Status: stub — supports the AC Bill Index (Task 007) and the AC/electricity ad lane.
What this page needs to do
- Make plain-English sense of WHY electricity prices are rising: fuel costs, transmission and distribution upgrades, demand growth (data centers, EVs), weather, state regulation, federal energy policy.
- Show that under Trump, families are paying more — without claiming Trump alone caused every rate hike.
- Tie state-level rate increases to lived experience: AC, fans, freezers, food not spoiling, seniors and kids staying safe in the heat.
Source of facts
data/processed/eia/residential_electricity_prices_state_monthly.csv— for state-level rate movement.outputs/ac_bill_index.csv— for the index ranking.- Where used: cite each EIA series ID inline.
Causal framing (per methodology/causal_language_guidelines.md)
- Default rating: contributory for “rising under Trump” framing.
- direct only when a specific federal policy maps to a specific cost line.