20231201Customer Hearing Transcript Vol I.pdf

In The Matter Of:
THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY
November 27, 2023
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1 BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

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4 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION )
OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR )
5 AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES )
AND CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE ) Case No. IPC-E-23-11
6 IN THE STATE OF IDAHO AND FOR )
ASSOCIATED REGULATORY ACCOUNT )
7 TREATMENT )
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11 LOCATION: American Legion Post 7 Building
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DATE & TIME: Monday, November 27, 2023; 5:00 p.m.
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President Eric Anderson
3 Commissioner John R. Hammond, Jr.
Assistant Attorney General Christen Burdin
4 Maria Barratt - Idaho Public Utilities Comm.
Timothy Tatum - Idaho Power
5 Matt Larkin - Idaho Power
Connie Aschenbrenner - Idaho Power
6 Donovan Walker - Idaho Power

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1 P R O C E E D I N G S

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3 MR. ANDERSON: Good afternoon. This is

4 the time and place for the customer hearing in

5 Case Number IPC-E-23-11 also referred to In The

6 Matter Of Idaho Power Company for Authority To

7 Increase Its Rates And Charges for Electric

8 Service In The State Of Idaho And For

9 Associated Regulatory Account Treatment.

10 The purpose of this hearing is to take

11 testimony from the members of the public in

12 reference to Idaho Power's request that was

13 filed with the commission on June 1st, 2023.

14 My name is Eric Anderson. I'm the chair

15 of today's hearing. I'm joined by Commissioner

16 John Hammond. Commissioner Lodge was unable to

17 attend tonight. We do comprise the commission

18 in this case and we'll collectively make a

19 final determination in the matter.

20 To this point, 1047 intervened and two

21 informal informational workshops for the public

22 have been conducted. Today's objective is to

23 take live testimony which will be added to the

24 underlying record in this case.

25 The commission will review the facts and
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1 evidence in the record to make its final

2 decisions on those proceedings.

3 We have four people signed up today to

4 speak. So the conservation of time is not

5 going to be asked for. I don't think we're

6 going to go too long. But let's be careful

7 that we don't go into some late dinnertime. I

8 don't think we will.

9 As far as the procedures go today, I

10 will call your name from the sign-up sheets.

11 You will take the stand to be sworn in. I will

12 ask you to raise your right hand to swear or

13 affirm the testimony that you will provide is

14 the truth.

15 Our Deputy Attorney Chris Burdin will at

16 that time ask you to identify yourself for the

17 record which will include your name, spelling

18 of your last name, your city of residence and

19 whether you are a customer of Idaho Power, then

20 you will present your testimony.

21 Please remain on the stand to see if the

22 parties or the commissioners have any questions

23 after which you will be excused.

24 Please keep your testimony this evening

25 generic to the rate case which is before us.
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1 We have a couple of other cases going on, but

2 this is the case that we're taking public

3 testimony for tonight.

4 For those in the audience, we ask that

5 you reframe from reacting to any testimony

6 while it is being presented before or after.

7 That means no clapping, no verbal comment. We

8 appreciate your willingness to respect this

9 process.

10 Since our cases are judicial in nature

11 we have a court reporter taking the official

12 transcript. The court reporter this afternoon

13 is Karla Layfield. Don't speak too softly or

14 too fast or we may have to give you a little

15 nudge to slow down or to speak up.

16 The transcript is necessary because it

17 is -- in our quasi judicial role, we must base

18 our decisions on the official record. The

19 record is also significant in the event that

20 our decision is appealed.

21 At this time I'm going to take the

22 appearance of the parties.

23 Idaho Power.

24 MR. WALKER: Yes. Donovan Walker

25 representing Idaho Power.
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1 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you, Mr. Walker.

2 Staff with the Idaho Public Utilities

3 Commission.

4 MR. BURDIN: Chris Burdin, Deputy

5 Attorney General representing the commission

6 staff. Thank you.

7 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you. I'm going to

8 go ahead and just -- I don't believe we have

9 any intervening parties here. If we do, please

10 stop me and identify yourself.

11 But the interveners are Clean Energy

12 Opportunities for Idaho, Idaho Irrigation

13 Pumpers Association, Industrial Customers of

14 Idaho, Micron Technology, Idaho Hydro, the city

15 of Boise, Idaho Conservation League, Federal

16 Executive Agencies, Northwest Energy Coalition

17 and WalMart.

