by Snake River Alliance | May 10, 2018 | Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Solarize The Valley
While the Alliance and many solar advocates voiced disappointment with yesterday’s ruling allowing Idaho Power to create a new customer class, there is still strong consumer interest in affordable solar in Idaho. “The Idaho Public Utilities Commission clearly...
by Snake River Alliance | May 2, 2018 | Solarize The Valley
The Snake River Alliance’s successful Solarize the Valley project is open for new participants for a limited time. July 31st is the new sign up deadline. “I’m glad to hear that Solarize the Valley is reopening,” said Trisha Kennedy, of Boise, who installed solar...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 19, 2018 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, INL "Incident Reports"
The rupture of one barrel of nuclear waste (and three more that merely popped their tops) on April at the Idaho National Laboratory highlights why Snake River Alliance is investing in a new public education campaign, Don’t Waste Idaho, to stop more shipments of...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 13, 2018 | INL "Incident Reports"
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Latest on Idaho nuclear site incident (all times local): 2:15 p.m. April 12 Federal officials say the first known rupture of a barrel containing radioactive sludge at an eastern Idaho nuclear site might not be the last. That’s...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 12, 2018 | Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Hundreds Testified for Solar Power. Alliance members had to crowd in to support net metering, rooftop solar and distributed energy. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission held hearings on a proposal to change rate structures for people with rooftop solar energy, wind...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 11, 2018 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
The Department of Energy wants to bring 7,000 cubic meters of untested plutonium-contaminated waste to Idaho from the shutdown nuclear bomb plant in Hanford, WA. The waste would come in by truck or railroad, crossing the Columbia and Snake rivers and passing through...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 11, 2018 | Nuclear
The cluster of nuclear reactors are planned to be built in Idaho by 2026. But the plan including filling a $2.1 Billion financing gap with your money. A group called the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) wants to build 12 nuclear power reactors at the...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 2, 2018 | Nuclear
On March 28, the Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) resisted attempts to rush through a statement of support for bringing substantial quantities of out-of-state waste to Idaho. The initial plan is to ship 7,000 cubic meters (and counting) of untreated...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 21, 2018 | Nuclear
The Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) wants to build 12 nuclear power reactors at the Idaho National Laboratory with a total capacity of 600 MW. UAMPS is a political subdivision of the State of Utah, and most of the reactors’ electricity would go out of...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 5, 2018 | Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC
Send your solar comments now! By March 9, send comments in support of solar net energy metering to: http://www.puc.idaho.gov/forms/casecomment.aspx on Idaho Power’s case IPC-E-17-13. For suggestions on what to say to the IPUC click here. Pocatello hearing:...
