SHEET CA · CALIFORNIA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in California are up 5%.
Meanwhile 177.9 gigawatts of new power, 97% of it solar, wind and batteries, is waiting to connect to the grid.
Write your senatorsU.S. average: 18.2¢, up 6.8%, about $10 more a month
177.9 GW across 460 projects, 97% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 64.1 GW
- Batteries 100.1 GW
- Wind 8.1 GW
- Gas + other 5.6 GW
7.0M homes’ worth of clean energy from solar and wind projects that already have grid agreements
Prices: EIA, residential, January–August 2026 vs. 2025. Extra cost: the state’s 2024 average household use times the price increase; actual bills vary. Queue: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker (CC BY 4.0), end of 2025. Projects are counted where they would be built, their power may serve other states, and most projects in the queue never get built. Homes’ worth is a year’s electricity, not around-the-clock supply.
The SunZia project, which sends New Mexico wind power toward Arizona and Southern California, spent about 16 years in permitting and two years in construction, according to Sen. Heinrich.