20251117Comments_16.pdf

From: Sue McMichael<suzybutter46Pgmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2025 12:33 AM
To:Adam Rush <adam.rushPpuc.idaho.gov>
Subject: increase in utility
Dear Mr Rush:
Not long ago I called the city of Nampa to discuss the continual increase of houses, condos
and apartments being built all over Nampa.
I asked how to put a moratorium on the expanding building in Nampa.
Everywhere you look there are signs for new construction such as over 100 houses and 7-8
condos/apts planned to be constructed on Southside St. next door to the Ronald Reagan
Elementary!This is one small example.
After talking to teachers at the school, they assure me the school cannot handle such an
influx of children, there just is not enough teachers or classrooms to accommodate more
children.
I also asked about the increased use of utilities, such as electric, water, and gas. No doubt
it puts a strain on the current utility usage as housing expands. How can this go on before
this puts an overload on the utilities.?
I was told the city does not have the authority...only the PUC can put a moratorium on
utilities/and or building, which would in turn, cause the slow down of more construction
until the infrastructure can catch up.
We have wonderful utility support for now, but with everything else going up in price with
increase in wages. food, and gasoline; the public is getting squeezed financially.
How does the public help the PUC understand the issues here in Nampa?
thank you, from a concerned 79 yr old resident.
SJ McMichael
2990 E. Onyx ct
Nampa, ID 83686
530-6056275
[e-mail]
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Cindy Ferguson
Submission Time: Nov 15 2025 4:56PM
Email: Angelhoney101 @gmaiL.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 415 17 Ave. S.
Nampa, ID 83651
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Idaho is growing its residents exponentially, those of us that have been here for
years and years seem to be paying the price of this expansion. I know I personally can't
afford my bills to go up and most of my neighbors are in the same boat.We have weeks we
have to choose between groceries and bills. Idaho Power has different charges for different
times of day, they had an increase already in 2025 and I don't feel it is in the citizens best
interest to give them another boost. Maybe some one needs to go in and show them how to
cut costs. I believe their CEO needs to come down in their profit margins and give back a
little to the ones paying the bills:'
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Suzanne Knorr
Submission Time: Nov 15 2025 11:08PM
Email: drywellboisePgmaiL.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: Boise
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Residents bear the highest rate increase in Idaho Power's latest bid to raise
rates -- reduced from a 17.35% initial request to a 9.74% overall increase, compared to
large energy consumers atjust over 3.79%. Apparently, Idaho Power was asking for more
initially than was perhaps not actually needed, and may still be asking for more than is
actually needed.
The 9.74% residential rate is still a big increase that will affect a large number of residents
and will cause all other household expenses to go up. Who has had a 9.74% salary
increase in the last year? When electricity rates go up, the cost of every other utility and all
other goods and services also go up. The increased costs to businesses will be passed on
to their customers, making everything more expensive.
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Nothing stops Idaho Power from requesting another increase next year, and the year after
that, and the year after that. Customers can't just shop elsewhere for power like they can
for groceries. Plus, this increase undermines customers practicing energy efficiency.
Imagine sinking thousands of dollars into home upgrades, substantially reducing the
monthly electric cost, only to be billed more per kWh. Customers end up paying more
money for less energy use. The only thing that protects Idaho energy customers is the PUC.
The average Idaho salary is about$50,000 per year, out of whose pockets the higher
salaries of Idaho Power come from because Idaho Power's average salary is $100,000.
IdaCorp's CEO and President Lisa Grow received total compensation of$7.4 million in
2023 per Idaho Power's 2024 earnings report. According to IdaCorp's shareholder report:
"Idaho Power's customer growth of 2.6% added $1.9 million to Idaho Power's operating
income in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared with the fourth quarter of 2023. Usage per
retail customer increased operating income by$2.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2024
compared with the fourth quarter of 2023". Included in the original rate increase request
was incremental cost coverage for a new plane to replace their existing 30-year old plane.
Should subscribers be paying additional for the company plane at all, especially since
Idaho Power apparantely has the capital to provide generous compensation. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Jim Price
Submission Time: Nov 16 2025 12:50PM
Email:jprice318Ccbmsn.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 4225 S RIVA RIDGE WAY
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I feel it is unreasonble for Idaho Power to raise their rates or service fees. It's
obsene that a CEO makes that much money.
