SHEET WV · WEST VIRGINIA · S. 5653
Electricity prices in West Virginia are up 1%.
Meanwhile 5.4 gigawatts of new power, 46% 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
5.4 GW across 37 projects, 46% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 1.7 GW
- Batteries 0 GW
- Wind 0.8 GW
- Gas + other 2.9 GW
104K 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. Shelley Moore Capito (R) and Sen. James C. Justice (R) aren’t part of this campaign, which writes to Democrats.
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