SHEET NY · NEW YORK · S. 5653
Electricity prices in New York are up 12%.
Meanwhile 25.7 gigawatts of new power, 100% 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
25.7 GW across 187 projects, 100% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 7.3 GW
- Batteries 11.1 GW
- Wind 7.3 GW
1.5M 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.
Two New York offshore wind farms were paused by federal order in December 2025, and the Champlain Hudson Power Express took 16 years from proposal to delivering power in June 2026.
Source 1: gcaptain.com · Source 2: modernpowersystems.com · Source 3: saratogatodaynewspaper.com · Source 4: wcax.com