How to stop utility green plating: The Only Pay for What You Get Act
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,…
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 new report by Enverus Intelligence Research indicates that half of all wind projects installed in 2024 could be repowering projects, where developers refurbish established wind facilities to increase power…
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.…
Center of the American Experiment continues to fight the expensive and unreliable energy mandates passed by liberal lawmakers in St. Paul in 2022 and their allies in the utility industry…
Now is your chance to say NO! to the controversial transmission line that Xcel Energy is planning to build from Becker to Lyon County. Worst of all, Xcel wants to…
Last week, I was invited to testify on grid reliability in front of a joint panel of Ohio and Pennsylvania legislators in Columbus, Ohio. This panel was a big deal,…
I was recently on Hawaii Today with Joe Kent of the Grassroot Institute to discuss the rolling blackouts that occurred in early January. As Mitch and I wrote in our…
City officials for Minneapolis say 2023 was the most challenging year when it came to copper wire thefts. Copper thieves targeted street lights and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, resulting…
American Experiment Policy Fellow Isaac Orr appeared on the Power Hungry Podcast with Robert Bryce to discuss the work he and Mitch Rolling are doing to calculate the cost of…
Xcel Energy has been cashing in on Minnesota’s renewable energy mandates. Minnesota passed the Renewable Energy Objective (REO) in 2001, requiring utilities to make a “good faith effort” to reach…
Xcel Energy is seeking to use its new fleet of 500,000 “smart meters” to make “time-of-use” (TOU) pricing the default billing option for its customers. These TOU rates will double…
On January 8, 2024, a confluence of factors forced the Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to initiate rolling blackouts that affected about 120,000 electricity customers in two dozen communities on the island of…
According to the Long Term Reliability Assessment, a report by the nonprofit organization, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), energy reliability is a growing issue on electricity grids across the…