REPORT: The Looming American Electricity Affordability Crisis
August 21, 2025
How decades of energy decisions are hitting American families, and what must change now. America’s electric grid is on a trajectory toward an affordability crisis decades in the making. Since the early 2000s, politically motivated energy policies, often prioritizing ideology over reliability, have steadily driven up electricity costs, which working families are now facing. The current administration did not create this trend, but it is now up to them to address it. Data from more than 500,000 federal electricity records show a consistent pattern: as dispatchable fossil fuel generation is retired and replaced with intermittent wind and solar energy, electricity…
