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Case: IPC-E-03-13
Name: A.C. LIKES
Street Address: PO BOX 572
City: GLENNS FERRY
State: 10
ZIP: 83623
Home Telephone: [phone]E-Mail: aclikes0earthlink. net
Company: Idaho Powermailinglistyesno:
Comment description: I do not believe Idaho Power s reason for asking for a 17.
increase. They have a new gas fired plant in Mt Home sitting idle, want to fund a second
one there also and will sell all their new "surplus " out of State, at Idaho users expense.
Their track record stinks. A year ago they wanted all of us to pay for their gambling
losses in the power market. It is time for the PUC to just plain say NO! to Idaho Power
and their out of State owners who want a dollar first and care less about Idaho residents.
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Case: IPC-E-03-13
Name: Oean Alderman
Street Address: 5928 Plantation Lane
City: Boise
State: 10
ZIP: 83703
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: dnoalderman0icehouse. net
Company: Idaho Power
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Comment = descriptIon: Before increases are granted to Idaho Power, much more needs to be
done with respect to conservation. My neighbors regularly run their A/c day and night
from spring through fall. This is not an uncommon event in Idaho. Enter many homes in
this valley and you will find the tempratures in the high 60s or low 70s.
Those of us who moderate our use of AC with settings no lower than 78 should not have to
pay as much per kwh as those who so recklessley squander limited resources. I ask that
the PUC consider building into all power related rate structures clear and substantialinsenti ves to regurally reward those of us who really work at conservation. Let the big
residential users pay the most per kwh!
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Case: IPC-E-03-13
Name: Linda Claude Brown
Street Address: 2184 Middlefield Rd.
City: Boise
State: 10
ZIP: 83704
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: brown. john. a. n0att. net
Company: Idaho Power
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Comment=descriptIon: -We trust your commission staff when recommending that Idaho Poweronly be allowed a 3.06% rate increase rather than their demanding an average 17.7% rateincrease.
It seems illogical for a company to take money from customers, using it to meet its needs,
but later demanding MORE money to cover what other companies would write off as under just
regular expenses. Please stick to your guns and allow them only what your experts have
determined is necessary.
But, alas, my hopes are dimming! After seeing Qwest disregard your rulings and run to the
Legislature to try and change the rules, perhaps Idaho Power will too?! Then what is the
purpose of having a PUC?!
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Susan Holladay
Street Address: 12019 W Rader Or
City: Boise
State: 10
ZIP: 83713
Home Telephone: [phone]E-Mail: eadiepan0earthlink. net
Company: Idaho powemailing list yes no yesComment=descriptIon: ate increases (modest ones) seem to be as inevitable as death and
taxes. However, raising the service charge is an unnecessary, regressive response to a
temporary problem. I left California because I could not even afford to run my air
condi tioning in the summer even sparingly. Please do not let this happen in Idaho. Idaho
Power needs to be reined in. Perhaps and efficiency study is in order. Whatever, I try to
conserve as much as possible and all I get for my efforts is higher utility costs.
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Case: IPC-E-03-13
Name: Jim & Jana Messerli
Street Address: P.O. Box 772
City: Cascade
State: 10
ZIP: 83611
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: messerli0ctcweb. net
Company: Idaho power
mailing list yes no: yesComment=descriptIon: realize the costs keep going
increase seems fairly steep! We are retired and on a
increase much smaller!! Thanks, Jim & Jana Messerli
up for Idaho Power;however 17.
fixed income so would like to see the
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Case: 1pc-03-
Name: Pat Corley
Street Address: 3336 Jackie Ln
City: Boise
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83704
Home Telephone: [phone]E-Mail: Maxipat0veloci tus. net
Company: Idaho Power
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Comment descriptIon ~ural gas got their hike last winter and it nearly broke me even
with help from the state, I live on 718 dollars a month and that is it, no way of earning
any more money as I have heart disease and lung disease. Now Idaho power wants a hike, doI have to give up eating? Their needs to be a more equatable way of providing these
services to a 68 year old citizen who has worked her whole life.
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Name: Kelly R Oavis
Street Address: 9054 Maple Hill Or
City: Boise
State: 10
ZIP: 83709
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E-Mail: krdav0homeinternet. net
Company: Idaho powemailing list yes no yes
Comment=descriptIon: am weary of the ongoing pressure that Idaho Power puts on the PUC
and the paying consumer.
The current question regarding a 17+% increase is not justifiable.
Idaho Power has proven that they can not be trusted with key managment decisions. How can
a company that recently has paid millions of dollars as bonuses and then a couple of years
later wants the consumer to pick up the tab on expansion. I don t get it.
