20250616Comments_12.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Ronda Baines
Submission Time: Jun 13 2025 5:33PM
Email: ronda bainesCcbmsn.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2670 NW 4th Ave.
Fruitland, ID 83619
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E25-16
Comment: ""We're being asked to subsidize energy policies we didn't vote for, and to
sacrifice our land, our heritage, and our wallets so California can meet its carbon goals.
And while the utilities and developers reap the rewards, the ratepayers—farmers trying to
irrigate crops, families running air conditioning in the summer heat, and small businesses
managing razor-thin margins—are left holding the bill.
Who is our energy policy really serving? If we're going to build the infrastructure, endure the
Land use impacts, and pay the rising rates, shouldn't our families and communities be the
first to benefit? "
We are against the current structure of energy rates and want the rates to go down not up
to fund infrastructure for other states and corporations. We should have an Idaho First
policy. Thankyou."
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Barbara Leighty
Submission Time: Jun 14 2025 11:32AM
Email: barblei(@aol.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 250 S Aspen Lakes Place
Star, ID 83669
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Idaho Power's proposed rate hike is layered with hidden costs, from"wildfire
mitigation"expenses to federal compliance spending, pushing us closer to California's
energy model. I moved from California because of their aggressive green energy mandates
which enacted strict laws to eliminate fossil fuels and shift to 100% clean energy by 2045.
This is a ridiculous fools errand that is bankrupting the state of CA. Idaho has no such
mandate. Yet our state is building the infrastructure to help them meet theirs. Because
California can't meet its own energy goals internally, it relies on other states—particularly
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Idaho—to send it electricity generated from renewable sources like wind and solar. Sothis
boom in "green energy" development in Idaho is not to help Idahoans, it is to help
CALIFORNIA! These are not minor upgrades—they are industrial-scale projects stretching
hundreds of miles and designed specifically to move green energy from Idaho to population
centers on the West Coast.
We also have three massive energy-intensive projects now underway in southern Idaho.
Micron's $15 billion semiconductor expansion in Boise, Meta in Kuna is building a nearly
one-million-square-foot data center that will become Idaho Power's single largest energy
customer, and Diode Ventures—an affiliate of Black& Veatch—is developing the 620-
acre Gemstone Technology Park, a multi-building data center complex. These
developments are not only driving up electricity demand but also accelerating the push for
more transmission, solar, and wind infrastructure across Idaho.
All of this is happening with little say from the people who are most affected.Transmission
Lines are being routed through farm fields and along scenic corridors. Federal land
agencies, like the Bureau of Land Management, are fast-tracking approvals for projects that
serve national green energy goals, not local needs. And the costs—economic,
environmental, and cultural—are being borne by Idaho communities. This is not right!
Who is our energy policy really serving? If we're going to build the infrastructure, endure the
Land use impacts, and pay the rising rates, shouldn't our families and communities be the
first to benefit? "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Steve Roth
Submission Time: Jun 14 2025 2:39PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1245 W. Deschutes Ave.
Post Falls, I D 83854
Name of Utility Company: Avista
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Why is there even discussion that our Idaho energy cost will be going up to pay
for things that are not the residents problem?We don't care about how other states run
their programs. Leave Idaho residents alone. It's already getting too expensive to live hear.
Do not turn us into CA"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Michael Davis
Submission Time: Jun 14 2025 8:02PM
Email: mad.sunriseproCcbgmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 100 North Fillmore Street Apt 20 Jerome, ID 83338
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "3rd RATE INCREASE request in less than a year. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Hunter Muir
Submission Time: Jun 15 2025 11:38AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 776 Academic Drivd
Twin Falls, ID 83301
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "This is an excessively high increase and the purpose for it is sickening. Idaho
Power produces such a larch excess of energy from our various types of generation
equipment to sell off the extra for profits to keep ours LOW rather than jacking the prices.
As a state we are already have a surplus of energy there is no virtuous explanation for this
other than what appears to be to raise the profits for corporations. This in combination with
the new proposed solar buy back program this year is extremely disappointing for our local
government. Perhaps change is in order"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Julie Hulvey
Submission Time: Jun 15 2025 12:25PM
Email:[e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 3707 Nez Perce
Boise, ID 83705
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
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Comment: "I am submitting my objections to the proposed Idaho Power rate and fee
increases. I request that the commission decline their requests as submitted.
Three issues seem to show increases prejudicial to the individual consumers.
First is the increase to the monthly billing statement. The efficiencies of not having to even
read meters because the process is automated and electronic, the idea that you don't even
have to get a paper statement, and that statements could be consolidated and send for
time periods other than just monthly are not items that should be costing more money. The
efficiencies were put in place to save money-for the consumer. I think the increase of$10
per month per customer is unjustified. This is not providing the customer more fair access
to the utility product, power. It is a penalty for being a customer.
Secondly, it appears that the individual customers are being asked for a bigger increase
than large industrial customers. In other words, are households now subsidizing industry
expenses? The power company is speculating that they can charge less than market or
Lower rates for power for industrial uses and surcharge individuals to pay for those
discounts. That is not fair or equitable to individual consumers. In light of the fact that
many individual customers are low income, the strategy is predatory.
