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...
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 | Sep 4, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
On Aug. 17, the state’s energy office, several state officials and several of its regulated utilities began discussing, among other things, how Idaho will comply with the sweeping EPA Clean Power Plan to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions from coal...
by Snake River Alliance | Sep 4, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
You’d need to drive a high-tech Tesla to use them, but in another sign that popularity of electric vehicles is soaring, Idaho Power joined Tesla Motors representatives, Mayor Dave Bieter and other dignitaries in cutting the ribbon on a bank of EV superchargers near...
by Snake River Alliance | Sep 4, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Boise City Council in August approved a new Green Construction Code that will be a standard for all new city-built projects and voluntary for other developers. “Buildings are responsible for more than 40 percent of global energy use and one third of global...
