California is often criticized for high electricity costs and slow development timelines. Rightly so: My electricity bill has doubled in a decade, and as a renter I can’t buy solar or batteries to cut the costs.

But critics confuse the real reasons for this problem. According to California’s utility regulators , our power bills are soaring because of drought, wildfires and an antiquated approach to rooftop solar.

Clean energy has been the best solution to this problem — solar, wind and batteries simply cost less to power our lives. Unfortunately, the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act just put a ticking clock on the most affordable energy sources.

The bill repealed tax credits that were created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and killed federal programs sup

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