Also, Idaho Power already annual raises rates thanks to the circut braker that the PUC
gave them several years of ago where thye can raise the rates in any year based on thesnow fall. Maybe it would be good to have an independent source do the measuring and
reporting. I just don t trust this company.
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Galen O. Gafford
Street Address: 3521 South Kimball Avenue
City: Caldwell
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83605
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: gdgafford0peoplepc. com
Company: Idaho Power Co
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Comment=descriptIon: --r do not feel that Idaho Power should get an 18% price increase on
their power.
Looks like they are getting greedy. What Idaho Power needs is some competition.
If some one else came in, you would see power rate fall faster than the trade center.
Natural gas is up and out of line, Gasoline is up, now Idaho power wants to stick to us.
I am retired and my Social security isn t up 18%. Please don t let them raise the power.
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Thomas Thor
Street Address: 2604 Muskrat Ave
Ci ty: Nampa
State: 10
ZIP: 83687
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: ta thor0netzero. com
Company: Idaho Power
Comment description:I am in agreement to the average rate increase of 3.06%.
I do not agree to a request of a 17.7% increase in power rates. As a worker/homeowner in
the Treasure Valley I am continously being hit with increase after increas from gas
pricing to medical/Rx costs. I have not received a wage increase in over 3 years. How can
I keep affording the " increases " all these companies want when I don t even have a wage
increase to offset them?
If I have this issue, how about others who are less fortuanate than I? I'm all for
obtaining a profit but c ' mon, why bilk every last cent out of your customer base? Isn I t
the Treasure Valley providing addi tioanl customers to offset the cost?
Thomas Thor.
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Steve Shigeno
Street Address: 2268 N. Wingate PI
City: Meridian
State: Id
ZIP: 83642
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: ssshigeno0aol. com
Company: Idaho Powermailinglistyesno:
Comment description: In regards to Idaho Powers request to raise rates. My only comment
is where did all the money go that they made a couple years ago when we were having
rolling blackouts, and they were selling extra power to California? If I remember
correctly it went to the parent company, so why can I t the parent company pay for these
costs? By requesting this rate increase, Idaho Power is in a win-win situation... If they
make money, they pipe it to their parent company, and if they are short of money, they
just raise rates. They are never held accountable for any of their costs.
Thank you Steve Shigeno
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: tarleton
Street Address: 1517 N. Ounsmuir Way
City: Eagle
State: 10
ZIP: 83616
Home Telephone: [phone]E-Mail: j actar0cableone. net
Company: Idaho Power
Comment description: Management of this company made some bad decisions when they got into
power futures trading, and boasted about the short term gains, paying the trader an
unreasonably large bonus, that is now gone. Now they want the rate payers to cover theresul ting losses that were sure to come. That is not the way business operates. The
customer does not have to eat the results of poor decisions, if he has a choice ofproviders.
Management and the directors work for the shareholders, who should control business
decisions through election of responsible directors. The shareholders are therefore
ultimately responsible for the outcome of this debacle and they should absorb the losses
through having to forego dividends. If this were to happen, management would have to
think long and hard about getting into speculative ventures with the shareholders money.
Since the ratepayers had no part in this ill fated venture, and they have no alternate
source of electricity, they should be protected by the PUC and the shareholders from
irresponsible actions by management and the directors who take unreasonable risks trying
to make a quick gain.
00 not allow any rate increase that exceeds thr increase in the cost of living index for
Idaho.
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Case: IPC-E-03-13
Name: Oale Michaelson
Street Address: 3929 Rast
Ci ty: American Falls
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83211
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: boondox0dcdi. net
Company: Idaho Power
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Comment description: Sirs: I'M still sumwhat baffled as to the different percentages of
increases in the different schedules. To increase one over another, are you not changing
rate schedules? As an irrigator , even the 15% increase in "KW base rate will be a burden
on my farm. To raise the demand charge at all--will probably put me out of bussiness.
Idaho Power made a business venture: ie power buyout in 2001, why was the rate payer
responsible for repayment? Was that not a venture by the business to make money out side
Idaho, if yes, then the stock holders should question their leasership. To ask for 11%
return, in this current economy, on such manuvers, and others, is irrresponsible.
To me, it likes that I go to JackPot,Nev. to increase my net return, knowing that if Ifail, the rate payers will pick up the tab.
