by Snake River Alliance | Oct 20, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has accepted Rocky Mountain Power’s long-term Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which serves as a roadmap for how the utility plans to meet future electricity needs. Rocky Mountain Power, a subsidiary of the utility giant...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 7, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
After nearly a year in the works, Idaho’s largest electric utility has filed its “integrated resource plan” to the state Public Utilities Commission, forecasting how it thinks it will meet customer electricity demand for the coming 20 years. This every-other-year IRP...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 22, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC
Thanks to the hard work by our clean energy community and a changing culture at the state’s largest power company, Idaho Power is writing a plan to retire some of its coal-fired power plants a decade ahead of schedule and to replace that polluting generation with...
by Snake River Alliance | May 15, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
PacifiCorp, which does business in southeastern Idaho as Rocky Mountain Power, has filed its every-other-year Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) with the Idaho PUC. Idaho’s three regulated electric utilities submit IRPs as non-binding roadmaps showing how they expect to...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 20, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
It’s one of the greatest shows in power planning: Idaho Power’s every-other-year Integrated Resource Plan. It’s not just for energy wonks, and it’s about to get really interesting. Idaho Power, like Idaho’s other two major electric utilities – Avista and Rocky...