Vertically integrated Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) across America are raking in record-breaking profits under the guise of the so-called “energy transition.” From 2014 to 2024, earnings for American electric utilities have…
Wisconsinites around the state will soon experience sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies are asking for a combined half billion in higher energy costs over…
On Friday regulators shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and seized its deposits in the largest U.S. banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis and the second-largest ever. We shouldn’t be…
Wisconsinites around the state are experiencing sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies like We Energies have been raising their prices of electricity like crazy.…
Evaluating the Fed’s post-COVID policies.
Did you know that Xcel Energy, which had total revenues of over $3 billion in 2020, according to federal data, paid no federal income taxes in 2018, according to a…
Minnesota’s media is in a state of excitement today over a new report from think tank ProPublica which “Reveal[s] How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.” There is much less to…
Renowned author and filmmaker Robert Bryce debunks the misconceptions surrounding wind and solar energy.
Property rights advocates in Iowa are furious about a proposal by the Iowa Utilities Board, the Iowa version of Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission, to allow utility companies to use eminent…
A newly-released study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) drops an enormous bombshell on wind energy in the United States. The study, which was published in the peer-reviewed, scientific…
A pension bailout to municipalities, that would have effectively made the bailout permanent at about $14 million a year, did not become law . Enjoy the "win" because local government…
According to data found in utility documents filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy earned $49.3 million in federal subsidies in 2016 from its wind facilities located throughout…
The Lake Benton Wind (LBW) Farm in southern Minnesota is being retooled to improve turbine performance and reliability, but most importantly, it is being rebuilt to generate federal production tax…
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another” - Milton Friedman
Are Wind Companies Rushing Projects to Scoop Up Subsidies?
Dan Moore used to be a wind farm developer near Blue Earth Minnesota. Now he regrets his involvement in wind energy.
Warren Buffett is grateful that a chunk of your tax payment will go into his pocket as part of the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC). Here’s how it works...
Hard to believe that’s it’s already been about a year since the Dakota Access Pipeline protests petered out next door in North Dakota. Instead of coddling activists who trashed the…
State’s system is losing ground fast, relative to others. Here’s why. This op-ed originally appeared in the Star Tribune on Sunday, September 10, 2017. Bloomberg Markets recently released a bombshell…
Kim called for all pensions to be fully funded, and testified that, “We have made promises without paying for them, shifting the costs on to young employees and our children.”…
A test score ‘meritocracy’ is battling the Left Behinds