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…
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…
It’s been very warm in Minnesota over the last two weeks, leading families to turn up the air conditioning. One thing that hasn’t been turned up over the last 14…
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…
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…
Lazard’s LCOE analysis is frequently used by wind and solar advocates to claim that new wind and solar facilities are cheaper than new coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants. However,…
It helps to start our series on the Lazard LCOE analysis at the beginning of Lazard’s LCOE analysis. You can click here to access the table of contents for these articles. Wind…
Before we discuss how wind and solar special interest groups routinely misrepresent Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) Analysis, we have to describe what the LCOE is and how it…
Wind and solar special interest groups frequently claim that these technologies are the lowest-cost sources of electricity. Almost invariably, the citation used to support these claims is Lazard’s Levelized Cost…
Three major utility companies in California have proposed to charge their customers based on their household income. In doing so, the Golden State appears to be racing to run out…
It has been two months since the frigid temperatures that accompanied Winter Storm Elliott caused rolling blackouts in several Southern states. Luckily, the portions of southern states that rely on…
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed again by Robert Bryce on his show, The Power Hungry Podcast. Robert and I talk about the Blackout Bill, the NGOs that pushed…
State Representative Athena Hollins, DFL-St. Paul has introduced legislation that would require Minnesota to build 3,000 megawatts (MW) of energy storage in the state by 2034. Assuming lithium-ion batteries are…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its December 2022 electricity generation data, which means we get our first complete look at how different electricity sources performed last year.…