Wind company pleads guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles
ESI, a subsidiary of the wind company NextEra Energy, pled guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, including…
ESI, a subsidiary of the wind company NextEra Energy, pled guilty to killing at least 150 bald eagles over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, including…
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…
This morning, Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District asked me to help him introduce new legislation known as the Future Agriculture Retention and Management Act of 2022, or…
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…
Center of the American Experiment analyzed Virginia’s compliance with the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) legislation passed in 2020. This analysis models the cost of meeting the renewable energy mandates…
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…
On Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, the Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum (MNCEF) gave a presentation to the Republican Seniors of Minnesota. During the question and answer section, Executive Director Kayla Christensen…
Advocates of wind and solar power often tell us that these energy sources will result in lower energy prices, but the facts on the ground do not support this claim.…
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…
A friend of mine posted this, and it’s certainly funny.
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…
Bloomberg reports that European nations have sleepwalked into an energy crisis that was years in the making. Unfortunately, Europe’s increasing reliance on Russian natural gas emboldens Russian aggression along the…