{"id":12024,"date":"2012-10-18T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2012-10-17T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:51:58","slug":"idahos-energy-supply-isnt-so-clean-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/18\/idahos-energy-supply-isnt-so-clean-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho’s Energy Supply Isn’t So Clean After All"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Smith \/ Newsmakers<\/p>

Wyoming's Jim Bridger Power Plant is a significant source of electricity for Idaho Power.<\/p><\/div>\n

Idaho utilities and wind developers are squaring off over the wind industry’s future in the state, as StateImpact<\/em> explained last month<\/a>.\u00a0 As part of that reporting, we’ve rolled out stories on Idaho’s electricity supply, including this one<\/a> on in-state electricity sources.<\/p>\n

Hydroelectricity accounts for nearly 80 percent of in-state electricity generation, it shows.<\/del>\u00a0 While that’s true, it prompted the Idaho Conservation League’s Ben Otto to send the email equivalent of a friendly finger wag.\u00a0 I’d left out part of the story, he said.<\/p>\n

Which part?\u00a0 Well, the significant detail that not all of the electricity consumed in Idaho comes from in-state sources.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In fact, 56 percent of the electricity used in Idaho in 2007 was imported, the Idaho Strategic Energy Alliance says<\/a>, and 80 percent of Idaho’s total energy supply comes from out of state.<\/p>\n

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