{"id":11296,"date":"2012-09-28T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:11:48","slug":"map-where-idahos-energy-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/09\/28\/map-where-idahos-energy-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Map: Where Idaho&#8217;s Energy Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nwcouncil.org\/maps\/power\/idahoembed.htm\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">Courtesy: Northwest Power and Conservation Council<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/Energy-Map-Key.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11418\" title=\"Energy Map Key\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/Energy-Map-Key-e1348853311456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>Most of us don&#8217;t think about where the electricity that powers our lights, televisions, computers, phones &#8212; our lives &#8212; comes from.\u00a0 And if we wanted to find out, how many of us would know where to start?<\/p>\n<p>Search no more.\u00a0 Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwcouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northwest Power and Conservation Council<\/a>, there&#8217;s a map for that.\u00a0 <!--more-->The projects are color-coded, as you can see.\u00a0 Light blue is for wind, dark blue is for hydro, yellow is natural gas, green is biomass, red is coal, and white is for geothermal generation.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: some of the electricity Idahoans use is generated out of state.\u00a0 For example, Idaho Power has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahopower.com\/AboutUs\/EnergySources\/Coal\/coal.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">three coal-fired power plants<\/a>, all of which are in neighboring states.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re curious about generation in Idaho, though, this map has you covered.<\/p>\n<p>To see a map of power generation across the Northwest, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwcouncil.org\/maps\/power\/Default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy: Northwest Power and Conservation Council Most of us don&#8217;t think about where the electricity that powers our lights, televisions, computers, phones &#8212; our lives &#8212; comes from.\u00a0 And if we wanted to find out, how many of us would know where to start? Search no more.\u00a0 Thanks to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[68,100,43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}