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Peterson Metal Products
P. o. Box 67
180 Lee Creek Street
Leadore, ID. 83464-0067
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Idaho Public Utilties Commission
472 W Washington St
Boise ID 83702
August 5, 2011
Dear Sir or Madam,
It has recently come to our attention that Idaho Power wishes to increase the rates for residential
and other customers by at least 8.83 percent. As a small business owner and operator, we feel
this is completely unecessar and wil present yet fuher pressure to compete and surive in
this economy.
We were just readiiigon the iiiternet thatÍdåh() Power is "giving" money to projects such as park
improvements and such. While these are wortwhile projects, they are perhaps unecessar.
When we are trying to pay our bils, we have found it necessar to raise our prices to our cus-
tomers 3 times over the last 27 years. This has not been tre ofIdaho Power, who have raised
their rates several times over the past couple years.
Things Idaho Power could consider: This has been an extremely high water year, and thus has
had abundant resources for power production. The cost of advertising is extremely high, and
could be reduced. (They are not in a very competitive market.) Projects
like playground im-
provements, while important to a local community may not be in Idaho Power's best interests,
and those costs could go toward maintaining and improving their transmission lines; (Over the
past several days, we have had outages lasting anywhere from 2-3 seconds to several minutes.)
It is extremely diffcult for us to justify a rate increase to Idaho Power and would not support this
decision. Than you.
Very sincerely,
Mevanwie E Peterson'rOwner/Offi e Manager~