SHEET PA · PENNSYLVANIA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Pennsylvania are up 12%.
Meanwhile 11.4 gigawatts of new power, 89% 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
11.4 GW across 200 projects, 89% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 8.1 GW
- Batteries 1.6 GW
- Wind 0.4 GW
- Gas + other 1.2 GW
447K 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 Pennsylvania-Maryland power line approved by the regional grid operator in 2016 is still unbuilt after state regulators rejected it and years of federal court fights followed.
Source 1: witf.org · Source 2: niskanencenter.org · Source 3: www2.ca3.uscourts.gov
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