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| Monday, December 12, 2011 |
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| Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
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Dec 7 Idaho Energy Update: Idaho Power to review its coal plants
By lwoodruff @ 2:36 PM :: 92 Views ::
0 Comments :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates
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Idaho Power relies on out-of-state coal-fired power plants for more than 40 percent of its electric generation. As part of its required power planning process the utility says it will examine each of the coal plants in which it has an interest to determine whether to continue the massive investments required to keep the plants legal, or whether to begin planning to retire them and replace their generation with cleaner resources. Meanwhile, the state’s largest electric utility has filed contracts with regulators for three new renewable energy projects – including wind, small hydro and landfill gas generation. Speaking of hydropower, Idaho Power has reported to the PUC that its costs to date in the seven-year-old Hells Canyon hydropower relicensing saga have eclipsed $141 million, and the case is a long way from resolution.
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| Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
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Loan Request by Uranium-Enrichment Firm Upends Politics as Usual
By lwoodruff @ 2:26 PM :: 74 Views ::
0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/loan-request-by-uranium-enrichment-concern-shakes-up-political-sides.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&sq=uranium%20matt%20wald&st=cse&scp=1
Excerpt: AREVA, a French firm, got a loan commitment from the Energy Department to build a similar plant in Eagle Rock, Idaho, although, because the Fukushima accident has cut the demand for nuclear fuel, it has not decided whether to proceed. The AREVA project was considered lower risk than Piketon because its technology is proven.
John R. Longenecker, a consultant in the nuclear fuel business, said the problem for USEC was that there were too many other players in the market in a world awash in enrichment capacity. The industry had hoped for a renaissance that would result in many more reactors, he said, but “if that happened, I blinked and missed it.” And there are large inventories of highly enriched uranium from decades of past production, much of it from decommissioned weapons. “We’ve got 100 years of high-enriched uranium in storage,” Mr. Longenecker said. With additional material coming out of uranium weapons, there is enough “probably for 1,000 years of whatever naval fuel we need.”
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| Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
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| Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
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Nov. 22 Idaho Energy Update: Tough Day for State Energy Plan
By lwoodruff @ 4:54 PM :: 262 Views ::
0 Comments :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates, Action Alert!
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Clean energy advocates are starting to wonder whether the Legislature is cooking up a turkey in the form of a revised Idaho Energy Plan. Lawmakers voted repeatedly Monday to weaken provisions in the 2007 Idaho Energy Plan as part of their five-year rewrite of the plan. Idaho wind developers are considering their next move in the wake of a surprising ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the PUC erred in refusing to accept more than a dozen wind contracts with Idaho utilities. Meanwhile, the PUC is accepting comments on Avista utilities Integrated Resource Plan, and there’s a Dec. 5 hearing on Idaho Power’s big general rate case. In other news, Hoku Materials has finally plugged its huge Pocatello polysilicon plant into Idaho Power’s system, and Gov. Butch Otter signed an order to extend the life of the Office of Energy Resources.
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| Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
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| Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
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| Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
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Why Idaho’s Nuclear Watchdog Isn’t Worried about Payette County Reactor -- Liz Woodruff
By bbrailsford @ 10:18 AM :: 238 Views ::
0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Action Alert!
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For about four years, the Snake River Alliance has had an almost cartoonish nemesis: Alternate Energy Holdings Incorporated. At times our work to stop AEHI has been a central effort of our organization. For example, when AEHI first came to Idaho in 2007, we weren’t sure what the company was about, and we looked into its plans closely. It quickly became apparent that AEHI was selling nothing more than a bunch of hot air (in the form of cheap stock) and that the real threat was not a nuclear reactor, but rather a scheme to take the money of hard-working Idahoans who might invest in this impossible nuclear reactor proposal.
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| Friday, November 11, 2011 |
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| Tuesday, November 08, 2011 |
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The Alliance receives 60% of its funding from foundations and 40% from people like you! Thanks to our members, major donors, and these foundations for making our work possible: Edwards Mother Earth, Bullitt, Lightfoot, Tides, Engelhard, Community Involvement Fund, and Patagonia.
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