>New Jersey an unlikely leader in solar energy
By Ronda Kaysen
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey | Fri May 13, 2011 12:03pm EDT
(Reuters) – New Jersey, home to more industrial waste clean-up sites than any other state, is poised to become an exemplar of solar power usage — though not everyone is happy about it.
Yet the combination of a strict state mandate and a generous carbon offset program has made New Jersey — where only three in eight days are sunny — the second-largest U.S. producer of solar power, after California, where more than half the days are sunny.
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