The levelized cost of blackouts
Last week, we detailed how power outages at the Niwot Market in Colorado cost the small grocery store $35,000 over the course of 24 hours. By dividing the company’s monetary losses by…
Last week, we detailed how power outages at the Niwot Market in Colorado cost the small grocery store $35,000 over the course of 24 hours. By dividing the company’s monetary losses by…
Monopoly electric utility companies in Wisconsin are seeking massive bill increases on their customers because these companies are malinvesting $800 million by building new wind turbines, solar panels, and natural…
A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has found that replacing retiring coal plants with the same amount of nuclear capacity would increase the number of high-paying…
Wind and solar advocates often cite a metric called the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) to claim that these energy sources are cheaper than coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants.1 However,…
In 2022, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), the regional grid operator that oversees Minnesota’s electric grid, released a report stating that $10.3 billion would be needed to build the…
A June 2023 poll from Pew Research Center found that support for solar panels among Republicans has fallen by 17 percent since 2016. Support for wind saw a 20 percent…
Bloomberg recently ran a very interesting interview with Brett Christophers about his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. In the interview, Christophers argues there’s…
On February 6, 2024, members of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) initiated a proceeding to eliminate energy efficiency and renewable energy rules that conservative regulators say have cost the state’s…
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…