And finally, the power company has been issuing more stock in recent months. This tends
to make the calculation of profits seem to look smaller on a per share basis. Does this
Lowering of earnings per share keep the company out of the skeptics eye on the common
measure of earnings per share? As a matter of math, it does. Are these shares used to pay
compensation to employees in the way of income or retirement plans?The company is
straightforward in saying it needs more money for higher wages. Please require them to
provide an itemized, verified list of what new employees are needed, for what projects, and
at what wage levels. And how many employees too. Reports indicate overly generous
compensation to the executives who are well able to save money like common people.
And they are asking individual rate payers to make that a more reliable cash transfer from
the public to the company with higher statement fees and kw hour prices. This is
unacceptable.
Investors can chose to purchase Idaho Power shares or not. They take on risk and receive a
dividend in return. Company strategies to maximize investor returns through customer cost
increases at the company's whim are not in the best interest of the public. Consumers do
not have the choice of Idaho Power vs. anybody else for electricity. The ability of the
individual consumer to withstand the proposed increases should be the greatest concern.
I think consumers will suffer unnecessarily.
Sincerely,
Julie Hulvey
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Gary Smith
Submission Time: Jun 15 2025 2:34PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 258 S Langer Lake Way
Star, ID 83669
Name of Utility Company: Self- Citizen of Star, ID
Case ID: IPC-E-25-1
Comment: "I oppose this rate increase. A 17.3 % increase is far above the current 2.3%
inflation increase just reported. In Star 40% of our residents are 55+ and either retired or
headed for retirement. Social Security gave just a 2.3% increase last year. Star just voted
down the Fire District Levy because we believe new growth should pay for the demand for
new service and not the people that have been here for years. Besides the 55+ many of the
new residents moved here to get away from higher taxes and utility bills. If you need to
cover new cost increases, go to the cause of the new demand to pay for it. "
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Randall Berriochoa
Submission Time: Jun 15 2025 7:13PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 523 Alturas Drive N
TWIN FALLS, ID 83301
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "This plan is unfair, unsustainable, and out of step with Idaho values. If you use
more power,you should pay for that power and not pass on the expense to residential
users."
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Name: Jeannine Berriochoa
Submission Time: Jun 15 2025 7:40PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 523 Alturas Drive N
TWIN FALLS, ID 83301
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "This plan is unfair and should not be accepted by the Idaho PUC. It is a plan
that forces the residents of Idaho to pay for power used by companies that should pay for it
themselves This is outright robbery.
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Name: MARSHALL SCATTONE
Submission Time: Jun 15 2025 10:45PM
Email: marshall.s(cbrocketmaiLcom
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2715 E Main St.
EMMETT, ID 83617
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Any power generated, to be 'shipped' beyond current Idaho Power customers,
ANY and ALL costs are to be paid by those users. NO RATE INCREASES, expressed or
'hidden fees/costs' directly tied to any such project for non Idaho Power customers. Google
PBS concerning the HAZARDOUS wastes generated by so called 'green energy' projects.
There is no current solution as to disposal ! Let those non Idaho Power generate their own
solutions within their own states.Keep Idaho green with agricultural and forest products:'
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The following complaint was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Stephanie Novacek
Submission Time: Jun 14 2025 10:36AM
Email: rsn8861rnsn.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 3756 N 3600 E
Kimberly, ID 83341
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Contacted Utility: No
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Comment: "I am writing to express my disagreement with Case#IPC-25-16. Idaho Power is
attempting to transfer the cost of power for huge businesses to Idaho residents, farmers
and small business owners. Idahoans did not ask or seek out these huge energy-
consuming corporations.We love our state's open lands and freedoms. Do not allow this
rate increase to happen.
Thankyou,"
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Idaho Public Utilities Commission
P.O. Box 83720
Boise Idaho 83720-004
Dear Commissioners,
Please see enclosed portion of an article from The Idaho Statesman published June 12,2025. 1 do not
usually take the time to write a letter, but this information is important to me. As a retired former
business owner and manager who has paid into Social Security all my adult life, I now live on around
$30,000 a year. When all of my utility bills keep increasing and I see what corporate executives are
making, it really makes me furious!
DO NOT increase our rates to give more outlandish amounts to the rich. This is totally unacceptable.
You have a responsibility to protect consumers and the public. Please do your job.
Sincerely,
Sheila Robbins
362 W Charlwood Court
Boise, Idaho 83706
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Idaho Power executive salaries
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But executive officer salaries are also part of this request, and from what I've seen, I
think they've had enough.
I went through the utility's annual reports filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, or FERC, and found that executive officer salaries have gone up on
average 9% per year since 2021. That equates to an average 28% increase from 2021 to
2024 for the top 13 executives listed on the annual report.
When you look at some of the salaries, that's a big chunk of change.
For example, Idaho Power's CEO Lisa Grow was making $775,000 in 2021 in base
salary. Last year, she made $1 million, a 9% average annual increase and an overall
29% increase since 2021.
Idaho Power's chief operating officer went from making $440,00o a year in 2021 to
$585,000 last year, an average annual increase of 10% and a total increase of 32%.
How many of us are making 32% more than we were making in 2021? How many of
us are making $145,000 more than we were making four years ago?
Keep in mind that the median household income in Idaho is about $74,000.
Idaho Power's chief financial officer's salary increased by twice that amount from
2021 to 2024, going from $420,000 to $568,000.
The senior vice president for public affairs' salary went up by more than one median
household income, from $350,000 to $435,000.