The following article was written by a leading environmental activist, who’s also running for governor of California, not some fossil-fuel advocate.

Guest essay by Michael Schellenberger

Over the last year, the media have published story after story after story about the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines.

People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become.

And yet that’s not what’s happening. In fact, it’s the opposite.