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...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 18, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Energy Updates, Nuclear
From the international polling giant Gallup, Inc.: For the first time since Gallup first asked the question in 1994, a majority of Americans say they oppose nuclear energy. The 54 percent opposing it is up significantly from 43 percent a year ago, while the 44 percent...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
If you’ve taken a drive south of Boise on Cloverdale Road in Ada County recently, you may have happened upon what seems to be a desert mirage. But sure enough, that squat, sprawling, shiny, and one-of-a-kind project popping up on the east side of South Cloverdale Road...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
These continue to be good times for a renewable energy sector on an unstoppable upward glide path – and the remarkable growth we’re seeing in the green energy sector is coming right out of the pockets of dirty energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s U.S....
