SHEET IA · IOWA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Iowa are up 6%.
Meanwhile 23.9 gigawatts of new power, 66% 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
23.9 GW across 123 projects, 66% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 5.2 GW
- Batteries 3.3 GW
- Wind 7.3 GW
- Gas + other 8.1 GW
1.0M 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 Cardinal-Hickory Creek line from Iowa was approved by regional planners in 2011 but didn't carry power until 2024, after years of litigation, and its estimated cost rose from $492 million to $649 million.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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