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…
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…