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Diane Holt
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Sent:Sunday,October 8,2017 7:25 PM
To:Beverly Barker;Diane Holt;Matthew Evans
Subject:Case Comment Form:Karen Blanchard
Name:Karen Blanchard
Case Number:IPC-E-17-13
Email:[e-mail]
Telephone:[phone]
Address:1399 Winchester Drive
Pocatello ID,83201
Name of Utility Company:Idaho Power
Comment:Please encourage and continue the current net metering;It is a way to slow climate change one solar or
wind powered place at a time.
Unique Identifier:159.118.77.69
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TO IPUC
WUC-E-17-13
The PUC should not give Idaho Power any extra pricing controls over net metering
because their claim of high costs and future problems are not valid.
First,the fixed costs that net metering causes are extremely small because we do not use
the electrical grid to send our excess energy throughout the Idaho Power system.
Electricity flows to the nearest demand.So my excess solar electricity in the summer
goes to my neighbor’s homes not on the high transmission lines.My system adds
virtually no cost to the overall system.In fact,distributive power like net metering
provides help and keeps IDA Corp prices costs lower in peek demand summer loads
because that is when IDA Corp would have to purchase power at Spot Market prices We
help adding power at lower retail prices when it is most needed in the summer.
Secondly,giving Idaho Power extra authority to increase net metering prices is
wrongheaded.Just because Idaho Power is worried that their outdated business model
will struggle in the future with the ongoing changes they need to make.The need for
cleaner sources of energy does not mean they should make clean sources like solar net
metering customers pay for the change.On the contrary,they should be rewarding net
metering customers and work with the solar industry to expand its solar and alternative
energy footprint instead oftrying to kill it.
Please do not pass IPC-E-17-13 because it gives Idaho Power to much authority to raise
prices indiscriminately against the very group that are trying to help curb climate change
and keep the air clean for the future.They are no longer just a power company.As a
monopoly they have a responsibility to protect the environment and make progressive
actions not turn against the new cleaner sources of energy.
As a shareholder in Idaho Power,I know I’ll make money as alternative energy expands
as a distributive energy source because IDACORP is a monopoly and will always have a
profitable result.Since they are a monopoly,it is the responsibility ofthe PUC to move
them forward not backwards to cleaner sources of energy.Passing IPC-E-17-13 will kill
solar net metering instead of encouraging it.
Sincerely,
Ed Wardwell
1 268 Dechambeau Way
Boise,ID.83714
edntucker(i),grnai1.com
idaho Power