Energy Update | Jan. 13
The Idaho PUC has some tough questions for Idaho Power about the utility’s commitment to energy efficiency and told Idaho Power to report back by the end of February. Meanwhile, Idaho Power is back to...
View ArticleEnergy Update | March 21
What would be Idaho’s second utility-scale geothermal power plant is being proposed near the first plant near Melba, the Twin Falls Times News reports. And the Idaho PUC has accepted Avista Utilities’...
View ArticleIdaho Public Utilities Commission rejects Idaho Power’s request to halt...
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission heard your voices and rejected Idaho Power’s request to halt contract talks with solar power developers, telling the state’s largest utility it should get back to...
View ArticleSpent Fuel Potemkin Village
Idahoans might someday be asked to agree to increased “interim” storage and management of spent nuclear fuel for the good of the nation (and eastern Idaho’s economy). If that request comes, we would do...
View ArticleIdaho Learned Something From AEHI’s Indictment – The Alliance Was Right, And...
Kelsey Jae Nunez Executive Director I remember when I was a kid, the phrase “I told you so!” was so satisfying to say, but the person on the receiving end wasn’t too keen on hearing it. The older I...
View ArticleIdaho PUC Approves Two Big Solar Contracts
The PUC approved energy sales agreements between Idaho Power and two solar farm developers, clearing the way for an eye-popping 120 megawatts to be installed in projects near Mountain Home and Boise....
View ArticleIdaho Statesman publishes Nunez’s Op-Ed on AEHI lessons
On Sunday, December 7, the Idaho Statesman published Kelsey Nunez’s op-ed on the lessons we can learn from the AEHI indictment. “There are valuable lessons in this story. We call on our fellow...
View ArticleIdaho said “NO” in 1990 – and we still do.
Idaho Says No By Keith Schneider; Keith Schneider is a New York Times national correspondent based in Washington; his coverage of the nuclear weapons industry won a 1989 George Polk Memorial Award....
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Idaho Nuclear Waste Shipments in Limbo
BY LUKE RAMSETH (IDAHO FALLS) POST REGISTER December 22, 2014 IDAHO FALLS – The morning of Feb. 5, deep below the New Mexico desert, a salt-hauling truck caught fire inside the nation’s only...
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President Obama’s Climate Change Message
By Kelsey Jae Nunez Solar installation at an eastern Idaho dairy, installed by Renewable Energy NW LLC. A clean energy policy that urgently reduces greenhouse gas pollution will create jobs, improve...
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The Utility “Death Spiral” – Reality or Myth?
By Ken Miller A rooftop solar PV and thermal water heating system installed by EvenGreen Technology in the Boise foothills. Some call it the “death spiral.” In more polite company it’s also known as...
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No Time to Surrender
By Beatrice Brailsford During the Snake River Alliance’s Stop the Shipments campaign from 1992 to 1995, many members bore witness to shipments in Pocatello, often all night. These two stalwarts stood...
View ArticleIN THE LEGISLATURE: How About an Energy Bill? Let’s Start with Solar
After a 2-year hiatus for the lack of noteworthy energy legislation at the Idaho Statehouse, Idaho Energy Update’s “In the Legislature” is back. OK, with one bill so far, but it’s a start! Each week,...
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Three’s Company: Two More Utilities Join Idaho Power’s Solar Fight
Solar panels at Solar Topaz 5 in California By Ken Miller Just when it looked like the battle over whether utilities should buy electricity from solar farms couldn’t get more crowded, Idaho’s two other...
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Join us at our many upcoming events!
The April 11 Eilen Jewell concert in Garden City will benefit the Snake River Alliance | Photo Credit: Erik Jacobs By Kelsey Nunez We have several exciting events on the horizon and hope you and your...
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Nuclear Waste: The Past Is the Present…and the Future
The Alliance’s Stop the Shipments campaign helped build a bedrock of support for Idaho’s ban on commercial spent fuel shipments coming to Idaho By Beatrice Brailsford As many of you know, Idaho’s...
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We Said No. We Meant No. Let’s Say It Again.
Say It to the Department of Energy In January the Governor and Attorney General indicated their willingness to open Idaho to shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel despite the 1995 Settlement...
View ArticlePoll: 44 Percent of Idahoans Believe Climate is Changing & Call it a Crisis
Forty-four percent of Idahoans believe the climate is changing and that climate change is a “crisis,” according to a survey by pollster Dan Jones & Associates and commissioned by Zions Bank. The...
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Spent Fuel “Research” Shipment Will Pave Way for Tons More
At the beginning of 2015, the DOE succeeded in wresting a preliminary agreement from Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General to allow two shipments of “research quantities” of commercial spent nuclear...
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Idaho, Coal Plants, and the Clean Power Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to roll out one of the most sweeping and complex environmental programs ever – the Clean Power Plan, designed to sharply reduce climate-changing...
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