 80%
reduction in the ECR, I would actually be paying significantly more for my electricity than if I
had never installed panels at all.
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I chose solar to lower my bills and generate clean power—but instead, it now feels like I'm
subsidizing Idaho Power.This is not a reasonable adjustment; it is a drastic shift in value
away from the customer and toward the utility. It punishes those who tried to do the right
thing and would make solar ownership economically irrational moving forward.
Furthermore, I'd like to call attention to the hidden value that customer-owned solar
provides to Idaho Power's grid. If every solar customer were to turn off their systems at the
same time, Idaho Power would immediately feel the impact.The grid would experience a
surge in demand as homes that once supplied energy suddenly began drawing it. Idaho
Power would need to quickly ramp up generation or purchase power on the open market—
often at a much higher cost. That cost would likely be passed on to all ratepayers. This risk
is even more concerning given the rapid population growth in the Treasure Valley, which
continues to place increasing pressure on the grid. Customer-owned solar plays a crucial
role in helping meet this rising demand.
This drop in customer generation would also increase emissions and reduce grid resilience.
Idaho Power has long benefited from these privately funded, decentralized systems—
which help reduce peak load, avoid infrastructure upgrades, and contribute to a cleaner
energy mix. To drastically reduce the credit rate while continuing to enjoy these benefits is
simply not equitable.
I urge the Commission to reject this proposal and ensure that energy policy in Idaho
remains transparent, fair, and consistent with long-held principles like grandfathering and
investment protection and not penalize people for trying to help modernize our grid and
reduce our collective energy burden.
Sincerely,
Ryan Pett
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: James Donnelly
Submission Time:Apr 22 2025 11:34AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 4320 Edgemont Street
Boise, ID 83706
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Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-15
Comment: "The current proposal by Idaho Power to lower our Off-peak export credit rate
will make home solar installs not viable. This rate change will effectively remove any
incentive to have a home solar installations and cause myself and many other non-
grandfathered in sites to never be able to get our initial investment back from our privately
owned on-site solar installations:'
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Scott Runkel
Submission Time:Apr 22 2025 2:30PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1610 Northridge Drive
Haney, ID 83333
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-15
Comment: "I am writing to oppose the proposed reduction in solar generation credit for
energy returned to the grid. At the proposed level, it will be difficult for residents to justify
putting in panels. Perhaps that is Idaho Power's intention, but with the expected increase in
demand and the clean energy goals of IP, it seems logical that we should be encouraging
residents to install renewable energy generation on homes. Please reject IP's new rate and
persuade them to come up with a credit system that is fair for everyone.
Thank you!"
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Name: Brian Tish
Submission Time: Apr 22 2025 2:43PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 16358 w linden
Caldwell, ID 83607
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Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-15
Comment: "I am wrighting today in regard to the Idaho power change to solar customers. I
would encourage the PUC to study the numbers from both sides. Idaho powers has already
asked to change the rules of the game in the Middle. I don't believe that is the correct. How
can they request to change things they aggred to already?"
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From:Wendy Garbart ([e-mail]) Sent You a Personal Message
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 2:06 PM
To: secretary<[e-mail]>
Subject: IPC-E-25-15 Public Comment
Dear Idaho Public Utilities Commission,
The power companies make enough money. Stop trying to disallow residents from having
clean solar energy at their homes.
I?m very concerned about Idaho Power?s proposal to slash rooftop solar compensation
rates by up to 80%. Paying rooftop solar owners less than 1 ?/kWh for the power they put
onto the grid for eight months out of the year, while then charging regular customers at
Least 8?/kWh for that same electricity, is extremely unfair.
Last year's solar rate changes, coupled with the increased fixed service charges, were
already devastating for Idaho Power customers. Please do a thorough review to check the
utility's math and assumptions, listen to outside experts and customers, and don't let this
monopoly utility unfairly squeeze money out of its customers and undercut their right to
generate their own power.
Also, please improve the public process by adding a virtual testimony option (as is provided
at Public Service Commissions in all neighboring states)to help ensure you can hear the
important perspectives from everyone who will be impacted by Idaho Power?s changes.
Written comments and public hearings with limited times and locations are not enough.
Thankyou.
Sincerely,
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Wendy Garbart
736 SE 48th Ave
Portland, OR 97215
wendy.garbartPgmail.com
[phone]
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Brenda Yoder
Submission Time: Apr 22 2025 3:11 PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2700 N 30th St.
Boise, ID 83703
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-15
Comment: "I feel it is important to me to continue to be strong supporters of solar power
for helping protect our environment. It is also important to me to use our solar power to
help reduce our electric bill. I feel it is important to stand up for those who have decided to
promote solar power. These incredible proposed reductions in reimbursement for power
will eliminate further people from considering making this step. Also with these
extraordinary reductions in reimbursement it is almost impossible to pay off the price of
getting solar.
This is certainly not a fair proposal for something that would be good for our earth!"
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