20120824Comments.pdf

Jean Jewell
From: cdlloyd5©msn.com
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:20 AM
To: Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
Subject: PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Rochelle Lloyd follows:
Case Number: GNR-E-11-03
Name: Rochelle Lloyd
Address: 8134 S. Five Mile
City: Boise
State: ID
Zip: 83709
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: cd1loyd5msn.com
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
It should not be the business of the PUC to pick winners and losers. The people paying
inflated costs for wind, solar and small hydro electric projects are definitely the losers.,
If people want to provide those kinds of energy that's great, but not at the expense of a
regulation making it mandatory that they receive inflated prices. Capitalism suggests that
the market will determine the cost of such products not individual commissions, boards or
committees. The PUC is also choosing winners and losers by mandating that some companies and
industries providing power be paid at a lower rate and others at an inflated rate. We, as
consumers, cannot afford to pay those inflated prices. We want reliable energy at a cost
effective rate and we don't want to be the losers in this equation.
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipucl/€€€ipuc.html
IP address is 24.117.25.59
Barb Barrows
From: bruneauboygmail.com
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:33 PM
To: Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
Subject: PUC Comment Form
A Comment from G Newton follows:
Case Number: I-P€-E_11 -1-5-- C,t%JR -E-1I03
Name: G Newton
Address:
City: Boise
State: ID
Zip:
Daytime Telephone:
Contact E-Mail: bruneaubov(@gmail.com
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
I support PURPA. It is very important that our country diversifies our energy sources. We
must continue to support the solar and wind industries as they develop. Let's not pretend
that private businesses paid for the dams that Idaho Power operates, the federal government
provided the capitol for those projects!
I also am opposed to the propoganda that Idaho Power is sending to their customers each month
in our power bills, campaigning against solar and wind power. Why are they allowed to send
out such biased information?
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipucl/ipuc.html
IP address is 70.196.192.52
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Barb Barrows
From: bwstettler©prodigy.net
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 10:34 AM
To: Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
Subject: PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Bruce W. Stettler follows:
Case Number: GNR-E-11-03
Name: Bruce W. Stettler
Address: 6401 Oreana Dr.
City: Boise
State: Idaho
Zip: 83709-2954
Daytime Telephone:
Contact E-Mail: bwstettler(@Prodigy.net
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
As I drive between Boise and the Utah boarder I watch with interest the lack of wind turning
our multi-million dollar wind farms. How can such hight cost units stand idle and still be
considered a effective means of power generation?
I do not support artifiical rates that support worthless and expensive power generation.Idaho
power sould not be required to pay more for energy than what it would cost them to generate
their own power. Thank You
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipuci/€ipuc.html
IP address is 65.101.73.48
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Barb Barrows
From: gregg62cyahoo.com
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 11:24 AM
To: Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
Subject: PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Gregg Caswell follows:
Case Number: GNR-E-11-03
Name: Gregg Caswell
Address: 10221 W Smiley Creek Ct.
City: Star
State: Idaho
Zip: 83669
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: gregg62c(Jvahoo.com
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
I don't usually write to governing boards, nor do I complain. I've lived here for about a
year, coming from California where the utility rates are sky high. However, paying for
something that we consumers don't receive is at least nonproductive. We should buy green
energy when it is available, at a set price. A price that is fair to the consumer & to the
producer. When there is no green energy being produced, we should not have to pay for that
non use. It is important that the PUC continue to provide energy for our economy at an
affordable price.
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipucl/
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ipuc.html
IP address is 75.167.167.105
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Barb Barrows
From: [e-mail]
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:13 PM
To: Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
Subject: PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Bill Leach follows:
Case Number: GNR-E-11-03
Name: Bill Leach
Address: P.O. Box 222
City: Moreland
State: Idaho
Zip: 83256-0222
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: wrleach(@cableone.net
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
I am thoroughly disgusted with the fact that our elected politician are forcing the public
and business to fund projects in the name of 'green energy' when the most expensive of those
projects will not benefit the public in any way and the projects are anything but 'green'
(other than the green [money] that the promoters receive. While I suspect that our state has
no real choice in following PURPA the Idaho should do everything that it can do to protect
Idaho citizens for such reckless legislation.
Wind generation is NOT beneficial to the general populace. It cannot supply base load, very
costly turbine plants have to be in 'rolling standby' and continually adjust their output to
adjust for changes in the wind. The magnitude of environmental damage from wind energy has
been is continuing to be understated to the American public.
The problems with trying to use wind energy are not going to be solved by technological
advances. The very idea of using large scale wind generation for commercial power generation
is fundamentally unsound.
I respectfully request that you do whatever the state can do to reduce the burden on Idaho
Power and thus its consumers.
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipucl/ipuc.html
IP address is 174.126.66.128
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