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Sure, that sounds bad, but look on the bright side...
The costs are going up because we're using all the energy for the hallucinating lie machines that are using all the water and trying to kill all the jobs while increasing the costs of all computer parts.
Solar and Wind provide more cheap electricity than ever, so energy bills set to rise. What a grift.
Until the public are prepared to turn devices off whenever they're told, we need readily available sources of energy that can be fired up at a moment's notice to fill the gaps between demand and what the renewables are providing. That's done with gas, and so we all have to pay to keep a handful of gas stations operational. The alternative is that you turn appliances off on still cloudy days, which I suspect you'd like less than your current energy bill
Newsflash — battery banks work just as well as gas peaker plants. And they’re currently cheaper.
https://www.cesa.org/replacing-fossil-fueled-peaker-power-plants-with-battery-energy-storage/
I feel like we get this headline every year
It's the circle of news:
I hate this average family unit of measurement. I don't use that much energy, almost no one does. Tell me how much it is changing per kWh instead, the units I am actually paying in.