Since last week, Minnesota’s state policy has been under enhanced scrutiny. It’s worth reviewing now what Minnesota’s disastrous energy policy. Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, formerly of Center of the…
A recent economic working paper has found something that should be no surprise to anyone: Wealthier households reap the most benefit from U.S. tax credits for heat pumps, solar panels,…
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Century Aluminum is planning to build the country’s first new smelter in 45 years. That could be good news, if the company can…
Last week, Pew Research Center released new polling that shows that “relatively few Americans” believe the U.S. should phase out fossil fuels entirely. Instead, about 7 out of 10 favor…
The left-wing energy agenda at the Minnesota legislature was, thankfully, much less ambitious than their 2023 program. Tucked into the 2,800-page last-second omnibus bill are a handful of wins for…
A report released on April 30 claims that Minnesota generated 54% of its electricity from “carbon-free” sources in 2023. But is it true? That 54% headline figure for “carbon-free,” or…
This piece was originally published at Independent Women’s Forum on May 13, 2024. Read more here: https://www.iwf.org/2024/05/13/jpmorgan-report-carbon-free-energy-transition-needs-reality-check/ A recent report from JPMorgan Chase warns that moving away from fossil fuels…
Wind and solar energy fail to meet the challenges of U.S. electricity generation, according to a recent report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The report evaluates energy sources…
This piece was originally published by Independent Women’s Forum on April 12, 2024. See the original here: https://www.iwf.org/2024/04/12/renewables-developers-win-big-discount-on-public-lands/In June 2023, I covered a Department of the Interior (DOI) rule that “proposed to…
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized four rules on the nation’s power plants that will have massive implications for the reliability of the nation’s electricity grid. Chief among…
Last week, we detailed how power outages at the Niwot Market in Colorado cost the small grocery store $35,000 over the course of 24 hours. By dividing the company’s monetary losses by…
Monopoly electric utility companies in Wisconsin are seeking massive bill increases on their customers because these companies are malinvesting $800 million by building new wind turbines, solar panels, and natural…
A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has found that replacing retiring coal plants with the same amount of nuclear capacity would increase the number of high-paying…
Wind and solar advocates often cite a metric called the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) to claim that these energy sources are cheaper than coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants.1 However,…
In 2022, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), the regional grid operator that oversees Minnesota’s electric grid, released a report stating that $10.3 billion would be needed to build the…
A June 2023 poll from Pew Research Center found that support for solar panels among Republicans has fallen by 17 percent since 2016. Support for wind saw a 20 percent…
Thousands of panels on a solar farm southwest of Houston, Texas, were damaged by a powerful hailstorm on March 15, which peppered the panels with baseball-sized hail, according to NewsMax.…
Bloomberg recently ran a very interesting interview with Brett Christophers about his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. In the interview, Christophers argues there’s…
On February 6, 2024, members of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) initiated a proceeding to eliminate energy efficiency and renewable energy rules that conservative regulators say have cost the state’s…
A fundamental problem with the vertically integrated monopoly utility model is that utilities can recover the full cost of an asset, plus a five to ten percent rate of return,…
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data show wind generation in Minnesota fell by 2.8 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, which is more than the 2 percent decline in wind…
A growing number of articles have detailed how soaring energy prices are crippling heavy industry in Germany and several other European countries. The nascent deindustrialization of Europe stems from decades of bad energy policies mandating…
Renewable energy advocates like to stick to their talking points about wind and solar, but they never seem to address the elephant — or elephants — in the room when…
The regional grid operator to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), issued its latest Reliability Imperative report warning that the nation’s electric grid faces several immediate and serious challenges.…