by Snake River Alliance | Jun 19, 2015 | Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
We need all hands on deck to support clean energy at the PUC on June 24 and 30! The Snake River Alliance has been alerting you for months about a major solar power case at the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. Well, the day of reckoning is almost here, and we need to...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 2, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Forty-four percent of Idahoans believe the climate is changing and that climate change is a “crisis,” according to a survey by pollster Dan Jones & Associates and commissioned by Zions Bank. The survey results were reported Monday in Idaho Politics Weekly, an...
by Snake River Alliance | May 15, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho PUC is taking public comment on an Idaho Power application that would trim customer rates for a year due to its annual “Power Cost Adjustment” (PCA) case in which it shows whether costs such as hydropower conditions were higher or lower than predicted. If...
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 | May 15, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The trend toward electric vehicles in Idaho continues to gain steam – or rather volts – thanks to a collaborative effort among the Snake River Alliance, Whole Foods, Idaho Power, and Idaho Conservation League. The four teamed up for an Earth Day unveiling of a new,...
by Snake River Alliance | May 15, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho National Laboratory made the first cut in what’s being called the “Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE).” A total of $2 million is set aside for this early phase of the research; $31 million will be allocated of the first two...
