Idaho

Key Idaho contacts

• Idaho Office of Energy Resources
• Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
• Idaho Department of Commerce
• Idaho Public Utilities Commission
• Bonneville Power Administration
• Northwest Power and Conservation Council

Utilities and Rates

Utilities and rates

Idaho has 31 retail utility providers:

• 15 Cooperatives
• 11 Municipal
• 3 Investor-owned (IOU’s)
• 2 Federal

Industrial cost range: .01 to 22.22 cents/kWh (Lowest industrial rate is from Bonneville Power Administration).

Commercial cost range: .65 to 9.10 cents/kWh (Lowest industrial rate is from Western Area Power Administration).

4 utilities offer “green” pricing programs (The Green Power Network).

CHP Policy and Incentives Development

CHP Policy & Incentives

Clean energy installations in Idaho

Sites with clean energy: 19

Total installed megawatts: 218.46

Sample companies and facilities using clean energy:

Industrial:

• Nu-West Industries
• Potlatch Corporation
• Amalgamated Sugar Co. (Nampa factory)
• American Potato/NNG
• Boise Cascade Corporation

Institutional:

• West Boise Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Pocatello Wastewater

Agricultural:

• Dean Foods
• Big Sky Dairy
• Dry Creek Dairy

Northwest TAP contacts