April 10, 2017 Duluth News Tribune By Annie Levenson-Falk The News Tribune’s March 29 editorial, “Our View: Don’t rush renewables goal,” incorrectly implied that renewable energy is more expensive for Minnesota Power than other energy options. In fact, wind is the cheapest source of power generation — and when utilities get more power from renewables, customers…

Citizens  Utility Board also offered individual appointments to teach consumers how to lower utility use March 21, 2017 Fox 21 – Duluth By Andrew Kirov DULUTH, Minn. – For anyone having a hard understanding their utility bill, the Citizens Utility Board was in Duluth today to help. The statewide organization held seminars at the Coppertop…

March 17, 2017 / Duluth Budgeteer Learn about your energy bill, how to save on energy costs and how to get renewable energy at sessions sponsored by Citizens Utility Board (CUB), Minnesota Citizens Federation Northeast and Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. These sessions are provided in the face of Minnesota Power proposals to raise rates…

February 28, 2017 / Minneapolis Star Tribune By Mike Hughlett   Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill Tuesday allowing Xcel Energy to build a large natural gas-fired power plant in Sherburne County, without having to go the traditional route of gaining approval from Minnesota utilities regulators. Minneapolis-based Xcel, the state’s largest electricity provider, wants to…

February 16, 2017 / Midwest Energy News By Frank Jossi Two of the leading voices in the debate over legislation involving a proposed natural gas plant northwest of Minneapolis no longer actively oppose the bill. The Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota has dropped opposition to a bill to allow Xcel Energy to construct a $1 billion,…

February 13, 2017 / E&E News By Jeff Tomich Xcel Energy Inc.’s proposal to build a natural gas plant in central Minnesota got a key endorsement last week from the state’s chief executive, Gov. Mark Dayton.

February 8, 2017 Energy and Policy Institute by Matt Kasper   Xcel Energy’s Sherco Coal-Fired Power Plant On February 2, the Minnesota Senate Committee on Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy voted 7-2 in favor of giving Xcel Energy the certainty to build a 780-megawatt natural gas power plant. The new gas units will replace…

February 3, 2017 / Capitol Report Reporter Shannon Loehrke quotes CUB’s Annie Levenson-Falk in an interview with Senator Andrew Mathews about his proposal to legislate a new power plant.

February 1, 2017 MinnPost By Briana Bierschbach With complete control of the Minnesota Legislature, Republicans are taking early aim this session at a little-discussed state commission that has a big say on energy issues. Republicans have introduced a half-dozen bills that would change the power and makeup of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, a five-member…

February 1, 2017 / Forbes Xcel Energy, an investor-owned utility based in Minneapolis, is about to make the deal of the century thanks to pork barrel politics in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. In January, the Minnesota Public Utility Commission, which regulates the state’s utility monopolies, said it would initiate a proceeding to examine the…