(DCNF)—The corporate media is suggesting that President Donald Trump and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are responsible for rising electricity prices rather than the aggressive green energy policies of Democrats and former President Joe Biden, who himself presided over a major spike in prices.
Several major corporate media outlets have linked Trump’s OBBBA to climbing energy prices, despite data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showing that electricity bills were already on the rise, shooting up during the middle of the Biden administration. Energy experts, grid watchdogs and operators have long warned that the Biden-era green energy push threatens grid security and drives up electricity costs, as power demand also surges from the booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector.
“Electricity prices have been increasing since the grid became burdened with unreliable and expensive wind and solar. The problem has recently worsened as electricity demand has increased because of the explosion in AI-driven data center energy needs that wind and solar just can’t meet,” Steve Milloy, senior policy fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Demand will likely continue to increase and will only be satisfied by more fossil fuel and nuclear baseload power. The BBB will make more baseload power possible by discouraging utilities from adding more unreliable and pointlessly expensive wind and solar.”
Electricity prices are projected to rise 13% nationally from 2022 to 2025, and power consumption is expected to hit a record high in the next several years, according to EIA data. After years of stagnation, power demand is soaring as AI data centers and the re-industrialization of the U.S. drive demand, according to the EIA and energy experts. Energy infrastructure continues to age and be phased out without adequate replacements, according to the major grid watchdog, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
Years of Biden pushing for green energy technology like wind and solar while imposing strict regulations on the oil, gas and coal industries helped destabilize the power grid, energy experts have explained to the DCNF previously. Utility bills are surging in some regions of the country more than others, with several of the states facing the most crippling electricity bills and unstable power grids mandating green energy transitions and leaning left.
Though several grid operators, watchdogs and energy sector experts have linked Democrats’ climate agenda to reliability issues and rising energy prices, legacy media outlets are still gunning to blame Trump for the projected electricity price hikes.
CNN recently reported that electricity costs are rising under Trump and that Congressional Democrats and left-leaning groups are zeroing in on the issue ahead of the midterms.
“We know that this issue of rising utility bills is top of mind for voters and we know Republicans voted to raise their utility bills,” Senior Advisor for Accountability Campaigns at Climate Power Alex Witt told CNN. “We’re doing everything we can to make sure they pay the political price for that.”
Politico’s E&E News wrote that Arizona is bracing for the impact of the OBBBA while electricity costs continue to rise, though two utilities — UniSource and Arizona Public Service (APS) — told the publication that they were not sure if the OBBBA would spike energy costs, and that they were not planning on raising their rates. APS also announced this week that it ditched its plan to pursue a 100% reliance on green energy technology by 2050 given concerns over the power grid’s reliability and impacts on customers’ utility bills.
“The rising prices today should be connected to the root causes. The actual ones,” Senior Manager of FTI Consulting Steve Everley wrote on X. “For what it’s worth, two utilities recently said there are no indications of any price impacts from OBBBA and no plans to raise rates.”
Natural gas bans and a forced and rushed energy transition has been linked to higher energy costs, according to NERC and energy sector experts. Many states in New England are burdened by high energy costs, a region of the country that has cracked down on natural gas pipelines and imposed strict clean energy mandates.
“Democrats committed arson on electricity prices and now they have the nerve to accuse Trump of playing with matches. In Trump’s first term, electricity prices rose by less than 1% per year. Under Biden, electricity prices rose 22%. I think the American people will trust President Trump’s energy policies more than hypocritical Democrat finger-pointing,” James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute and the founding director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy, told the DCNF.
The Department of Energy (DOE) warned in its July 7 report that blackouts could increase by a factor of 100 by 2030 if the U.S. keeps retiring power plants without adequate replacements, the grid will be unable to meet the soaring demand from energy-hungry data centers in the coming years. It continued to single out wind and solar as key contributors to declining grid stability and argued that dispatchable generation from sources like coal, oil, gas and nuclear are vital to meet American power needs.
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