20210825Comments(4).pdf

From:PUC Consumer Comments
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:Notice: A comment was submitted to PUCWeb
Date:Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:00:08 AM
The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: BW Gower
Submission Time: Aug 24 2021 6:43PMEmail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]Address: PO Box 912
Bellevue, ID 83313
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-21-25
Comment: "In the matter of requesting approval of a surcharge for the purpose of undergrounding transmission and distribution lines in the Hailey/Ketchum area of the Wood
River Valley I am vehemently opposed. The County Commissioners may have asked IPCO to do this but they did not ask the general citizenry of Blaine County. A vocal minority may have
known about and showed up to comment at Commission meetings but this should be voted on by the whole County and not shoved through by the "Chamber of Commerce Elites". The
argument that it somehow helps the whole county is bunk. This is a proposal by and for a bunch of well healed NIMBYs. Put the redundant equipment in above ground or make the
Ketchum, Sun Valley, Weyyakin, Lane Ranch, Golden Eagle, Cold Springs, Valley Club and Elkhorn residents that it benefits pay for it."
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From:PUC Consumer Comments
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:Notice: A comment was submitted to PUCWeb
Date:Wednesday, August 25, 2021 12:00:07 PM
The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Cynthia Mann
Submission Time: Aug 25 2021 11:24AMEmail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]Address: 380 Littlewood Reservoir Rd
Carey, ID 83320
Name of Utility Company: IPCO
Case ID: IPC-E-21-25
Comment: "I would like to go on record in STRONG OPPOSITION to the proposed surcharge by ID Power for undergrounding of the new Redundant Transmission Line ID Power plans to
install from Hailey to Ketchum, destroying our Scenic Corridor. The tiny amount of visual clarity achieved by undergrounding this short portion of the new line is absolutely NOT
WORTH IT!!! The above ground portion of the new line blemishes our Scenic Corridor forever. Why pay $10 million dollars to underground a tiny bit of it? Just build the whole thing
above ground. It's all a travesty anyway. I'm an irrigator in Carey, ID. We have 6 pumps with separate meters and we will be assessed $14.36 per month x 6 for 20 years, with no benefit to
us at all!!! That's $86.16 every month additional cost to us, on top of annual rate increases that IPCO hands out!! In addition to $86.16 we'll have to pay $3.42 per residential meter, of which
we have 3. Our annual cost will be $1157.04!!!! Our 20 year cost will be $23,140.80, AND WE LIVE IN CAREY!!!!! I participated in the Blaine County Commissioners meetings and
opposed this proposed line then. At that time, IPCO represented that our fees might total$350/household per month. $23k over 20 years for one business not even located in the Big
Wood River Valley is totally outrageous!!! At the final meeting of the Blaine County Commissioners before they reversed themselves and laid down prostrating themselves in front
of IPCO, I advocated for them to allow the entire line to be overhead. This pitiful distance of underground line is only saving IPCO from having to deal with the Helicopters at the Hospital
from running into 60' high electric poles. Undergrounding distribution lines will have zero visual impact in comparison to the new overhead transmission lines installed in the Scenic
Corridor. The current BCC has thrown away decades of work to establish and maintain our Scenic Corridor. Saddling farmers with $14.36 per meter monthly is obscene!!!! I urge the
Idaho Public Utility Commisson to disallow IPCO from charging rate payers for a line we don't need, undergrounded in areas we won't even notice. Sincerely, Cynthia Mann 380
Littlewood Reservoir Rd Carey, ID 83320 "
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From:PUC Consumer Comments
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:Notice: A comment was submitted to PUCWeb
Date:Wednesday, August 25, 2021 2:00:08 PM
The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: steven crosser
Submission Time: Aug 25 2021 1:50PMEmail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]Address: 431 Aspen Dr
Hailey, ID 83333-8800
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-21-25
Comment: "I oppose any rate increase by Idaho power, for the purpose of burying the power line a long highway 75 here in Blaine County. The insistence of the Blaine County
Commissioners that this new power line be buried is politically motivated by there wealthy constituents. Why should ALL Blaine County residences pay that cost for the next 20 years ?
Commercial, industrial, irrigation users that live miles and miles away pay the $14.36 for the next 20 years ?"
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