Idaho Power plays hardball with biogas developer

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s renewable energy landscape is strewn with failed projects, but more casualties may soon be added to the list after Idaho Power Co. demanded state regulators cancel the utility’s contracts to buy electricity from two proposed dairy manure digesters.

Idaho Power says Boise-based Exergy Development Group’s two biogas-to-power projects near Twin Falls have missed or will miss deadlines to deliver electricity to the state’s biggest utility, according to filings with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission.

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