Trump just made US energy more expensive and dirtier
For eight years, we had rooftop solar. We wouldn’t have done it except that because of state law, Ameren paid half the cost. We also got a 30% tax rebate on the difference.
Since we moved, there are too many trees around our house for rooftop solar, but there are more solar panels in our neighborhood here in RI than in the one we left in St. Louis. In Rhode Island, ca.90% of electricity is generated with natural gas, but we recently contracted with a local solar farm for ours.
Thanks to Trump’s Big Bad Bill, building solar will get more expensive. Gas, oil and coal will replace part of that, but they won’t keep up with demand.
“Donald Trump and the GOP’s irrational energy agenda deliberately sidelines wind and solar energy — the lowest cost, fastest-to-deploy sources of energy generation available — to prop up a dying fossil fuel industry that won’t be able to meet rising demand.
“The consequences will be severe: hundreds of billions in clean energy investment will evaporate, hundreds of gigawatts of power won’t get built, and hundreds of millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions will be produced. By 2035, according to Princeton’s ZERO Lab for energy research, the US will have added 45% less clean electricity to the grid than it would have if Trump had not been reelected.
“All of this comes as America’s electricity demand is accelerating for the first time in decades. A report last year from the Clean Grid Initiative projected up to a five-fold increase in demand on the grid. Meanwhile, the US added 64 TWh of solar generation to the grid in 2024 — enough to meet fully half of the record-breaking growth in electricity demand last year, according to independent energy think tank Ember Energy.
“The only way America can meet rising energy demand and keep costs down is by building more wind and solar. Clean energy means lower utility bills, more good jobs, and cleaner air.”
Trump’s BBB: Making America Grungy Again.
Trump’s BBB means higher bills and dirtier air
Since we moved, there are too many trees around our house for rooftop solar, but there are more solar panels in our neighborhood here in RI than in the one we left in St. Louis. In Rhode Island, ca.90% of electricity is generated with natural gas, but we recently contracted with a local solar farm for ours.
Thanks to Trump’s Big Bad Bill, building solar will get more expensive. Gas, oil and coal will replace part of that, but they won’t keep up with demand.
“Donald Trump and the GOP’s irrational energy agenda deliberately sidelines wind and solar energy — the lowest cost, fastest-to-deploy sources of energy generation available — to prop up a dying fossil fuel industry that won’t be able to meet rising demand.
“The consequences will be severe: hundreds of billions in clean energy investment will evaporate, hundreds of gigawatts of power won’t get built, and hundreds of millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions will be produced. By 2035, according to Princeton’s ZERO Lab for energy research, the US will have added 45% less clean electricity to the grid than it would have if Trump had not been reelected.
“All of this comes as America’s electricity demand is accelerating for the first time in decades. A report last year from the Clean Grid Initiative projected up to a five-fold increase in demand on the grid. Meanwhile, the US added 64 TWh of solar generation to the grid in 2024 — enough to meet fully half of the record-breaking growth in electricity demand last year, according to independent energy think tank Ember Energy.
“The only way America can meet rising energy demand and keep costs down is by building more wind and solar. Clean energy means lower utility bills, more good jobs, and cleaner air.”
Trump’s BBB: Making America Grungy Again.
Trump’s BBB means higher bills and dirtier air