June hailstorms in Nebraska dropped baseball-sized hailstones at speeds of 100 to 150 miles per hour at locations throughout the state. The hailstorm damaged energy infrastructure in the Cornhusker state,…
Isaac Orr joined Trent Loos on Rural Route Radio to discuss how the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency regulations will force reliable coal and natural gas power plants to shut…
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…
It appears President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement to lift the nation’s debt ceiling to prevent a default, as my colleague Martha Njolomole detailed in…
On Wednesday, May 17, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment. Summarizing the report, Utility Dive noted that most of the United States will…
Lazard’s LCOE analysis is frequently used by wind and solar advocates to claim that new wind and solar facilities are cheaper than new coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants. However,…
Earlier this week, Isaac Orr appeared on the Jon Justice show to talk about Germany’s ill-advised decision to shut down its remaining nuclear plants, California’s decision to charge people for…
It has been two months since the frigid temperatures that accompanied Winter Storm Elliott caused rolling blackouts in several Southern states. Luckily, the portions of southern states that rely on…
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…
On Thursday, March 16, 2023, Minnesota regulators announced they are monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of tritium-containing water at Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant. Tritium…
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed again by Robert Bryce on his show, The Power Hungry Podcast. Robert and I talk about the Blackout Bill, the NGOs that pushed…
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.…
On Tuesday, February 7, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (DFL) signed the Blackout Bill into law. American Experiment has warned that the legislation, which requires that 100 percent of the electricity…
Late Thursday evening, the Minnesota State Senate passed the 100 percent carbon-free electricity mandate by 2040. American Experiment nicknamed this legislation the Blackout Bill because it will force electricity prices…
The Minnesota House of Representatives will vote on the 100 percent carbon-free electricity mandate today, which means time is running out to tell your lawmaker to say NO! to this…
On Monday, the Minnesota Senate committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate heard testimony on Senate File 4, which, if enacted, will force Minnesota to obtain 100 percent of its…