IPUC should do a better job of regulating this monopoly of the peoples resources:'
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From:Jeff Pierson <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2025 9:47 PM
To: secretary<[e-mail]>
Subject: Case No. IPC-E-25-08
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720
Re: Case No. IPC-E-25-08
Request to Suspend Proceedings and Call for Independent Investigation
Commissioners,
I am writing to object to any further action in Case No. IPC-E-25-16 and to request that the
Commission immediately suspend consideration of this case, and all major energy project
and rate cases, until the recent"Whiskey Caucus"allegations are independently
investigated bythe Attorney General and the Idaho Legislature.
According to a whistleblower lawsuit filed in October in Ada County District Court and
reported by the Idaho Statesman on November 16, two high ranking former officials of the
Idaho Public Utilities Commission describe the agency as"politicized"and "not
independent."The complaint alleges violations of Idaho's open meeting law, ex parte
communications with utilities that had open rate cases, misuse of access to confidential
systems, mismanagement of public funds, creation of a hostile work environment, and
retaliation against staff who reported those problems. It also alleges"acts of bribery and
nepotism."Taken together, these allegations appear to show a pattern of blurred judicial,
political, and corporate lines inside the body that is supposed to act as a neutral referee for
Idaho ratepayers.
The complaint and the Statesman reporting describe a specific episode in which program
manager Donn English, who helped manage the Veolia settlement, allegedly offered that
company's executive favorable settlement terms in an open rate case in exchange for help
winning a whiskey contest at a national conference. The lawsuit itself characterizes that
alleged offer as"corrupt, unlawful, unethical and wrong." If that allegation is accurate, it
causes a reasonable suspicion of corruption in the handling of that rate case and raises
serious doubt about whether other cases are being conducted at arm's length.
The lawsuit also alleges that Commissioner John Hammond resisted giving up access to a
restricted utility information system, even after being told by the PUC's own legal counsel
that commissioners should not have such access while acting as quasi judicial decision
makers. It further alleges that Commissioner Hammond reacted with anger when his
access was removed and that former Executive Director Maria Barratt Riley experienced
ongoing hostility after raising concerns. If these allegations are true, they appear to show a
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commissioner who does not accept basic restraints on his own role and a culture that
punishes internal oversight.That is the opposite of independence.
In addition, the complaint describes meetings in which PUC commissioners met
individually with representatives of Avista, which had an upcoming rate case, so that no
quorum would be present at any one meeting. It further alleges that a PUC program
manager had "directed"Avista on postures it should take before the Commission and that
a commissioner filed an internal report as a result. If the facts are as alleged, this conduct
appears to show a commission that treats ex parte access and pre filing coaching as
acceptable practice so long as the technicalities of quorum are observed. To an ordinary
Idahoan, that looks less like a firewall and more like a revolving door.
The same article notes that the whistleblowers raised concerns about meetings between
commissioners and Idaho Power and other utilities, particularly when applications were
anticipated, and that they believed these meetings needed to be posted publicly. Taken
together with the Veolia and Avista allegations, this pattern causes a reasonable person to
suspect that the playing field in Idaho is tilted toward monopoly utilities and large project
sponsors long before citizens ever hear of a docket number.
At the county level, similar concerns arise. In Jerome County, residents have documented
Long standing gaps in planning records and right of way files related to the SWIP
transmission line. Essential documents from the 1990s were not integrated into county
files until citizens pressed the issue. Approvals were paused or reconsidered once those
gaps came to light. When a new hearing was scheduled, citizens encountered delayed
responses to records requests, late posting of the hearing notice, late notices to
participants, and public comment windows that appeared shorter than what many would
expect for projects of this scale.While each step can be explained as a mistake, the pattern
appears to show a process that is being managed toward a desired outcome rather than
opened up for genuine scrutiny.
When I look at these facts together, I see a regulatory environment that causes a
reasonable suspicion of corruption, not necessarily in the narrow criminal code sense for
every actor, but in the deeper sense that private interests appear to have gained undue
influence over the procedures, calendars, and access that should belong equally to the
public. The PUC allegations and the Jerome County experience may involve different actors
and legal standards, but they both point in the same direction. Insiders receive early notice,
private access, and quiet assurances. Citizens get late notices, short comment periods,
and a finished script.
In this context, every major energy decision now comes under a cloud. SWIP. Lava Ridge.
Prospective nuclear units. Industrial solar and wind fields. Battery installations. Al and
cloud data centers that seek firm service without bearing the full cost of dispatchable
power. All of these projects rely on assurances from a commission that is now the subject
of serious whistleblower allegations and from counties that have already drawn questions
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about notice, records, and comment. That combination appears to show a system where
the central referee is suspect and local gatekeepers are, at a minimum, too casual about
their duties to the public.
