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…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) issued its 2021–2022 Winter Reliability Assessment. The findings were sobering. According to Power Magazine: [The report] warned that much of the…
Xcel Energy made headlines this week by announcing that they will be seeking to increase the cost of electricity by a massive 21.2 percent over the next three years, but…
A forthcoming study from American Experiment has found that complying with the proposed Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) would cost the state of West Virginia $34.9 billion through 2052, which…
Center of the American Experiment’s influence in the national energy conversation continues to grow with our ground-breaking work modeling the high cost of liberal energy policies in states across the…
Spain’s Sidenor has suspended production through the end of 2021 due to spiraling energy costs, according to Reuters. A sharp increase in electricity prices made operations financially unviable. Reuters reports:…
There is currently a comment period at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for Xcel Energy’s plan to close their coal plants a decade before the end of their useful…
Rising electricity prices could force metal producers in Europe to pack their bags. Reuters reports: Governments across Europe are coming under pressure to help curb soaring energy costs for companies…
This morning, the Biden administration announced that it is seeking to have 45 percent of the nation’s electricity generated by solar panels by the year 2050. To put it kindly,…
California is learning the hard way that people will grow impatient with unreliable energy sources, and this could lead to rolling blackouts this summer in the Golden State. The problem…
Center of the American Experiment is the leading organization in the state of Minnesota promoting reliable, affordable electricity. This is why we believe it is vitally important for our supporters…
In May 2020, Great River Energy made a surprising announcement: It would close the Coal Creek Station — a large, 1,150-megawatt coal plant in North Dakota — if it could…
California is reeling from decades of bad energy policy, and it is now expecting residents living in saner states to pay for their mistakes. On Friday, July 9, 2021, and…
Yesterday, news broke that the Coal Creek Station, a 1,150-megawatt power plant that is the largest electricity generator in the state of North Dakota, has found a new buyer, which…
Like California, Texas is straining to keep the lights on as unusually warm temperatures increase the demand for electricity for air conditioning. Unfortunately for Texas, their fleet of wind turbines…