{"id":11123,"date":"2019-04-26T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=11123"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:01:48","slug":"candidate-tidwell-hopes-to-fare-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/candidate-tidwell-hopes-to-fare-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Tidwell Hopes To Fare Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clean-tech investor declares candidacy for Blaine County Commissioner<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Eric Valentine<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Community advocate Kiki Tidwell meets with fellow concerned stakeholders. Photo credit: Kiki Tidwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clean technology has always been a hot-button issue for longtime Idaho resident Kiki Tidwell. But when Idaho Power recently requested to install a transmission line in a scenic part of the Wood River Valley corridor, the issue became an impetus to run for one of the Blaine County Commissioner seats opening up after the Nov. 3, 2020, election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to the next year of campaigning to share more details about that vision, but the first step is not to spend $35 million of all of our money, as Idaho ratepayers, on a transmission-line-to-nowhere,\u201d Tidwell said. \u201cIf Jacob Greenberg votes \u2018yes\u2019 on this transmission line May 6, he should know that voters will remember it come election day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tidwell is a recognized clean-tech advocate nationally and says she \u201cknows that there is a better way to spend $35 million in our community,\u201d pointing to entities that finance microgrids, backup batteries, and distributed energy generation, including solar. But, moreover, it was Tidwell\u2019s sense that the county commissioners lacked political expertise in this area that turned her from critic to candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlaine County Planning and Zoning was under the incorrect assumption that they had to agree to Idaho Power\u2019s request to site a major transmission line in our scenic corridor; this is not true,\u201d Tidwell said. \u201cThe Idaho Public Utilities Commission (IPUC) agreed that Idaho Power could have a second line in Blaine County, but did not dictate siting of the line, nor agree that it had to be above ground. The IPUC specifically noted that the payment for the line was not a done deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tidwell believes the county needs someone well educated in energy technology and in what she called \u201cthis new era of extreme weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA friend has shared with me that he believes the county commissioner race is a popularity contest,\u201d Tidwell said. \u201cI believe that my vision of a county changing to renewable energy and (having a) resilient-from-extreme-weather-events future is a popular idea with county residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tidwell is an active angel investor and completed a two-year Kauffman Fellows venture capital training program in July 2012. She has a portfolio of angel investments, mostly clean tech, and has served on portfolio company boards and advisory boards. Kiki has a portfolio of venture funds, some with sole or partial clean-tech themes:<\/p>\n

Nth Power Fund IV<\/p>\n

CalCEF Angel Fund<\/p>\n

TrueBridge KFP Capital Fund II, III, and V<\/p>\n

SJF Ventures<\/p>\n

DBL Investors<\/p>\n

Aligned Partners<\/p>\n

Element8 Fund<\/p>\n

Portfolia<\/p>\n

Ulu Ventures<\/p>\n

Genoa Ventures<\/p>\n

More information on Tidwell can be found online at kikitidwell.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clean-tech investor declares candidacy for Blaine County Commissioner By Eric Valentine Clean technology has always been a hot-button issue for longtime Idaho resident Kiki Tidwell. But when Idaho Power recently requested to install a transmission line in a scenic part of the Wood River Valley corridor, the issue became an impetus to run for one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-elections","7":"category-news","8":"category-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}