18 Are there any parties here tonight that

19 I didn't mention? Are there any parties that I

20 missed? Seeing none, that is the list. With

21 that, we're ready to call our first witness. I

22 will call Michael McBride.

23 MR. MCBRIDE: Can you hear me okay?

24 Talk a little louder? Hello. My name is --

25 MR. BURDIN: Do you want to swear him
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1 in?

2 MR. HAMMOND: Yeah. Do you swear and

3 affirm the testimony you are about to give in

4 this proceeding is the truth?

5 MR. MCBRIDE: Yes.

6 MR. BURDIN: Will you please state your

7 name and spell your last name for the record.

8 MR. MCBRIDE: Michael Glen McBride. The

9 last name is spelled M.C.B.R.I.D.E.

10 MR. BURDIN: And in what city do you

11 reside?

12 MR. MCBRIDE: I live in the county of

13 Twin Falls, in the county.

14 MR. BURDIN: And are you a customer of

15 Idaho Power.

16 MR. MCBRIDE: I am a customer of Idaho

17 Power. My address is 2502 Laurie Lane.

18 MR. BURDIN: Thank you. Go ahead,

19 please.

20 MR. MCBRIDE: My wife is here too. I

21 get two monthly bills from Idaho Power. We

22 have a house and we have solar power on the

23 house. Most of our power goes out -- a couple

24 of months a year we have power coming in. Then

25 we have a little pasture out back where the
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1 water comes.

2 We needed to put in a pump to move that

3 water around. So we have approximately a three

4 horsepower motor there. The power goes through

5 a shed to get on down there. It's on a septic

6 transformer.

7 On the water for the field we currently

8 pay year-round for that, but we only use it for

9 about six months out of the year. Rarely do we

10 turn on the lights in the shed.

11 We have a lot of goats and sometimes the

12 goats climb the walls and turn on the lights,

13 then it shines in the neighbor's back room,

14 bedroom and they complain. So we go and turn

15 the lights off.

16 This application E-23-11 is quite long,

17 and I couldn't get through reading the whole

18 thing. But I did find some things that perked

19 my interest near the start.

20 I did not understand why in the public

21 releases the power company used a general rate

22 case request chart. And they used a similar

23 general rate request chart in their application

24 to the PUC, but the numbers are different in

25 those charts. For instance, on the residential
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1 I'm going to say 10.78 percent. And on the

2 other one, we'll say 12.25 percent. It was

3 just confusing to me.

4 It's also a little bit confusing of a

5 group, residential large users, irrigators.

6 I'm used to -- when I get a bill from them it

7 says Schedule 6 or Schedule 7. And I have a

8 hard time always relating what a Schedule 6,

9 Schedule 7, or Schedule 8 person was or home

10 that was or business that was. It could have

11 been a little clearer there.

12 We're both Schedule 6 and Schedule 7 at

13 our house. I would like to read a quote from

14 the flyer that Idaho Power put out: If this

15 request is approved, as filed, the average

16 Idaho residential customer using 950 kilowatt

17 hours per month would see a monthly bill

18 increase of about $11.61.

19 We're on the fringe. We don't use

20 hardly any electricity I guess compared to the

21 normal folks. So if you read the numbers in

22 there we're looking more like a 300 percent

23 increase, two- or 300 percent increase in our

24 bills from $5 for the basic service charge,

25 which is quite a deal, I think that is a very
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1 nice deal for the customer, to 15 and $20 in

2 the first year and then to increase after that

3 I think they hope.

4 If it said something like Idaho Power

5 seeks to increase their service charge by two-

6 to 400 percent there would be a lot more people

7 here tonight than what there are.

8 So when you get to frame the question

9 and response yourself, you can kinda control

10 things. I think they started out doing that

11 very well from their point of view.

12 Let me see if there's anything else I

13 missed. (pause) I guess that is the main

14 thing.

15 Just being on a non-typical, non-energy

16 guzzling family it's a noticeable increase when

17 your bill is going to go up 300 percent, even

18 if it is still pretty reasonable, but going

19 from $5. I think eventually they're targeting

20 -- don't quote me on this. But I think they

21 are targeting $35 times twelve months out of

22 the year. That is a significant increase, a

23 very significant increase.

24 I would encourage you not to let them do

25 that. But I understand the tidal wave is going
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1 the other way. Thanks for your time.

2 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you, Mr. McBride.

3 Any questions from the parties?

4 (No response.)

5 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you for your

6 testimony.

