The newly elected Virginia and New Jersey governors both promised to lower electricity bills. Here’s how

Across the country, Americans have seen their electricity bills spike this year. Energy prices have been rising faster than inflation, and are expected to just keep rising.

In two states in particular, this issue became a core tenant of the Democratic candidates’ governors races.

Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia both ran in part on a promise to keep electricity costs down—and both won big on election night.

“Voters in New Jersey and Virginia chose leaders ready to take on soaring energy costs and the powerful interests driving them higher,” Evergreen Action executive director Lena Moffitt said in a statement.

“Governors-elect Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger earned voters’ trust with common-sense plans to lower costs by fixing [electricity grid opera