20250630Comment_1.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name:Theodore Blank
Submission Time: Jun 29 2025 4:45PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2224 S Tawny Woods
Boise, ID 83706
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "The General Rate Case IPC-E-25-16 filed by Idaho Power, among other things,
proposes to increase the residential service charge from $15 to $25. Idaho Power has
attempted to characterize its Rate Case request as necessary to make the residential
charges more "equitable:'This is a tried and true method that Idaho Power has often used
to justified non-consumption rate increases that have anything but an equitable outcome.
Tried and successful, because most recently it won the right from the PUC to raise the
service charge from $5 to$15 and now here it is again hoping to punish low consumption
and/or renewable energy customers by forcing them to subsidize the company's high
consumption customers with an increase to the fixed utility cost that has nothing to do with
use of its power. It's an equitable lie that worked once and it hopes it will work again. Please
don't fall for this once more. Obviously, the customers that use the most, put the most
strain on the power grid and force the development of new power sources should pay for
that cost through the rate of its electric use. And conversely, the customer that conserves
and/or invests in power offsets should not be forced to pay an ever increasing percentage
of a utility bill that has nothing to do with the use of Idaho Power's product.
Thanks -Theodore Blank"
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