Alabama’s future is bright. You can see it in the jobs we are landing, the workers we are training, and the confidence employers are showing in every corner of the state.

Most people understand what it takes to keep that momentum going: a climate that is ripe for investment, a friendly regulatory environment, and reliable, affordable energy for families and businesses.

That is why the recent action taken by the Public Service Commission matters. Last week, commissioners approved a two-year moratorium plan that keeps power rates at today’s levels through 2027.

At a time when prices for everybody goods seem higher than normal, two years of insurance and protection from rate increases is good news for Alabama households and job creators.

Unless, apparently, you are the liberal, environmentalist-funded, activist group known as Energy Alabama.

According to that leftist crowd, holding the line against energy inflation and placing solid roadblocks against any and all increases is somehow harmful and, in their words, “political.” That tells you more about where they are coming from than where Alabama is headed.

Energy Alabama presents itself as a neutral “clean energy” group, and its own materials declare that “Alabama can be a zero-carbon state.”

It promotes absolutely absurd goals like taking Huntsville to 100 percent clean energy by 2025 and the entire state by 2035 — dreamy timelines that make for compelling fundraising emails but abandon any chance of keeping the power grid reliable 99 percent of the time.

Their plan is basically the same Green New Deal promoted by AOC and Bernie Sanders, but this one comes wrapped in an Alabama flag.

Closer inspection reveals a bit of fine print that you never see in their quotes or Facebook ads.

Based on his social media footprint, the executive director is a liberal extremist by Alabama standards and draws a paycheck from the Energy and Policy Institute, a dark-money messaging shop that refuses to reveal its backers.

The self-appointed referee on “transparency” operates out of a California P.O. Box and by all appearances has no physical address.

So when Energy Alabama pops up in your social feed or on TV, you are not hearing from a small, homespun Huntsville sustainability group — you are hearing scripted lines from a liberal, George Soros-style national campaign operation that does not want you to know who is paying for their microphone.

That is their right, but Alabamians deserve to know who is pulling the strings from behind the curtain.

Energy Alabama does not have to keep the lights on in a July heatwave. It does not have to decide how to balance reliability, cost, and growth when a manufacturer or hospital considers expanding in our state. It does not answer for what happens if its wish-list policies go wrong.

Those of us who embrace reality and understand simple economics see a very different and vivid landscape.

Companies are investing in Alabama, not fleeing. Advanced manufacturers, logistics hubs, tech and aerospace employers are choosing Alabama because we are among the nation’s most business-friendly states, and we work every day to recruit, create, and expand long-lasting, high-paying, 21st Century jobs.

You do not build that kind of track record by chasing hashtags. You build it by making responsible decisions that give families much-needed breathing room and provide employers of all sizes the confidence to put deep roots in Alabama.

Energy Alabama will continue its efforts to turn every regulatory decision into a national Twitter fight, and while that may be good for their fundraising, it is bad for Alabama.

The rest of us should keep our focus on what matters — keeping energy costs level for consumers, maintaining Alabama’s economic competitiveness with our sister southeastern states, and ensuring our power grid remains reliable so when you flip a switch, the lights actually come on.

Alabama’s future is bright — and no amount of manufactured noise from leftist-funded critics with California P.O. boxes is going to change that indisputable and obvious fact.

Will Ainsworth is the Lieutenant Governor of Alabama.