On January 4, the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued a two-page letter to Xcel Energy urging them to delay the closure of the two remaining units at the…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved Xcel Energy’s request to construct a 10 megawatt (MW), 1,000 megawatt-hour (MWh) iron-air battery near the site of the Sherburne County Generating…
Yesterday I attended the Midwest Reliability Organization’s Hybrid Reliability meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. One of the presenters was from Form Energy, a battery startup focused on building low-cost, iron-air…
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the Sherburne County Generating Station, commonly referred to as Sherco, generated 1.4 million megawatt hours (MWhs) of electricity in July…
American Experiment’s campaign to persuade Xcel Energy and the Public Utilities Commission to delay the retirement of Unit 2 at the Sherburne County Generating Station (Sherco) is gaining steam. Make…
Denver News reports that Xcel Energy locked out 22,000 customers in Colorado from adjusting their thermostats as temperatures rose into the 90s. Denver 7 reports: During the dog days of…
American Experiment is ramping up its efforts to inject some much-needed energy sanity into our public policy debates by putting pressure on Xcel Energy and the Public Utilities Commission to…
Rolling blackouts may hit Minnesota this summer because electric companies have closed down too many reliable power plants — think coal, nuclear and natural gas — on the regional electric grid and…
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in West Virginia vs. EPA, ruling that the Clean Air Act did not specifically authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse…
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…