Battery storage has become the latest fad among the energy industry. Lawmakers in states like California, New York and Oregon are busying themselves by crafting mandates requiring their states to invest in…
Despite receiving billions of dollars in federal subsidies, solar power is far less efficient than burning trash.
The Energy Information Administration has updated its analysis of federal energy subsidies to include the fiscal year 2016 numbers. The key takeaway is that energy subsidies have fallen substantially since…
There's good news and bad news. Gas prices this summer are forecast to be higher than they have been for the last four years, according to the U.S. Energy Information…
The Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum may use conservative-sounding language and have pictures of Ronald Reagan on their website, but their policy recommendations are not at all conservative.
Remember when the United States was seemingly about to run out of oil? In 2006, then-President George W. Bush declared the United States was "addicted to oil," and the impending…
Electricity sales in 2017 were essentially the same as in 2006, despite the fact that the U.S. population has grown by about 9 percent since then, growing from 298.5 million…
There are an estimated 6,200 jobs in renewable energy in Minnesota. But these have come at the cost of higher energy prices for Minnesota's consumers. If they had that extra…
The point of an energy industry is to generate energy, not to generate jobs. And on energy generated per worker, wind does very, very badly indeed.
Supplying Competitive Electricity Rates | Not long ago, Minnesota’s energy policy focused on providing “adequate and reliable services at reasonable rates.” As a result, Minnesota benefited from low and competitive...