Can China Stop US Electricity Prices From Going Up? A 50% uptick in electricity cost over the next ten years is a sobering prospect. Meanwhile the cost of Chinese clean energy technology is falling. The US faces a choice that will determine future electricity costs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2025/12/14/can-china-stop-us-electricity-prices-from-going-up/?streamIndex=0

by mafco

13 comments

  2. This administration is friendly with oil companies, Saudis, and Russia while being antagonistic/against green energy and China. You do the math but the bottom line is that this is going to cost the US a lot of money in a lot of ways for a long time.

  3. The theory is the tariffs will get folks to innovate in the US. Maybe it will be next wave in batteries, maybe it will be moving sending the AI processing to space where they don’t need batteries and solar will be 8x as effective.

  4. Offer the choice of affordable, reliable distributed energy or overpriced monopolies, the politicians choose monopolies.

  5. Iirc 50-60% of new electricity demand over the last 5 years are from datacenters alone, and its expected to tripple or even quadruple by the end of the decade.

    Maybe recquiring “idle” heavy energy using industries to invest into 10% more energy than they consume could ease the pressure, maybe recquiring at least half of the quota being renewable.

  6. Why would China be interested in stopping US energy prices going up?

    At the moment, China is laughing all the way to the future.

    The only problem I have, is that at some stage in the future the US might get jealous of China’s dominance of the world economy (because of decisions made in 2025) & start a world war.

  7. The US is 5 corporations in a coat and a gangster of capitalism in the White House. It’s gonna get absolutely dickensian.

  8. The China electricity price is falling because it has overcapacity issue and consumption is low and country faces deflation

  9. Well, I dont think the US needs china in this regard. The US does produce solar and batteries. Just not at the scale they do, but I also think that is a good thing. Working with over seas supplies can be a pain when things dont go right let alone, far as I am aware, it cost about the same when trading for income to stay here for jobs.

    Tech wise, the US normally does better at – witch is one of the reasons why we have a smaller scale.

    With that said, it doesnt help that TRUMP is pulling back on the green tech though. Instead of taxing the rich and pulling the money from there – it seems like we’re giving more breaks to FF instead. Full on backwards if you ask me. Batteries are mostly the only thing that we might still need to pull from China – but with sodium on the table now, I am not so sure on that as times continues and we put up more Li and Na battery production.

  11. China is ten years ahead of us, embracing their tech is the best way to catch up, but we are too busy protecting fossil fuel profits and destroying the planet…

    “Countries that import PV modules and inverters from China gain three to five domestic jobs for every manufacturing job created in China, and they capture more than half of the added value along the entire PV value chain.” [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pietro-peter-altermatt-b2798216_pvsec-activity-7394733260309942274-rxBc](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pietro-peter-altermatt-b2798216_pvsec-activity-7394733260309942274-rxBc)

  12. this might sound crazy, but i think the US could stop the prices of electricity going up more then china can 😂 (but they won’t)

  13. The choice is clear! Do whatever makes Trump the most money.

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