Last week I joined my former colleague H. Sterling Burnett on The Heartland Institute’s daily podcast. We chat about how zero-emission energy mandates are undermining grid reliability and substantially increasing…
The Minnesota House of Representatives will vote on the 100 percent carbon-free electricity mandate today, which means time is running out to tell your lawmaker to say NO! to this…
Today I will be testifying on Senate File 4, which will require Minnesota to get 100 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040. The hearing will begin at…
Tomorrow at 3 p.m., the Minnesota House Climate and Energy Finance and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on House File (HF) 7, which is the 100 percent carbon-free electricity…
The 2022 midterm elections gave Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota total control of state government, offering liberal lawmakers an opportunity to enact new energy mandates requiring 100% of Minnesota’s electricity to…
Isaac Orr joined Jon Justice to talk about the rising prices and rolling blackouts that will ensue if liberal lawmakers like Governor Tim Walz push forward with a carbon-free electricity…
Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation wrote a great piece for the American Institute for Economic Research discussing how liberals will eventually try to normalize the blackouts that their…
Grid monitors warn that the electricity system that serves Minnesota and 14 other states, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), is at a high risk of blackouts, and this threat…
On November 17, 2022, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment, a document that identifies risks to the electric grid for all of North…
The recent elections gave Minnesota Democrats total control of the state government for at least the next two years. According to an article in The Sahan Journal, they are wasting…
This article is the first in a series discussing the findings of American Experiment’s latest report, The High Cost of 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity: Governor Walz’s Proposal Would Cost Minnesota…
Minnesota sits at an energy crossroads. Since enacting the Next Generation Energy Act (NGEA) in 2007, which required that 25percent of the state’s electricity come from wind and solar power…
American Experiment’s campaign to persuade Xcel Energy and the Public Utilities Commission to delay the retirement of Unit 2 at the Sherburne County Generating Station (Sherco) is gaining steam. Make…
The Board of Directors for the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), recently voted to approve nearly $10.3 billion in new transmission lines—$2 billion…
Rolling blackouts may hit Minnesota this summer because electric companies have closed down too many reliable power plants — think coal, nuclear and natural gas — on the regional electric grid and…
Electric companies in Wisconsin have announced they will delay the closure of three coal plants in the Badger State due to a shortage of reliable power plant capacity on the…