Mike Hughlett at the Star Tribune wrote an excellent story last week detailing how Xcel Energy dropped its highly contested request for a $122 million rate increase in 2023, which…
American Experiment’s campaign to persuade Xcel Energy and the Public Utilities Commission to delay the retirement of Unit 2 at the Sherburne County Generating Station (Sherco) is gaining steam. Make…
A Missouri electric company has announced they will no longer shut down a large, 1,195 megawatt (MW) coal plant at the beginning of next month because it is needed for…
On Monday, July 25, the board of directors for the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), voted to approve $10.2 billion in new…
The Board of Directors for the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), recently voted to approve nearly $10.3 billion in new transmission lines—$2 billion…
American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr joins Robert Bryce on the Power Hungry Podcast. In his second appearance on the podcast (his first was on August 10, 2021), Orr talks…
Rolling blackouts may hit Minnesota this summer because electric companies have closed down too many reliable power plants — think coal, nuclear and natural gas — on the regional electric grid and…
Electric companies in Wisconsin have announced they will delay the closure of three coal plants in the Badger State due to a shortage of reliable power plant capacity on the…
Whether the lights stay on today and tomorrow will hinge on a few main variables: how high is demand, how much power can we import from PJM (the power grid…
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has issued a report warning that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the highest…
A recent report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has determined that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the…
A combination of unseasonably warm temperatures, plant maintenance, and a shortage of reliable power plant capacity on the electric grid could lead to a strain on the electricity system this…
The regional electric grid, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), recently announced that there is not enough reliable power plant capacity on its system to meet its anticipated peak demand…
American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr returns to the Nuclear Barbarians Podcast to discuss his latest feature story in Thinking Minnesota entitled “Below Zero Blackouts.” Isaac and Emmet also dive…
It is a well-understood phenomenon that wind generation in the Midwest essentially disappears when the mercury dips below -22° F. Electricity generation from wind turbines drops under these circumstances because…
The Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, MISO, is the regional electric grid that Minnesota belongs to. It consists of portions of 15 states and the Canadian province of Manitoba. In late…