Idaho Power plans to rebuild a 75-year-old transmission line that runs between Boise to Emmett. Estimated to cost $17 million, the utility says the project will increase reliability and resiliency and allow more energy to flow between the two cities. ...

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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article conflated two supercomputers. The weather-prediction software will run on hardware provided by Boise State and Idaho Power and is not related to INL’s supercomputer. Boise State University, Idaho Power and the Idaho ...

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What goes up must come down. Water, coming down, can generate electricity. That’s why there are several projects underway to pump water up so it can come back down again. Such a system is called pumped storage. It lets a ...

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Idaho Power expects to use more solar and less coal to generate electricity for the next 20 years. That’s the conclusion of the Idaho Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), released on July 1, which it updates every other year. Some ...

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Idaho Power is still in the relicensing process for the Hells Canyon Complex (HCC), which provides approximately 68% of its hydroelectric generating capacity and 32% of its total generating capacity, according to the company’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan. The ...

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Following in the footsteps of Idaho Power, two other major Idaho power companies are increasing their use of renewable energy. Avista, which services North Idaho as far south as Grangeville, announced a goal of 100% clean electricity by 2045, and ...

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In coordinated announcements, the city of Boise and Idaho Power each announced intentions to move away from carbon-based energy sources such as oil and gas, though for each of them it will be decades away. Idaho Power announced on March ...

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Like so many dominoes, a series of Idaho public utilities reduced their rates on June 15, effective back to June 1. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission, which issued the announcements, credited the rate reductions to changes in federal and state ...

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While business and economic development has typically been the purview of governmental and quasi-governmental organizations, increasingly utility companies are playing a role. “Across the country, utilities like Idaho Power have business development teams, providing that single point of contact,” said ...

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Idaho businesses that use Idaho Power are likely to a 4.5 percent to 6.6 percent reduction in their power costs starting June 1. There are three separate components to the rate reduction, explained Jordan Rodriguez, corporate communications specialist for Idaho ...

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