Idaho's political leadership will say that freezing major cases is reckless.Theywill talk
about reliability,jobs, and market signals.Those arguments assume that the system is
functionally neutral. In light of what the lawsuit and the Statesman reporting describe, that
assumption is no longer credible. A reasonable Idahoan is justified in concluding that the
process may be structurally biased and that moving forward without a full airing of the facts
would entrench that bias.
For these reasons, I am asking for two concrete steps. First, I want a freeze of all energy
projects in Idaho and a special legislative session to investigate IPUC and energy project
corruption. In regulatory terms, that means an immediate stay on Case No. IPC E 25 16 and
a suspension of approvals and settlements in high impact energy, data center, and
transmission cases until an independent investigation is completed. Second, I ask the
Commission to formally notify and invite the Attorney General and legislative leadership to
investigate the allegations that now surround the PUC and its handling of utility contacts,
settlements, and internal oversight.
The special session should not be a public relations exercise. It should involve subpoenas,
testimony under oath, publication of calendars and contact logs, and a complete
accounting of ex parte contacts, conference meetings, travel, and settlement
communications.The Legislature should strengthen Idaho's open meeting law, require
automatic public posting of any contact between regulators or county officials and
applicants or their agents, and reinforce the public records act with real deadlines and
presumptive fee waivers for matters of broad public concern. It should extend explicit
whistleblower protections to regulatory and planning staff and bar regulated monopoly
utilities and project specific PACs from contributing to the campaigns of officials who
appoint their regulators or vote on their permits. If a project depends on an official's vote or
appointment power, the appearance of corruption is inevitable when that project's money
flows into that official's campaign account.
Until Idaho is willing to expose the full extent of these issues and correct them in public,
every major approval and ribbon cutting will sit under a long shadow. That conclusion is not
driven by cynicism. It is the prudent response of citizens who are reading the lawsuit,
reading the Statesman, and watching their own local experience.The Whiskey Caucus
allegations and the described conduct at the PUC appear to show a serious breakdown of
independence.The Jerome County record appears to show a breakdown of basic
transparency.Together they cause a reasonable suspicion that the system is no longer
serving the public first.
You cannot repair that with internal memos. You can only begin to repair it by stopping,
acknowledging that there is a serious appearance problem, and refusing to advance high
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stakes energy cases until independent investigators, the Attorney General, and the
Legislature have done their work in full view of the public. That must begin with Case No.
IPC E 25 16.
1 am also attaching the following, to remind everyone they have a moral obligation to
Idahoans .
SAM
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201200 U. NREST,RAINED DEVELOPMENT
Boomtowns and Burnout: Idaho's New Industrial Rush
The Aftershock of Mega-Projects
Jeff Pierson
Nov 11, 2025
Progress that harms the human spirit is not progress at all.
Is Idaho about to learn that lesson the hard way?
Communities Strained
When heavy industry moves into a small community, it does more than change the
Landscape. It changes how people see themselves. Roads fill with trucks, lights erase the
night sky, and the sound of turbines or compressors replaces silence.The transformation is
not only physical. It is psychological. It leaves a cultural aftershock that no reclamation
plan can fix.
Across America's interior, new forms of industrial expansion, from data centers to energy
corridors, wind ranches, and solar complexes, are reshaping towns that were once steady
and slow. The pattern has become clear. Economic shock comes first. Cultural dislocation
follows. What begins as civic optimism often ends as fatigue, mistrust, and loss of identity.
In Williston, North Dakota, the oil boom promised opportunity. For a time it delivered it.
Wages rose, hotels filled, and the town's population nearly doubled. But so did rents,
traffic, and violence. Many teachers left because they could no longer afford to live where
they worked. Long-time residents described feeling like strangers in their own
neighborhoods. One local pastor said, "We went from knowing everyone to knowing no
one."
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Sociologists now call it community strain syndrome. It is the stress that emerges when a
town's population, culture, and infrastructure expand faster than its social bonds can
adapt.The result is measurable: higher rates of anxiety, substance abuse, and domestic
conflict. When local government becomes overwhelmed, the sense of belonging that once
held the place together begins to break apart.
The same pattern appears wherever industrial projects arrive under the banner of progress.
In Idaho, the state has watched farmland give way to transmission corridors and solar
installations. Residents describe a quieter trauma, what one farmer called "the slow death
of normal."The view from his kitchen window used to be open fields. Soon, it will be rows of
steel poles that hum in the wind.
