The federal government has been undertaking the largest energy deregulation effort in Department of Energy history. According to their release: Now look, we understand that honest and well meaning people can debate and disagree on the specifics and merits of each regulation, but there is one goal that is clear: Build energy infrastructure faster. The message from Washington is simple: [...]

While New Jersey policymakers continue pretending like natural gas doesn't have a future, the rest of the country is already living in it. Reuters took a deeper look about the state of Natural gas around the country: Think about that for a moment. Production is up. Demand is up. Exports are up. Data center electricity demand is up. Manufacturing demand [...]

Last week's news that Holtec is considering four advanced small modular reactors at the former Oyster Creek site is more than another energy announcement. It is further evidence that New Jersey is finally having a serious conversation about its energy future. If built, these reactors would generate more than twice the output of the original Oyster Creek plant while providing [...]

Natural gas isn't going away, not matter how much some people may want it to. A new report highlighted by Utility Dive finds that maintaining electric reliability requires firm, dependable natural gas supplies and stronger coordination between the gas and electric sectors: This shouldn't be controversial. As electricity demand surges from any number of factors including data centers, manufacturing growth, [...]

For years, we've been told that communities should embrace new infrastructure like solar when it delivers broad public benefits. Well now Nvidia has new partnership with infrastructure that is not being embraced the same way. From a recent headline in Inc: You see community solar advocates have made the case repeatedly for community solar that there is: No direct investment [...]

We got an early surprise this year with a spike before the Memorial Day holiday sending temperatures up into the high 90's for multiple days. Immediately we saw a maximum generation alert and load management alert issued for the PJM footprint. The early heat this year once again highlights the challenges we are facing in terms of generating enough energy [...]

Well here we are. After years of layering on mandates, carbon markets, compliance schemes, allowance trading systems and enough regulatory complexity to require its own zip code, officials are now acting "shocked" that electricity prices are going up. The latest RGGI allowance spike is apparently forcing a sudden realization that when you artificially increase the cost of producing energy, those [...]

We've talked regularly about the need for more energy in the system and last week, the Tidelands council gave a win for common sense energy policy issuing final regulatory approval to the NESE Pipeline: Make no mistake, regardless of what critics try to make people believe, this is a massive environmental and safety victory. During the period this project has [...]

As NJ continues to talk about affordability without much actual getting done when it comes to energy, we can look to our neighbors NY and PA and see them taking action. According to a memo from the NY State Energy Research and Development Authority, which is not a partisan organization, if changes aren't made to their already enacted energy policies, [...]

If you were hoping that a new administration would usher in a new era of transparency and openness at the BPU, we've got news for you. You're going to be disappointed. Let's check out what happened at the last meeting. You see since we haven't already paid enough for consultants to produce absolutely no new energy already in the last [...]

We've got some serious word games going on in the energy space and it's past time we stop the talk. Between 2004 and 2016, we acted more and talked less. In the process, New Jersey reduced its reliance on importing electricity from the PJM grid, eventually becoming a net exporter: We did that all while reducing emissions. But now the state [...]

Surprise. New Jersey is trying to move forward with a new energy project and some environmentalists are already coming out of the woodwork to oppose it. And in the process they are trying to make it about anything but energy. Let's see the measured language being used to discuss the nuclear legislation that was signed by the Governor in this [...]

When you're wrong, you're wrong. And the only way to address the mistakes you made that took you in the wrong direction is to change the actions you take going forward. But before changing direction, the first step to fix a problem is admit you have one and that is what the EU has done when it comes to nuclear: [...]

We wish this were an April Fool's joke, but unfortunately it's not. Members of the Joint Congressional Economic Committee released state-by-state figures from monthly utility bill data that paints a very dark picture. The report showed showed that on average, American households paid roughly $110, or 6.4%, more for electricity in 2025, compared to 2024. As you can see from [...]

Guess what, we still need more energy. And in order to get more energy, we need more pipelines. A new study was released that makes clear that we need more pipelines to add capacity so that we can meet continued growing demand: The study says that North America needs nearly 40,000 miles of new natural gas pipeline and a 39% [...]

Last week, the Governor unveiled her budget and despite vowing a different way, she continued the practice of taking from other funds. In order to help sustain NJ Transit, she proposed redirecting $140 million from the Garden State’s Clean Energy Fund. Let us just state up front that we are never going to reduce rates and bills if we keep [...]

We saw some big news come out in the nuclear world last week as we move closer to shovels in the ground. The Nuclear Regulator Commission approved construction of a groundbreaking new nuclear reactor in Wyoming. From their release: As the release notes, this is a big step with the first Gen IV reactor ever approved, the first commercial reactor [...]

We point regularly to the actions taken by other states and warning signs we need to look out for. This time, we just need to look across the river to New York. They're making the explicit case that the actions the state would need to take to meet their Climate law requirements would be devastating for households. In a memo [...]

It has been one month since Governor Sherrill took office and we finally have been provided a glimmer of what the path on energy may look like. Last week, the administration released its energy transition report which is intended to guide their policy. At AENJ, we created a word cloud with the text to help explain what is and more [...]

Last week, the BPU announced that they certified the 2026 electricity auction results. While what they put out was a standard press release, this paragraph in their statement caught our attention: It is disingenuous to assert that the last several auction results were not the consequences of state policy that slashed in-state baseload generation by more than 30%. Purposeful policy [...]

Politicians might think it is ok to point fingers while failing to do anything meaningful to solve the problems we are facing. But businesses need more certainty. They need to deal with the world as it is, not some dream reinforced by talking points that don't match their bottom line. And what it seems businesses have decided is that they [...]

It's winter, which means it's real cold outside. None of this is surprising when demand increases to keep our homes warm. And as you can imagine, the fact that we are producing less energy and depending more on people outside our state is causing more challenges. PJM offered these comments as reported in Yahoo Finance on the stresses the grid is [...]

We're not even a week into the new administration and already there are potential problems on the horizon. After taking the oath of office, the new Governor signed two executive orders dealing with energy. In EO2, sections 5 and 6 look at the consideration of waiving compliance for permitting or siting electricity generation and grid stabilization projects, plus ordering the [...]

At Affordable Energy for New Jersey, we feel like we've been pretty consistent. Mandates that are not feasible combined with technology that is not reliable has led to energy prices that are not affordable. That's why we were encouraged to see a report come out last week from the Progressive Policy Institute talking about the cold reality that the unrealistic [...]

We talk a lot about the Board of Public Utilities here at AENJ. That's why it's good to see that for the first time in close to two years, the BPU will have a full complement of Commissioners to help guide the Energy Policy for the state of NJ. Prior to the new year, the Senate Judiciary committee cleared Joseph [...]