20250609Comments_23.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Zucc Balz
Submission Time: Jun 62025 9:37PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 69420
Twin Falls , ID 83301
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: 69
Comment: "Another rate increase?
You do realize what kind people you provide service to, right?
The kind who can live without power.
The kind who hunt and fish, and won't tolerate being taken advantage of.
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Michael Rocco
Submission Time: Jun 6 2025 11:19PM
Email: michael.rocco9957(@9mail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1286 E. Fort Erie St
Kuna, ID 83634
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I question the validity of the proposed rate hikes for residential and small
business. It feels like the general population will foot the bill for companies such as Micron
and Meta. "
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Rick Bayles
Submission Time: Jun 72025 8:05AM
Email: dogbitel<[e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 6062 east Borley Rd.
Coeur D Alene, ID 83814
Name of Utility Company:Avista
Case ID: IPC-E-25-1
Comment: "About this increase 17.02 % is a hefty amount of increase for those of us that
are retired and on a fixed income, we realize costs are not going g to be the safe forever but
Let's be realistic when you slap that big of a percentage increase on especially the fixed
income families do you ever take in consideration where we are going to come up with the
extra money for that or do we have to buy less food or cut ourselves short in another area
to be able to find the money to pay the increase.
We love our homes and worked hard to be able to have them why don't you bother to think
of a way to help us instead of having the attitude of screw them let them pay or get outHH
They are not our problem.
Rick Bayles
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Name: Gary Hamilton
Submission Time: Jun 72025 8:48AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 10522 Airpark Loop
Melba, ID 83641
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-1
Comment: "The Treasure Valley is growing in population and industry at a rapid pace. Idaho
Power wants to increase rates, supposedly because of this growth. Let's be sure the
newcomers and large corporations pay for the growth they bring, and not put the load on
existing residential Idahoans:'
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Janet Richards
Submission Time: Jun 72025 8:41AM
Email: chl<[e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 637 Hidden Lake Ct
Middleton, ID 83644
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "The rate increase will be crippling to Idahoans and to our state. Idaho seems to
be following California, which is sinking and why so many left. We are one of them along
with many other family members.Wages in Idaho have not increased with costs. Fixed
incomes don't increase with costs. The cost of living here has sky rocketed, and it's literally
forcing stay at home Moms to seek employment, causing those on fixed incomes to choose
between a meal or meds, food banks are in bigger demand for donations because families
cannot afford groceries.This is reality, it's us, the customers, who are living here in this
reality. Real people now struggling, who weren't 6 years ago. And Idaho Power wants to
burden us with an unnecessary large rate increase? Their greed is literally harming people:'
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Randy Smith
Submission Time: Jun 72025 9:34AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 228 S Dudley Lane
Nampa, ID 83687
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power Co
Case ID: IPC-W-2516
Comment: "We are a retired couple in our mid to late 70s and on a fixed income. Lastyear
we elected to go to level pay and auto payment for our electric bills. We found it easier to
budget a given amount for each month, rather than being subject to huge bills during the
months that our usage is up, namely during the summer months due to air conditioning. 1
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contacted Idaho Power to check on any changes to our level pay amount. Although our
Level pay increased about$14, 1 was told that a $5 in the monthly service charge had been
assessed, increasing from $10 to $15. 1 asked what that charge is for and was told that it
helps to recoup costs that the company incurs regardless of the usage, such as billings,
meter readings and repairs. So for any customer who uses little to no electricity, the utility
still assesses that service charge. At this juncture, I had to ask myself whether this was a
charge included in the company filings to the Commission for increases. I contacted the
Commission office and spoke with Curtis regarding my question. He explained the
situation and the request by Idaho Power to increase this service charge in 2023 to $25, but
the Commission required Idaho Power to phase it in over a two-year period.
