by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Utilities using out-of-state coal-fired power plants to generate electricity for Idahoans have said that the power is relatively cheap. But, the Snake River Alliance has looked closely at one of those distant coal plants, the North Valmy Generating Station in northern...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
As world leaders and climate activists bask in the afterglow of the historic international climate accord agreed to by 195 nations in Paris last weekend, the reaction in Idaho has been for the most part muted – and for Idaho clean energy advocates, that’s not such a...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Gov. Butch Otter has named former North Idaho Rep. Eric Anderson, among the current and former legislators most versed on electric utility operations in Idaho, to fill the vacancy on the three-member Public Utilities Commission effective Dec. 28. Anderson, a former...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho National Laboratory may be best known today for its work on all things nuclear and for dealing with decades of deadly post-Cold War nuclear contamination under Idaho’s Arco desert, but a less-publicized research program on new transportation technologies is...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council is taking public comments through Friday, Dec. 18, on its draft 7th Power Plan, which is the primary electricity power planning document in the four-state region that includes Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Lisa Grow, who as Idaho Power’s senior vice president of Power Supply was key to directing the company’s long-term power planning efforts, has been promoted to senior vice president of Operations, the state’s largest utility announced. Other corporate announcements...
