20250624Comments_3.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Ami Geyer
Submission Time: Jun 24 2025 7:36AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 9320 W Burnett Dr
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Please help keep Idaho Power under control. A 17% rate invrease seems
absolutely ridiculous. IP posts profits, pays their executives huge money, all on the backs of
consumers. Idaho Power should learn to make do at certain times. But prior rubber
stamping of any request means IP thinks it's easy to get what they want.
Think about the people. No rate increase!!!"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: ROBERTASMUS
Submission Time: Jun 24 2025 8:18AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 11594 W Bubblingcreek Dr, Star ID 83669 Star, ID 83669
Name of Utility Company: 741880716
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "How can you justified requesting to raise rates by 17%when the cost of living
raise us social security people got was 2.5%. I understand the cost to do business goes up,
but come on be reasonable. Lets put in some nuclear power plants to get these cost fixed
for a while.
Ok i will stop complaining. Thanks for listening to be."
Robert Asmus
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Nicholas Wheeler
Submission Time: Jun 24 2025 12:58PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 4140 Nystrom Way
BOISE, ID 83713
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Dear Commissioners,
I am writing as a concerned Idaho resident to strongly oppose the proposed general rate
increases filed by Idaho Power, which would raise rates for Residential customers by
17.35%, Small General Service by 17.31%, and Irrigation customers by 17.32%,while
granting disproportionately lower increases to Large General Service (7.26%) and Large
Power(8.22%) classes.
This proposal places an unjust and unsustainable burden on everyday Idahoans—families,
small business owners, and farmers—while effectively shielding large corporations and
industrial users from comparable financial responsibility. It is not only inequitable, it is
tone-deaf to the economic realities many Idahoans are currently facing.
The Burden on Residents and Small Businesses Idaho families are already facing
significant inflation across essential categories—food, housing, and fuel. Many are living
paycheck to paycheck. A 17% increase in electric utility costs, especially ahead of peak
seasonal demand, represents a steep regressive cost that most Idahoans cannot easily
absorb.
Small businesses, which are the backbone of Idaho's economy, are similarly exposed.
Unlike large industrial customers, they lack the bargaining power to negotiate special rate
contracts or hedge usage through industrial-scale infrastructure. This rate hike will ripple
through local economies, forcing tough choices—whether to reduce staff, cut operating
hours, or raise prices on already-strained consumers.
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Preferential Treatment for Industrial Giants Idaho Power's large industrial customers—such
as Micron Technology—have historically negotiated sweetheart deals under separate, often
undisclosed, long-term arrangements that bypass the very rate structures now being
inflated for residential and small-scale users.
These co-op-style agreements effectively insulate major corporations from broader system
costs, even though they place massive demand on the grid and require expensive
infrastructure investment to support high-volume, round-the-clock industrial usage. To ask
everyday Idahoans to subsidize these arrangements—particularly while they themselves
are being asked to foot double-digit increases—is not only unethical, it's offensive.
If Idaho Power insists on recovering system costs, it must do so equitably—across all
customer classes. Major industrial users should pay their fair share, not be rewarded with
privileged terms while rate increases are dumped on the most economicallyvulnerable.
Transparency and Justification Are Lacking Idaho Power has not provided sufficient
transparency or granular justification for why such lopsided rate burdens are being
imposed on smaller rate classes. There has been no clear breakdown of the cost allocation
methodology, nor any reconciliation with the benefits that major industrial users receive
under existing side deals.
The public deserves full clarity on how rate burdens are distributed and what role
preferential contracts with large customers play in driving overall system costs. Ratepayer
equity must be non-negotiable.
Request for Action
I urge the Commission to:
Reject the current proposal in its present form.
Demand a cost-of-service study that exposes the true distribution of load and
infrastructure costs across all rate classes, including those with private contracts.
Mandate transparency regarding all special agreements Idaho Power holds with large
customers.
Consider a rate design revision that requires industrial users to bear an equitable portion of
system costs.
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This is not merely a financial issue. It's a matter of economic justice, public trust, and
responsible governance. Idaho's working families, farmers, and small businesses should
not be sacrificed to subsidize profit margins for publicly traded corporations or
multinational manufacturers."
Thank you for your consideration and commitment to fairness in Idaho's utility system.
Sincerely,
Nick Wheeler
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