20110920Comments.pdf

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 9:19 AM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Dean C. Gentry follows:
Case Number: AVU-Ell-01 and AVU-G-11-01
Name: Dean C. Gentry
Address: POBox 321
City: St Maries
State: Idaho
Zip: 83861
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: dg~smgazette.com
Name of Utility Company: Avista
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
Idaho Public Utility Commission
Are written comments considered by the Commission when setting rate increase requests?
1. During the resent past couple of years Avista announced in the regional newspapers that
they strongly supported · CAP & TRADE i
legislation and that they had joined at least two organizations for the purpose of getting
our U. S. Congress to pass the legislation.
It is most likely Avista paid out large sums of money to those organizations and perhaps to
other parties in their effort to have that legislation become law. Did the Idaho PUC
Commission consider those expenditures as a stockholder expense or a rate payer expense, or
is there any difference when you consider rate increase requests.
2 . Expenditures by Avista for the purpose and benefit of stockholders will initially reduce
stockholders return on their investment and then give the PUC cause to increase utility rates
to bring the stockholders return up to a higher level. Do you take these facts into
consideration?
If I remember correctly, in recent past years when we have had a below normal snowpack in the
Coeur d' Alene basin, Avista has requested a rate increase to be j usti fied in the lower than
normal run off and decrease in hydro power generation at their dams. This past winter the
Coeur d' Alene basin had a very high snow pack (150% + of norm).
It would seem that Avista would be requesting a rate decrease due to the larger than normal
amount of run off and resulting increase over normal hydro power generation. Am I correct in
this thinking?
3. I have a seasonal need for electricity for an irrigation pump to water a lawn out of the
city water service area. A few years ago the billing from Avista was only for the months and
amount used.
Then a base rate of $4.00 per month was established for each of the
12 months of the year. During the months the pump was used (normally June, July, August &
September) the $4.00 base rate was applied to the monthly bill and additional electricity was
added for the total.
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Then the base rate was increased to $5.00 per month (a 25% increase) for which I recall no
rate requests application. Then the $5.00 base amount was not longer applied to the bill for
the electricity used during the pumping season. Were all of these increase approved by
the PUC? Are these small seasonal accounts and the monthly base
rates included with households when Avista computes the average household electrical usage
which they always publish when requesting a rate increase? if so, the average published is
not meaningful.
4. Most if not all rate request by Avista published in the regional newspapers includes a
reason for the increase. A press release for the current rate increase reads: i In the
application company officials said the additional revenue would be used to upgrade and
replace aging equipment.' My very important question to you is, when the upgrades and
replacing of the aging equipment are paid for (or the capital expenditures recaptured) should
there not be a rate decrease of a like amount of any increase that was given for those
purposes. If not a rate decrease when the necessary expenditures a recaptured (I do not
recollect of any such rate decreases) then any subsequent rate increases will be a
compounding of each previous rate increases. The customer / rate payers are continually
paying for capital expenditures forever and ever after the utility has recaptured the money
for the expenditures for which rate increases were given.
Thank you for the service of you as Commissioners of the Idaho PUC.
I will sincerely appreciate it if i receive a reply from the PUC in regards to the above
comments and questions. I will also appreciate it if a staff person will return a copy of
these comments and questions by email.
Dean C. Gentry
The form submitted on http://www . puc. idaho. gov /forms/ipuc1/ipuc. html
IP address is 66.162.130.66
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Jean Jewell
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Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:48 AM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Anthony Branz follows:
Case Number: AVtl-£-II-oljAiú -6-/1-6 I
Name: Anthony Branz
Address: po box 651
City: Osburn
State: ID
Zip: 83849
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: ajbranz~ahoo.com
Name of Utility Company: Avista
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
Before authorizing Avista' s most recent gas & electric rate increase request please consider
the following recent census statistics. One in six US adults and one in four children live
under the poverty level. Examine the rate increases your commision has authorized over the
past 10 years. Thank you.
The form submitted on http://www . puc. idaho. gov /forms/ipuc1/ipuc. html
IP address is 24.32.202.85
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Jean Jewell
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:18 PM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
PUC Comment Form
A Comment from David Smith follows:
Case Number: AvU-£ -II -01/ ÆV(l- 6 -iI-l) /
Name: David Smith
Address:
City: Post Falls
State: ID
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Daytime Telephone:
Contact E-Mail :
Name of Utility Company:
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Please describe your comment briefly:
No information about the zero people who turned out last ni te for Avista i s propaganda tirad
with its bought and paid for rubber stamp commissioners in the news media in Coeur d i Alene.
As far as the alledged commissioners, (who appoints you anyway, is it Avista' s stooge
governor?), and how much does Avista pay to do so (with ratepayer money, not theirs)? Why
were you appointed anyway? Were you approved by Avista i s vampire board of directors first?
Who gets the money? What do you spend your blood money on anyway? Do you like your meat
cooked rare, or just dripping bloody? When was the last time you beat your wife? Kicked
your dog? Recently I' m sure.
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipuc1/ipuc.html
IP address is 50.37.68.159
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