by Snake River Alliance | May 13, 2016 | Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Just as clean energy advocates roll out our campaign to make it easier to install solar panels on Idaho rooftops, Idaho Power has advised state regulators it plans to hold some “stakeholder workshops” to try to find out if enough solar is enough. Idaho Power submitted...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC
In a little-noticed move that has big potential to advance clean energy and strengthen the western power grid, Idaho Power has signed onto a California-based energy market that will better balance the needs of participating utilities across the West. Idaho Power...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 3, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Things are heating up over the future of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rules to clamp down on the kinds of dirty coal-fired power plants that provide up to 40 percent of Idaho’s electricity, so it was great news to learn Friday that the city of Boise and...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 18, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho House of Representatives, which apparently can’t bring itself to admitting that it goofed last year when it arbitrarily whacked owners of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles with an extra $75 registration fee to penalize them for driving cleaner cars, are still...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 18, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for the final two segments of the proposed Gateway West Transmission Line Project, which if built would be the nation’s largest transmission project....
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 18, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
The state’s largest electric utility told the Idaho PUC this week it saw a 12 percent increase in energy savings by customers participating in its efficiency and conservation programs in 2015 over 2014. Idaho Power filed its DSM Annual Report to the PUC to report on...