Regulators on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a reduced increase in interim electricity prices than the 9.4 percent price hike sought by Xcel Energy. In doing so, the…
There is currently a comment period at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for Xcel Energy’s plan to close their coal plants a decade before the end of their useful…
Xcel Energy has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NuScale Power, a company that is developing small modular nuclear power plants. The announcement is great…
Center of the American Experiment is proud to announce that earlier this year, our organization filed 60 pages of comments opposing Xcel Energy’s Green New Deal with the Minnesota Public…
Xcel Energy has finally told the truth about the cost of solar panels, in North Dakota. In a document submitted to the North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC), the equivalent…
There are only three days left to sign American Experiment’s petition opposing Xcel Energy’s Green New Deal!
More than 1,800 Minnesotans have signed American Experiment’s petition opposing Xcel Energy’s attempt to make you pay for their Green New Deal. You can sign this petition by clicking here.…
The office of the Attorney General (AG) is pushing back against an attempt by the Minnesota Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) to fast-track billions of dollars in spending from Xcel Energy,…
Xcel Energy is proposing to raise electricity prices by 20 percent in the coming years to fund a $597 million spending spree, according to a new article in the Star…
Government-approved monopolies like Xcel Energy operate under a perverse incentive structure in Minnesota. The more these companies spend on new wind turbines, solar panels, and natural gas plants, the higher…
Last weekend, the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote an article about Xcel Energy’s plans to increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by giving rebates of up to…
I have a lot of policy disagreements with Xcel Energy, but I firmly believe it is important to give credit when credit is due. The video below is from last…
The article below was originally written by Chris Horner and it appeared at Real Clear Energy. I’ve added my own commentary within the text of the article below. “Recently, excerpts from…
The Star Tribune published a bombshell story last Thursday entitled “Xcel Quarterly Profits up 35 Percent, Buoyed by Rate Increases,” which reported Xcel Energy’s quarterly profits for the last quarter…
When lawmakers like Governor Tim Walz and members of the Minnesota House of Representatives call for massively increasing the amount of wind and solar on the grid, they often do…
Earlier this year, I wrote about how the Nobles Wind project, which is the third-largest wind facility in Minnesota, is already losing steam. The most recent data from the Energy…