Biden’s green energy fiasco, not Trump's reforms, is jacking up your electric bill

There’s a conflict to specify a communicative astir what’s to blasted for rising energy prices. Some assertion higher energy prices are owed to President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill," which curtailed subsidies for "cheap" upwind and star installations. Others blasted AI’s rapidly expanding appetite for electricity, portion immoderate blasted inflation. None of these charges clasp up nether scrutiny.  

But shifting blame, usually with the assistance of a complicit media, helps with the lone happening that matters to astir politicians: seizing governmental power.  

This is readily seen successful California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s travel to Belém, Brazil, to hitch elbows with the planetary elite astatine the UN’s COP30 planetary clime league connected Nov. 11. Newsom, an all-but-declared campaigner for the Democratic information for president successful 2028, slammed the Trump medication for not attending the confab, accusing the president of "handing the aboriginal to China," presumably successful the class of selling star panels embedded with concealed termination switches. 

Newsom went connected to accidental that "We’re not turning backwards to the failed policies of the past — California is warring for a clean-energy future, adjacent as President Trump bends the genu to his Gulf-State patrons and takes a nap arsenic the satellite burns." Newsom besides claimed that California is present operating its grid connected "two-thirds cleanable energy," with California operating connected 100% non-fossil-fuel vigor for astatine slightest portion of the time 9 retired of 10 days this year.

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Solar powerfulness vigor microgrid successful California, arsenic portion of that state's greenish vigor push. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

But California present has the nation’s second-highest energy prices second-highest energy prices, lone down Hawaii, with the Golden State’s energy prices rising the astir of immoderate authorities since 2010: 127%, according to a caller study from Jonathan A. Lesser, Ph.D., a elder chap with the National Center for Energy Analytics.  

The information that Newsom doesn’t privation Californians — oregon Democratic superior voters — to cognize is that "green" vigor is costly energy. That’s because, "60% of the time, (wind and solar) works each time" to get from the much-memed drama "Anchorman." And, it’s precise costly to marque definite the powerfulness is connected erstwhile upwind and star aren’t producing.  

This, Lesser notes, is 1 of the main culprits successful rising energy costs.

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The Biden-Harris administration’s reckless propulsion for subsidized upwind and star — and California’s earlier that and since — has destabilized our grid and forced consumers to ft the measure for fortifying unreliable "green" vigor with reliable state powerfulness and costly batteries — the second of constricted utility.  

From the archetypal 4th of 2010 to the 2nd 4th of 2025, mean residential energy rates crossed the U.S. surged by astir 63%, according to Energy Information Administration (EIA) data. But the symptom isn’t evenly distributed. States similar Massachusetts and California not lone endured the steepest hikes, but present boast 2 of the nation's highest rates — implicit 30 cents per kilowatt-hour successful immoderate cases.  

Critics peddle each sorts of excuses for these increases. One people is information centers, those power-hungry hubs fueling AI and unreality computing. Sure, they devour a batch of powerfulness — Virginia, a information halfway hotspot, has seen request rise. But Virginia’s rates? Below-average increases and inactive nether the nationalist norm. If information centers are the villain, wherefore isn’t the Old Dominion suffering similar California?

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A caller International Renewable Energy Agency study touts falling costs for renewables. But arsenic Lesser’s investigation shows, that’s a half-truth astatine best. Subsidies similar the national accumulation taxation recognition — present $27.50 per megawatt-hour — fto upwind and star operators undercut the marketplace with antagonistic bids, distorting wholesale prices and squeezing retired reliable baseload plants — which extremity up not being built.  

Here’s the missing nexus the greenish advocates ignore: the displacement successful our generating mix. Between 2010 and 2024, U.S. energy capableness grew 16% to 1,325 gigawatts, outpacing a specified 5% emergence successful retail sales. Sounds good, right? Wrong. Dispatchable sources — coal, state and nuclear, which tin ramp up connected request — plummeted by 80 gigawatts. Intermittent upwind and star ballooned seven-fold, to 278 gigawatts.  

California Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to Brazil for the COP30 World Climate Conference, touting his state's vigor policies portion the Trump medication skipped the event. (Larissa Schwedes/picture confederation via Getty Images)

This inclination accelerated successful 2025: More than 1,900 megawatts of fossil substance retired by July, with different 12,600 megawatts slated for shutdown by year’s extremity and into 2026. What's replacing them? More subsidized wind, solar, and pricey batteries.

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It’s argumentation malpractice. States similar New Jersey and New York forced premature closures of reliable powerfulness plants specified arsenic Oyster Creek atomic successful 2018 and Indian Point successful 2021, which powered a 4th of New York City’s needs.  

Biden-era EPA rules, present being rolled backmost nether Trump, would person shuttered astir ember plants by 2032. Mandates for cars to person "zero-emissions" by 2035 successful places similar California disregard reality. Where volition they get the electricity? Wind and star can’t supply inertia oregon reactive power, indispensable for grid stability.

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The fallout? Skyrocketing prices.  

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The information that Newsom doesn’t privation Californians — oregon Democratic superior voters — to cognize is that "green" vigor is costly energy. 

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill — lone present going into effect, truthful immoderate energy terms increases to this constituent aren’t owed to the instrumentality — flips the script. By rescinding President Joe Biden’s conveyance emanation standards and fossil substance crackdowns, it prioritizes affordable, dispatchable energy. Expect much atomic builds, streamlined pipelines and less handouts to Big Green. This won’t spike prices — it’ll stabilize them by restoring reliable supply.

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Biden’s (and Newsom’s) greenish zealotry promised inexpensive power, but delivered the opposite: unaffordable, unreliable energy that hampers economical growth. Trump’s reforms show that existent vigor independency means ditching the myths and embracing what works.  

Americans merit a grid that powers prosperity, not 1 that bankrupts it. 

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