On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to cut "electricity prices by half" within 18 months of becoming president. In the eight months since he took office, Trump's plans haven't worked, and electricity prices have steadily increased, rising at nearly twice the rate of inflation over the past 12 months.
Predictably, the Trump administration has blamed renewables for this trend, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently saying that the "momentum" of the policies enacted by Barack Obama and Joe Biden is responsible for electricity price increases. Trump has announced that his administration will no longer approve wind and solar projects, and on Friday, the Interior Department issued a work stoppage at an offshore wind farm in Rhode Island that was 80 percent complete and expected to