Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow for Energy and the Environment at Center of the American Experiment issued the following statement regarding the sale: “Center of the American Experiment applauds the news…
California is learning the hard way that people will grow impatient with unreliable energy sources, and this could lead to rolling blackouts this summer in the Golden State. The problem…
Center of the American Experiment is currently encouraging our readers to sign our petition today, supporting the sale of the Coal Creek power plant so it can continue to provide…
California is reeling from decades of bad energy policy, and it is now expecting residents living in saner states to pay for their mistakes. On Friday, July 9, 2021, and…
American Experiment is often critical of Xcel Energy because they nearly always mislead the public about the negative impact that wind and solar have on the affordability and reliability of…
The following article was written by Rob Port and it originally appeared in the Fargo Forum, and the Grand Forks Herald: Coal Creek Station, the largest coal-fired power plant in…
Advocates of wind turbines often argue that their unreliability can be offset by building even more wind turbines and transmission lines to distant areas because the wind is always blowing…
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the amount of “non-fossil fuel” sources of energy accounted for 21 percent of U.S. energy consumption in 2020. While anti-fossil fuel activists…
The article below originally appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: In the June 7 commentary “Wrong incentives drive energy decisions,” the author correctly notes that utilities have the wrong encouragements. However, these…
The electric grid in Texas continues to struggle to keep up with electricity demand as a result of higher than normal temperatures, and low output from wind turbines. As a…
Like California, Texas is straining to keep the lights on as unusually warm temperatures increase the demand for electricity for air conditioning. Unfortunately for Texas, their fleet of wind turbines…
The following article was originally written by Sonal Patel, and appeared in Power Magazine: The North American Electric Corp. (NERC) is warning that large swathes of the North American bulk…
Last week, the regional electric grid operator, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO) declared an emergency, warning that the hot weather, unexpected power plant outages, and high demand was resulting…
Hundreds of out-of-state protestors are flooding to northern Minnesota to protest the replacement of an aging oil pipeline, but reality apparently has a sense of humor: power plants running on…
The regional grid operator for Minnesota and 14 other states, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), has declared a “Maximum Generation Emergency Warning” today due to unplanned outages, higher-than-normal temperatures,…
Wyoming is the largest coal-producing state in the country. However, the Cowboy State is also going to be a pioneer in the emerging industry of building small, modular nuclear reactors.…