Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released his “Ratepayer Roadmap,” a three-part plan to deliver lower energy bills for families in Massachusetts and across America.

Since January 2025, home electricity prices have risen by as much as 13 percent, three times higher than general inflation, and home natural gas prices have risen by as much as 98 percent. To date, at least 237 electric and natural gas utilities have either proposed or already raised electric bills by more than $92 billion for 112 million electric utility customers and more than 52 million natural gas utility customers.

Senator Markey’s Ratepayer Roadmap provides a path forward to increase the amount of power on the grid, insulate households against rising costs, and address bad practices that allow costs to balloon throughout the energy system: