Rolling blackouts may be coming to the Upper Midwest—including Iowa— this summer, according to an analysis from the North American Reliability Council (NERC), a nonprofit international regulatory authority whose mission…
The article below originally appeared in MinnPost. It was written by Isaac Orr On May 31, Sen. John Marty argued in MinnPost that nuclear power is “merely a distraction” to addressing climate. This…
Did you know that the Democratic state senators in Minnesota who are often the loudest in declaring that climate change is an existential threat are also the ones who refuse…
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…
Last year on Earth Day, I wrote about Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota graduate whose work creating new, higher-yielding wheat varieties helped save one billion people from starvation and…
Commodities investor Leigh Goehring joined Chris Keefer of the Decouple Podcast to break down the supply AND demand origins of our current energy crisis and its dire consequences, especially for…
I am very pleased to have co-authored the editorial piece below with Congressman Tom Tiffany from the 7th Congressional District of Wisconsin. The article was originally published in the Washington…
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…
Today, I’ll be participating in a hearing on the benefits of nuclear power in the Minnesota Senate Energy and Utilities Finance Committee. You can tune into the hearing by clicking…
Despite the fanfare they receive, wind and solar power still account for less than 5 percent of the total energy used by Americans in 2020, losing out to traditional biomass,…
This week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted to allow Xcel Energy to shut down their coal-fired power plants a decade before the end of their useful lifetimes and…
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…
Attempts to justify the high costs of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan have engendered a string of creative economic arguments advocating for so-called investments by the government to drive a…
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…
On Wednesday, five Republican candidates running to be the next governor of Minnesota participated in a debate. During the debate, the moderators asked the candidates a question about the role…
A new nuclear power plant will be built to replace a Wyoming coal plant slated to retire in 2025. The new nuclear power plant will be constructed by TerraPower, a…