Taking data from their one of their web sites, I have serious questions as to why Idaho
Power needs this charge, let alone a whopping$15 or$25 assessment. Idaho Power
claims to have about 620,000 customers, not all in Idaho and, probably, commercial
customers in this number. Assuming all 620k customers are assessed the $5 increase and
pay this fee monthly, Idaho Power would collect$3,100,000. Extending that to a yearly
amount, it would be over$37,000,000. What is Idaho Power doing to the power grid that
needs that kind of investment by customers each year? Raising the service fee to the$25
they asked for in 2023, Idaho Power would be collecting$15,500,000 monthly,
$186,000,000 annually.
I don't know what kind of justification they have to offer for this huge amount, unless it is to
satisfy earnings and stockholder expectations. I think they should reset the service charge
to the last amount of$10. That would still allow them to recoup most of their costs with
$6,200,000 monthly, $74,400,000 annually that they say cannot be absorbed in the
proposed usage rate increases.
Customers in more impoverished circumstances, may have to decide whether to pay the
power bill or provide food and housing for the family. I'm confident that many Idaho Power
customers participate in Project Share to help these folks with their bills. However, this is
not the answer for Idaho Power customers. From our perspective, there is no justification
for these charges and proposed increases:'
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Susannah Patterson
Submission Time: Jun 7 2025 10:OOAM
Email:[e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 62 Valley Rd
St. Maries, ID 83861
Name of Utility Company:Avista
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I disagree with raising power rates. It disproportionately affects residential
users while industrial and big corporations get off with less. This is not equal treatment so it
is unconstitutional we should be affected the same % or it is the government picking
winners and losers. Also, why are we moving to renewables when coal works great and
doesn't shut down in extreme weather? People died in TX over multiple years due to
renewables failing them. We should aim for no more than 50% renewables unless you want
a winter grid collapse that kills mass amounts of our population. Learn from recent history!
Blood will be on your hands! Also, wildfire mitigation blackouts is a lie.You will kill people if
you turn off some people's power. So now you are going to warn them ahead of time they
are going to die!?Theyjust get extra warning the power will be cut,you can't expect me to
believe you care enough to go to everyone who requires electricity to save lives and make
sure they are moved or have a generator? I moved away from California to get away from
communism.This is not democracy for take a utility away the people pay for and you
decide when they are allowed to have it. Next we will have social scores tied to our smart
meters and if you don't like our opinions we won't get electricity until we repent and bow to
big brother. I won't go silently to the gulags. Infrastructure changes we have to pay for
should also only be done when it 100% benefits ID customers, otherwise we are upping our
rates for other state use. Tell them "No! ID consumers need the power" of you have to. It
seems a ton of unnecessary changes are happening that cost money when you could just
maintain what we have at a far greater be benefit to the vast majority of ppl in ID. Don't pass
rates higher than seniors cola's. I have seen too many lose their home because inflation
and government has forced them out.Whoever is for this and made these decisions should
be ashamed. God knows your greed and real agenda, may he turn you from this path or his
judgement fall upon you swiftly before these wrenched changes can be implemented:'
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Robb Geesen
Submission Time: Jun 7 2025 12:54PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 608N 10W
Shoshone , ID 83352
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-1
Comment: "As an elderly, senior citizen, I believe utility rates need to be kept in check at
the same inflation rate as my Social Security yearly increase (2.5% in 2025). My winter
bills, since I have an all electric house, are often 25% or more of my social security. Why
the tier steps of increase for using electric in my electric home, I will never understand. It is
not like I can shut the heat off to trim my bill.
Therefore I oppose the increase in that exorbitant rate hike. I refuse to accept public
assistance with my heat bills. I prefer to stand on my own two feet. So keep my rates
affordable please. Please deny anything over the 2.5% increase."
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Robb GEESEN
Submission Time: Jun 72025 1:12PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 608N 10W
Shoshone , ID 83352
Name of Utility Company: IDAHO POWER
Case ID: E-25-16
Comment: "As an elderly, senior citizen, I believe utility rates need to be kept in check at
the same inflation rate as my Social Security yearly increase (2.5% in 2025). My winter
bills, since I have an all electric house, are often 25% or more of my social security. Why
the tier steps of increase for using electric in my electric home, I will never understand. It is
not like I can shut the heat off to trim my bill.
