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		<title>BPA proposes plan to pay wind developers to reduce power when rivers high</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/bpa-proposes-plan-to-pay-wind-developers-to-reduce-power-when-rivers-high/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Bonneville Power Administration today proposed paying wind energy developers for reducing output to help balance the electricity supply during high river flows. If BPA decides to proceed with the compensation proposal, it would seek to split the cost equally between customers including electrical cooperatives and public utilities like Idaho Falls Power, and wind developers. BPA is releasing its proposal for public review now so the agency can meet a March 6 deadline for filing the proposal with the Federal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BPA offers to split costs when it pulls the plug on wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/bpa-offers-to-split-costs-when-it-pulls-the-plug-on-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Bonneville Power Administration has proposed to cover half the cost of wind farms&#8217; lost revenue when it shuts off their output because there is too much hydropower already being generated in the region. Renewables advocates said Tuesday that the approach is unacceptable. The cost-sharing proposal is the latest bid to end a dispute that began this spring, when the federal power marketing agency accommodated the massive spring runoff and resulting surge in power production by cutting off wind farms .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Power, wind developer reach agreement</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/13/idaho-power-wind-developer-reach-agreement/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Idaho Power Co. asked the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to approve a 20-year sales agreement with High Mesa Energy LLC, a 40-megawatt wind project near Bliss. Iowa-based High Mesa Energy said the project will be operating by Dec. 28. The developer would be paid a 20-year price of $56.43 per megawatt-hour under the agreement. But the pricing stream would vary throughout the year and even throughout the day, depending on when the energy is delivered to Idaho Power. The rate .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>More wind turbines planned for Twin Falls County</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/11/more-wind-turbines-planned-for-twin-falls-county/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Where there’s wind, there’s money. In a move to capitalize upon Idaho’s neverending wind supply, Exergy Development Group has announced it plans to add 23 wind energy parks this year throughout the state. Exergy will build four of the projects within Twin Falls County. The company already has seven projects operating in the county. The company wanted to build more, but concerns from the community and environmental groups caused its proposed construction to be cut in half, said Dustin Shivly, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Idaho Legislature for action on wind, natural gas and ORV hunting</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/06/watch-idaho-legislature-for-action-on-wind-natural-gas-and-orv-hunting/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Idaho lawmakers have returned to Boise to complete the work they started last year and to begin the projects they will complete next year. I think of the Idaho Legislature as a conveyor belt with issues, causes, problems, opportunities coming in one end and bills, memorials, interim committees, anger, happiness and frustration coming out the other. It can be ugly, imperfect and profound at different times. But as former House Speaker Bruce Newcomb always reminded his colleagues, they always had .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BLM seeks comment to make wind, solar more competitive</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/05/blm-seeks-comment-to-make-wind-solar-more-competitive/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[POCATELLO, Idaho &#8212; The Bureau of Land Management wants local people&#8217;s opinions on how to make itself more competitive when it comes to solar and wind energy projects. The BLM has started a 60-day comment period to figure out how to create a competitive bidding system for those projects, where land would be leased to the highest bidder. The construction of wind farms in southeastern Idaho has been a controversial process, whether those farms are built on private or public .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>State legislator weighs in on wind turbine deal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/24/state-legislator-weighs-in-on-wind-turbine-deal/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[IDAHO FALLS, Idaho &#8212; A new ruling by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission has a lot of locals upset, while wind enthusiasts celebrate a big victory. The decision will allow the further progression of a deal between Rocky Mountain Power and wind developer Cedar Creek LLC. But Idaho Rep. Erik Simpson, R-Idaho Falls, says he isn’t happy about the prospect of seeing new wind turbines in Bonneville County. This week, the commission fully approved three of five sales agreements between .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BPA and wind developers: Federal energy ruling is wrong for our region</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished. The Bonneville Power Administration should be feeling this after going to great lengths to meet the challenges of connecting the enormous expansion of variable wind power to its electrical system and patiently holding regional discussions to resolve lingering disputes. Then came the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this month, overthrowing this work by asserting that it has the authority to nix BPA&#8217;s approach on what to do with its own system when too much generation threatens .