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Home My WebLink About20230710Comments_3.pdf1 The following comment was submited via PUCWeb: Name: Erin Rohlman Submission Time: Jul 8 2023 9:24AM Email: erohlman@citlink.net Telephone: 208-347-3151 Address: 3350 Big Creek Rd. New Meadows, ID 83654 Name of U�lity Company: Idaho Power Case ID: IPC-E-23-14 Comment: "I urge Idaho’s PUC to fully support roo�op solar power genera�on in Idaho. We can phase out the use of coal generated power quickly and u�lize a clean power source of abundant sunlight. This will help everyone as we decrease our adverse impacts to the environment and become self-suﬃcient as a state. Please support a healthy and fair development of solar power as we try to survive our warming planet." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following comment was submited via PUCWeb: Name: Timothy Slemp Submission Time: Jul 8 2023 4:26PM Email: funsusion@gmail.com Telephone: 573-337-0171 Address: 2580 E. Taormina Dr. Meridian, ID 83642 Name of U�lity Company: Idaho Power Case ID: IPC-E-23-14 Comment: "I am a humble residen�al self-generator and, like others, I feel thoroughly betrayed. It is clear that Idaho Power, although atemp�ng to present their study as objec�ve and fair, is inherently biased with their new ECR rule recommenda�on. The botom line, this revised ECR rule, if adopted, is highly prejudicial against self-generators and highly favorable to Idaho Power. It is no secret that Idaho Power resents self-generators' ability to gain retail credit for energy exported back to the grid. Although it is certainly true that most self-generators do not consume energy in the same propor�on hour-by-hour as their system generates, Idaho Power's study fails to fully represent the self-generators' interests and costs. The botom line is that Idaho Power is presen�ng a new ECR system that allows the "Company" to proﬁt more and to do so on the shoulders of residen�al self-generators. What's good for the gander is good for the goose. Energy rates have experienced rather steep increases in recent years. These increased u�lity rates par�ally compensate Idaho Power for the increased costs of energy as hydroelectric genera�on must be further supplemented by other genera�on to meet the public's needs. Residen�al solar allows the grid to be supplemented with energy at ZERO COST to Idaho Power or their 2 customers. Residen�al solar customers pay for their generators completely out of pocket yet we have no leverage to inﬂuence the IPUC to adjust ECR rates in order to compensate ourselves for the cost of our energy. Instead, we've had the opportunity to at least beneﬁt for a 1:1 credit at the retail rate. If our system generates more than used, it goes back to the grid for Idaho Power to sell to other customers at a proﬁt. Yet, now the "Company" is proposing that the energy that a self-generator puts back into the grid is not the same value as the energy Idaho Power sells to their other customers, essen�ally charging/selling diﬀerent rates for solar-produced energy based on �me of consump�on. This is dishonest and misleading. It is true that solar only generates with the sun and all customers are consuming at diﬀerent rates around a 24 hour clock. What is dishonest is to disallow a self-generator to sell their energy at the same rate that Idaho Power sells around the clock while IP supplements their grid with solar (in the desert) at a rate that is the same as their hydroelectric regardless of �me generated/used and then penalize a self-generator by placing them under separate ECR rules. Idaho Power ends up winning. Residen�al self-generator ends up losing. Every residen�al customer traded signiﬁcant life�me savings to purchase into a program that ul�mately beneﬁts the public by supplemen�ng a stressed grid at ZERO cost to the public. This is good. And, every residen�al self- generator did so on the belief that our public leaders would honor a policy of 1:1 energy credits. Would Idaho Power, or any other power company, remain in business if IPUC told them they could not recoup the costs of their infrastructure and charge fair rates for energy to at least meet their expenses? Then why would IPUC implement a new ECR rule cra�ed by the power "Company" that speciﬁcally harms residen�al solar generators? This is not only not fair, it is dishonorable. If there is a ﬂaw in the current ECR policy then the only fair way to correct it is to implement it for NEW residen�al solar generators and KEEP YOUR WORD to legacy solar generators that cannot recoup their costs. Addi�onally, a�er installing my "grandfathered" system at the end of 2019, we discovered our system came up short in mee�ng our needs. We installed 4 addi�onal panels in 2022 to bring the system to where it needed to be. What happened? Idaho Power informed us that ALL of our power is now considered NOT grandfathered merely because the 4 addi�onal panels weren't installed on a separate meter. We discovered this AFTER the installa�on. This is a disgrace. This allows Idaho Power to essen�ally STEAL a large por�on of our system's power genera�on because it is not protected under the grandfathered ECR 1:1 policy. And, yes, it is stealing. This is power that our system generates, 100% at our cost, yet Idaho Power gets to re-sell whatever we generate beyond our use subject to a moving target tariﬀ policy to the rest of the public or elsewhere. This is absolutely unconscionable, reprehensible, and dishonorable. We plead that sanity prevails at IPUC and that the public policy makers keep their promise to those who invested signiﬁcant life savings into a residen�al solar system that meaningfully supplements the grid at no cost to, and ul�mately beneﬁts, the public...and to ensure that Idaho Power plays fair, not merely presen�ng self- serving studies that protect their proﬁt margins and treat residen�al solar generators as second class customers without a voice. This is the right thing to do. Respec�ully, and thank you." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following comment was submited via PUCWeb: Name: Richard A Rusnak Submission Time: Jul 9 2023 1:57PM Email: rarusnak62@gmail.com Telephone: 208-899-5713 Address: 12373 W Brentor St Boise, ID 83709 Name of U�lity Company: ID Power 3 Case ID: IPC-E-23-14 Comment: "Small businesses and the homeowner both need a strong policy advoca�ng fair, economical and a sta�onary standard that credits energy returned to the grid at a higher rate and a credit that carries over to the next calendar year. Many prospec�ve residen�al roof top solar installers are hesitant to invest as the pay back costs are too far into the future, even with install costs dropping. The planet is out of �me with human caused hea�ng at now at a runaway pace. Residents need a runaway economic low cost technology to begin turning around the hea�ng of the planets atmosphere and current net metering is a disincen�ve to turn around this runaway train of hea�ng the planet. America, Idaho and the world need immediate inexpensive roof top genera�on, let it begin with IDPC leading the way so we can be a part of saving the planet from the ever increasing CO2 build up. This further reliance on the sun to power America will help with improving our western snow packs, reducing droughts, reducing mega wild ﬁres, help stabilize biodiversity, improve crop yields and soil nutrients, help farmers, and create more high paying solar related jobs. America needs a moon shot idealism to reverse humani�es damage to our planets atmosphere, let IDPC be an instrument in this urgently needed movement. " --------------------------------------------------------------------------------