Power Lines

Opponents argue that transmission line co-owner PacifiCorp's plan to serve a single industrial customer invalidates eminent domain authority because the energy will not be used for the broader public good. Idaho Power says it still plans to use its share of megawatts to serve traditional residential and commercial customers.

Studies show the nation’s aging power grid isn’t ready to handle the energy shift from fossil fuels to renewables. The federal government hopes a historic investment will fix that for states and tribes in the Mountain West and beyond.

The federal government has signed off on the final routes on public land for a 990-mile-long power line across Idaho and Wyoming.Idaho Power and Rocky…

Tucked into President Donald Trump’s new budget, which was released Tuesday, is a proposal for the government to sell off power lines that deliver…

The Bureau of Land Management has given the green light to the final federal land section of the Gateway West Transmission Line.It’s called a Record of…

The Gateway West Power Line is one step closer to becoming a reality. Friday the Bureau of Land Management released a research document called a draft…

The Bureau of Land Management says it’s close to releasing its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS, on the last two segments of the…