SHEET TN · TENNESSEE · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Tennessee are up 4%.
Meanwhile 13.8 gigawatts of new power, 21% 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
13.8 GW across 53 projects, 21% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 2.1 GW
- Batteries 0.8 GW
- Gas + other 10.9 GW
300K 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 700-mile line meant to deliver Oklahoma wind power to Tennessee was abandoned in 2018 after it stalled in Arkansas.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R) and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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