Energy Resources announces grants to municipalities
POSTED: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Association of Idaho Cities, Butch Otter, Idaho Association of Counties, Office of Energy Resources
The Idaho Office of Energy Resources on March 8 announced the award of second-phase Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program funds to 17 municipal entities.
The program, a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, aims to increase energy efficiency, spur economic growth and job creation, and encourage deployment of renewable energy [...]
Idaho Power issues incentive checks to Seedbiotics, Caldwell and Twin Falls SDs
POSTED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 10:49 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Education, Idaho Power, Seedbiotics
Idaho Power recently issued checks to Caldwell and Twin Falls school districts, and to Caldwell’s Seedbiotics, a Becker Underwood company.
The checks, from Idaho Power’s Building Efficiency and Custom Efficiency programs, are for energy-efficiency improvements that the recipients made to their buildings. The upgrades qualified them for $175,727 in total incentives, Idaho Power said.
Seedbiotics upgraded lighting [...]
Avista submits long-range gas supply planning document
POSTED: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 01:48 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Avista Corp., energy, Idaho Public Utilities Commission
Avista Utilities anticipates a 1.1 percent growth each year for the next 20 years in natural gas consumption in Idaho, but maintains it has sufficient gas supply to serve its 73,000 northern Idaho customers at least through 2022.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is taking comments on Avista’s integrated resource plan through March 23. The commission [...]
United Water rate settlement adopted
POSTED: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:40 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: City of Boise, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, United Water, water
United Water Idaho customers will pay 9.9 percent more for water effective immediately with the adoption of a settlement in the utility’s six-month general rate case with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. United Water Idaho, headquartered in Boise, serves about 84,000 residential and commercial customers in and around Boise.
The utility originally filed for a 15.2 [...]
North Idaho company to tap landfill’s methane gas
POSTED: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 08:25 AM PTBY: Associated Press
Tags: City of Coeur d'Alene, City of Hayden, energy
A power company in northern Idaho plans to tap a Kootenai County landfill for methane gas to produce electricity.
The Hayden-based Kootenai Electric Cooperative says it will burn methane from the Fighting Creek landfill 13 miles south of Coeur d’Alene to produce renewable energy.
Larry Bryant is the company’s marketing manager. He says the plan is economical [...]
U.S. unemployment holds, Idaho report delayed
POSTED: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM PTBY: Associated Press
Tags: Department of Labor, Employment
The U.S. unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than expected. The figures suggested the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur.
The Idaho Department of Labor on March 4 said that because of statistical anomalies, it pushed back to March 12 the [...]
IPUC mulls permanency of Idaho Power pilot program
POSTED: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 02:58 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Idaho Power, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, Utilities
Idaho Power Co. would like to make permanent a pilot program that reimburses the utility when it fails to recover its fixed costs of providing electricity due to customer participation in conservation programs.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is taking comments through March 23 on whether the Fixed Cost Adjustment, in place since April 2007, should [...]
Commission taking comments on Rocky Mountain Power adjustment
POSTED: Friday, February 26, 2010 at 12:04 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: energy, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, Rocky Mountain Power
Residential customers of Rocky Mountain Power in eastern Idaho would see their bills go up by about 91 cents a month if regulators approve the utility’s first Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is taking comments through March 10 on the proposal, which would raise residential rates by 1.29 percent effective April 1. [...]
Rathdrum Power earns OSHA safety recognition award
POSTED: Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 01:35 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Avista Corp., Cogenitrix Energy, OSHA, Rathdrum Power
Rathdrum-based Rathdrum Power has earned OSHA recognition for excellence in worker health and safety.
A ceremony was slated Feb. 25 at the plant in Rathdrum in honor of the facility achieving the VPP star, the highest level in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).
OSHA’s regional administrator Richard Terrill praised the plant for having not experienced an injury [...]
JayHawk Energy issues 1.6M shares of common stock
POSTED: Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 09:49 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: City of Post Falls, JayHawk Energy
Post Falls-based JayHawk Energy Inc. has issued 1.6 million shares of its common stock to retire a 12 percent convertible debenture that would have been due on July 30, 2010. Additionally, this conversion alleviates approximately $56,000 in accrued interest.
JayHawk Energy CEO Lindsay Gorrill said in a release that the issue strengthens the company’s balance sheet [...]
