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.