Displacement is not always about relocation. Sometimes it is about alienation. When
familiar landscapes vanish, people lose the sense of continuity that roots a community in
time. Children grow up thinking power lines are part of nature. Elders lose the landmarks
that once told their story. The change happens slowly enough to seem inevitable but fast
enough to feel violent.
In Loudoun County, Virginia, home to the world's largest concentration of data centers,
residents have learned what invisible industry really means. The buildings are windowless
and sealed, but their presence is everywhere, in substations, traffic, constant construction,
and the unending drone of cooling fans. Rural roads now carry freight twenty-four hours a
day. The sky glows white at midnight.
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People describe a fatigue that is hard to name. It is not just anger about land use or tax
policy. It is sensory exhaustion, the loss of quiet, of darkness, of rhythm. A farmer's wife
told a local reporter, "You can't escape the hum anymore. It follows you into your sleep."
That single sentence captures the cost of technological ambition that planners never
calculate.
Once a community begins to fracture, rebuilding trust becomes harder than fixing
infrastructure. Residents who feel unheard stop showing up to meetings. Officials who feel
defensive stop answering questions. Each side accuses the other of bad faith until silence
replaces dialogue. This is how civic institutions die, one frustrated conversation at a time.
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In every case, the cycle begins with exclusion.When projects are approved before citizens
understand their scope, people feel deceived.When environmental reviews ignore social
consequences, people feel disposable.The damage is moral as much as material.Trust,
once lost, does not return through public relations campaigns. It returns through
transparency and inclusion.
The Human Ledger
The true balance sheet of progress cannot be measured in megawatts or market
capitalization. It is measured in stability, peace of mind, and belonging.When those
collapse, the profit is meaningless.
Every place has a breaking point where growth becomes loss. The challenge of modern
governance is to recognize that threshold before it is crossed. Williston reached it through
oil. Loudoun County reached it through data. Southern Idaho is approaching it through
energy expansion. Each tells the same story: when home stops feeling like home, no
amount of tax revenue can buy it back.
Progress that harms the human spirit is not progress at all. It is a wound disguised as
achievement.
Idaho's Emerging Community Strain
A 2020 study in Sustainability(Powerless in a Western US Energy Town: Exploring
Challenges to Socially Sustainable Rural Development) documented how rapid industrial
expansion in Western energy towns eroded local identity, trust, and ecology. The same
pattern is now visible in Idaho.
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As data centers, transmission corridors, and mega-projects replace farmland, counties
face the same imbalance described in the study: growth without adaptation. Infrastructure
lags, governance weakens, and residents experience community strain syndrome; the
exhaustion that sets in when a region grows faster than its civic and ecological systems can
bear.
Without strong local authority and full-cost accountability for industrial expansion,
southern Idaho risks becoming what the study called "powerless,"a host for outside
interests rather than a self-governing community.
Principles of Growth
Idaho stands at a turning point. Growth is no longer a question of if but of what kind. Every
county, town, and valley now faces the same dilemma that has broken other communities:
whether to let expansion dictate identity or to shape growth according to the values that
built this place. These principles, grounded in liberty and property rights, exist to guide
development through stewardship rather than speculation, ensuring that progress
strengthens the community instead of consuming it.
Sovereignty of Scale
A community must govern the scale and pace of its own development. Growth that
outpaces public consent or local capacity is not progress, it is displacement.
Ecological Accountability
All growth must respect the limits of the land, water, and air that sustain it. Industrial
projects must prove they can operate without degrading shared resources or shifting
environmental costs to future generations.
Civic Reciprocity
Development must strengthen the community that hosts it. Projects that erode public
trust, divide residents, or weaken essential services violate the social contract that gives
them legitimacy.
Fiscal Integrity
Public resources exist for public good. No private enterprise should depend on hidden
subsidies, cost shifting, or ratepayer burdens. Every dollar of public investment must yield
measurable public return.
Cultural Continuity
A region's character, its quiet, rhythm, and sense of belonging, is a form of capital as real as
Land or infrastructure. Growth that destroys this inheritance impoverishes the community it
claims to enrich.
Duty of Scrutiny
Elected officials and citizens share a moral responsibility to question and verify the claims
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of any project that seeks public trust. Vigilance is not obstruction; it is the foundation of
good governance.
Adaptive Governance
Regulations must evolve as rapidly as the industries they oversee. Local ordinances should
anticipate new technologies and industrial scales rather than react after harm occurs.