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Therefore I oppose the increase in that exorbitant rate hike. I refuse to accept public
assistance with my heat bills. I prefer to stand on my own two feet. So keep my rates
affordable please. Please deny anything over the 2.5% "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Elizabeth Olson
Submission Time: Jun 72025 1:42PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: po box 247
Garden Valley, ID 83622
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-1
Comment: "Case IPC-E-25-16
Idaho families deserve transparency, fairness, and a utility that works for them, not just for
corporate growth.—Idaho Sen. Christy Zito
Idaho Power is about to slap customers with a huge rate increase. This MUST NOT happen!
Idaho Power's proposed 2026 rate hike (Case No. IPC-E-25-16), seeks a 17.02% increase in
residential base rates, a 67% rise in monthly service charges, and higher per-kWh rates,
disproportionately impacting families, farmers, and small businesses compared to large
industrial users like Meta and Micron.
We oppose this hike, which unfairly shifts the cost of Idaho's growth and infrastructure
investments, including coal plant transitions and regional energy market participation, onto
everyday ratepayers.
We oppose:
• Rate Increases: 17.02% increase in residential base rates. Monthly service charge rises
from $15 to $25 (67% increase). Higher per-kWh rates for all usage levels.
• Time-of-Use Pricing: Optional plan to shift usage to off-peak hours.
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• Cost Shift: $46.8 million in power costs moved from Power Cost Adjustment to
permanent base rates.
• Infrastructure Investments: Funds coal plant closures, renewable energy, and regional
market infrastructure. Includes smart meters, transmission lines, and corporate facilities.
• Uneven burden: Residential and small business customers face over double the
percentage rate increase of large commercial/industrial users. Families, seniors, and
farmers bear the brunt, while big corporations benefit.
• Regional Energy Market Investments vs Idaho Interests: Investments support Western
Energy Imbalance Market, potentially serving out-of-state demand. Why should Idaho
ratepayers fund non-local benefits?
• Wildfire Mitigation Cost Shift: $25 million for wildfire mitigation included in rate hike.
This bypasses accountability under Idaho's Wildfire Standard of Care Act (S1183).
• Risky Precedent: Similar policies in California led to massive rate hikes and blackouts.
New York's climate legislation adds $3 billion annually to resident costs. Europe's lesson:
Spain, France, England, and Germany no longer can meet energy needs due to"Green
Energy/Climate Change Hoax" policies like those Idaho Power intends to implement.
Please DO NOT approve this rate hike!"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Virgel Clark
Submission Time: Jun 72025 1:53PM
Email: bobc012001 @yahoo.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2259 South White Pine Place
Boise, ID 83706
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "The proposed Idaho Power rate increase unfairly burdens residential
customers and favors large corporations. The increase is inequitably distributed such that
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the families of Idaho incur larger percentage billing increases, and subsidize the heavy
industrial corporate users of electrical power. It is the Metas and Microns who are causing
heavy increases in power demand, and they should bear the larger percentage billing
increase. Idaho families should not have to subsidize the ever-increasing electricity
demand of large corporations. To do otherwise is unfair to everyday Idahoans. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Jacki Sorenson
Submission Time: Jun 72025 2:26PM
Email:[e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1118 El Rancho Blvd
Pocatello, ID 83201
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "It is completely unfair that residential customers and small businesses are
facing a 17% rate hike while big businesses are only facing a 5% to 10 % increase. Big
businesses use 3 times the power than residential do."
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: James Barrick
Submission Time: Jun 7 2025 10:28PM
Email: gLobie_jamCcbhotmaiL.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2922 Chester Ln
Caldwell, ID 83605-1630
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I have a mailer in my hand that says: Idaho Power Requests Rate DECREASE in
Annual PCA Filing" "... All Idaho customers will see a price decrease."
Filed March 14th and to take effect June 1. What changed?"
