Advocates of mandating wind and solar often talk about these electricity generators as if they will usher in a new utopia for us all. For a local example, look no…
In early August, four of the largest electric grid operators in America warned that President Biden’s proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing fossil-fueled power…
I’ve been hesitant to attempt any predictions about potential blackouts on the grid this year because I don’t want to become a Boy Who Cried Wolf. Also, it hasn’t felt…
MN350 is a liberal energy group in Minnesota best known for opposing the replacement of the aging Line 3 pipeline with a newer, safer pipeline and lobbying for more wind…
Duke Energy recently made a smart announcement outlining plans to replace one of the company’s coal-fired power plants with new small modular reactors at the Belews Creek Steam Station. In…
American Experiment Policy Fellow Isaac Orr joined Rich Gruber on the radio to discuss the findings of our study on the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions…
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…
On August 8, four regional grid operators, Pennsylvania Jersey Maryland (PJM), the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) issued…
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…
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,…
The website Heatmap recently published an interesting interview with Mark Christie, a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. The title of the article is a bit clickbaity…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, I highlighted The Good provisions of the debt ceiling compromise. Today, I’ll highlight The Bad provisions pertaining to energy. The Bad: Unlimited wind and solar subsidies Earlier this year,…
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 May 19, the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), announced the results of its recent capacity auction. MISO concluded that the region…
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…
Several blue states are deploying a bold new strategy to keep their electricity grids solvent as they push forward with reckless requirements to meet their electricity needs with unreliable wind…
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…
Yesterday I attended the Midwest Reliability Organization’s Hybrid Reliability meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. One of the presenters was from Form Energy, a battery startup focused on building low-cost, iron-air…
One week after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) warned that shutting down the nation’s coal-fired power plants would increase the risk of rolling blackouts in the United States, the…
Xcel Energy continues to push ahead with its Green New aspirations despite mounting evidence that the reliability of the regional electric grid is dwindling. On May 8, 2023, the company…
Wind and solar advocates frequently misquote Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) analysis to make two incorrect statements. The first incorrect claim is that wind and solar facilities generate electricity…