Did you know that solar facilities are subsidized to the tune of almost $50,000 per acre? Here is how the math works. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a…
Xcel Energy is attempting to spend roughly $300 million dollars building electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and buying electric school buses with your money. The proposal would force Minnesota families…
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…
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 August 2, 2022, Xcel Energy submitted its plan to spend more than $300 million on building 730 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and increasing the use of electric school…
The Board of Directors for the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), recently voted to approve nearly $10.3 billion in new transmission lines—$2 billion…
The Star Tribune ran an opinion piece last week by John Noer and me about the rising risk of rolling blackouts. The article garnered many intelligent comments about the merits…
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…
Your correspondent attends a game in downtown Minneapolis, and lives to tell the tale. The Minnesota Twins are currently leading the Central division of the American League. In the stands,…
Electric companies in Wisconsin have announced they will delay the closure of three coal plants in the Badger State due to a shortage of reliable power plant capacity on the…
The article below was written by Mark Kolbinger in the Patriot News. Sizzling temperatures have one again forced area residents inside to the comfort of their air conditioners, while questions…
A recent report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has determined that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the…
Saturday, May 14, 2022, was likely the first time many Minnesotans were told that our electric grid could suffer from rolling blackouts in the near future. Our readers have known…
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,…
Corporations are prohibited from donating money directly to a political candidate. An exception to the rule involves the candidate-adjacent inaugural committees. We are just eight months away from the next…
An Indiana electric company has announced they will delay the closure of two units at a coal-fired power plant because of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Commerce of the…
Wind and solar advocates recently celebrated California reaching 100 percent “renewable” energy for an entire 15 minutes, marking the first time this has ever happened after decades of investing tens…
Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund (ABM) is a far-left Political Action Committee that spent $7.3 million promoting liberal politicians and attacking conservatives during the 2020 election cycle, according…
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…
The average cost of electricity in Minnesota surpassed Wisconsin in 2021, marking the first time since the Energy Information Administration (EIA) started recording data that Minnesota electricity prices have exceeded…
A recent article by E&E News Energywire found that Xcel Energy, Minnesota’s largest electric company, has struggled to get electric vehicle (EV) owners to sign up to a charging program…
Transitioning to wind and solar energy just became a lot more expensive. Due to significant competition and supply-chain constraints throughout the world, the cost for many of the raw materials…