Oct 4 ID Energy Update: A Win for Wind, A Loss for Efficiency

Idaho Energy Update October 4, 2012 The Snake River Alliance has a new home in Boise! The Alliance recently relocated from our former digs at 9th & Jefferson in downtown Boise to 6th & Idaho, just a few blocks away and above the Java coffee shop. We’ll have an office warming celebration from 5:30-7:30 p.m. [...]

Northwest energy efficiency improvements set a new one-year record last year

September 12, 2012 In 2011, the Pacific Northwest set a new annual record for energy efficiency improvements — and did so for one-fourth  the cost of power from the most efficient new generating plants, according to a Council survey of the region’s electric utilities. In 2011, the Northwest developed 277 average megawatts of new energy [...]

Overriding Common Sense: An Attack on Energy Efficiency Standards

July 20, 2012 – 11:14am By Andrew deLaski, Executive Director, Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) Read this article on the ACEEE website. A new report published last week by the anti-regulatory Mercatus Center (an advocacy outfit associated with the Koch brothers) took aim at appliance and vehicle efficiency standards. In the report, the authors argue that [...]

Another Utility Decrease in Energy Efficiency Spending? – Ken Miller

In these times of promising breakthroughs in the world of energy efficiency and the role efficiency and conservation can play in helping us shed dirty and expensive power generation, it’s as important as ever to keep our utilities’ pedal to the metal in pushing for more. So it comes as a big disappointment to see [...]