SCOOP: Power The Future unveils plan to reverse spiking energy costs

Decades of bad energy policy are threatening President Donald Trump and Republicans in the 2026 midterms, a leading American energy group is warning — even though the causes of spiking energy costs have little to do with the GOP’s agenda for energy independence.

“Are you paying MORE each month for food, electricity bills, health care? Thank a House Republican,” a staffer for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) recently tweeted.

For years, Trump has prioritized American energy dominance and independence; but if energy costs continue to rise, due primarily to failures of the Democratic Party’s energy agenda, Trump’s party could suffer simply because they are the ones in power; one of the policies at fault, for example, is the expansion of renewable portfolio standards and carbon regulations that forced premature plant retirements across America.

Higher energy costs ripple throughout the American economy far more than the spikes alone do; they impact small businesses, jobs, inflation, and more.

A whopping 73 percent of Americans are worried about rising electric and gas bills in 2025; however, Power The Future (PTF) explains, in its latest report obtained by the Washington Reporter, that “politically motivated energy policies, often prioritizing ideology over reliability, have steadily driven up electricity costs, which working families are now facing.”

PTF has four suggestions that the Trump administration can use to take the wind out of the Democrats’ sails on this issue. Utilize the Defense Production Act to support firm, dispatchable generation capacity; build new fossil fuel plants, which will be particularly necessary to augment the growth in artificial intelligence (AI); halt premature closures of fossil fuel plants; and expand existing coal capacity.

The alternative to these policies reveals a “clear correlation” to higher energy costs, PTF explains. “Every percentage point drop in fossil generation shifts more costs onto ratepayers, not just in power bills, but across every sector that depends on affordable electricity,” its report says. Even red states like Texas, Indiana, and West Virginia are cutting fossil fuel power.

As Democrats struggle to latch on to issues with which to attack Trump and Republicans, they have recently latched on to higher energy costs — and PTF’s executive director says now is the time for Trump to go on offense.

“President Trump inherited an energy disaster,” Turner told the Reporter. “Decades of terrible policy decisions made by energy ignoramuses, appeasing the climate left, wasting trillions. For the past four years Biden shuttered numerous fossil fuel power plants with the promise of a green tomorrow. It’s all coming to a head, and when the grid crashes, the media will blame President Trump, and the leftists who actually caused it will use it to unite their side and win back power.”

“The current administration did not create this trend, but it is now up to them to address it,” PTF explains. PTF’s analysis found that one of the root causes for today’s higher prices is that “as dispatchable fossil fuel generation is retired and replaced with intermittent wind and solar energy, electricity prices rise. This is not a short-term fluctuation. It is a long-term structural problem that has been building for decades.”

Trump, a longtime foe of wind and solar projects, recently reiterated his stance on the issue, posting on Truth Social that “any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!”

“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” the president continued. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA.”

Read the full study here.