The Biden administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants has come under criticism from the largest regional power grid operators in the country.…
On August 8, four regional grid operators, Pennsylvania Jersey Maryland (PJM), the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) issued…
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…
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…
Xcel Energy continues to push ahead with its Green New aspirations despite mounting evidence that the reliability of the regional electric grid is dwindling. On May 8, 2023, the company…
Last week the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules on mercury that could jeopardize electric grid reliability in Minnesota and the rest of the 15-state Midcontinent Independent…
Earlier this week, the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it plans to deny a permit for a liner for the Rainbow Energy Center, formerly known as the…
Tomorrow at 3 p.m., the Minnesota House Climate and Energy Finance and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on House File (HF) 7, which is the 100 percent carbon-free electricity…
Mike Hughlett at the Star Tribune wrote an excellent story last week detailing how Xcel Energy dropped its highly contested request for a $122 million rate increase in 2023, which…
For years, Minnesotans have been told that our state should pass the same energy policies as Germany, which has subsidized wind and solar power, shut down its nuclear and coal-fired…
Xcel Energy is proposing a massive 20 percent price hike on its electricity customers in Minnesota to finance its own version of the Green New Deal. Unfortunately, the left-leaning Minnesota…
The Biden Administration is undermining the reliability of the grid again. This time, he has sought to delay the construction of a new natural gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin, that…
A Missouri electric company has announced they will no longer shut down a large, 1,195 megawatt (MW) coal plant at the beginning of next month because it is needed for…
On Monday, July 25, the board of directors for the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), voted to approve $10.2 billion in new…
America’s utility regulators are expecting power blackouts, if not this summer than next, for much of the nation. Here in the Midwest, the entity tasked with keeping the lights on…
Whether the lights stay on today and tomorrow will hinge on a few main variables: how high is demand, how much power can we import from PJM (the power grid…
The following article originally appeared in Newsweek. It was written by Robert Bryce. Last June, the Biden administration was so concerned about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor to…
The Star Tribune has finally said the “b-word:” blackouts. Several of our readers reached out to me over the weekend to share this article from the Star Tribune, entitled “Midwest,…
A combination of unseasonably warm temperatures, plant maintenance, and a shortage of reliable power plant capacity on the electric grid could lead to a strain on the electricity system this…
This week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted to allow Xcel Energy to shut down their coal-fired power plants a decade before the end of their useful lifetimes and…
How diminished coal supplies and over-reliance on wind and solar could bring rolling energy blackouts to Minnesota.
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) issued its 2021–2022 Winter Reliability Assessment. The findings were sobering. According to Power Magazine: [The report] warned that much of the…
The largest electric grid operator in the United States is scrambling to ensure it has enough coal for the winter in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the devastating…
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…