SHEET ME · MAINE · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Maine are up 10%.
Meanwhile 1.0 gigawatts of new power, 100% 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
1.0 GW across 16 projects, 100% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 1 GW
- Wind 0 GW
169K 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.
Lawsuits and a ballot fight delayed the NECEC transmission line about two years and added more than $500 million to its cost.
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