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The Big Short(fall): Colorado’s Upcoming Power Plant Closures and Planned Replacements
By Ethan Cornell* Introduction The data summarizing planned generation closures in Colorado signals a rapid and profound infrastructural transformation. The schedule details the planned retirement of 10 major coal-fired units between 2025 and 2031,…
Xcel to push batteries through PUC, doubletime
As American Experiment’s Bill Glahn reported last week, Xcel Energy is proposing to double its…
Minnesota gets ‘D’ for wind and solar decommissioning…
The National Center for Energy Analytics released a report this month that evaluates each state’s…
The pervasive myth of ‘cheap’ wind and solar
A recent letter to the editor in the Star Tribune — from a Minnesota Department of Commerce…
Minneapolis to consider raising utility bills for green…
The Sahan Journal reports about an ordinance under consideration in Minneapolis that would increase…
Energy projects should produce energy, not unproductive jobs
It’s the time of year again when Center of the American Experiment needs to reiterate a vital point: energy projects exist to produce energy, not jobs. And projects from wind and solar projects produce little energy and, usually, unproductive, often…
Xcel planning 600MW of batteries by 2030
Minnesotans already face some of the highest electricity rates in the Midwest, and Xcel Energy is…
The recipe for reasonable U.S. electric bills
I wrote a letter to the editor in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Rahm Emanuel, former…
A ratepayer’s guide to rate cases
Center of the American Experiment’s Bill Glahn reported recently on the public hearings for Xcel…
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