7 Next I have is Robert Sojka. Sorry,

8 Robert, I know I mispronounced that.

9 MR. SOJKA: Sojka. My name is Robert

10 Sojka, S.O.J.K.A.

11 MR. BURDIN: And do you swear or affirm

12 that the testimony you are about to give will

13 be the truth?

14 MR. SOJKA: Yes.

15 MR. BURDIN: Thank you. What city do

16 you reside?

17 MR. SOJKA: Sorry?

18 MR. BURDIN: What city do you reside?

19 MR. SOJKA: I actually live out in the

20 county, but it's a Twin Falls postal address.

21 2506 Laurie Lane.

22 MR. BURDIN: And are you a customer of

23 Idaho Power?

24 MR. SOJKA: Yes, I am.

25 MR. BURDIN: Thank you. Go ahead.
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1 MR. SOJKA: I realize this is not a

2 hearing about solar panels, per se; although in

3 my case as with some of the friends that I

4 talked to about the specific issue, it does

5 kinda play into the rationale and what the

6 basis is for the kind of rate increases that

7 we're talking about.

8 As the previous speaker said the

9 baseline of these increases, and particularly

10 with the stated provision, that they may go up

11 multiple times in the future. It's a bit

12 disconcerting to somebody like myself that has

13 gone through the process with the solar and

14 seen Idaho Power change its, I will just call

15 it, promises -- maybe that is not the right

16 word -- about what the rate structures and so

17 forth are going to be down the road.

18 And this is bothersome to me in as much

19 as, yet again, the rate structure is asking for

20 more money from me when I have spent $40,000 of

21 my own money in order to generate power for

22 Idaho Power. Okay.

23 And to see no particular exceptions

24 regarding people that have done the similar

25 sort of thing just seems unreasonable to me. A
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1 reasonable thing to me would be to perhaps

2 charge other folks that have not created any of

3 their own generation a similar starting fee.

4 And I say that somewhat tongue in cheek, but if

5 you could see the reason from my point of view.

6 To be constantly ratcheting up the power

7 when Idaho Power has made a long campaign to

8 develop sustainable power for the benefit not

9 only of Idaho Power itself as a company but

10 also for the consumers; I just think this just

11 goes in the face of that.

12 And I don't think that it's reasonable

13 to just have a flat rate increase across the

14 board. I'll just leave my statement at that.

15 I've got a written statement that I will hand

16 to you that explains my reasoning.

17 But I'm thoroughly against these rate

18 increases. I think the documentation that was

19 presented is extraordinarily dense. It's not

20 transparent. It's an awful lot -- we're not as

21 customers allowed access to understand about,

22 particularly for solar users, how much our

23 excess production is being sold for that, that

24 could influence the balance of costs to us as

25 individual users.
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1 I could go on and on, but I will leave

2 it at that.

3 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you. Are there any

4 questions?

5 (No response.)

6 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you for your

7 testimony.

8 MR. SOJKA: Thank you for the time.

9 MR. ANDERSON: Melanie Asher.

10 MR. BURDIN: Do you swear or affirm that

11 the testimony you're about to give will be the

12 truth.

13 MS. ASHER: Yes.

14 MR. BURDIN: Please state your name and

15 spell your last name for the record.

16 MS. ASHER: Melanie Asher, A.S.H.E.R.

17 MR. BURDIN: And in what city do you

18 reside?

19 MS. ASHER: I live in the county.

20 MR. BURDIN: And are you a customer --

21 MS. ASHER: Twin Falls.

22 MR. BURDIN: Are you a customer of Idaho

23 Power?

24 MS. ASHER: Yes.

25 MR. BURDIN: Go ahead.
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1 MS. ASHER: Thanks for letting me come

2 talk to you today. I just want to say that I

3 thought a two- to 300 percent raise in the

4 monthly service charge and more over the next

5 few years was just too much. I will just hand

6 in my letter that has a lot more comments for

7 you to read.

8 But I think Idaho Power is doing okay

9 without these outrageous price increases. I

10 looked up their profits and last year they had

11 a gross profit of nine-hundred and seventy

12 point one million dollars.

13 So please don't allow Idaho Power to get

14 away with these large monthly charges. I

15 understand raising rates some but I think that

16 is too much. Thanks.

17 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you, Ms. Asher.

18 Are there any questions from the parties?

19 (No response.)

20 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you for testimony.

21 MS. ASHER: Thank you.

22 MR. ANDERSON: Mark Huber.

23 MR. BURDIN: Do you swear or affirm that

24 the testimony you are about to give will the

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1 MR. HUBER: Yes.

