President Joe Biden will visit the Dutch Creek farm in Northfield, Minnesota today to tout the “success” of Bidenomics. The President will highlight billions of dollars in additional federal spending…
Minnesota will adopt California’s car mandates requiring an increase in electric vehicles offered for sale and decreased tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take…
At a time when reliability concerns are plaguing most regional power grids in America, it helps to remember one of the largest blackouts in the country’s history — the 2003…
Center of the American Experiment has modeled the impacts of the Biden administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and determined that these…
Great River Energy (GRE), which provides electricity to many of Minnesota’s Rural Electric Co-ops, is attempting to upgrade its 170 megawatt (MW) natural gas peaking plant in Cambridge, Minnesota, so…
Yesterday, the Star Tribune ran a story about Xcel Energy’s plan to relicense both of its nuclear power plants in Minnesota (Monticello, and Prairie Island) to run for a total…
I recently appeared on the Republican Roundtable, a public access television program that appears on stations in the Twin Cities, to discuss the state of energy policy in Minnesota as…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Germany has entered into a recession as households cut spending in response to sharply higher prices for energy and food. Energy prices rose due to…
In this episode of Created to Reign, Dr. E Calvin Beisner interviews guest Isaac Orr about carbon-free electricity and important practical and economic considerations to keep in mind when we…
Oliver Stone’s latest movie is about nuclear power and why it is probably the future of energy. The film will be airing in Minnesota in four different locations, including Minneapolis…
Last week, California became the first state in America to approve a regulation ending diesel truck sales by 2036, according to the Washington Examiner. Will Minnesota follow California’s lead by adopting…
A video of African miners narrowly escaping death as a mine shaft collapsed went viral on Twitter over the weekend. The video below shows miners leaping out of a tunnel…
Yesterday, American Experient policy fellow Isaac Orr testified in favor of Senate File 2824, which would allow for the construction of small modular nuclear power plants in Minnesota up to…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its December 2022 electricity generation data, which means we get our first complete look at how different electricity sources performed last year.…
Earlier this week, I discussed how 65 percent of the energy used in the homes of Minnesota families is natural gas for home heating, water heating, and cooking. Despite the…
Did you know that the vast majority of energy used by Minnesota households is natural gas, primarily for home heating, use in water heaters, and of course, for gas stoves?…
Sources have told me that the Minnesota Senate will be voting on Senate File 4 tomorrow, which will force electricity prices to skyrocket and cause rolling blackouts by mandating that…
Grid monitors warn that the electricity system that serves Minnesota and 14 other states, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), is at a high risk of blackouts, and this threat…
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…
Data from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs shows that no Minnesota wind facility produced more than 45 percent of its potential output in 2021. Several facilities in neighboring states met the…
For years, Minnesotans have been told that our state should pass the same energy policies as Germany, which has subsidized wind and solar power, shut down its nuclear and coal-fired…
Last week, Minnesota Democrats won the Governor’s mansion, the House of Representatives, and the State Senate, giving them unified control of the legislature for at least the next two years.…
Advocates of copper-nickel mining in Minnesota received bad news when Talon Metals announced it would build a $433 million battery mineral processing plant in North Dakota—instead of Minnesota. Talon chose…
Did you know Minnesota has the highest industrial electricity prices in the Midwest? Data from the U.S. Energy Information show that only twelve states in the entire country charge their…