Inflation Reduction Act postmortems have a tendency to hand-wring about the Biden administration and its proxies’ lack of success pitching the affordability angle to the American public. Our polling backed up some of this. The pervasive conviction seems to be that the economic upsides of renewable energy aren’t real: 57% of all voters (and 78% of the subset of climate change skeptics) said clean energy advocates exaggerate how cheap wind and solar have become.

Sorry about a hard paywall here, but the basic problem is clear: people don’t actually believe price claims about wind and solar and storage. In part because monopoly utilities take the lower costs and don’t lower consumer prices