A new report released today by Center of the American Experiment provides a stark warning that the minerals needed to achieve so-called net zero policies are either in short supply,…
A recent post by Energy Bad Boys Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, formerly of American Experiment, shared a piece of good news. Four Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs), including MISO, filed…
Look to Europe for a taste of the U.S.’ future — give or take a few years. Today, the United Kingdom’s last coal plant goes offline. The birthplace of coal-fired…
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…
A North Dakota judge has temporarily blocked a new Bureau of Land Management rule that would restrict natural gas venting and flaring. The injunction would block enforcement of the rule…
What stands in the way of effective environmental quality efforts in North Dakota? Federal bureaucracy within the Environmental Protection Agency. That was the crux of recent comments made by…
The Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), of which Minnesota is a part, is warning of capacity shortfalls next summer. MISO’s press release suggests a potential shortfall of 2.7 GW, though…
The last two coal plants in New England are scheduled to be shuttered by Granite Shore Power by 2028. While New England doesn’t use much coal, little else suffices when…
The EPA recklessly endangers U.S. electricity generation.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its 2024 Summer Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment last week. U.S. electricity demand is “expected to increase 2.7% this summer” compared to…
Photo credit: Tony Webster via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) North Dakota and West Virginia are leading a coalition of 23 states in suing to stop the EPA’s new…
Although the Biden administration has the pedal to the metal, electric vehicles appear to be heading nowhere fast in the marketplace. Thousands of layoffs at Tesla, a loss of nearly…
On Thursday, April 25, 2024, the U.S. EPA issued a slate of rules further regulating the U.S. power sector. Chief among them was the finalized rules on carbon dioxide emissions from existing…
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized four rules on the nation’s power plants that will have massive implications for the reliability of the nation’s electricity grid. Chief among…
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…
North Dakota coal heads for the exit if the EPA has its way.
Wind advocates are prone to dismissing concerns about the intermittency of their preferred generation source by claiming, without evidence, that the wind is “always blowing somewhere,” and building more transmission…
The Dakota Resource Council recently told the North Dakota Monitor that it supports the Biden Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that experts from the North Dakota Division of Environmental…
A fundamental problem with the vertically integrated monopoly utility model is that utilities can recover the full cost of an asset, plus a five to ten percent rate of return,…
American Experiment Policy Fellow Isaac Orr appeared on the Power Hungry Podcast with Robert Bryce to discuss the work he and Mitch Rolling are doing to calculate the cost of…
In many ways, 2023 feels like the eye of the hurricane threatening the reliability of the American electric grid. It was the first year since 2019 that rolling blackouts didn’t…
Who says conservatives can’t win?
On Christmas Eve, 2022, millions of American families experienced rolling blackouts as frigid temperatures brought by Winter Storm Elliot caused fuel supply problems for natural gas power plants throughout the…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the international regulatory authority with the mission to ensure the reliability of the electric grid, released the latest version of its…