Will Idaho learn from the lessons of other regions of the country, or will elected officials
repeat them, trading local sovereignty for temporary revenue and leaving citizens to bear
the long-term costs?The measure of leadership will not be how quickly projects are
approved, but how faithfully they preserve the human ledger: the stability, trust, and
belonging that no balance sheet can record and no developer can restore once lost.
Idaho 20/200 Unrestrained Development Series, ©2025 Jeff A Pierson
Respectfully submitted,
Jeff Pierson
713 East Avenue C
Jerome, ID 83338
205-352-7427
Jeff Pierson
713 East Avenue C
Jerome, ID 83338
p: 208-352-7427 1 c: 208-316-9396 1 f: 208-352-7427
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Mike Tappouni
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 8:51AM
Email: mbt8227(a)gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1925 north wind cave way
Eagle, ID 83616
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
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Comment: "Public Comment on Case IPC-E-25-16
I am submitting this comment in strong opposition to Idaho Power's proposed 9.74%
residential rate increase.
Residential customers already shoulder the largest share of Idaho Power's rate burden, and
this proposal continues that trend. Nothing in this proposal protects Idaho families from
additional increases next year—or the year after that. Idaho Power has made yearly
requests before, and without real long-term cost controls or limits on future rate hikes,
residents will continue to pay more without seeing meaningful benefit.
Idaho Power states the increase is needed for current operations, maintenance, and
employee compensation. Yet the company's own figures raise serious concerns:
• Idaho Power employees already average roughly$100,000 peryear, double
the $50,000 average Idaho salary of the customers being asked to pay more.
• IdahoCorp's CEO received $7.4 million in total compensation in 2023.
• The company included the cost of a brand-new plane in its original increase
request, and under the settlement plan, customers will still pay for part of it over time.
Ratepayers should not be financing corporate aircraft.
• Idaho Power's own shareholder report shows growth in customers and
increased usage added millions to operating income year over year.
• The company donates $1.4 million to charity—money they appear to have
available while still asking customers for more.
If Idaho Power is generating additional income from customer growth and higher usage, if
they can afford executive pay at this scale, and if they can give away over a million dollars
to charitable causes, why must Idaho households absorb nearly a 10% increase in
essential utility costs?
Meanwhile, customers in Oregon are receiving a 1% rate reduction, raising further
questions about fairness and balance across Idaho Power's service areas.
Idaho residents deserve predictable, sustainable utility costs—not ongoing yearly
increases to subsidize corporate spending, high executive compensation, and non-
essential assets. Before any additional burden is placed on the public, Idaho Power must
demonstrate responsible long-term financial planning, cost containment, and a
commitment to reducing—rather than escalating—future rate requests.
I urge the Commission to reject this increase as proposed and require Idaho Power to
return with a plan that protects Idaho families, ensures transparency, and stops the cycle
of yearly rate burdens on reisidents. "
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The following complaint was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Craig Cunningham
Submission Time: Nov 14 2025 12:28PM
Email: dociroc(@gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1833 S Penninger Dr
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Contacted Utility: Yes
Comment: "I am retired &am getting an unacceptable service fee from Idaho Power. My
residence has 2 meters,1 on house & 1 on shop,) use aprox$3.00 a month in power in my
shop &service fee went from $5 month,to $10 month to NOW$15 MONTH! I am now
paying$30 month in dang service fees!They now have automated meters &do not even
send employee out to read meters &they have trippled the dang service fees! This is
unacceptable, paying approximately 500% more in service fee than actual power
consumption! I get both statements in 1 envelope,so why am I charged 2 service fees. This
is companys responsibility to pay their own secretarys &such,not the consumers! Please
Limit amount of service fees to amount of power consumption & make this fair again!
Sincerely Craig Cunningham "
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Kristine Rittenhouse
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 9:12AM
Email: kristinevanbuskirk74(@gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 4962.wthnapple dr
Meridian, ID 83646
Name of Utility Company: Idaho power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Most people expect a reasonable price for energy on an energy rich area. Your
costs should be factored into your budget. Not our problem. "
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Name:Tyler Moss
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 9:29AM
Email: timoss16C(bhotmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2946 NW 8th Ave
Meridian, ID 83646
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I don't agree with a rate increase.
This increase is meant for immediate goals, existing power generation and maintenance.
Part of the increase is for employee raises and bonuses. Idaho Power employee wages
average about$100,000 per year, but the average Idaho salary is about$50,000 per year,
out of whose pockets the higher salaries of Idaho Power come from. IdaCorp's CEO and
President Lisa Grow received total compensation of$7.4 million in 2023 per Idaho Power's
2024 earnings report. Included in the original rate increase request was cost coverage for
a new plane to replace their existing 30-year old plane. A percentage of the cost of the
plane will be paid under the settlement proposal over a number of years. Does this mean
future incremental rate increases? Should subscribers be paying for the company plane at
a l l?