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Name: John Wydick
Submission Time: Jun 82025 6:17AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 905 W Iowa Ave
Nampa, ID 83686
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "With this current rate increase of 17.35 % on residential customers and a
increase in the service charge to $25.00 (solar customers should be paying this service
charge increase not regular residential users) it is going to place a burden upon residential
users.With the increase of large power users like Micron and Meta these companies and
other classes of users need to start sharing more of these costs instead of placing so much
on the residential user. When considering this rate increase please remember that each
residential customer represents a family and families in Idaho are stressed to the breaking
point with what they are dealing with the high cost of inflation. Every time Idaho Power
requests a rate increase it appears that it has become automatic for the Idaho PUC to grant
their requests. If a line is not drawn on these rate increases Idaho is going to go the way of
other states whose power has become a burden upon it's users. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name:Traci Hammrich
Submission Time: Jun 82025 8:52AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 3524 S Glacier Bay Ave
Meridian, ID 83642
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Idaho power should not be I creating prices on Idahoans who are already
struggling to make ends meet.We are getting squeezed by increasing prices everywhere.
Seems as though California will benefit more from this. They need to be footing the bill. The
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increase in Idaho population also means more revenue for Idaho power. They need to be
more fiscally responsible like Idaho families have to be just to put food in the table. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Melody Studer
Submission Time: Jun 8 2025 1:10PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 462 N Cove Colony Way
Eagle, ID 83616
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I would like to express my opinion in strong opposition to Idaho Power's
proposal to increase the residential service charge from $15 to $25. Not to long ago, I
remember it being$5, then $10. Now, they are seeking another$120/year from residential
customers. They claim on their website that this higher service charge yields a larger
portion of the customers' monthly bill be collected through the fixed fee charge. What a
Load of crap to the customer!This completely undermines the customer who is trying to be
energy efficient, trying to use alternate energy sources to keep their bill low. Now, even if a
home (like mine is often in the summer), is completely energy efficient through the summer
and barely imports any power from the grid because I invested in solar- - I'm being
punished for it. It sure seems that all the recent "moves" Idaho Power is making recently
goes against everyone who is trying to be efficient of their resources. I invested in solar to
NOT HAVE A BILL!!!! And this big monopolized entity is just sticking it to people like us and
saying--too bad, we are going to get your money one way or another. I'll tell you guys this -
if this goes much further you're going to have people disconnecting from the grid all
together. I have solar and a battery backup plan - - I know I sure can sustain myself without
Idaho Power at all. Please reconsider what this surcharge is doing to the customers. Even
fixed income folks. The extra $120/year- no matter WHAT THEY IMPORT FROM THE GRID -
- is asking a lot! Honestly, I'd rather Idaho Power keep their fixed fee connection fee at$5,
and increase power rates. Have people PAY FOR WHAT THEY USE - not be punished
regardless of their use!! This is ridiculous. "
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.The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Blair Christensen
Submission Time: Jun 82025 6:22PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 9797 Tanglewood
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "The majority of the rising costs should be paid for by the impact fees being
charged on new residential buildings. The real problem, however, are the sweetheart deals
being given to large corporations like Meta for data centers that consume as much
electricity-and water-as many Idaho cities yet are not required to pay the associated costs
and impact fees.
