20110225Comment.pdf

Jean Jewell
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Friday, February 25, 2011 4:35 AM
Jean Jewell; Beverly Barker; Gene Fadness
PUC Comment Form
A Comment from Timothy Shurtz follows:
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Case Number: PAC-E-11-87
Name: Timothy Shurtz
Address: 411 south main
City: Firth
State: Idaho
Zip: 83236
Daytime Telephone: [phone]
Contact E-Mail: tshurtz~idahosupreme. com Name of Utility Company: Rocky Mountain power
Acknowledge: acknowledge
Please describe your comment briefly:
Hear we are again Rocky Mountain Power was just given a rate hike. Now they come asking for
more becuase of high energy cost. It seems that they always have high cost in this area. I
think that their is no incentive for them to control these cost when they can have some one
else pay the bill. I would hope that the Commission looks very carefuly at this cost. I know
that natural gas prices have been lower in the past year and that we had a good spring run
off last year as well. That leaves coal as a possible problem for energy cost. I would like
to know how Coal might fit into this cost ajustment. I would also like to know what Rocky
Mountain Power is paying for their Natural Gas as opposed to some one like Inter Mountain Gas
which asked for a rate decrease last year. Along with this I think that energy buying
practices should be looked at and from whom are they buying from. because I do not think that
we as customers should be lieble if they have bad energy procurement policies Rocky Mountain
does not seem to get it that we dont need any more hikes in this time of economic problems we
are now in.
The form submitted on http://www . puc. idaho. gov Iforms/ipucl/ipuc. html
IP address is 69.92.84.2
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