20221007Comments(4)_4.pdf

From:PUCWeb Notification
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:Notice: A comment was submitted to PUCWeb
Date:Friday, October 7, 2022 7:00:07 AM
The following comment was submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Susan Chaloupka
Submission Time: Oct 6 2022 5:15PMEmail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]Address: 1117 North 19th St
Boise, ID 83702
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-22-22
Comment: "Idaho Power’s choice of assumptions and calculation methods significantly undervalue the five components (avoided energy costs, avoided generation capacity, T&D
deferral, avoided line losses, and integration costs) that the utility quantified. In addition, the VODER Study fails to quantify important benefits of distributed solar that the Commission
directed the utility to analyze in Order No. 35284, that are known and measurable, and that will impact rates, and that will benefit Idaho ratepayers and citizens. These include the
benefits of a long-term physical hedge against volatile natural gas prices and of avoiding the rate impacts of carbon emissions. Idaho Power's seems to want to make it harder on people to
get solar.."
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From:Jessica Fultz ([e-mail]) Sent You a Personal Message
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:IPC-E-22-22 Public Comment
Date:Friday, October 7, 2022 11:14:22 AM
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Dear Idaho Public Utilities Commission,
If we are paying to install and maintain solar panels on our PRIVATE property, we should benefit financially just as
any private business would benefit from profits, tax cuts, and tax credits.
Please look carefully at the independent study conducted by Crossborder Energy, which points out several
shortcomings in Idaho Power's own study on the costs and benefits of customer-owned rooftop solar. Idaho Power
will use this study to justify trying to reduce compensation rates to solar owners. To arrive at fair rates, we first
need a fair study.
Crossborder's study states, "We conclude that Idaho Power?s choice of assumptions and calculation methods
significantly undervalue the five components that the utility quantified. We present our own calculations of an ECR
with these five elements. In addition, the VODER Study fails to quantify important benefits of distributed solar that
the Commission directed the utility to analyze in Order No. 35284 -- benefits that are known and measurable, will
impact rates, and will benefit Idaho ratepayers and citizens.?
Idahoans deserve solar rates based on a more fair and complete analysis. I urge you to reject Idaho Power's study
and look to Crossborder's study as a more accurate measure of the value (to ALL ratepayers) of customer-owned
solar power.
Sincerely,
Jessica Fultz
492 Franklin Ave
Pocatello, ID 83201
[e-mail]
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From:PUCWeb Notification
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:Notice: A comment was submitted to PUCWeb
Date:Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:00:08 PM
The following comments were submitted via PUCWeb:
Name: Martha S Bibb
Submission Time: Oct 6 2022 4:28PMEmail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]Address: 810 CD Olena Dr
Hailey, ID 83333
Name of Utility Company: Idaho Power
Case ID: IPC-E-22-22
Comment: "Dear Members of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, I have been reviewingwhy I installed solar panels and feel that the reason, to help reduce climate warming, is more
valid today than it was in 2017. Idaho Power is a shareholder monopoly and because theyanswer to investors in their company they want to use all tools possible;le to increase stock
value. Unfortunately they do this at the expense of those of us who are their customers.Devaluing the solar power sold back to their company is one way they do this. Their lopsided
analysis of the benefits of solar power and its intrinsic value were not adequately assessed.Yjere is a new unbiased study that should be weighted against Idaho Powers VODER study.
We need to encourage local distributed energy to protect our citizens from the comingblackouts from storms, wind and wildfire. Long distribution suspended power lines not only
dissipate power they are not reliable in the fave of storms and fires. In fact long danglingpower lines actually cause and propagate wildfire. One has only tp look at these lines spanning
big grass fields and mountain peaks to know how unreliable these lines are. Storm damage hascaused many power outages in wildfires and in storms. Local distributed power can help to
mitigate that. The profits to Idaho Power from these long lines should not over ride commonsense. Net metering at a fair and equitable rate should be a goal for our state, not discouraging
solar power by devaluing it. Please consider the future, the citizens best interest when decidinghow we move forward with our power supply. We need all the sources we can develop as
power needs increase, moving away from any fossil fuels to new renewable power sources.Thank you, Martha S. Bibb"
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Name: Sue Petersen
Submission Time: Oct 6 2022 4:55PMEmail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]Address: 731 northstar drive
Hailey, ID 83333
Name of Utility Company: Not
Case ID: IPC-E-22-22
Comment: "Dear Sirs, I installed solar panels on my roof about ten years ago because I wanted to do my part in combatting climate change. You need to take similar responsibility and insist
that Idaho Power encourage the use of rooftop solar. Paying people less than a fair rate for their energy production is not helpful. You have the power to do the right thing and get us on
our way to 100% clean energy, and I hope you will use it for the benefit of us all. Thank you, Sue Petersen"
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