Rolling blackouts were implemented in some areas of the Golden State last night, as California set a new record for electricity demand. The state’s power grid operator, the California ISO,…
A recent article in Reuters said it best: power, meaning electricity, is the Achilles heel of all industrial production plants, and all metals are to some extent impacted by the…
In June, Mitch Rolling and I conducted an analysis of the Duke Energy Carbon Plans on behalf of the John Locke Foundation. Donna King, of The Carolina Journal, explains the…
Currently, fossil fuel is supplying over 80 percent of our electricity supply, with nuclear another 10 percent. The plan is to reduce that to zero in a dozen years. Just…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a story yesterday (“Power line congestion leads to wind turbine shutdowns, denting county budgets”) about how wind farmers and county governments in south and southwest…
Manufacturers in Europe can’t keep up with the rising costs of electricity and natural gas. Energy prices are skyrocketing now, and are projected to remain high for the next few…
We check back in on the grid this Monday afternoon and the wind ain’t blowing. Temperatures in Minneapolis are a comfortable 81 degrees, but the wind is blowing at a…
America’s utility regulators are expecting power blackouts, if not this summer than next, for much of the nation. Here in the Midwest, the entity tasked with keeping the lights on…
The piece below was written by Robert Bryce and published on May 5th in Newsweek Magazine: Last week, Californians got a rare bit of good news on the energy front:…
On May 24, 2022, Dairyland Power will hold an informational luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel on John Nolen Drive in Madison to discuss the Dairyland small modular nuclear reactor project and…
I was on Justice and Drew yesterday to discuss the possibility of rolling blackouts in Minnesota. We also briefly chat about annexing parts of Canada. My segment starts around 30…
On Thursday, the Minnesota Senate Energy and Utilities Finance Committee will vote on a bill to lift Minnesota’s ban on building new nuclear power plants in the state. One would…
This week, Center of the American Experiment kicked off a campaign to reach out to new audiences with our radio ads on Minnesota’s rising cost of energy. The radio ads…
Advocates of wind and solar power often tell us that these energy sources will result in lower energy prices, but the facts on the ground do not support this claim.…
Minnesota electricity companies like Xcel Energy are planning to spend billions of ratepayer dollars on solar panels, but there is a problem. Solar panels don’t work well in winter. Solar…
S&P Global reports that about 20 percent of the coal-fired power plants in the regional power grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, or MISO, are at…