by Snake River Alliance | Apr 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Electric Utilities & PUC
Who’d have thought even a year ago that Idaho would fill a unique space that truly matters in the nation’s wrenching argument with itself over the use of coal to produce electricity? Yet here we are: Idaho has one foot planted in Coal Country, to the east, in places...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 10, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC
In a little-noticed move that has big potential to advance clean energy and strengthen the western power grid, Idaho Power has signed onto a California-based energy market that will better balance the needs of participating utilities across the West. Idaho Power...
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 | Jan 27, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Idaho Power, which serves a part of eastern Oregon for about 5 percent of its total customer base, has asked Oregon utility regulators to allow it to offer incentives for customers who install “smart thermostats” as part of the utility’s energy efficiency offerings...