Checking up on national electricity prices: Minnesota continues to have the highest rates in its local region, and prices above the national median, according to the latest data from the…
Minnesota’s only functioning legislative chamber, the state Senate, held a hearing in its Energy committee this afternoon, on a bill to provide energy cost assistance to low-income households. S.F. 486,…
Happy New Year! As an Xcel electric customer, you may have received the email on Wednesday morning reading: To recap, Xcel is asking the state PUC to approve a 9.6…
Now it can be told. The election is finally behind us, and we are switching to a new federal administration. Suddenly, heretofore unknown problems are bubbling up to the surface.…
Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, got approval for a 4.9 percent rate hike to residential customers’ electricity rates compared to 2023 rates. Minnesota Power estimates the average residential customer will…
The U.S. is seeing growth in electricity demand for the first time in a decade thanks to new pressures like data centers and artificial intelligence. ICF, a strategic consulting firm,…
A growing number of articles have detailed how soaring energy prices are crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of Europe stems from decades of bad energy policies mandating…
Minnesota’s mining operations and manufacturers use massive quantities of electricity, accounting for 30 percent of electricity consumption in 2022. Unfortunately, newly released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)…
Wisconsinites around the state will soon experience sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies are asking for a combined half billion in higher energy costs over…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted to approve the construction of a 200-megawatt (MW) solar facility on 1,550 acres of prime farmland in Dodge County at a cost of…
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…
In earlier installments of this series, we discussed how the Walz Proposal would increase electric bills for Minnesota businesses by an average of $9,900 per year. In this installment, we…
In Part 4 of this series, we discussed how the Walz Proposal would increase electric bills for Minnesota families by an average of $137 per month. In Part 5, we…
The average cost of electricity in Minnesota surpassed Wisconsin in 2021, marking the first time since the Energy Information Administration (EIA) started recording data that Minnesota electricity prices have exceeded…
Bloomberg reports that Norway’s government will subsidize rising electricity prices in an aid package totaling more than 8 billion kroner ($890 million) to help mitigate the impact of record electricity…
Xcel Energy, Minnesota’s largest electric utility company, claimed in 2010 that it expected electricity prices for customers to remain “well below” the national average through 2025. Xcel made this prediction…
Last week, Neal St. Anthony wrote a piece in the Star Tribune called “Zero-carbon electricity now provides most power in Minnesota,” where he describes Minnesota’s pursuit of wind and solar…
Minnesota politicians, along with wind and solar special interest groups, often applaud Germany’s decision to close its nuclear and coal plants in order to build more wind and solar, but…
Renewable energy rent seekers like to make it seem like history is on their side, and that there is simply an inevitable and glorious march toward wind, solar, and battery…
The following article originally appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. There have been many recent articles in The Daily Sentinel on Xcel’s new Colorado Energy Plan related to climate…
Special interest groups for the wind and solar industry, in addition to companies like Mortenson Construction have begun pounding the table this election cycle, holding a news conference yesterday the…