Electricity bills are surging across the country and Americans are demanding answers.
A little-known political battle is already underway to decide who sets those rates – and most voters have never heard of it.
Now radical climate groups have uncovered one overlooked way to take control of the nation's energy policy.
Georgia Electricity Rates Jumped Six Times — Then Came the Ambush
Two Democrat challengers wiped out both Republican incumbents on Georgia's Public Service Commission in November 2025 –the first time Democrats had won a statewide non-federal office in Georgia since 2006.
Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson didn't win on energy policy.
They won because Georgians were furious about skyrocketing power bills – and radical climate activists handed them the money to make that argument while planning something else entirely.
Outside groups poured in cash, including donations from the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, to flip a commission that controls electricity and natural gas rates for nearly three million Georgians.
The moment those seats flipped, the new commissioners moved to reopen approved energy plans and challenge decisions the Republican majority had already made.
Every Georgian who voted against high bills just put the people who are puppets of the Green New Deal lobby in charge of their grid.
What Public Utility Commissions Actually Control — And Why It Matters in 2026
Most Americans couldn’t name a single member of their state utility commission.
That is the strategy.
These regulatory bodies decide how electricity is generated, how power plants retire, how new energy resources connect to the grid, and ultimately how much you pay when you turn on the lights.
Georgia is one of only ten states that elects its utility commissioners.
The other forty appoint them – meaning radical climate activists there only need to control the governor's office or state legislature, not win a single race that appears on your ballot.
In Arizona, the Salt River Project – one of the nation's largest public utilities, governed by an elected board – became the target of a multimillion-dollar battle in April 2026 between competing visions for energy and water policy.
Turning Point USA poured months of money and organizing into that race.
They lost anyway – green energy candidates swept the board for a utility serving more than two million Phoenix-area residents.
The DOE Grid Reliability Warning Nobody Is Talking About
The Trump administration's Department of Energy released a report in July 2025 that should have made national news.
It didn't.
DOE warned that without new firm capacity – coal, natural gas, nuclear, the dispatchable generation radical activists are targeting – blackout frequency across the country could increase by 100 times by 2030.
That’s a future that resembles a third world country with frequent power outages during peak electrical usage like summer.
On March 4, 2026, President Trump brought the nation's biggest tech companies to the White House and secured the Ratepayer Protection Pledge – a voluntary commitment from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI to independently fund the energy and infrastructure costs their data centers require, rather than passing those expenses onto families and small businesses.
That pledge exists because electricity demand is surging at a pace America has not seen in decades – and the DOE projects data center consumption alone will double or even triple by 2028.
What happens to rates when the commissioners blocking new dispatchable generation are also the ones deciding how those costs get shared?
How Climate Activists Are Using Obscure Elections to Control Energy Policy
Elizabeth Gianini, President of the Regulators RoundTable PAC, identified the mechanism this week: as national energy fights have become harder to win in Washington, the radical Left shifted its money and attention to state regulatory races where most voters are not paying attention.
They frame it as affordability.
They mean acceleration – accelerating the retirement of the dispatchable generation that keeps the lights on when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine.
No major industrial economy on earth has demonstrated that a heavily renewable-dependent grid can operate at scale with consistent reliability and affordable costs without substantial dispatchable backup.
Not one.
Republicans, ratepayers, and business leaders need to start treating these races like the U.S. Senate seats they're not – because the commissioners who win them have just as much control over daily life.
The next time a commissioner votes to kill a coal plant or block a new gas turbine, remember: that vote was purchased with outside money from people who will never pay your power bill.
They found the one lever in American government most voters never touch – and they're pulling it for the Green New Deal lobby.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Gianini, "America's Energy Future Is Being Decided in Obscure Utility Commission Races," RealClearEnergy, June 11, 2026.
- "2025 Elections: Democrats Win Public Service Commission Races," Axios, November 5, 2025.
- "Democrats Flip Two Seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission," Georgia Recorder, November 5, 2025.
- "Fact Sheet: Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Build Big Power Plants Again," U.S. Department of Energy, 2026.
- "Speed to Power," U.S. Department of Energy, September 18, 2025.
- Rep. Julie Fedorchak, "To Meet Energy Demand, We Need Everything We've Got," Washington Times, April 21, 2026.
- "Clean Energy Slate Claims Victory Over Turning Point in Arizona SRP Election," KJZZ, April 9, 2026.
- "White House and Leading AI Companies Commit to Ratepayer Protection," Perkins Coie, March 18, 2026.
