Minnesota ranks as the #22 highest-priced state for electricity in America. That means most states have lower electricity prices than Minnesota. That’s one of the many facts on energy affordability…
From KCBD-11 TV Lubbock, TX, Texas approves ‘largest permitted data center campus’ in the U.S.: Pacifico Energy received its air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for 7.65…
The vote by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) was unanimous. From the Minnesota Star Tribune, Private equity giant will control northern Minnesota’s biggest power company. The vote took place…
The financial behemoth Blackrock has proposed taking over the Duluth-based electric utility Minnesota Power. The debate over the transaction is revealing some unexpected fault lines. The debate has a tiny…
The Province of Ontario wages a trade war against Minnesota, but without any ammunition. The putatively Conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, launched a trade war of his own against…
On Friday, February 28, the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will take up the proposal by Amazon for 600 MW of diesel backup generators to serve their massive, planned data…
A recent commentary in The Wall Street Journal, “California’s Plan: Make the Poor Sweat in the Dark,” precisely explains the issue with electrifying everything: “Forcing consumers to rely almost entirely…
For months now, we’ve been beating the drum, warning of the potential negative impacts in Minnesota of the current boom in data centers, large computer server farms supporting AI and…
The headline from CNBC should be eye-catching: Oklo targets 12 gigawatts of new nuclear power through agreement with data center operator Oklo, a start-up company looking to develop small-scale nuclear…
Earlier this week, Meta (parent company of Facebook) sent out a request for proposals for nuclear-generated electricity beginning next decade. Reuters reports: Meta said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from…
You read that headline correctly. To meet the state’s mandate for 100 percent “carbon-free” electricity by the year 2040, the state’s largest electric utility is planning to build at least…
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,…
For decades we’ve been told that trends in California foretell the future of America. It used to be a promise, now it’s a warning. This week saw a late-summer heatwave…
Coal and natural gas power are currently supplying more than 76 percent of the region’s electricity. Both fuels will be banned in Minnesota. Here was the fuel mix for the…
I’ve seen this movie before, and I know how it ends. The headline last week in the ND Reformer reads: North Dakota officials object to Minnesota carbon-free energy law in public…
The office of Gov. Tim Walz issued this press release yesterday announcing new grants for energy industry jobs. The headline, Governor Walz Announces Funding to Train Underrepresented Workers for Clean…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a “watershed transmission planning” order [this month] that would force the costs of state renewable energy mandates onto consumers in other states. While…
That’s the extraordinary proposal made by the state’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC). Last month, Xcel proposed a two-year pilot project to provide…
According to the Long Term Reliability Assessment, a report by the nonprofit organization, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), energy reliability is a growing issue on electricity grids across the…
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…
You’ve probably noticed that you pay a 6.875 percent sales tax on the electricity you use in your household unless that electricity is for heating your home. This means that…
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…