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The one-two punch of cutting ourselves off from cheap Russian fossil fuels and shutting down all nuclear generation in the same time period has made a huge difference, something like a 30% increase in just two years. It would have been closer to a 50% increase if a the renewable energy surcharge had not been phased out and if the federal government hadn’t temporarily limited the end-user electric price.
I imagine the past 2 years where Germany has been cut off from cheap Russian energy are the most important.
The one-two punch of cutting ourselves off from cheap Russian fossil fuels and shutting down all nuclear generation in the same time period has made a huge difference, something like a 30% increase in just two years. It would have been closer to a 50% increase if a the renewable energy surcharge had not been phased out and if the federal government hadn’t temporarily limited the end-user electric price.