Idaho power should stop trying to pass off these fees to taxpayers already burdened by our-
of-control property values and associated taxes and instead ask for the imposition of
graduated and increasing electricity costs on the commercial users driving up demand:'
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Name: Brian Tish
Submission Time: Jun 8 2025 11:39PM
Email: b tish msn.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 16358 w linden
Caldwell, ID 83607
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I understand a company such as Idaho power is in the business of making
money. My problem with the rate increases is with the fixed cost increase. No matter how
hard I try or what i do to decress my use of electric Idaho power still wants more money
from me. And also in almost every bill I get something about conserving power usage. So
what is it they want me to use less but still pay more? Doesn't seem right to me"
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Name: dale klein
Submission Time: Jun 9 2025 12:08AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 4454 E. Jennifer Drive
nampa, ID 83686
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Hi, I'm opposed to any rate hikes from Idaho Power Company! I don't agree
with Idaho Power shutting down the Boardman coal plant in Oregon and exiting the Jim
Bridger facility in Wyoming by 2026 and the North Valmy Generating Station in Nevada by
2031. These plants have historically provided about 40% of Idaho Power's electricity
supply.The company says it's on a path to 100% clean energy by 2045, and is investing
heavily in transmission lines, smart grid systems, and renewable sources like wind and
solar to get there.We already know wind and solar power generation is not always practical
for demand and wind generation doesn't have a great payback! I'm on a fixed income that
doesn't keep up with electricity costs! thanks"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name:Warren Grover
Submission Time: Jun 92025 7:48AM
Email: ltcgrover gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 103 Valley View Dr.
Horseshoe Bend, ID 83629
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I, like a lot of the people I know, am retired and on a fixed income. These
continuous raises to our utility bills gives us less money for life's necessities. I am sure
none of this matters to Idaho Power or to the commission that ultimately decides yes or no
on rate hikes, but it matters to thousands of Idahoans who are strugglingjust to live. We
vote for our legislators who ultimately set the parameters for commissions that effect our
Lives; but our legislators often fail to stand for the little guy and bow down to big business.
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In this case, a lot of the money being asked for is not even for the benefit of Idahoans. Do
not be surprised when people bad-mouth your company and ask for legislators to do all
they can to slow down this ever increasing spiral of rising costs. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Steve Haney
Submission Time: Jun 92025 3:39PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 15168 Kings Row Rd
Caldwell, ID 83607
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I have lived in the Treasure Valley in Idaho for over 65 years. I have been a
customer of Idaho power the entire time. I am tired of paying for the growth when I had
nothing to do with those wanting to come here and enjoy the great area I have called home
my entire life. I feel that Growth should be paying for its on way. If big business wants to
enjoy our inexpensive way of life they should have to pay for their impact on those that live
here. I people want to move here and enjoy our way of life they should not cause me to
have to pay more for where I live. Those that are coming here need to be paying larger
percent than those how have been here and have not impacted the needs that cause Idaho
Power to have to grow there footprint. Please find away to protect those that are here for
the long term. Do not drive us out of the area because we can no longer afford to live here.
Do Not Turn the Treasure Valley and Southern Idaho into California. Please make the power
hunger businesses pay their own way."
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Logan Altom
Submission Time: Jun 92025 4:09PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 220 Idaho St N
Eden, ID 83325
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Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I would like to state my displeasure with the proposed 17% increase in rates.
No one can keep up with the rising cost of living and raising power rates will significantly
affect the already struggling working class in the area. Many may be able to stomach the
increase, but far too many simply won't be able to. I've not seen a 17% bonus on my
paycheck nor anyone else within my social circle, so I don't see how people will be able to
absorb these costs when so many Idahoans both young and old are living paycheck to
paycheck. How will the fixed income elderly continue to survive the cost of living crisis if
things keep up like this?
If I may make a suggestion, welcome bitcoin miners to Idaho to bolster both the grid itself
and the monetization of the grid. Look no further than Texas, another Red state, as a good
example. We could potentially save money if we welcomed bitcoin miners to Idaho and we
have some of the most abundant hydroelectric availability in the entire country. Why are we
not welcoming bitcoin miners?!Why are we charging them a premium on electricitywhen it
is a verifiable fact that doing so renders mining wholly unprofitable and thus impossible to
take root and flower here.
Idaho Power and the PUC cannot remain logically consistent if they wish to modernize the
grid while simultaneously making it all but impossible for bitcoin mining to operate here.
Arguments against bitcoin and bitcoin mining may have made sense even a year ago, but
we can a very different landscape in front of us today. Please give bitcoin some serious
consideration and squash the luddites' antiquated and debunked arguments. Please seek
alternatives to raising rates and think on how this will negatively impact your customers.
Thankyou.
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