I agree with you that this solar and wind energy is stupid expensive and a long way to being cost effective, never mind actually green! And it is a quantum leap in materials science away from becoming cost effective or green.
The "green energy insanity" hasn't actually hit our electrical bills yet. Yes, it is stupid and costs way too much but it is all being absorbed and hidden in gov't subsidies and grants.
Here in Ontario we pay under ten cents a kw/h. The Ontario gov't previous FIT programme that paid private solar and wind farms to provide electricity was paying EIGHTY THREE CENTS PER KW/H!!! So if you have a $100 monthly electric bill, it would be $800 a month!
As for "de-regulation", I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. The de-regulation of building energy plants? de-regulating the property rights of landowners for transmission corridors? De-regulating private (publicly traded) companies pricing?
I know "deregulation" is a catchy phrase..like "green energy", but most of the problem with the regulatory process is simply time delays. Which is not as big of a factor in the price of delivered electricity as the actual cost of construction and the natural gas etc.
Biden and his team spent four years tying up the the oil and gas industry with regulations
day one Biden cancelled a pipeline
Biden claimed they granted lots of drilling permits , but quietly denied feeder pipeline permits to the same drilling sites
nobody was going to invest in drilling those sites if you cant get the product to market.
re electrical power plants
how many Fossil fuel generating plants were shut down over the past decade or relegated to back up for wind / solar for political reasons ?
trump will remove the subsidies and tax breaks for the wind / solar making them uneconomical
he could even apply those same subsidies and tax breaks to the shuttered gas fired plants if it drives the incentives he wants
the greens will go berserk , but that matters not to him
