SHEET ID · IDAHO · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Idaho are up 12%.
Meanwhile 12.2 gigawatts of new power, 81% 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
12.2 GW across 64 projects, 81% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 5.9 GW
- Batteries 2.4 GW
- Wind 1.7 GW
- Gas + other 2.3 GW
592K 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 Boardman to Hemingway power line, which will serve Idaho Power customers, applied for federal approval in 2007 and did not start construction until June 2025.
Source 1: permits.performance.gov · Source 2: edocs.puc.state.or.us · Source 3: doi.gov · Source 4: mtexpress.com
Sen. James E. Risch (R) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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