On Friday, I wrote a piece about what Minnesota Senator Tina Smith’s laughably bad beer pour can teach us all about energy. That piece was inspired by a meme posted…
What can a bad beer pour teach us about energy? A lot, actually. Minnesota Senator Tina Smith (D) has been a leading proponent of the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP)…
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…
There is good news in the energy world, for a change. Enbridge has announced that they have completed construction on the Line 3 pipeline, and that oil will begin flowing…
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…
For decades, European countries have thumbed their noses at the United States for not doing enough to embrace unreliable energy sources like wind and solar power. This scorn was especially…
Europeans are learning the hard way that attempting to rely upon “reliably unreliable” electricity sources like wind turbines and solar panels has terrible consequences. Electricity prices are soaring to all-time…
Minnesota lawmakers often speak fondly of German energy policy, but the country’s decision to shutter its nuclear power plants and instead rely upon wind and solar is setting the nation…
For nearly all of human history, we relied almost entirely on “renewable” sources of energy, and life was nasty, brutish, and short. That began to change in the 1800s when…
Last week, American Experiment detailed how President Biden, who has hindered North American energy production by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and issuing a ban on issuing new drilling leases…
Center of the American Experiment notched a major victory last week when 27 out of 28 rural electric co-ops served by Great River Energy voted to approve the sale and…
Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow for Energy and the Environment at Center of the American Experiment issued the following statement regarding the sale: “Center of the American Experiment applauds the news…
Advocates of wind turbines often argue that their unreliability can be offset by building even more wind turbines and transmission lines to distant areas because the wind is always blowing…
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…
The electric grid in Texas continues to struggle to keep up with electricity demand as a result of higher than normal temperatures, and low output from wind turbines. As a…