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds rule BPA wind-power shut-off was unfair</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/08/feds-rule-bpa-wind-power-shut-off-was-unfair/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators Wednesday ruled that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) had unfairly discriminated against wind-power producers when it ordered periodic shutdowns of their turbines earlier this year. The ruling is a boost to wind-power producers who had argued that Bonneville&#8217;s actions violated transmission contracts. Producers said the threat of curtailment orders would inject new economic uncertainty into the development of wind power in the Northwest. &#8220;I think the danger was that if this were allowed to continue, it would have .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators tell Bonneville Power Administration to stop pulling the plug on wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/08/regulators-tell-bonneville-power-administration-to-stop-pulling-the-plug-on-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Federal energy regulators told the Bonneville Power Administration Wednesday that it can no longer discriminate against wind farm owners by cutting off their transmission during periods of excess electricity generation in the region. The decision is a rare defeat for the federal power marketing agency, which sells electricity generated at 31 federal hydroelectric projects in the region to 140 public utilities. BPA also controls three quarters of the high voltage transmission system in the Northwest. During last spring&#8217;s massive runoff, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers, BPA grapple with energy oversupply; Legislative panel hears concerns about shutting off turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/01/lawmakers-bpa-grapple-with-energy-oversupply-legislative-panel-hears-concerns-about-shutting-off-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[OLYMPIA — Oversupply of renewable energy is expected to continue affecting Clark County and Washington, with no clear solution on the horizon, according to Bonneville Power Administration officials. With wind energy farms expanding in the Columbia River Gorge, the federal power marketing agency has struggled with the issue of energy oversupply. The power glut was particularly evident last spring, as runoff from an abundant snowpack reached hydroelectric generating facilities at the same time wind turbine production was peaking. Unable to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds attempt to speed complicated process of building power lines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/10/feds-attempt-to-speed-complicated-process-of-building-power-lines/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[On a brisk October day, Paul Christensen is helping harvest sugar beets on his southern Idaho farm. His work as a Cassia County commissioner keeps him busy, he says, but he still enjoys &#8220;playing in the dirt.&#8221; He&#8217;s not the only one: Cassia is among Idaho&#8217;s most productive agricultural counties. That&#8217;s partly why it has resisted Gateway West, a power line that would hook like a jack-o-lantern&#8217;s grin across about 1,100 miles of southern Wyoming and Idaho. Two utilities proposed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Firm drops Colton wind farm plan</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/08/firm-drops-colton-wind-farm-plan/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[COLFAX &#8211; After investigating wind resources in the Colton area for the past several years, a major renewable energy firm has decided not to pursue a wind farm project there. In a meeting with Whitman County commissioners Monday, Brian Walsh with Iberdrola Resources said the company has been measuring wind speeds near Colton since 2006 or 2007. It installed four meteorological towers west of U.S. Highway 95 and south of Colton, following the Snake River. Subscription Required An online service .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Cassia County wind developers may take legal action against state regulators</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/05/cassia-county-wind-developers-may-take-legal-action-against-state-regulators/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[BURLEY • Idaho wind energy developers are still determining if they will pursue legal action against the state for improperly limiting their power contracts. According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, state regulators were wrong to place a deadline on projects eligible for certain small-scale power contracts with utilities. The federal agency will not intervene, but will allow energy developers to pursue legal action on their own. The issue stems from a change in the state’s benchmark for eligibility under .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Activists: wind energy projects mean power bill hikes</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/04/activists-wind-energy-projects-mean-power-bill-hikes/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[BONNEVILLE COUNTY, Idaho &#8212; We brought you a story Monday about some stalled energy projects getting a second wind. Thursday, some activists in eastern Idaho are crying foul. The Energy Intergrity Project said the green light for wind energy projects will mean a big rate hike for power customers. Wade Christensen and his wife are members of the group. &#8220;The utility companies are concerned it would raise rate payers rates,&#8221; he said, referencing our earlier story. &#8220;Without a doubt it .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy plan hearing prompts debate over sales of &#8216;green tags&#8217; from renewables</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/02/energy-plan-hearing-prompts-debate-over-sales-of-green-tags-from-renewables-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Legislature&#8217;s Energy, Environment &#038; Technology Interim Committee has opened its hearing this morning on proposed revisions to the 2007 Idaho Energy Plan. First up to testify was Annie Black, a Boise resident and former manager of the green power program at Idaho Power Co., who said Idaho&#8217;s current PUC policies require utilities to sell their Renewable Energy Credits, or “green tags,” when they purchase or generate renewable power from sources like wind or geothermal. Those RECs are generally sold .