20130405Comment.pdf

Jean Jewell
From: randyt83656gmail.com
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:04 AM
To: Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
Subject: PUC Comment Form
A Comment from RANDALL TAYLOR follows:
Case Number: IPC-E-12-27
Name: RANDALL TAYLOR
Address: 348 ELGIN AVE
City: NOTUS
State: IDAHO
Zip: 83656
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: randyt83656(@gmail.com
Name of Utility Company: IDAHO POWER
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
I hope it is not too late for expressing my opinion. I am not currently a net metering
customer of Idaho Power, but I have been looking into options that are out there. I feel,
whether I join solor users or not, that it is totally unfair of Idaho Power to charge
different fees for residential users just because they economise and use less power. Also,
if there is any surplus generated at the end of the year, I feel it only fair to ALLOW Idaho
Power to PURCHASE that power, since it will actually be at alower cost than a large facility
would get for payment for a like amount of power produced. The billings are now so computer
controlled that it will not require additional help for figuring the amount of the purchase
value. If they are allowed to just take the extra power without any kind of reimbursement, it
will amount to actual theft, in my opinion.
I am also a councilmember in the city of Notus, and we recently upgraded our city hall to
utilize solar, because of the sales pitch we were given about not only helping the
environment but reducing the necessity of Idaho Power to continue investing in upgrading
their production facilities. Now, we are being told that is not the case, that they want more
money from us in the long run. I feel for the betterment of Idaho, and the future of its
power supplies, small residential producers should not be penialized.
Randall Taylor
The form submitted on http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/€ipuci/€€€ipuc.html
IP address is 174.27.112.25
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