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More Alarm Sounds on Rising Energy Prices in the Garden State

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Trenton NJ, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco (R-25) raised concerns about escalating energy costs and future grid reliability for New Jerseyans following the latest PJM Interconnection power auction results that showed a dramatic 800 percent increase in costs. The recent auction revealed that the cost of electricity in the PJM region—including New Jersey—will soar to $14.7 billion for the 2025/2026 delivery year, a significant jump from $2.2 billion that was announced from the previous auction in February 2023.

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Governor Murphy Refuses to give New Jerseyans a Straight Answer About the Astronomical Cost of his Plan to Electrify Every Home and Business

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Trenton NJ, Senator Anthony M. Bucco said Governor Phil Murphy continues to refuse to discuss the huge costs and State mandates likely coming down the pike as he plows forward with his plans to fully electrify New Jersey.

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Governor Phil Murphy’s nominees to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) fail to gain Senate confirmation

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Trenton NJ, Senator Anthony M. Bucco (R-25) issued the following comments after a pair of Governor Phil Murphy’s nominees to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) failed to gain Senate confirmation today:

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Time For Governor Murphy to Stop Hiding the Massive Costs and Disclose Financial Implications of Insane Energy Master Plan

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First the “Crazy Eddie Budget” now the “Crazy Eddie Energy Plan”

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Trenton NJ , Governor Phil Murphy and his appointees to the Board of Public Utilities are still chasing windmills  but have yet to disclose the price tag on his far-reaching energy master plan announced nearly two years ago, and Senator Anthony M. Bucco chided the front office for its lack of transparency with New Jersey families. At an NJBIA meeting in February 2020, administration officials shared the BPU was conducting a cost study that would likely be released the following month. Over a year and a half later, no cost analysis has been shared with the public, yet the Administration continues to move forward on its implementation.

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Governor Murphy Issues New Executive Order on Energy Master Plan, but who will pay $20,000 bill Homeowner Price Tag?

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Trenton NJ, At a news conference today on the Energy Master Plan, Governor Murphy again failed to answer who will pay the $20,000 cost per home to install electric heat pumps as per the EMP mandate. Governor Murphy was asked a question about paying for the EMP at the October 12, 2021 debate and was unable to answer it there either.

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State seeks to cut back ambitious energy reduction goals

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State seeks to cut back ambitious energy reduction goals

Say adieu to the state’s aggressive goal of reducing energy use by 20 percent by 2020, a target once considered crucial to achieving equally ambitious goals in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

The state expects to achieve far fewer reductions in energy use — at least in the short-term — from consumers and businesses as a result of changes it is proposing to its clean energy program.

In a straw proposal outlining its spending plans from 2014-2017, the state Office of Clean Energy estimates it will cut energy consumption by 17 percent by 2020, a 3 percent decline from an earlier goal in the Energy Master Plan adopted by the Corzine administration.  (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/0904/2324/

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Pilot Plan to deploy CNG refueling stations for compressed natural gas

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Pilot Plan to deploy refueling stations for compressed natural gas

In a step that reflects a goal of the state Energy Master Plan, regulatory officials yesterday approved a pilot program to allow a utility to spend up to $10 million to build compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling stations in its service territory.

The state Board of Public Utilities approved the one-year pilot proposed by New Jersey Natural Gas to build between five and seven CNG refueling stations at companies that plan to convert a portion of their fleets to run on the fuel, as well as provide opportunities for the public to fill up their natural gas vehicles.   (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/0618/2112/

 

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State faces triple energy challenge in New Year

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State faces triple energy challenge in New Year

Even with a revamped Energy Master Plan in place, the Christie administration faces tough challenges and tougher decisions in the New Year, ones that could affect the future of solar energy in the state and determine if offshore wind farms get built along the Jersey coast.

tate also faces an uphill battle in its efforts to develop new power plants here, a strategy that has suffered setbacks in the federal courts, as well as from a federal regulatory agency and the PJM Interconnection, the regional operator of the nation’s largest power grid.  (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/0103/0311/
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New Energy Master Plan explores ways to deploy infrastructure for alternative works

>New Energy Master Plan explores ways to deploy infrastructure for alternative works


The state should explore the possibility of establishing a transportation infrastructure bank to support the increased use of alternatively fueled vehicles, according to the latest version of the Energy Master Plan.
While providing few details on how such a proposal would work, the recommendation is being welcomed by various clean energy advocates. Some of them have been frustrated by the slow pace of developing an infrastructure in New Jersey that would spur people to choose cleaner-running vehicles over those powered by gasoline or diesel.

“It’s a good way to go,” said Chuck Feinberg, chairman of the New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of alternative transportation fuels. “In the current climate, we’re not going to get any grant program.”  (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/1208/0036/
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Democrats close ranks to review administration’s proposed energy policy,kill jobs

>Democrats close ranks to review administration’s proposed energy policy, kill jobs 


Fresh from opposing the Governor’s decision to pull out of a regional initiative to combat global warming, Democratic lawmakers plan to hold their own hearing on the Christie administration’s draft Energy Master Plan (EMP). (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)

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Revamped Energy Master Plan casts shadow on solar

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Revamped Energy Master Plan casts shadow on solar

 

Gov. Chris Christie yesterday scaled back the state’s renewable energy goals, releasing a revamped Energy Master Plan (EMP) that questions New Jersey’s aggressive targets for solar energy, while pushing for more nuclear power and a bigger dependence on natural gas.  (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)

 

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