SHEET NJ · NEW JERSEY · S. 5653
Electricity prices in New Jersey are up 8%.
Meanwhile 14.6 gigawatts of new power, 95% 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
14.6 GW across 66 projects, 95% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 0.7 GW
- Batteries 3.7 GW
- Wind 9.5 GW
- Gas + other 0.7 GW
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 EPA pulled back a fully executed permit for the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project in March 2025, and federal officials later moved to reconsider its approvals.