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy plan hearing prompts debate over sales of &#8216;green tags&#8217; from renewables</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/02/energy-plan-hearing-prompts-debate-over-sales-of-green-tags-from-renewables/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Legislature&#8217;s Energy, Environment &#038; Technology Interim Committee has opened its hearing this morning on proposed revisions to the 2007 Idaho Energy Plan. First up to testify was Annie Black, a Boise resident and former manager of the green power program at Idaho Power Co., who said Idaho&#8217;s current PUC policies require utilities to sell their Renewable Energy Credits, or “green tags,” when they purchase or generate renewable power from sources like wind or geothermal. Those RECs are generally sold .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho wind companies get 2nd chance to build projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/10/30/idaho-wind-companies-get-2nd-chance-to-build-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A federal ruling means renewable energy projects may get built in Idaho despite rejection last year.]]></description>
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		<title>Palouse Wind buys house from opponent</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/10/20/palouse-wind-buys-house-from-opponent/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The long-standing battle to build a wind farm between Naff Ridge and U.S. Highway 195 in Oakesdale has been resolved with a settlement between Palouse Wind and Roger Whitten, the project&#8217;s biggest opponent for the last three years. After beginning construction work started at the wind farm site, Whitten submitted a voluntary order of dismissal earlier this week. In turn, Palouse Wind agreed to purchase Whitten&#8217;s home near Naff Ridge in Oakesdale so he can move to northern Spokane County. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds to speed permitting on Oregon and Idaho power lines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/10/05/feds-to-speed-permitting-on-oregon-and-idaho-power-lines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Federal energy regulators announced plans Wednesday to accelerate permitting on seven major electric transmission projects, including lines in Oregon proposed by Portland General Electric and Idaho Power. PGE&#8217;s 210-mile Cascade Crossing line, which could cost up to $825 million, is proposed to run from Boardman, Oregon to near Salem. The line would carry power into the Willamette Valley from wind farms in Eastern Oregon and &#8212; PGE hopes &#8212; from multiple natural-gas fired plants that the utility wants to build .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BPA reworking process for planning transmission lines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/10/01/bpa-reworking-process-for-planning-transmission-lines/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Renewable energy developments in the Northwest may soon benefit from more flexibility in the transmission planning process. The past several years have been marked by an increase of wind power developments, partially because of laws requiring utilities to add renewable energy to their portfolios. The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls three-quarters of the Northwest’s high-voltage transmission lines, has been working to figure out how to prepare for the new wind power. But not all of the projects that generated transmission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine wind farms coming to private lands</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/09/21/turbine-wind-farms-coming-to-private-lands/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[New wind turbines may pop up south of Twin Falls. There are 4 applications in to Twin Falls County planning and zoning. Right now the P and Z board of commissioners are reviewing the application. The 4 projects make up a wind farm complex just west and south of rogerson. It could have around 50 wind turbines built. The planning and zoning director says they&#8217;ve had to deal with some new issues. Bill Crafton, Director of Twin Falls County P&#038;Z .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho wind projects seek Oregon rates</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/08/24/idaho-wind-projects-seek-oregon-rates/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Idaho Power Co. is asking state regulators to assert jurisdiction over two Idaho-based wind projects that want to sell their output in Oregon to qualify for that state&#8217;s published rates. The two projects, Tumbleweed Energy II in Elmore County and Western Desert Energy I in Owyhee County, seek Idaho Power&#8217;s approval of a Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) contract to sell power to Idaho Power&#8217;s Oregon customers at Oregon rates. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently reduced the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blowin&#8217; in the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/08/23/blowin-in-the-wind-3/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind-rich east Idaho has attracted a plethora of developers in recent years, and, as a result, wind turbines now dot several of the local horizons and carry the promise of many more to come. Bonneville County has approved requests for at least six wind farms in recent years, two of which are already in operation. Power County has approved two wind farms, which are both set for completion by the end of the year. Bingham County has approved at least .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Power: Wind developer trying to game system</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/08/23/idaho-power-wind-developer-trying-to-game-system/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Idaho Power Co. contends a Boise-based wind power developer is manipulating the system by trying to force the utility to buy electricity for its Oregon customers. In Idaho, regulators since last year have had a 100 kilowatt cap on the size of wind projects that qualify for an attractive rate for their electricity. In Oregon, that cap is higher, at 10 megawatts. The Boise developer wants to force Idaho Power to buy power from its 10 megawatt and 5 megawatt .