Idaho Energy Update | June 17

Critics of Idaho Power’s proposed changes to its solar “net metering” program that allows customers with solar panels to earn credits when they generate excess energy turned out in force last week as the Public Utilities Commission held two hearings on the utility’s controversial proposal.  Meanwhile, PacifiCorp has filed its every-other-year “integrated resource plan” with [...]

Idaho Energy Update | June 4, 2013

Idaho Power customers will need to brace for a hefty rate increase of 12 percent or more as the company tries to adjust for a big difference in the amount of power it thought it would generate in the past year and the much lower amount than it actually did. Poor hydropower conditions and cheap [...]

The Snake River Alliance & Idaho Power: It’s Still Complicated – Ken Miller

That was a headline in the Boise Weekly last August, when the relationship between the Snake River Alliance and Idaho Power was about as sour as it has ever been. Things are different now. For better or worse can be debated, but they certainly have evolved over the intervening months. Sometimes it’s portrayed as “Snake [...]

Some Nuclear News – Beatrice Brailsford

Sometimes we get so mired in the day-to-day struggle to stop bad nuclear ideas, we don’t appreciate good news enough.  And there is good news.  There are far fewer deployed nuclear bombs in the world than when “reverse the nuclear arms race” was part of the Snake River Alliance mission statement.  Another bit of good [...]