SHEET MS · MISSISSIPPI · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Mississippi are up 9%.
Meanwhile 16.1 gigawatts of new power, 79% 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
16.1 GW across 88 projects, 79% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 9.9 GW
- Batteries 1.9 GW
- Wind 1 GW
- Gas + other 3.3 GW
875K 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.
Sen. Roger F. Wicker (R) and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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