The Clean Power Plan would have required Minnesota to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity produced by 41.7 percent below 2012 levels by the year 2030. American Experiment submitted comments urging EPA to repeal these regulations....
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The Energy Information Administration has updated its analysis of federal energy subsidies to include the fiscal year 2016 numbers. The key takeaway is that energy subsidies have fallen substantially since 2013, but solar and wind still get more subsidies than nuclear, coal, oil, or natural gas....
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A new provision in the Minnesota House of Representatives Energy and Jobs Omnibus bill includes a giveaway to wind developers at your expense. It is yet another step in the wrong direction on energy....
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Bonnie Blodgett recently penned a pessimistic piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but cheer up, Bonnie! Things are getting better!...
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Dan Moore used to be a wind farm developer near Blue Earth Minnesota. Now he regrets his involvement in wind energy....
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Warren Buffett is grateful that a chunk of your tax payment will go into his pocket as part of the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC). Here’s how it works...
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Unfortunately, Minnesota has already picked winners and losers in the energy sector. The winners are monopoly utility companies who make a profit on every dollar they spend on infrastructure, and those with financial interests in wind and solar power. The losers are Minnesota families, businesses, and anyone else who pays an electric bill because the policies used to advocate for more renewable energy have resulted in electricity prices in Minnesota increasing faster than the national average. ...
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Snowy days in April only underscore the futility of relying on solar energy to power the electric grid. These photos taken earlier this winter of snow-covered solar panels just outside Montrose on Highway 25 illustrate solar power's obvious flaws in this climate, blizzard or not. In fact, weather conditions year around limit solar power generation in Minnesota. For example, a Great River Energy study found that ideal sunny conditions at the utility's experimental solar installation occurred just ten percent of the year. Partially sunny days were recorded just 20 percent of the time. Yet Minnesota investor-owned utilities face a state mandate to...
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There's good news and bad news. Gas prices this summer are forecast to be higher than they have been for the last four years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Here are three reasons gas prices will be higher this summer than last year, and one reason why they won't be as high as they could be...
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