SHEET SC · SOUTH CAROLINA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in South Carolina are up 6%.
Meanwhile 19.8 gigawatts of new power, 53% 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
19.8 GW across 194 projects, 53% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 8.3 GW
- Batteries 2.2 GW
- Gas + other 9.3 GW
492K 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. Tim Scott (R) and Sen. Darline Graham (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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