20050428Comment.pdf

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Jean Jewell; Ed Howell; Gene Fadness; Tonya Clark
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Thursday, April 28, 2005
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Name: Brad Gore
Street Addres s: 2348 Echo Ave.
Ci ty: Parma
State: Idaho
ZIP: 83660
Home Telephone: [phone]
E-Mail: albngore~fmtc. com
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Comment description: IPC' s PCA, Bennett Mtn., and tax adjustment rate cases should
deferred or denied outright. Something is structurally wrong when IPC requires "rate
relief" every year. If IPC needs to ask for a moratorium on new construction for a period
of time to get its supply in line with existing demand, then so be it.
Those of us who have lived here for years are being continually as ked to foot the bills
for all the new customers IPC has signed on. These are the people who should pay a
surcharge for new power production faci ti ties, such as Bennett Mtn. This idea is not
dissimilar to impact fees charged by the City of Boise to developers. New IPC customers
should be paying impact fees to defer the incremental cost of providing new generationcapability.
Speaking as an agricultural irrigator, yearly increases in power costs will soon put me
and other pumpers out of business. I cannot continue to pass on my increased irrigation
charges to downstream buyers. If I then have to eat the increased cost of production, I
will be left with no profi tabili ty. Irrigators, at least, should be exempt from additional
near-term rate increases. It is far easier for commercial and industrial electricity users
to defray increased costs. Residential consumption is minimal enough so as not to be
crippling. Let non-irrigation users bear the near-term costs for whatever the IPUC
determines is fair rate relief for IPC. And make new IPC clients pay surcharges for the
problems arising from their entry into the IPC market.
Transaction ID: 4281026.Referred by: http: / /www. puc. state. id. us/ scripts /polyform. dll/ipuc
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