SHEET IL · ILLINOIS · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Illinois are up 10%.
Meanwhile 74.1 gigawatts of new power, 96% 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
74.1 GW across 418 projects, 96% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 37.2 GW
- Batteries 16.7 GW
- Wind 17.1 GW
- Gas + other 3.1 GW
2.7M 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 Grain Belt Express line has spent more than a decade in development, and its Illinois permit was overturned and then revived by the state Supreme Court in January 2026.