20120224Comments.pdf

Jean Jewell
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Thursday, February 23, 2012 11: 19 AM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Charles Whitmire follows:
Case Number: IPUC-E-11-19
Name: Charles Whitmire
Address:
City: Pocatello
State: Idaho
Zip: 832Ø1
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Contact E-Mail: 1cw~cableone.com
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
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Please describe your comment briefly:
How can anyone j usti fy raising the price of ANY commodity because they are not selling
enough of that commodity. The voters of Idaho should not be penalized for being conservative.
The main reason, we the people, for the people, by the people are being conservative is
simply because we can NOT afford the cost of electricity NOW.It is not the consumers fault
that Idaho Power did not build their own power plants along time ago. Idaho Power has a
monopoly now on elect rici ty. There is no other place I can buy it. They do not use ANY Union
Labor therefore forcing me to subsidize a workforce that does substandard work with no
benefits or retirement. The only entity that stands between poor people on fixed incomes &
unemployed people in a standstill economy is YOU THREE BOARD MEMBERS (TWO REPUBLICANS AND ONE
DEMOCRAT) on the IPUC Board appointed by Governor Butch Otter. Please protect us Idaho VOTERS
from the greedy Idaho Power Company. Thank You.
The form submitted on http://www . puc. idaho. gov /forms/ipuc1/ipuc. html
IP address is 184.155.133.177
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Jean Jewell
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Friday, February 24, 2012 5:23 AM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Jim Thpmpson follows:
Case Number: IPC-E-11-19
Name: Jim Thpmpson
Address:
City: Rigby
State: ID
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Contact E-Mail: thompson;5~msn.com
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
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Please describe your comment briefly:
Per an article in the POST Register, Thursday, February 23, 2Ø12 by Sven Berg, it is my
understanding that the i customer base', at the bidding of the i Utili ties i; reduces their
consumption of electricity, probably by putting in TOD meters, scrimping on heat and trying
to only use power between the hours of 1ØPM to 7AM(off peak time).
The 'Utilities i saves electricity overall and especially at peak hour times 7AM to 1ØPM(peak
hours), but indicates that it is losing money because the customer base is not paying as much
as it was before they started to conserve energy so the PUC compensates the 'Utili ties i for
their i loss' using the Fixed Cost Adj ustment Program(your tax dollars).
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
The customer base ends up paying the same amount of money for less power and the i utili ties'
revenues increase after it collects the origional amount, ie. Fixed Cost Adjustment(your tax
dollars) plus the power bill from the customer base. Since the Utilities' cannot just dump
the excess power it gained from the conservation of its customers it is fairly safe to assume
that it sells the excess power on the grid.
Rocky Mountain Power a Utah based company, uses the same philosophy and the PUC recently
granted them a big increase so it follows that we probably should subsidize Idaho Power too.
It appears as if the PUC is once again not acting in the best interests of the public that it
was commissioned to protect.
It would be nice if the PUC started looking out for the public weI fare instead of the 'bottomline' of the i utilities i
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/ipuc1/ipuc.html
IP address is 174.27.1Ø4.212
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