In 2018, Center of the American Experiment released a report evaluating how environmentally responsible mining would boost Minnesota’s economy. With the help of economist John Phelan and Debra Struhsacker, a…
Last month, my 2004 Ford Expedition wouldn’t start in a grocery store parking lot. I troubled a helpful stranger for a jump start with no success. I had it towed…
Newly released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that new wind installations fell in 2022, relative to 2021 and 2020, for Minnesota and the United States as…
Wind turbines require a lot of copper. A recent study from the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that the average onshore wind turbine requires about three metric tons of copper…
How diminished coal supplies and over-reliance on wind and solar could bring rolling energy blackouts to Minnesota.
S&P Global reports that about 20 percent of the coal-fired power plants in the regional power grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, or MISO, are at…
Xcel Energy made headlines this week by announcing that they will be seeking to increase the cost of electricity by a massive 21.2 percent over the next three years, but…
In a recent interview with S&P Global, Bob Frenzel, Xcel Energy’s President and COO outlined the company’s vision for the next nine years and it is clear that the government-approved…
Great River Energy's announcement that they would build a battery to help replace a coal-fired power plant received uncritical praise from the media and renewable groups, but a closer look…
Last week, Great River Energy (GRE) announced they would be shutting down the Coal Creek power plant decades before the end of the plant’s useful life. This decision was confusing,…
This post was originally submitted to the Say Anything Blog in response to this post by Peder Mewis, of the Clean Grid Alliance. It’s interesting that in his recent guest post,…