Rising power prices are becoming a political liability for Republicans as electricity costs outpace inflation.

A recent Consumer Price Index report found that electricity prices were rising at double the rate of inflation, having increased 5.5 percent over the last year.

And the general public may be starting to take notice.

"In the last couple of years, different items that have gone up in price have become media concerns. They become very visible. People get very angry, and I think electric rates are heading in that direction,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association.

Wolfe said that if rates continue to rise, “it'll become a political issue.”

The Trump administration is already seeing it as one — and trying to put the blame on Democrats and renewable energy.

“That is a key challenge for us,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” when asked about utility bills this week.

"Things move slowly in the electricity grid, all sorts of crazy projects were under construction and being built on your electricity grids over the last four years,” he said.

Wright, in a recent interview with Politico, similarly blamed “the momentum of the Obama-Biden policies.”

However, he lamented, “We’re going to get blamed because we’re in office.”

President Trump has taken a similar tack, blaming renewables even though a greater supply of renewable power would actually be expected to bring costs down.

On Truth Social this week, he decried “ridiculous, corrupt politician approved ‘’windmills.’”

He also

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