Idaho Power
BPA - Industry Restructuring
The Industry Restructuring function addresses issues that cross power and transmission functions, such as consideration of Grid West or other institutional changes to transmission operation and planning, and general transfer agreements for delivery of federal power over non-federal transmission lines. ... NOTICE: This site is owned and operated by the Bonneville Power Administration, United States Department of Energy. Use of this system is monitored by system and Security personnel. Anyone using this system consents to MONITORING of this use by system or security personnel. ... [Read More]
Idaho National Laboratory - Wind Power
The Wind Power program at INL supports Wind Powering America (WPA), a U.S. Department of Energy program that is committed to dramatically increasing the use of wind energy in the United States. This initiative is designed to help establish new sources of income for American farmers, Native Americans, and other rural landowners, and meet the growing demand for clean sources of electricity. ... Through Wind Powering America , the United States will achieve targeted regional economic development, enhance our power generation options, protect the local environment, and increase our energy and national security. There are many facets to the WPA program. These include the anemometer loan program, which is one of the primary factors in the development of this website. Under this program, wind anemometers from WPA are loaned to various entities for installation at promising wind sites. The anemometers remain in place for at least a year, and the wind data is collected and analyzed for each site to help determine if it is feasible and cost effective to install a wind turbine or turbines at that site. ... [Read More]
Geothermal Technologies Program: GeoPowering the West - $250-Million Power Plant Proposed in Idaho
The energy market will make it easy to sell the power from the plant. Both Idaho Power and PacifiCorp are seeking extra power. ... GeoPowering the West - $250-Million Power Plant Proposed in Idaho If Carl and Richard Austin have their way, a remote patch of land southeast of Idaho Falls will be the site of a $250 million power plant that uses hot water from the earth to produce electricity. The father-and-son team from Oakley were in Idaho Falls on Thursday to tell Bonneville County officials about their plan to generate 100 megawatts from geothermal energy at a site along Dan Creek Road on land straddling the Bingham County line. ... [Read More]
Idaho QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
Select a county Ada County Adams County Bannock County Bear Lake County Benewah County Bingham County Blaine County Boise County Bonner County Bonneville County Boundary County Butte County Camas County Canyon County Caribou County Cassia County Clark County Clearwater County Custer County Elmore County Franklin County Fremont County Gem County Gooding County Idaho County Jefferson County Jerome County Kootenai County Latah County Lemhi County Lewis County Lincoln County Madison County Minidoka County Nez Perce County Oneida County Owyhee County Payette County Power County Shoshone County Teton County Twin Falls County Valley County Washington County ... [Read More]
Idaho Transportation Department
worth the quarter mile trek from the parking lot. Binoculars are a good idea. Twenty-one miles south on Swan Falls Road is Swan Falls Dam. Idaho Power maintains a museum at the dam and a great park for day-only recreation activities. Another stop is the Kuna Visitor Center. ... [Read More]
Idaho National Laboratory - Nuclear Energy
These new assignments came, in part, as acknowledgement of the INL ’s unique status as the DOE site that designed and constructed 52 reactors since its establishment in 1949 as the National Reactor Testing Station. For many years, it was the site of the largest concentration of nuclear reactors in the world. Notable among these Idaho reactors were Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first reactor to generate usable electricity from nuclear power, the U.S. Navy's first prototype nuclear propulsion plant and the world's most capable test reactor, the Advanced Test Reactor. more... ... [Read More]
Idaho's Motor Vehicle History
Approximately one year later, a makeshift rigdevised by Boisean Carl Holst around 1928 or 1929 became what wasprobably one of the first cab-over trucks in existence. Mr. Holstused the unit (powered by a Ford Model A motor) to haul siphon pipe,a load about 20 feet long, weighing 4,100 pounds. ... The 1956 Uniform Registration Law modifiedregistration fees for vehicles over 16,000 lbs. and changed to a"power-unit-only" mileage tax. Idaho became a member of the UniformRegistration Proration and Reciprocity Agreement (Uniform Agreement)which simplified licensing and allowed proration of registration feesto interstate vehicles. ... [Read More]
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