Some renewable energy advocates protest that more evidence is needed to prove that it is renewables and not some hidden factor that is making electricity expensive. Indeed, the reason environmentalists turned against nuclear energy in the 1960s was that it was cheap and effectively infinite. But the ideologically-driven leadership of European Greens and American environmentalists knows renewables make energy expensive and view raising energy prices as a high priority. At bottom, renewables make electricity expensive by returning so little energy relative to the energy invested. Imagine solar panels powering the mining, trucks, and factories needed to manufacture solar panels.

Source: Forbes May 28, 2019 03:35 UTC