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Palouse Wind named defendant in wind farm case</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/08/10/palouse-wind-named-defendant-in-wind-farm-case/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Over the objection of plaintiff Roger Whitten, a judge Monday added Palouse Wind Energy LLC as a defendant in Whitten&#8217;s appeals of two Whitman County rulings allowing a turbine farm in Oakesdale. The preliminary hearing also resulted in the two appeals being consolidated into one and both examined at the hearing on Sept. 12, said Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy. Whitten, a long-standing wind farm opponent, has filed two appeals &#8212; one against the conditional use permit issued for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>States won&#8217;t give higher rates to wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/07/29/states-wont-give-higher-rates-to-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A handful of Idaho wind energy developers will have to negotiate how much they’ll be paid for the energy they produce after state regulators said again that they’ll offer special rates to only the smallest producers. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday reaffirmed four June 8 orders stating that it won’t extend to 14 proposed projects its previously larger cap on the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act rates that created a favorable climate for the development of wind energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Does a PUC decision signal end of Idaho wind industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/14/does-a-puc-decision-signal-end-of-idaho-wind-industry/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Promoters say a PUC decision to kill access to favorable power rates will strangle the billion-dollar sector. The three-member Idaho Public Utilities Commission handed the state’s three investor-owned utilities a victory when they made permanent a lower cap on what projects qualify for a federal law designed to encourage small, sustainable power projects. But the real effect will be on one of the fastest-growing industries in the state — at least according to the people pushing the expansion of wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho keeps smaller rate for wind, solar power production</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/10/idaho-keeps-smaller-rate-for-wind-solar-power-production/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A handful of Idaho wind energy developers will have to negotiate how much they’ll be paid for the energy they produce after state regulators decided they’ll offer special rates to only the smallest producers. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday announced it won’t reinstate for now a larger cap on the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act rates that created a favorable climate for the development of wind energy in Idaho. The state is required to determine and publish the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Cassia Co. projects affected as PUC won&#8217;t extend wind energy rate cap increase</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/09/cassia-co-projects-affected-as-puc-wont-extend-wind-energy-rate-cap-increase/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Seven proposed Cassia County wind energy projects could lose out on millions of dollars once guaranteed under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday determined it won&#8217;t extend the increased cap on the guaranteed rates that created a favorable climate for the development of wind energy in Idaho. The PUC opted to limit the amount of power wind and solar projects can qualify for PURPA rates to 100 kilowatts &#8211; one one-hundredth of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy jobs may be around the corner, but competition is still fierce</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/04/wind-energy-jobs-may-be-around-the-corner-but-competition-is-still-fierce/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Eight new graduates from the College of Southern Idaho’s wind energy program are facing what they didn’t expect to be a difficult task — getting a job. Although two of the grads found jobs in the industry, the rest are still on the hunt. For recent graduate Justin Miller, it hasn’t been successful. Miller, 35, sent out around 60 applications and received one interview, but he said there aren’t jobs to be had and his expectations of potential employers knocking .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho PUC to hear oral arguments in wind dispute</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/25/idaho-puc-to-hear-oral-arguments-in-wind-dispute/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 20:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced it will hear oral arguments between the developer of four proposed Cassia County wind projects and Rocky Mountain Power on June 9. Boise-based Exergy Development Group asked for oral arguments in response to a motion by Rocky Mountain Power to dismiss Exergy&#8217;s complaint against the utility, the PUC said. Exergy says its planned wind projects near Malta should receive a higher rate from Rocky Mountain Power because it submitted a proposed power purchase agreement .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>China Mountain wind project draws wide-ranging opinions</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/20/china-mountain-wind-project-draws-wide-ranging-opinions/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 11:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Opinions about the proposed China Mountain Wind Project are mixed. But they are all based on the same central question: How will it affect the way of life for those who live and play in the sprawling landscape of Brown’s Bench? More than three dozen people showed up at a public meeting Thursday in Twin Falls to learn more about the 425-megawatt project, which, if approved, would scatter turbines across 30,700 acres in southern Idaho and northern Nevada. The meeting, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>BPA says it will tamp down windfarms when too much power floods the system</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/14/bpa-says-it-will-tamp-down-windfarms-when-too-much-power-floods-the-system/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 10:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Bonneville Power Administration will rein in the wind, and is likely to reap the legal whirlwind. In a decision that speaks to the region&#8217;s ability &#8212; or inability &#8212; to effectively manage all the simultaneous wind and water energy being generated in the Columbia Gorge, the Bonneville Power Administration said Friday it will pull the plug on wind farms at times when excess generation threatens to swamp the system&#8217;s ability to handle it. That could come early next week, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest power surplus may halt wind energy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/14/northwest-power-surplus-may-halt-wind-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 09:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[BPA may shut down windmills at peak river flows this year — and wind developers aren’t happy about it. In years when a healthy spring runoff powers hydroelectric turbines around the Northwest, the region’s federal power authority often has more electricity than it can sell. Add the boom of wind-generation plants that have come on line in the past four years, and the Bonneville Power Administration says it will be overwhelmed as flows on the Columbia River crest in the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho company eyes power storage reservoirs around Wyoming</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/12/idaho-company-eyes-power-storage-reservoirs-around-wyoming/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE — An Idaho company plans to build several water reservoirs around the state as a way to store excess power generated by Wyoming’s mushrooming wind energy industry. Boise-based Gridflex hopes to start work in the next few years on reservoirs near Glenrock, Medicine Bow and northern Carbon County as so-called “pumped-storage” facilities. The storage facilities, which could cost a combined $2.2 billion to build, are designed to solve a key problem with wind energy generators: they don’t provide a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Whitman County wind farm gets testimony</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/11/whitman-county-wind-farm-gets-testimony/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 11:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The final step in a four-year-long process to establish the first industrial wind farm in Whitman County has yet to be taken. Palouse Wind and its parent company First Wind await a conditional use permit determination to build up to 65 wind turbines on 9,000 acres outside of Oakesdale following 6 1/2 hours of testimony Monday in Colfax. Hearing examiner Andrew Kottkamp, who was selected in lieu of a board of adjustment to determine whether to issue the company a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho has more wind power than it can use</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/04/idaho-has-more-wind-power-than-it-can-use/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 11:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Despite being not one of the states with a renewable energy standard (RES), Idaho’s wind energy sector is flourishing. It is becoming an export market for the many states that do have an RES, and local utilities are taking issue with outside companies coming into the state and developing wind resources there. Idaho’s three main utilities claim it is putting a strain on the Idaho grid, and have succeeded in getting the Public Utilities Commission to put an end to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho PUC considers what&#8217;s next for Idaho&#8217;s green energy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/25/idaho-puc-considers-whats-next-for-idahos-green-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind developers and their lobbyists stood shocked in the gallery when the Idaho Senate voted down a bill that would have extended the state’s renewable energy sales tax rebate past June 30. But Idaho Conservation League energy analyst Ben Otto wasn’t upset. For when the Senate killed the rebate that would have helped wind developers, it also nixed a provision that would have made it harder for new wind and solar projects to automatically benefit from a federal law that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hot air from the wind power industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/19/hot-air-from-the-wind-power-industry/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[When is an ultimatum not an ultimatum? How about in the closing days of the 2011 legislative session, when a wind energy producer went all-out to lobby to extend a multimillion-dollar sales tax rebate? Pull the plug on the rebate, said Roy Eiguren, a lobbyist for Exergy Development Group, and the company will pull the plug on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of projects. That was April 7. To put it charitably, the winds have changed direction since then. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Company won’t drop projects; Wind energy developer had fought for tax rebate</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/18/company-wont-drop-projects-wind-energy-developer-had-fought-for-tax-rebate/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A wind energy industry lobbyist pushing to extend Idaho&#8217;s sales tax rebate for alternative power developers made it clear: If the extension died, Roy Eiguren told lawmakers on April 7, so would hundreds of millions worth of his company&#8217;s projects. &#8220;Your client would announce tomorrow that they are canceling those projects?&#8221; asked Sen. Joe Stegner, R-Lewiston. &#8220;That would be correct,&#8221; answered Eiguren, lobbyist for Exergy Development Group. The extension failed 18-17 in the final minutes of the 2011 session, but .