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| Idaho Energy Update |
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A weekly summary of energy and climate issues. We feature updates from the Legislature and state agencies, Idaho's utilities and regulators, and topical clean energy developments in Idaho and the Northwest - all designed to help you follow and participate in Idaho energy issues.
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Do you want to live in a state powered by clean and renewable energy, and free from the threat of nuclear waste, weapons, and power? If the answer's yes, then you should join the Snake River Alliance. We have 30 years of experience watchdogging the Department of Energy and an active campaign to develop a sustainable energy future for Idaho. Every voice counts, so make a difference today and join us!
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| Monday, January 23, 2012 |
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Jan 23 ID Energy Update: Energy Plan, AEHI Woes, and More
By lwoodruff @ 4:59 PM :: 76 Views ::
0 Comments ::  :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
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Months in the making, Idaho’s proposed 2012 Energy Plan is being sent to House and Senate committees for expected approval, warts and all. Meanwhile, the would-be developer of a nuclear reactor near the Snake River outside of Payette has run into problems with county planners, putting things on hold pending an appeal. That’s not the least of AEHI’s problems: It’s still embroiled in a high-stakes stock fraud suit brought by federal securities regulators. And Idaho Power may join with another utility and the Bonneville Power Administration in developing the Boardman-Hemingway transmission line from southwest Idaho to the Columbia River. We also have a report on the latest energy facility “siting” bill introduced by state Senate Democrats, complaints by two Twin Falls women over what Idaho Power’s new smart meters are really up to, and the announcement by Exergy Development that it plans 23 more wind farms in Idaho. Finally, the Idaho Legislature’s 2012 session is under way, so we’re resuming our weekly legislative update on things energy taking place at the Statehouse.
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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 :: 246 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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| Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
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Press Release: SEC Adds More Charges Against Would Be Idaho Nuke Developer
By lwoodruff @ 3:03 PM :: 738 Views ::
0 Comments ::  :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2011 CONTACT: Snake River Alliance LizWoodruff, Executive Director 208-344-9161(w); 208-871-4597 (c) SEC Adds More Charges Against Nuke Developer New Fraud Allegations Question AEHI’s Honesty withInvestors Would-be Payette nuclear reactordeveloper Alternate Energy Holdings and its top executives conducted a far moreextensive scheme to defraud investors in Idaho and around the world than first believed,according to an updated lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission againstAEHI that was filed in federal court in Boise.
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| Tuesday, May 03, 2011 |
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May 3 ID Energy Update: Idaho Power Amps Up Wind Fight, Colo Rejects Nuke Plant
By lwoodruff @ 4:10 PM :: 600 Views ::
0 Comments ::  :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
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In a move that’s leaving Idaho energy-watchers scratching their heads, Idaho Power has pulled out the stops with a pricey ad campaign to try to further slow down wind energy development in Idaho. The ads paint the utility as one of the nation’s greenest – a claim quickly refuted in another ad by the region’s independent power producers. In other Idaho Power news, long-time regulatory affairs chief and more recently the company’s sustainability czar Ric Gale announced his retirement from the company. And in nuke news, the Pueblo County Commission in Colorado has denied a request for a reactor project – one that once involved the company that has been shopping reactors around Idaho for the past four years. And THAT company, Eagle-based AEHI, has a June 6 date before the Payette County Commission for its project, as well as an October 2012 date in U.S. District Court to answer to federal securities fraud charges.
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| Friday, April 08, 2011 |
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Idaho Energy Update: Senate Pulls Plug on Idaho's Renewable Energy Development Incentive
By lwoodruff @ 4:49 PM :: 647 Views ::
0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
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The Idaho Legislature finally completed its unusually acrimonious 2011 session Thursday, but not before the Senate’s final vote – to pull the plug on Idaho’s incentive for investments in renewable energy. Despite easy passage in the House and amid the end-of-session chaos, the Senate came one vote shy of extending the sales tax rebate for renewable energy developments, an incentive viewed as critical for many renewable projects to move forward. Meanwhile, Seattle City Light has signed an agreement to buy the renewable energy credits from a wind farm under construction near Mountain Home. The PUC surprised many in rejecting a settlement agreement reached between Idaho Power and other parties on how the utility funds its energy conservation programs. And peripatetic Payette power plant proponent Alternate Energy Holdings filed its late financial report to the SEC – and the outlook for its would-be nuclear reactor is not a pretty picture.
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| Friday, March 11, 2011 |
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March 11 ID Energy Update: Wind Wars, Kjellander Back to PUC & , AEHI
By lwoodruff @ 4:42 PM :: 675 Views ::
0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
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Idaho’s gathering storm over utility wind projects burst open this week as rival bills were introduced in the Legislature first to extend the lifeblood renewable energy sales tax rebates beyond their expiration this summer, and then to ban new wind farms altogether pending a legislative study of how wind power works in Idaho. And in something of a surprise, Gov Otter moved former Idaho PUC Commissioner Paul Kjellander back to the PUC from the Office of Energy Resources, which Kjellander led for the past two years. And the Payette County Commission rejected appeals of a P&Z green light of a property rezone for a nuclear reactor, meaning the County Commission is now free to hold hearings of its own on the proposal that remains mired in a federal securities fraud suit.
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| Monday, February 21, 2011 |
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Feb 21 ID Energy Update: Good-News Wind Study, AEHI Hearing Tuesday, & Appliance Rebates
By lwoodruff @ 5:00 PM :: 801 Views ::
1 Comments :: :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
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Idaho wind developers received a boost last week in the form of a new study by consulting firm Idaho Economics that reports far greater than projected economic benefits from wind development in the state. The report comes at a critical time as Idaho lawmakers seemed poised to let a critical sales tax rebate for renewable energy developments lapse when it’s due to expire this July. On the efficiency front, the Idaho Office of Energy Resources reports it’s not too late to tap into the rebate program for new energy efficient appliance purchases. And the Payette County Commission is scheduled to hold hearings Tuesday on appeals of the county’s favorable review of a rezoning request by a would-be nuclear reactor developer who’s also in hot water with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Finally, the Idaho PUC has approved contracts between Idaho Power and four new wind farms, as well as a renewed agreement with a small hydropower developer near Jerome; and a bill has been introduced in the Senate to allow school districts to receive on-bill credit for excess energy they produce on their own. It’ll get a hearing on Wednesday.
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| Friday, February 04, 2011 |
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Feb 4 Idaho Energy Update: AEHI, new wind & state energy primer
By lwoodruff @ 4:57 PM :: 834 Views ::
0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
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A federal judge on Thursday lifted a freeze on the assets of troubled would-be nuclear reactor developer AEHI, but the decision does little to ease the massive legal problems facing the company in the wake of securities fraud charges filed in December. Meanwhile, a network of 11 wind farms from Hagerman to Cassia County has been fired up and the 122 turbines are sending enough electricity to Idaho Power to power about 40,000 homes. And the Office of Energy Resources has just issued its “Idaho Energy Primer,” a look at assorted energy issues in the state. In the Idaho Legislature, the House is expected to approve a resolution re-authorizing the interim joint Energy, Environment and Technology Committee to study energy issues after this year’s session. The top priority will be a review of Idaho’s 2007 Energy Plan, which after five years is up for a “complete study” to see which portions should be revised and what should be added or deleted from the plan.
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