2 MR. BURDIN: Please state your name and

3 spell your last name for the record.

4 MR. HUBER: H.U.B.E.R. I'm a resident

5 of Twin Falls City.

6 MR. BURDIN: And are you a customer of

7 Idaho Power?

8 MR. HUBER: I am.

9 MR. BURDIN: Thank you. Go ahead.

10 MR. HUBER: I didn't realize this wasn't

11 a solar hearing tonight. But mine all had to

12 do with solar panel.

13 MR. ANDERSON: We're trying to keep it

14 generic to the -- we had a solar meeting here

15 not too long ago.

16 MR. BURDIN: If you have written

17 comments.

18 MR. HUBER: No. I didn't realize that.

19 MR. ANDERSON: We'll yield some time to

20 go ahead and share your thoughts.

21 MR. HUBER: Okay, I will. I have two

22 questions. I came here inquiring to get

23 information more than I have testimony here.

24 So I had two questions where maybe somebody can

25 answer them.
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1 MR. ANDERSON: And we probably -- we're

2 not -- that is what work shops are for.

3 MR. HUBER: I will state my concerns

4 then. One is, where everybody else has made a

5 comment here about the monthly service charge,

6 right now I'm paying on my solar $5.31 a month.

7 And I just don't quite understand why, in the

8 future why that connection fee will go up.

9 It seems to me once you get into the

10 computer, it should not be any more additional

11 costs associated with that. I oppose to seeing

12 that connection fee go up.

13 The other comment I have has to do

14 with -- if I understand the rate increase of

15 the solar it's going to be -- Idaho Power is

16 trying to bring it into more of a wholesale

17 rate.

18 I can understand where they are coming

19 from, saying that we're generating power and

20 that we should not be paying a retail rate

21 because of the -- you know, we should not have

22 the other customers subsidizing us.

23 If we go to that wholesale rate then

24 they -- at the end of that year we ought to be

25 able to get some money back from Idaho Power if
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1 we produce more energy during that time period.

2 Knowing that, last year if we produced

3 more energy than what we consumed then we

4 benefited Idaho Power and we benefited the

5 other customers.

6 And my concern and my comment here is we

7 need to be paid for that. We need to be

8 compensated for that. If we are going to drop

9 the rates down to wholesale rates, then pay us

10 that wholesale rate at the end of the year.

11 That is only fair, you know. We should

12 not be subsidizing others and others should not

13 be subsidizing us. We ought to make that fair

14 and we ought to get paid for it at the end the

15 year. Those are two comments that I had with

16 regard to solar.

17 So sorry, I didn't realize that it had

18 actually been done. Appreciate you hearing me

19 now. Thank you.

20 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you. Do you have

21 any written comments you want to submit?

22 MR. HUBER: No, I didn't.

23 MR. HAMMOND: I think Chris Burdin

24 stated it earlier. If you want to submit

25 comments in this case you can submit written
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1 comments. Of course, it's treated like

2 testimony. But if you also want to submit

3 comments in the net metering case, I believe

4 you can still do that. I'm not sure to be

5 honest.

6 MR. BURDIN: I think the comment of mine

7 was the last date for testimony.

8 MR. HAMMOND: I think you're right.

9 MR. HUBER: I see it on here. I didn't

10 realize that myself. Anyway, thank you.

11 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you very much.

12 That has exhausted my list of people who are

13 going to testify. I guess everybody has

14 testified who wishes to. I wish more people

15 would have showed up.

16 Well, if there's no one else who has a

17 desire to testify, I want to thank you for

18 coming and sharing your thoughts with us. And

19 having nothing else before us this evening,

20 then we're adjourned.

21 Thank you much.

22 (Hearing adjourned at 5:32 p.m.)

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1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE

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STATE OF IDAHO )
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I, Karla Steed-Layfield, a registered Merit
6 Reporter and Certified Shorthand Reporter, do hereby
certify that I reported by machine shorthand the
7 proceedings contained herein on the aforementioned
subject on the date herein set forth, and that the
8 foregoing 1-19 pages constitute a full, true and
correct transcript.
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Karla Steed-Layfield
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Min-U-Script®(2) electricity - Michael
THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY
November 27, 2023
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Min-U-Script®(3) Micron - respect
THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY
November 27, 2023
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Min-U-Script®(4) response - 2506
THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY
November 27, 2023
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