SHEET MO · MISSOURI · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Missouri are up 7%.
Meanwhile 29.7 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
29.7 GW across 124 projects, 66% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 10.2 GW
- Batteries 5.8 GW
- Wind 3.5 GW
- Gas + other 10.2 GW
1.6M 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 across Missouri has been in development since about 2010 and still faces court and financing fights.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R) and Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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