SHEET NE · NEBRASKA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Nebraska are up 8%.
Meanwhile 15.5 gigawatts of new power, 61% 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
15.5 GW across 79 projects, 61% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 5.3 GW
- Batteries 2 GW
- Wind 2.3 GW
- Gas + other 6.1 GW
1.0M 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.
A court voided the federal wildlife permit for Nebraska's 226-mile R-Project reliability line in 2020, and it took until 2026 to get a new one.
Source 1: courthousenews.com · Source 2: nebraskapublicmedia.org · Source 3: summerlandadvocate.com
Sen. Deb Fischer (R) and Sen. Pete Ricketts (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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