I thank the commission s staff for finding the irrresponsible amounts in the proposalthus far. PLEASE be very mindful for the Sate Of Idaho in granting any increases, I truley
believe the states economy, and furture, is in your hands. Thank You
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Norman E. Anderson
Street Address: 1253 Cow Horse Orive
Ci ty: Kuna
State: 10
ZIP: 83634-1429
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: normaneanderson0msn. com
Company: Idaho power
mailing list yes no: yesComment=descriptIon: he rates Idaho Power is proposing in this case are totally
unreasonable and way out of touch with the reality of the cost of living adjustments that
ratepayers have seen in recent years. Idaho Power separates its rate increases into
customer groups as if they are independent. However , many of us fall into several groups
and the rate increases have a compounding effect. 1'm a residential customer, a
irrigation customer, and an industrial customer as part of the management staff of a large
industrial company. And all the other groups receiving increases will no doubt pass their
increases on to consummers in the form of higher prices. The citizens are at the bottom
of the food chain, and we can t afford these rate increases.
Idaho POwer has advertised that it has been hurt by having to serve about 100,000 more
customers since its last base rate increase. I don I t see why this is bad. Every other
business would delight if its customer base increased so much. In my analysis, these
customers paid Idaho Power at least $30 million dollars to be connected to its wires, and
they pay monthly electric bills like the rest of us. So what I s so bad about that?
It seems like much of the motivation for this rate increase is to make up for the loss of
millions of dollars when IdaCorp had to get out of the energy trading business. When
times were good on the unregulated side of the corporation, Idaho Power wasn I t asking for
rate increases. But as soon as the price of energy dropped and IdaCorp couldn t make huge
profi ts from energy trading, IdaCorp got out of the energy trading business and refocused
its effort on making Idaho Power more profitable. Part of its strategy was to lay the
case for a base rate increase. In so doing, Idhao Power enterd into a TV blist to try to
make the public feel sorry for it having to serve more customers and spend money to
upgrade its system. The hope was that people would buy its outlandish rate request that
is based on throwing a lot of "fat" into its cost structure as has been uncoverd by the
PUC Staff. But, we aren I t buying Idaho Power I s story, and we appeal to the Commission to
do the right thing for the ratepayers and come up with a more reasonable solution as has
been proposed by the PUC Staff.
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Charles H. LehrmanStreet Address: 4047 N 1600 E
City: Buhl
State: 10
ZIP: 83316
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: clehrman0mindspring. com
Company: Idaho power
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Comment=descriptIon: n regard to Idaho power Company s request for a general rate
increase: I strongly oppose any rate increases at this time. We are on a retirement fixed
income and our rates for our all electric home are really all we can afford. I feel that
the only reason for a rate increase is so the investors in Idaho Power stock will get
higher dividends and the stock will look better on the market. Also, the extremely high
salary and bonus payments for the upper echelon in IdaCorp are obscene. I urge you to say
no to Idaho Power Company s request at this time. Thank you for the chance to comment.
Charles Lehrman
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Case: IPC-E-03-13
Name: Oawn C. Hendricks
Street Address: PO Box 453, 1902 Hwy. 95
City: Council
State: 10
ZIP: 83612
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: shine0ctcweb. net
Company: Idaho power
mailing list yes no: yesComment=descriptIon: oppose the rate hike for Idahoservice. It would make my bill rise to almost $200 a
my COLA for the year as a Senior on Social Secur i t y.
is a stab at getting
alot of money all at once for fear it will be hard to get smaller increases in the next
few years. What sounds fair to me is a raise for residential rates by 2.5% and a customer
service charge raised from $2.51 to $3.
Power of 19.9% for residentialyear. It would take almost all of
It looks like the proposal of 19.
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Case: IPC-E-03-
Name: Larry T. McKinney
Street Address: 2818 Bannock Ave
City: Nampa
State: 10
ZIP: 83686
Home Telephone: [phone]E-Mail: landsmckinney 0cs. com
Company: Idaho Power~mailing list _yes - no:~
Comment description: Nobody wants to see their utility
deserves more than than the PUC staff recommends.
Ipco has huge costs in building new lines, substations,issues.
I feel they should receive between 12 and 15 percent.
bills increase, but I think IPCO
rights-of-way and invironmental
Why aren t these hearings more publicized when Intermountain Gas wants to raise theirrates?
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From: Ed Howell
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Name: Carlos and Trina Christensen
Street Address: 1583 W. 200 N.
City: Blackfoot
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83221
Home Telephone: [phone]
Work Telephone:E-Mail: catchristensen10j uno. com
Home Business: Both
Business Name: Rock Solid Gelbvieh
Business Street Address: same
Business Phone: same
Complaint Company: Idaho PowerLocal Provider:
Contacted utility: yes
Complaint description: Why does Idaho Power want to increase the rate they charge to thefarmer for the use of electrical power? Farmers are not the ones causing the increased
demand on electrical power in Idaho. Reports have shown that the new homes being built
and new businesses coming into Idaho are the ones increasing the demand on the Idaho Power
supply. We are bothered by this increase to the farmer and feel that we are being dealt
with unfairly. Thank you, Carlos and Trina Christensen
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