You don't understand...it isn't a nightmare, it is the plan.
The democrat party does not want cheap, plentiful, reliable energy......anyone who thinks that they want those things hasn't paid attention to the democrat party.
The democrats know that solar and wind will never generate enough energy, and that is their goal. They believe that humans are overpopulating the planet, damaging the planet, and that too many people are too hard to control.
So...in order to reduce the population, stop the damage and make people easier to control....you limit how much energy people have....this limits family size, property ownership, location of populations, mobility of those populations....
So the goal is to make energy massively expensive, limit access to it, and make it unreliable.......
That is the goal. If you understand that, then what they do makes complete sense.