in an interview with The National News Desk<\/a>, described wind and solar as \u201cintermittent\u201d and \u201cnot reliable.\u201d He also touted efforts by the administration to expand coal production, noting that new permits for mines in Montana, Wyoming, and Utah mark a return to traditional energy development.<\/p>\nEnergy industry advocates share those concerns. \u201cWhen you take affordable, reliable energy off the grid and you take it off the table as an option, you will see prices spike,\u201d said Larry Behrens, communications director at Power the Future. He added that surging demand from artificial intelligence data centers is also likely to strain the grid in coming years.<\/p>\n
Still, many experts argue that renewable energy is not the primary driver of rising costs. They point instead to a combination of factors, including extreme weather, higher demand from new technologies, and the retirement of older fossil fuel plants.<\/p>\n
Clean energy supporters counter that states with high levels of wind generation, including Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have seen electricity prices rise more slowly than the national average \u2014 evidence, they say, that renewables can coexist with affordable power.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Trump White House announced a trade investigation into imported wind turbines. The probe could lead to tariffs, which analysts warn would likely raise costs for offshore wind projects that depend heavily on foreign parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Electricity prices are climbing nationwide \u2014 up more than 5% in the past year, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2973,69950,67663,69951,192,1869,79,69952,3479,5874],"class_list":{"0":"post-105444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-clean-energy","9":"tag-coal-production","10":"tag-electricity-prices","11":"tag-energy-costs","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-renewable-energy","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-trade-investigation","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-wind-power"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}