SHEET NC · NORTH CAROLINA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in North Carolina are up 8%.
Meanwhile 20.7 gigawatts of new power, 39% 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
20.7 GW across 179 projects, 39% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 4.1 GW
- Batteries 4 GW
- Gas + other 12.7 GW
484K 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. Thom Tillis (R) and Sen. Ted Budd (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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