The 2022 midterm elections gave Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota total control of state government, offering liberal lawmakers an opportunity to enact new energy mandates requiring 100% of Minnesota’s electricity to…
Xcel Energy is warning Minnesotans that wholesale natural gas prices are rising, which could cause sticker shock for heating bills this month. Fox 9 reports: In a message on Wednesday,…
Grid monitors warn that the electricity system that serves Minnesota and 14 other states, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), is at a high risk of blackouts, and this threat…
Wind turbines are often sold to rural local governments as a means of bolstering their budgets and allowing them to offer additional services for their residents or offset other taxes.…
Data from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs shows that no Minnesota wind facility produced more than 45 percent of its potential output in 2021. Several facilities in neighboring states met the…
Mike Hughlett at the Star Tribune wrote an excellent story last week detailing how Xcel Energy dropped its highly contested request for a $122 million rate increase in 2023, which…
Governor Walz and other liberal lawmakers have proposed legislation that would require Minnesota to derive 100 percent of its electricity from carbon-free resources by 2040, but his proposal would not…
Walker Orenstein of MinnPost wrote an article detailing the energy and climate agenda of key Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota now that the DFL has total control of the House of…
A recent story from the Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) details how Xcel Energy is apparently approaching cities to join its Carbon-Free Future MN Coalition to promote Xcel’s goals of…
Bloomberg recently reported that the biggest mistake made by the renewable energy industry was the promise that wind and solar would always get cheaper. This claim has turned out to…
On November 17, 2022, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment, a document that identifies risks to the electric grid for all of North…
The recent elections gave Minnesota Democrats total control of the state government for at least the next two years. According to an article in The Sahan Journal, they are wasting…
Proposals to remove the four Lower Snake River (LSR) dams: Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Lower Granite, and Lower Monumental, to aid in salmon recovery efforts would transform Washington from…
On Sept. 16, the administration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz released the final version of its Climate Action Framework, a document that lays out Walz’s vision for Minnesota’s energy future.…
Center of the American Experiment continues its nation-leading efforts to educate Americans about the high cost of weather-dependent energy sources. In our latest report, we calculate the high costs of…
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the Sherburne County Generating Station, commonly referred to as Sherco, generated 1.4 million megawatt hours (MWhs) of electricity in July…