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>What it says</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/10/what-it-says/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A draft BLM analysis of the proposed China Mountain wind project notes the following possible effects: • The proposed project site covers key habitat for the greater sage-grouse, a candidate species for federal protection and already suffering in the area due to massive wildfires and other threats. The construction process and finished turbines could cause a number of ill effects: causing grouse to avoid the area, interfering with breeding and nesting, creating more perches for predators, increasing the number of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Long-awaited China Mountain analysis released</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/10/long-awaited-china-mountain-analysis-released/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[One of the Magic Valley&#8217;s largest energy projects should cross a significant hurdle today with the release of a draft environmental analysis of its effects. The next step requires your help. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management first gathered public input on the proposed China Mountain wind project in mid-2008. That initial step became the 1,200-page document announced today in the Federal Register. Renewable Energy Systems Americas wants to build up to 170 wind turbines along a stretch of Brown&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Senate kills much-debated energy rebate extension, also dumps new wind size limits</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/08/idaho-senate-kills-much-debated-energy-rebate-extension-also-dumps-new-wind-size-limits/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[BOISE, Idaho — Lobbyists for wind energy companies stood in shocked disbelief Thursday after the Idaho Senate narrowly killed a measure to extend a sales tax rebate for alternative energy. The expected deal had been hashed out between lawmakers, utilities and wind developers in closed-door negotiations that dominated the final month of the 2011 Legislature. The 18-17 vote killed what would have given alternative energy developers — including geothermal, digester gas and irrigation-canal hydroelectric projects — a 6 percent break .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>As ethics charges fly, wind farm siting bill dies</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/07/as-ethics-charges-fly-wind-farm-siting-bill-dies/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Connie Clawson, a real-estate saleswoman in Idaho Falls, broke down when telling lawmaker how she'd had four home sales in a subdivision located near wind turbines fall through.
 
The homes were beautifully prepared, she said. Owners had gone extra lengths to make them more attractive to buyers.
 
"There is nothing more tempting to the buyer than the smell of freshly baked cookies," Clawson said. When they saw the "monstrous turbines," however, "they marched right out of the house," she said. ]]></description>
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		<title>Committee refers bill to limit wind turbine construction to interim panel</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/07/committee-refers-bill-to-limit-wind-turbine-construction-to-interim-panel/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A bill that would have placed limits on where large wind turbines could be built in Idaho has been held by the House State Affairs Committee and will make its way to another panel for further review. After about two hours of debate, legislations voted 11-8 to send House Bill 342 to an interim committee dealing with environmental and technological issues. The committee meets in the months of the year when the Legislature is not in session. Rep. Tom Loertscher, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine siting bill killed, 11-8</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/06/wind-turbine-siting-bill-killed-11-8/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The House State Affairs Committee, after a heated debate, has voted 11-8 to kill HB 342, Rep. Tom Loertscher&#8217;s bill to give veto power over wind turbines to property owners within 2 miles, and instead refer the issue to the Legislature&#8217;s interim committee on energy. “This is about the little guy,” Loertscher argued; he said he can see dozens of wind turbines from his property. Rep. Janice McGeachin, R-Idaho Falls, said developers and county commissioners are “salivating” over the financial .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Another version of renewable energy tax credit passes House</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/06/another-version-of-renewable-energy-tax-credit-passes-house/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Right? That might be the motto Rep. George Eskridge, R-Dover, has lived by during the 2011 legislation. Eskridge has sponsored at least five different versions of a bill that would give renewable energy projects a sales tax rebate until the end of 2014. Most versions of the bill were held in committee, but one managed to pass committee and the House floor. The bill hit a roadblock in the Senate Local .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm bill concerns Cassia County officials</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/05/wind-farm-bill-concerns-cassia-county-officials/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[BURLEY — “Vague language” in a wind-energy bill has piqued Cassia County officials’ concern about keeping their local authority. House Bill 342, introduced Monday, addresses the siting of wind turbines, including their “visual effects” and “shadow flicker.” House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, told county commissioners during a Monday conference call that the bill will likely end up in an interim committee. There, it would be studied over the rest of 2011 before moving again in the Legislature next .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy tax credit debate not dead yet</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/03/29/renewable-energy-tax-credit-debate-not-dead-yet/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The ongoing debate over Idaho’s energy future and portfolio saw a new twist Monday thanks to Rep. Ken Roberts, R-Donnelly. Roberts, unhappy with a proposed deal that would allow state solar and wind producers to receive a sales tax rebate until Dec. 31, 2014, as long as contracts are signed by Oct. 31, 2011, brought a bill that would give the same credit to other renewable energy projects, but not wind or solar. The new bill would give other renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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