SHEET CO · COLORADO · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Colorado are up 9%.
Meanwhile 39.0 gigawatts of new power, 89% 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
39.0 GW across 187 projects, 89% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 19.2 GW
- Batteries 3.9 GW
- Wind 11.4 GW
- Gas + other 4.5 GW
2.0M 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 TransWest Express line through northwestern Colorado filed for federal permits in 2007 and was not cleared for construction until 2023.
Source 1: fbcnews.com.fj · Source 2: reason.com · Source 3: transwestexpress.net