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Jean Jewell
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:23 AM
Jean Jewell
FW: Complaint acknowledgement
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From: Ed Howell
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:21
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Subj ect: Complaint acknowledgement
Tonya Clark
WWW Form Submission:
Monday, February 21, 2005
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Name: Keith D. Washburn
Street Addres s: 409 S. Almon
City: Moscow
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83843
Home Telephone: [phone]
Work Telephone:
E-Mail: skeets 180hotmail. com
Home Business: Home
Business Name:
Business Street Address:Business Phone:
Complaint Company: Avista utilli tiesLocal Provider:
Contacted utility: No
Complaint description: This
thier current rate hike. It
have been forced to live on
and electricity.
mail is concerning Avistas application for an extention of
is too much, too long of a duration and I can t afford it. I
ramen noodles all winter because I have to pay so much for gas
Transaction ID: 2211220.Referred by: http: / /www. puc . state. id. us / scr ipt s /polyform. dll / cons
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Jean Jewell
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Ed Howell
Monday, February 21 20055:24 PM
Jean Jewell; Ed Howell; Gene Fadness; Tonya Clark
Comment acknowledgement
WWW Form Submission:
Monday, February 21, 2005
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Case: AVU-E-05-
Name: Todd Sudick
Street Address: 1817 Riverside Rd.
City: Priest River
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83856
Home Telephone: [phone]E-Mail: tsudick0netw. com
Company: Inlandmailinglistyes no: yes
Comment description: The building of gas power generators in N. Idaho and elsewhere is
done under false pertenses. The power companies will tell the citizens and the PUC thatit's a "must have " in order to prevent the shortage of power in Idaho and the Northwest.
In fact there is no regional power shortage. All of the dams on the Snake River /Columbia
Ri ver /Pend Oreille River/Clark Fork River and Lake Koocanusa provide more output than the
region can use. The shortage is an artificial one. Most of the power generated by BPA sold to brokers. These brokers, along with the power companies can and do resell this
electrici ty to power companys out of the region (mostly to Califronia. If they can buy
power at 2.4-3.0 cents/Kw/Hr and resell it to California for 12-14cents/Kw/Hr the margins
are greater than in Idaho. Even the owners of Kaiser Aluminum got into the act. They
shut down their smelter in Spokane, WA because they made more money selling their BPA
power allotment of electricity than they would of made operating the plant. Where do you
think the power is going to go from any additions to Coyote I I? Where do you think the
power goes from the existing Coyote I I? It goes to the grid where the power may (andprobably does) go out of state. It's cheper to build a power plant in the Northwest than
elsewher and you can t build one in California at all. The Grand Coulee Dam was
authorized by Congress in the mid thirties for three reasons; 1. to control flooding along
the Columbia River 2. to provide a supply of electricity to help develope the Pacific
Northwest 3. to provide irrigation to central Washington State. Nowhere in the
Congressional mandate does it specify that it was to bail out California at the expense of
the Pacific Northwet Region. Yet in 1993, 43% of the power generated by Grand Coulee Dam
went to California. The amount has increased since then. In the seventies, the Northwest
Power Council told us all that we had to build three nuclear reactors to fend off a
looming power shortage. We in the Pacific Northwest are still paying for that disaster in
our power bills. In the end, only one reactor was built and the NWPC had to admit, there
was no shortage. It's time the power generated in the Pacific Northwest satisfys out
needs first and any excess is then sold out of region. California has refused to. build
any new power plants for it's ever expanding population. In recent history California has
shut down nuclear power plants in San Onofre, Sacramento and the mid coast. Instead of
building more capacity, it has turned to out of state producers to make up any shortfalls.
BPA has, in the past, sold more power than it can produce and ends up buying from Canada
at a higher rate. This higher rate is passed on to the residents and businesses in ourarea. In effect we are subsidizing California s power bill. FERC has enterd the fray and
it seems like it's goal is to even out power rates across the US. What do you think
14cent/Kw/Hr or higher power rates would do to the residents, businesses and the economyof Idaho. It's time Idaho and it's sister states called a halt to this farce and cause a
change in how we are treated by BPA, the Federal Government and the power companies. Why
should our aquifers suffer so that someone in California can have cheaper electricity. In
addition, the just presented Federal Budget would allow BPA to charge the "going rate " for
power not the cost of production. What is the "going rate The Idaho PUC website has
even gotten into the propaganda mode. They are telling citizens that "prices have surged
from .15/Kw/Hr to $3.00/Kw/Hr(I'm not kidding-read the PUC site under the flashing bulb
under Power Myths). They blame deregulation for rising rates even though deregulation was
supposed to bring down power costs through competition. It's a no vote from me for any
addi tions to Coyote I I
Todd Sudick
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