20221114Comment(1)_1.pdf

From:Marty Thomason ([e-mail]) Sent You a Personal Message
To:Jan Noriyuki
Subject:IPC-E-22-22 Public Comment
Date:Saturday, November 12, 2022 11:42:32 AM
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Dear Idaho Public Utilities Commission,
I studied roof-top solar for about 2 years before proceeding with an install. Using honest, reliable, and accurate data
was critical to my choice to install roof-top solar.
Please hold Idaho power to the same standard of honest, reliable, and accurate data for this most important decision.
The health of the world's environment as well as the health of Idaho's economy and residents is at stake.
Thank you
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,
Marty Thomason
547 Dee Drive
Jerome, ID 83338
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