Electricity prices are a policy choice. Blue States, High Rates, the study we published with the Institute for Energy Research in December 2025, found that 86 percent of states with above-average electricity prices are reliably Democratic, while 80 percent of the states with the lowest prices are reliably Republican.
Today the project gets its own home at BlueStatesHighRates.com, where Always On and IER are building it out one state at a time.
Rigorously sourced profiles explain each state’s electricity prices and the policies behind them, including:
- its renewable portfolio standard;
- net metering;
- carbon pricing or cap-and-trade;
- data center consumer protections;
- natural gas access;
- and whether it lets investor-owned utilities adopt net-zero pledges.
We are releasing the first thirteen profiles on July 4, for America’s 250th: the original thirteen colonies. It seems only fitting that the states that declared independence in 1776 are the first profiled in full. The remaining states will follow in the coming weeks.