by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Gov. Butch Otter has named former North Idaho Rep. Eric Anderson, among the current and former legislators most versed on electric utility operations in Idaho, to fill the vacancy on the three-member Public Utilities Commission effective Dec. 28. Anderson, a former...
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 | Aug 28, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission on August 20 issued an order that solar power developers warned for months will end most utility-sized solar developments in Idaho. This case has been watched nationwide as utilities like Idaho Power and then Rocky Mountain Power...
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 | 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...
