American AI needs affordable, reliable energy, not wishful thinking The U.S. Energy Information Administration warned last month that U.S. commercial electricity consumption will reach record highs in the next two…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration warned last month that U.S. commercial electricity consumption will reach record highs in the next two years, rising by 3% in 2025 and 5% in 2026. Without…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that the Midwest is planning to see the the most coal capacity retire by the end of 2028, at 10 GW of capacity. Retiring…
This week saw a heat wave strong enough that Mark Christie, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, warned that “Some of our systems really came close to the edge.”…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a piece last week about the frontrunner in the headlong rush for more solar and wind power, California. The unfortunate result is that the…
The Energy Information Administration published a brief article today forecasting a steady increase in residential electricity prices. The EIA expects electricity prices to rise through 2026, as prices have outpaced…
This month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did some spring cleaning and took steps toward 31 significant deregulatory actions. Utilities and American electricity consumers will benefit from averted blackouts and billions of dollars of…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) published last month an article warning that planned retirements of coal-fired electric-generating capacity are expected to increase in 2025. The EIA reports that electricity…
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) map gives Minnesota a dubious distinction: It was the state with the largest increase in gasoline taxes since July 2024. State taxes and…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) published a brief on January 30, 2025, showing that the U.S. imports nearly all of the uranium concentrate used to power commercial nuclear reactors. In…
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), average construction costs for utility-scale solar increased by 1.7% in 2022 compared with 2021 data, and increased by 1.6% for wind turbines, respectively. Meanwhile, in the…
This is not a list you want to rank high on. This headline caught my eye last week: Energy costs: These are the states paying the most, least So, I…
I’ve seen this movie before, and I know how it ends. The headline last week in the ND Reformer reads: North Dakota officials object to Minnesota carbon-free energy law in public…
The office of Gov. Tim Walz issued this press release yesterday announcing new grants for energy industry jobs. The headline, Governor Walz Announces Funding to Train Underrepresented Workers for Clean…
A report released on April 30 claims that Minnesota generated 54% of its electricity from “carbon-free” sources in 2023. But is it true? That 54% headline figure for “carbon-free,” or…
We recently wrote about hundreds of thousands of Xcel Energy customers in Colorado who lost power as high winds damaged power lines, and Xcel preemptively shut off the power to 55,000…
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,…
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show the USA has recently become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as we are using this newfound bounty…
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…
Vertically integrated Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) across America are raking in record-breaking profits under the guise of the so-called “energy transition.” From 2014 to 2024, earnings for American electric utilities have…
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…
Two years ago, I wrote an article detailing how the Great Plains Institute (GPI) was lying to the public about the cost of the California Transportation Standard. Sadly, GIP is…
Have you ever wanted to steal from the less fortunate without going to jail? Have we got a deal for you! Affluent households in California siphoned nearly $3.4 billion in 2021 from the pockets…
On January 8, 2024, a confluence of factors forced the Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to initiate rolling blackouts that affected about 120,000 electricity customers in two dozen communities on the island of…