That’s the headline in The Hill, quoting Trump at a recent press availability. The Hill reports: President-elect Trump signaled Tuesday that he would oppose all new wind energy production in…
Happy New Year! As an Xcel electric customer, you may have received the email on Wednesday morning reading: To recap, Xcel is asking the state PUC to approve a 9.6…
In 2024, people visited AmericanExperiment.org an incredible 3.2 million times — a new record! But what exactly were they reading? These are American Experiment’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of…
All signs point to “yes.” The question comes before the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) tomorrow. We reported last month on the recent rate case filed by the state’s largest…
Earlier this week, Meta (parent company of Facebook) sent out a request for proposals for nuclear-generated electricity beginning next decade. Reuters reports: Meta said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from…
Data center construction mean running natural gas plants longer for Xcel Energy, according to remarks by Ryan Long, president of Xcel Energy’s Minnesota and Dakotas division, at an MPUC conference…
Xcel Energy’s recently filed rate case apparently assumed a different election outcome. The Friday before this month’s election, Xcel Energy, the state’s largest utility, filed a new electric rate case…
How out-of-touch are elected officials in St. Paul? First, they successfully lobbied state legislators to scrap a long-standing law shielding Xcel Energy customers in the city from paying higher utility…
Southwestern Minnesota farmers and residents left no doubt about their objections to Xcel Energy’s proposed billion dollar power line for renewable energy at a recent hearing before an administrative law…
The Star Tribune wrote an in-depth piece on the widespread fears of utilities that President-elect Donald Trump will repeal the subsidy-soaked Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. What the article tacitly…
I learned a new German word this week, via Zerohedge. It turns out that the Germans really do have a compound word to describe everything: The UK Telegraph provides some…
The ban on building a new nuclear power plant in the state is incorporated into Minnesota Statute Chapter 216B.243 Subd. 3b(a). The ban was included in the 1994 law to…
The North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday approved natural gas rate increases for Montana-Dakota Utilities customers and the Northern States Power Company. MDU customers will see an approved rate…
Today (Halloween), the utility company Xcel Energy filed its latest quarterly financial report. The Minnesota Star Tribune headline: Xcel will increase capital spending by $11B as data centers, climate change…
Xcel may have tried to do the right thing by planning to construct a few new natural gas plants while it adds grid-destabilizing wind and solar. Unfortunately, its final Upper…
Relief for a beleaguered southern Minnesota community, as a field of abandoned wind turbine blades begins to depart. I’ve written several times about the saga of the 100-or-so used wind…
Tomorrow, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) is expected to consider for approval two unrelated major high-voltage transmission line projects which will nearly span the state at a cost of…
You read that headline correctly. To meet the state’s mandate for 100 percent “carbon-free” electricity by the year 2040, the state’s largest electric utility is planning to build at least…
Any hopes Xcel Energy may have had of Renville County commissioners changing their minds on the utility’s proposed high-voltage power line were all but eliminated at a recent board meeting.…
The state Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) met on Thursday and ordered an out-of-state wind-power developer to live up to its commitment to remove a field full of abandoned wind turbine…
Solar cannot ‘replace’ coal power.
We seem to be headed for a major collision between physics, engineering, and economics on the one hand and climate change virtue signaling on the other. One of the very…
Solar power in Minnesota hopes to transform the landscape, both figuratively and literally, over the next decade. The Minnesota Star Tribune ran a piece last week touting the growth of…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) is holding one of its regularly scheduled meetings tomorrow. There is only a single item on the agenda. It’s an obscure report produced by…