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AENJ Email 12/5/22 – 3rd Times The Charm
NJ BPU Plans 3rd Attempt To Get Wind Working At a time when there have been continued growing questions about the viability of the wind market itself and construction has still has not even started from prior rounds awarded, the BPU has decided now is the time to...
AENJ Email 11/28/22 – Well Below Average
Another Delay: NJ Falls Further Behind Charging Infrastructure Plans New Jersey continues to fall further behind when it comes to installing the infrastructure needed for the electric vehicle transition called for in the Energy Master Plan. In fact, we rank only 28th...
AENJ Email 11/14/22 – Fiscal Reality
Fiscal Reality Continues To Create Increased Concern Over Viability Of Offshore Projects NJ Spotlight writes this past week about how high inflation, rising interest rates and continued constraints in the supply chain are creating concerns among developers about the...
AENJ Email 11/7/22 – Not Viable
NJDEP Tells NJBPU Their Energy Master Plan Calculations Are Built On A House Of Cards This week, PSE&G told investors about their concerns regarding the viability of wind energy and informed them that they may cut offshore wind investments due to economic...
AENJ Email 10/31/22 – Increasingly Concerned
Energy's Future Is Not Blowing In The Wind: Too Slow, Too Expensive, Short Supply & Soaring Inflation According to the Financial Times, concerns continue to grow among wind executives over whether we are able to meet US offshore wind ambitions and goals: That is a...
AENJ Email 10/24/22 – Failing Record
1000 Day Report Card Proves EMP A Failure: Missed Milestones, No Costs, Unfeasible and Unreliable Plans It has now been over 1000 days since the BPU released the Energy Master Plan. At Affordable Energy for New Jersey, we thought this milestone would represent a good...
AENJ Email 10/17/22 – Hunk of Burning Wood
Energy Crisis Has Europe Turning Back The Energy Clock To Burning Wood Just how bad is Europe's energy crisis? They're going back to burning wood to stay warm: If you think this doesn't apply to New Jersey, note that like Europe 70% of our energy comes from Natural...
AENJ Email 10/10/22 – Hot Air
BPU Thinks NJ Can Be Powered By Hot Air New Jersey is falling behind its plans when it comes to wind. Despite all the scare tactics about the need to move away from traditional energy sources to wind and solar, the NJ BPU has done much more talking than they have done...
AENJ Email 10/3/22 – No Comment is not Good Enough
No Comment Isn't Going To Pay The Crushing Costs Of Boiler Replacements When asked recently about the looming costs for the mandated boiler replacement due to state environmental regulations in New Jersey Schools, Governor Murphy refused to speak up about the...
AENJ Email 9/26/22 – New Jersey’s Historic $1 Trillion Mistake
New Jersey Can Reduce Emissions And Not Bankrupt The State In The Process Did you know that the state of New Jersey cut CO2 emissions by 32% from 2005-2020, thanks in large part to natural gas being utilized as an energy source: According to the EIA report...
Affordable Energy for New Jersey Issues Peer Review Report of ‘Ratepayer Impact Study’
Review finds BPU’s Brattle report ignores every major cost-impact area imaginable (Trenton, NJ) – Affordable Energy for New Jersey (AENJ), the state’s leading independent grassroots coalition that advocates for actionable, fact-driven energy policy released an...
Affordable Energy for New Jersey Marks Two Years of the Energy Master Plan – Without a Cost Estimate
Today, on the two-year anniversary of the release of the New Jersey Energy Master Plan (EMP), Affordable Energy for New Jersey is shedding light on another milestone – two years the Murphy administration has failed to release how much the EMP will cost New Jersey...
Proceed With Caution
In the wake of the devastation from hurricanes Henri and Ida in just the last two weeks, there continues to be commentary on what steps we need to take next. During (what is becoming regular) extreme weather events, residents need to understand that we are...
NJ Residents Reject Cost of Energy Master Plan
Affordable Energy for New Jersey (AENJ), the state’s leading energy policy coalition, has published a long-awaited report detailing the anticipated costs for the implementation of the state’s Energy Master Plan (EMP), and the price is shocking. This detailed analysis...
We Need Affordable, Resilient Energy from Proven Technologies
The Biden administration is discussing significant and much-needed investments in our transportation, water, and energy infrastructure. It’s about time. The American Society of Civil Engineer’s “2021 Infrastructure Report Card” gives our nation’s energy infrastructure...
New Jersey’s Energy Policy Must Emphasize Reliability, Diversity, and Affordability
We Must Learn the Right Lessons from Texas’ Energy Crisis Special interests on both sides have tried to frame the recent Texas energy crisis to further their own political views. Even as Texans continue to suffer without power, advocates are trying to score points –...
The Bill Has Come Due: Murphy Administration Goes Back To The Energy Drawing Board
It’s time to admit the Murphy Energy plan is not feasible, will not result in reliable energy and will cost too much Responding to recent reports that the state of New Jersey continues to hide the true impact and total financial burden for energy costs of the Murphy...
Op-Ed: NJ needs to rethink Energy Master Plan, prioritize affordable energy
While we were all quarantining at home and keeping our families safe, the state of New Jersey continued to move forward with one of the most impactful policy shifts in state history, implementation of the Energy Master Plan. Even if well-intentioned at the time of its...
New Report Shows NJ Energy Plan Will Cost Taxpayers Billions Per Year
Affordable Energy for New Jersey and Dr. Jonathan Lesser Release Report Findings Today, Affordable Energy for New Jersey (AENJ), along with well-known energy expert Dr. Jonathan Lesser, the president of Continental Economics, Inc., released a new report that shows a...
Look before you leap on Electric Vehicles
There is an old saying to look before you leap because you may not like where you land. That concept has never been more appropriate than when examining and discussing the idea of moving forward and converting toward electric Vehicles. While the idea may make people...
Op-Ed: N.J. needs to tackle energy costs, now more than ever
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may seem as if other important issues have faded from the public eye. In reality, the pandemic means that we must redouble our focus on the day-to-day issues facing New Jersey’s residents, or else face skyrocketing costs at a time...