Washington (AP) – Since electricity prices rose more than twice as high as the inflation rate, President Donald Trump has struck renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy and held them responsible for the leaked energy costs.
Trump called wind and solar power “the fraud of the century!” in a social media contribution and sworn, no wind or “farmer -ceremonial disorder solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA !!!” He wrote about his social side of truth.
Energy analysts say that renewable sources hardly have to do with the latest price increases based on increased demand, aging infrastructure and increasingly extreme weather events such as forest fires, which are tightened by climate change.
The quick growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence has heated up the demand for energy -hungry data centers that require electricity for servers, storage systems, network devices and cooling systems. The increased employ of electric vehicles has also increased demand, even if the Trump administration and the congress republicans limit the tax credits and other incentives for EV purchases approved as part of the bid administration.
Meanwhile, natural gas prices are increasing strongly, which increases the increasing exports to Europe and other international customers. More than 40% of the US current are generated by natural gas.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to reduce the electricity bills of the Americans by 50%. The Democrats have quickly blamed him for the price increases and have referred measures to enlarge pristine energy in the expenditure and regulations approved last month as well as regulations to further restrict wind and solar energy.
Proponents say that renewable energies provide the required additional energy
“Now we need more energy, no less to satisfy our increased energy requirements and electricity of our network. Instead of increasing our energy supply, Donald Trump brings a shelter to the clean energy sector and kills jobs and projects,” said the Senator of New Mexico, Martin Heinrich, the top democrat in the Senate -Energy and Natural Resource Commonse.
The GOP calculation will impose thousands of jobs on costs and higher energy costs nationwide, said Heinrich and other critics.
In a report by Energy Innovation, a non-partisan think tank, it was found that the GOP tax law increased the energy bill of the average family by $ 130 by 2030.
Renewable lawyers were boring.
“The true fraud accuses Solar for Spikes for fossil fuels,” said the Solar Energy Industries Association in response to Trumps.
“Farmers, families and companies choose solar to save money, maintain land and to escape high costs for the old, dirty fuels that are forced by this administration,” added the group.
While the technology improves, wind and solar offer some of the cheapest and fastest options for providing electrical current. More than 90% of the fresh energy capacity that came online in the USA in 2024 were Clean Energy, said Jason Grumet, CEO of the American Clean Clean Power Association, another industry group.
According to the US energy information management, the highest proportion of pristine energy in the states decreased in the states, while prices in the states have increased the least renewable energy consumption.
“By slowing down the provision of Clean Energy, the Trump administration directly promotes cost increases,” said Grumet
“Blocking the cheap, clean energy and at the same time double outdated fossil fuels does not make an economic or ecological sense,” added Ted Kelly, director of the US Clean Energy for the Environmental Defense Fund, a non -profit interest representation.
Debate about the partisan anchor about rising energy prices
Energy Minister Chris Wright accused the increasing prices for the “dynamics” of guidelines from bidges era, which supported renewable power supply compared to fossil fuel sources such as oil, coal and natural gas.
“This dynamic is currently driving the prices. And who is held responsible for it? We are blamed because we are in office,” said Wright during a visit to Iowa last week. About 60 percent of the state of the state comes from the wind.
Not all pushback comes from Democrats.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican who supports the wind power, has set three candidates of the Ministry of Finance to ensure that wind and solar have “a reasonable sliding path for the proper exit of the tax credits”, which were approved in climate law in 2022 after the former president Joe Biden.
Grassley said he was encouraged by fresh government instructions to limit the tax credits for wind and solar projects, but did not eliminate them. The instructions “seems to offer a sustainable path for the wind and solar industry in order to continue to meet the increased energy requirements,” said Grassley in a statement.
John Quigley, Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that the Republican Tax Act would boost the US current invoices by slowing down the construction of solar, wind and battery projects and eliminating up to 45,000 jobs by 2030.
Trump Administration Police that emphasize fossil fuels are “an extremely backward force in this conversation,” said Quigley. “In addition to the transfer of the future of clean energy to other nations, we pay for fossil stupidity with more than money – with our health and our security. And our children pay an even higher price.”
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