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Monday, October 03, 2005
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Name: Gerald Fleischman
Street Address: 10535 Hazeldale Ct.
City: Boise
State: 10
ZIP: 83713
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Comment description: I read PacifiCorp s application for this surcharge. The programs
PacifiCorp plans seem to be good ones. My only comment it the form of the surcharge, and
after reading it I could not tell. It appears however to be a charge that is somehow
devided among customers of a class and not based on the individual energy use of thesecustomers. I f this is the case, it is not good. The base charges need to be as low as
possible to provide the greatest incentive for conservation and substitution to the
customer/ratepayer. If the base charges, surcharges or fees can not be reduced through
reduction in load, they lesson the incentive for conservation. The fees should be
calculated as a percent of the energy use. If a customer used $100 worth of electricity,
for example, he or she would pay a $1.50 OSM surcharge. I f he or she used $200 ofelectrici ty, the surcharge would be $3.00.
I don t see any problem with the OSM programs, although if I looked in detail, I might.
But the surcharge needs to be something that the customer can also reduce through
conservation or substitution. Customers need information signals that tell them what to
do. Higher electricity prices is one of the best signals there is, but the greater the
pecentage base fees are of the price, the less the incentive is for customers to conserve
or innovate.
If the fee is being set the way I suggest, then sorry for taking your time. If
encourage you to change it to a percentage of use. This should be very easy to
and every customer understands a fee that would say for example "OSM Fee (1.
OSM program fee ($.001 / kWh). Having the fee charged in this ways allows the
reduce it also.
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Thank you for your consideration.
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