title: Solar power’s newest friends: MAGA influencers. Right-wing influencers are promoting solar following a new poll showing solar power is popular with Trump’s base. The MAGA-focused solar re-brand comes as surging utility bills threaten the narrow GOP hold on Congress.
author: u/mafco
contenttype: redditpost
publication: r/energy
published: 2026-02-28T16:49:05+00:00
sourceurl: https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1rh7gbw/solarpowersnewestfriendsmagainfluencers/
word_count: 115
Link: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/27/solar-powers-newest-friends-maga-influencers-00802954
Score: 601 | Comments: 64 | Subreddit: r/energy
Top Comments
u/joeleidner22 (15 pts):
BUT THE SUN DOES NOT SHINE 24/7.
That’s the argument right wing nuts have been giving me for years.
u/chedderizbetter (17 pts):
Someone needs to play the reverse Uno card with wind power now…
u/Mountain_Reveal7849 (14 pts):
A lot of MAGA base work in solar sales.
u/Neven87 (12 pts):
Man, too bad they elected the admin that made sure all the domestic solar power manufacturing died off
u/NotSoSasquatchy (28 pts):
I e said for years I couldn’t believe more conservatives aren’t jumping on solar. Right wingers are all about sufficiency, and what’s more self sufficient than a solar+storage energy system. Power can go out, world can go to shit, but as long as you can island your system you don’t have to give a fuck.
u/LowellWeicker2025 (16 pts):
What’s more conservative than being independent and self-supporting?
u/pressedbread (38 pts):
As an uber-leftist libcuck myself, nothing pisses me off more than seeing these handsome Republican men stealing that free sun energy. Please don't do it!
u/FullMoonBurning (30 pts):
From someone working directly with homeowners and small businesses — solar adoption almost never starts as a political decision.
It usually starts after one of three things:
• a massive utility bill
• repeated outages
• realizing you’re dependent on a single provider with rising rates
Once batteries became practical, solar shifted from an environmental conversation to a reliability and self-sufficiency conversation.
People across very different political groups tend to arrive at the same conclusion for completely different reasons — cost control and energy independence.
The interesting trend isn’t who supports solar now, but that decentralized power is becoming economically hard to ignore regardless of ideology.
u/Stunning-Use-7052 (21 pts):
I mean, if you want to get the govt off your back, go solar w/ batteries. Utilities are kinda state-mandated monopolies.
u/128-NotePolyVA (22 pts):
Wind power is popular with Texas ranchers making money simply by having turbines over their grazing land.
Trump’s obsession with coal and oil over everything else is actually more fanatical than any CEO of any oil company.
As a nation it is to the US’s benefit to be energy technology leaders, have diverse sources, and improve our infrastructure and lines for efficiency and growing power needs.
u/ElectronicJob850 (13 pts):
This is not new. Here is an article from 2013 on the same topic
Now, in the state of Georgia, there has been a dramatic split in conservative attitudes. The local branch of the Tea Party has aligned itself with solar interests and environmental NGOs to force the monopoly utility Georgia Power to open its network to more solar power. Ironically, it has little to do with the need to with climate goals. It is being fought – as Lorens suggests – as a property rights issue, pitting private citizens against utilities, regulators and fixed rates of return.
u/[deleted] (18 pts):
Brain dead lemmings are told to like "x" thing. How fitting.
u/Sir_Tandeath (28 pts):
Y’know what? I’ll take it.
u/pmpork (15 pts):
We are genuinely in the stupidest time line.
u/FranklinleTanklin (11 pts):
lol, are we watching MAGA wake up?
Are they becoming woke to solar?
u/mafco (12 pts):
Why not announce the "Donald J Trump AMERICAN SOLAR DOMINANCE Agenda"? Then quietly reinstate the Biden-era policies, without Trump having to give 'Sleepy Joe' any credit.
u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 (9 pts):
Cool, cool, can they get the Republicans to drop the tariffs so we can get solar and batteries for cheaper?
u/NitWhittler (16 pts):
My gullible MAGA family still believes Trump's lies. They think solar doesn't work, raises electric prices, and is somehow not manly and anti-American. They refer to solar and wind as "Hippie Power".
If these so-called solar influencers are going to made a difference, then they need to call out the constant lies from right wing media and Trump.
u/Insila (12 pts):
Brand off the grid as sticking it to the government and you'll see adoption.
u/InterestingDingo88 (12 pts):
When I was in residential solar, over half of my clients were MAGA or at least leaned heavily to the right.
They saw the benefits of it from raw savings to financial stability and predictability. But then they'd vote for people and policies that undermine the industry and take the option away from millions of other people.
Even a lot of my colleagues in sales were MAGA, because they were laser-focused on the idea of saving a few percent in taxes instead of having a much larger customer base.
Trying to understand it made my head hurt.
u/KingPieIV (8 pts):
Could have used them 12 months ago when congress repealed the subsidies