Renewable Energy

The Bureau of Land Management has received more than 7,500 comments so far on what would be Idaho's largest wind farm if it's approved as soon as this fall.

The Biden administration has approved a major high-voltage power line designed to deliver renewable energy from the Mountain West to population centers in the Southwest.

The wind project is exactly the type the Biden Administration says is needed to transition the country’s energy supply away from fossil fuels. But locals are opposed.

The report comes in the middle of the federal agency’s timeline of assessing the proposal from energy company Magic Valley Energy, a subsidiary of LS Power, to build up to 400 turbines on federal land northeast of Twin Falls.

A proposal to build Idaho’s largest wind farm is set to receive its most in-depth evaluation to date this month, when the Bureau of Land Management releases the draft Environmental Impact Statement on the project.

The investments come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced it’s giving Perpetua Resources the first “Critical Minerals Award” from Congress’s Ukraine aid package.

New data shows that the Western U.S. produces the most residential solar energy in the nation. California is a main reason why, but it’s increasing across the rest of the region, too.

President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law this week. The massive piece of legislation funds programs ranging from electric vehicles, to advanced nuclear energy research. Specific to the Mountain West, it includes billions of dollars for forest lands and agriculture to fight climate change.

Depending on where you are in the West, certain lands may be ideal for certain energy projects. The Southwest is good for solar, Wyoming has great wind resources and Nevada is ripe for geothermal development. However, according to a new report from the left-leaning Center for American Progress, oil and gas leasing often takes precedence no matter the location.