This is a business killer: “Wisconsin’s electricity prices are…regionally uncompetitive.” Since 2001, Wisconsin’s rate increases have significantly outpaced national rate increases. Part of the problem is that Wisconsin utilities are forcing their ratepayers to pay over $1 billion for coal assets they can’t use to generate power. While those coal plants sit idle, Wisconsin ratepayers will have to pay over $28 billion for new natural gas, wind, solar, and batteries. The result is that Wisconsin residents are staring down an electricity affordability crisis in the making.

Check out AOER’s issue brief on Wisconsin’s looming affordability crisis.