by Snake River Alliance | Aug 13, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The long-awaited national Clean Power Plan has been released and is still being sliced and diced every which-way to see how Idaho and other states will be affected. Now that the plan is out, attention shifts to Idaho and all states as we sit down to craft the best...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 7, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Just as Idaho’s solar power battles are at a peak, leaders in the Idaho Legislature have quietly created a “Solar Energy Task Force” that is charged “To study the effects of solar energy” in Idaho. The Legislature routinely creates interim committees and task forces...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 7, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
After nearly a year in the works, Idaho’s largest electric utility has filed its “integrated resource plan” to the state Public Utilities Commission, forecasting how it thinks it will meet customer electricity demand for the coming 20 years. This every-other-year IRP...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 7, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
After a nightlong public hearing, a day and a half technical hearing, nearly 200 written comments and a 1,118-signature petition, the fate of solar power development in Idaho is now in the hands of two Public Utilities Commission members. The PUC was told repeatedly...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 7, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Idaho Public Utility Commissioner Mack Redford, who has served on the PUC since 2007, died on June 30. Redford, appointed by Gov. Butch Otter as one of three members of the state regulatory commission and reappointed to a six-year term in 2013, was an attorney with a...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 7, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The problem was simple, and so was the solution: The Idaho PUC issued an order to implement a new state law and that essentially removes those offering commercial electric vehicle charging stations from being considered an “electrical corporation” under state law....
