20230817News Release.pdf

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Case No. AVU-E-23-11
Order No. 35892
Contact: Adam Rush
Office: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

NEWS RELEASE: Avista Utilities files application seeking approval to implement residential
and small farm energy rates.

BOISE (Aug. 17, 2023) – Avista Utilities has filed an application with the Idaho Public Utilities
Commission seeking approval to implement residential and small farm energy rates for electric
service.

The utility, which serves customers in northern Idaho, said the electric residential and farm
energy rate adjustment results from an agreement between it and the Bonneville Power
Administration. The agreement provides a share of the benefits of the federal Columbia River
power system to residential and small farm customers of the six investor-owned utilities in the
Pacific Northwest.

Avista is proposing a residential and small farm energy rate adjustment credit rate for rate
schedules 1, 12, 22, 32 and 48 of 0.366 cents per kilowatt-hour. This represents a $0.2 million, or
0.1 percent increase to qualifying customers. Residential customers using an average of 927
kilowatt-hours per month would see their monthly bills increase from $85.40 to $85.53, or 0.2
percent.

Written comments on the application are being accepted until Sept. 13, 2023. Comments must be
filed through the commission’s website or by e-mail unless computer access is not available. To
comment through the commission’s website, please visit puc.idaho.gov and click on the “Case
Comment Form” link on the upper left side of the page. Please use case number AVU-E-23-11
when filling out the form. If submitting comments using e-mail, please send them to the
commission secretary and Avista at the e-mail addresses listed below. If computer access is not
available, comments can be mailed to the commission and Avista at these addresses:

For the Idaho Public Utilities Commission

Commission Secretary
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0074
[e-mail]
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Street address for express mail:

11331 W. Chinden Blvd.
Building 8, Suite 201-A
Boise, ID 83714

For Avista:

David J. Meyer, Esq.
Patrick Ehrbar
P.O. Box 3727
1411 E. Mission Ave.
Spokane, WA 99220-3727
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Additional information on Avista’s application is available at: puc.idaho.gov/case/Details/7089.