Updated Idaho Energy Plan clears House committee

The House Energy, Environment & Technology Committee voted unanimously this afternoon to approve the new five-year update of the Idaho Energy Plan. Rep. George Eskridge, R-Dover, who co-chairs the Legislature’s interim energy committee, noted that more than 150 comments were received on the plan, and some of those concerns were incorporated; the plan also includes a minority report on items that weren’t written into the plan, including adding a consumer advocate at the Public Utilities Commission. The new plan now heads to the full House.