SHEET VA · VIRGINIA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Virginia are up 13%.
Meanwhile 28.8 gigawatts of new power, 90% 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
28.8 GW across 271 projects, 90% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 13.5 GW
- Batteries 9.9 GW
- Wind 2.7 GW
- Gas + other 2.8 GW
2.0M 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 fully permitted, $11 billion wind farm off Virginia's coast, enough for about 660,000 homes, was halted by federal order in December 2025 until a court stepped in 25 days later.