According to IdaCorp's shareholder report: "Idaho Power's customer growth of 2.6% added
$1.9 million to Idaho Power's operating income in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared with
the fourth quarter of 2023. Usage per retail customer increased operating income by$2.5
million in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared with the fourth quarter of 2023". Plus Idaho
Power gives away$1.4 million dollars to charity according to their website. If Idaho Power
has all this money, why are they wanting more money from their subscribers? "
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Name: Kenneth Eldredge
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 9:49AM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2753 E Wainwright Dr
Meridian, ID 83646
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I oppose the propose rate increase by Idaho Power.
As I read the Shareholder statement, Idaho Power has not made a convincing argument for
a rate increase:'
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Steve Rinehart
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 10:19AM
Email: steverine(@gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1709 W Irene
Boise, ID 83702
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I object to the proposed rate settlement/increase.
Raising residential rates 9+ percent while raising large user(commercial, governmental and
industrial, generally) by 4+ percent has it exactly backward. Rates should be structured to
give large users incentive to use less, not more energy.
Limiting energy demand growth should be just as important as adding transmission and
generation capacity. The rate structure should reflect that."
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Name: Cathy Sherman
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 10:45AM
Email: catdsherman(a)gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 359 E Harris Hawk Dr
Kuna, ID 83634-3430
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "In regards to the request for an increase. If Idaho Power employees already
make approximately double the average wage, the company gives away over a million
dollars in charitable contributions, and Oregon customers are getting a 1% decrease, why
does Idaho Power need a rate in rease that is going to be funded primarily by residential
customers?This adds to budgets that are already being stretched to the limit. I would urge
you to deny this rate increase and any going forward and I would urge Idaho Power to
tighten their belts and find funds within their system."
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The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Susan Garcia
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 11:17AM
Email: sugee102662(@gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 2256 South Mobile Drive
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "Comment; We are not getting those types of raises to our bank accounts. Your
pricing us out of food and the use of utilities. "
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Name: Sara Boles
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 11:49AM
Email: saracheyennebCa)gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 9087 W Bigwood Dr
Boise, ID 83709
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
Comment: "I am strongly against raising residential power rates especially afteryou just
adjusted rates for solar. You can raise commercial and recoup the money,you can also up
the charge on new developments.
No to raising residential rates"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: CAREY CRILL
Submission Time: Nov 17 2025 1:27PM
Email: cdcrill1 @msn.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 7721 West Apache Way
Garden City, ID 83714
Name of Utility Company: idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-25-16
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Comment: "We have had solar for over 10 years and rarely use power except for 2 months
per year but my cost to just be connected to the grid and give you power to sell has already
gone up. Increasing my cost more is ridiculous. "
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From: Diana Nielson <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2025 12:50 PM
To: secretary<[e-mail]>
Subject: Comment IPC-E-25-08
To Idaho PUC,
The Application for CPCN with Idaho Power and LS Power subsidiary Great Basin
Transmission needs delayed to be investigated. Is there a the conflict of interests with
undisclosed parties/partners/agencies/ISO's involved?The possibility of backdoor
arrangements involved at State, Federal and County levels needs to be investigated and
cleared or addressed.The recent article about whistleblowers, and the loss of
independence from influence at the State Level is unsettling our trust in the decisions
made at IPUC. To allow a partnership with a public utility and a private equity company
does not protect our State of Idaho residents, private Land owners and rate payers. It will
join us with CAISO. The B2H legal battles in Oregon with Eminent Domain. The attempt of
Idaho Power trying to recover 2.3 million in fees from the State of Washington Policy with
their partnership with PacifiCorp has made me feel vulnerable. Maybe my lack of
confidence in IPUC is unwarranted but an investigation would help restore my/our trust in
this Agency and its Governor Appointed Board.
Nevada Energy has been ordered to refund money to ratepayers for improper billing. They
have billed their customers millions of dollars to build the SWIP N Line.
Please suspend Case IPC-E-25-08.
Also the rate increase with case IPC-E-25-16. To increase the service fee five fold since
2023 is economically detrimental especially with additional rate increases.
I have tried to send this comment several times today and get this error(see screenshot
below)
Sincerely with concern,
Diana Nielson
Salmon, Idaho
208-390-3093
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