20260319Comments_3.pdf

The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: cath starkey
Submission Time: Mar 19 2026 11:41AM
Email: cathystarkey21 @gmail.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 330 kanikso shores rd
sandpoint, ID 83864
Name of Utility Company: AVISTA
Case ID: AVU-E-26-01
Comment: "Our energy rates are already high enough, and Avista's labor usage is
questionable. In 2025, we witnessed Avista send crews of over a dozen utility workers to
Locate and mark the same underground power lines over and over while in a spat with a
high speed broadband installing contractor. This was along only one quarter-mile long
section of our road, each Avista technician costing—$80/hour (labor rate plus benefits)just
to carry a spray paint can. The broadband company had already contacted Avista via the
safe digging network to mark the lines. Overall Avista was onsite three times at$80/ hour
times 10 employees for three full days -that adds up to a big expenditure for nothing.
Ironically, the broadband contractor abandoned the project without doing any digging!
I do not want to pay to subsidize programs for specialty products. I believe that giving out
rebates for limited types of products allows/encourages the manufacturer to inflate the
price of said product to the general public, knowing it will be subsidized by such programs.
Thanks !"
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name:Theodore Turrentine
Submission Time: Mar 19 2026 2:27PM
Email: ted turrentinePyahoo.com
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 1135 W Shane Dr
Coeur D Alene, ID 83815
Name of Utility Company: Avista
Case ID: AVU-E-26-01
Comment: "I oppose Avista utilities request to you for a 7.7% rate increase in my area,
Coeur d Alene, ID.Their energy conservation program is already unfair in that it charges all
ratepayers, involuntarily, to pay for home and business energy upgrades for a select group
of customers; increasing all customer's rates to continue to fund this program, as well as
recover their overall losses, is wrong. Our Avista rates, gas and electric, have already been
raised in each of the past three years. Our fixed income, Social Security COLA increases
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have averaged between 2 and 3 percent during that time, putting us well behind their
increase percentages. Is our our already modest standard of living just supposed to
continue to erode continuously? Make Avista pare back some of it's overly generous
employee salary and benefits packages to cover their increased costs- not fixed income
seniors. "
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The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Debora Von Lindern
Submission Time: Mar 19 2026 3:48PM
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Address: 14857 W HWY 53
RATHDRUM, ID 83858
Name of Utility Company: EMP Electric LLC
Case ID: AVE-E-26-01
Comment: "No Avista Utilities are not entitled to raise our rates because they gave too
much money to their green policies. As a corporation they must be accountable for their
choices 6p6p"
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