Renewable energy advocates said that cheap solar panels meant California's electricity prices would stop rising

That was a lie

California's electricity prices will rise more than 50% by 2030

California electric prices rose 42% - 78% between 2010 and 2020

Shocking new data
"We are in a rate crisis with electricity costs growing faster than inflation, inequity rising, & wildfire costs coming," said the public advocate at the Cal Public Utilities Commission

California rates increased 7x more than they did in rest of US

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/californias-dilemma-how-to-control-skyrocketing-electric-rates-while-buil/597767/
We now know that a big reason solar panels became cheaper is because China's Uyghur Muslims were given the choice of concentration camps or working in solar panel factories

And yet Democrats still don't support a ban on Chinese solar genocide panels https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/democrats-must-stop-sacrificing-good
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