FDU is out with a new poll looking at how voters feel in New Jersey about natural gas and believe us, they have an opinion. A strong majority of voters in the state support the construction of new natural gas plants, with 64 percent saying that they support it, and only 22 percent saying that the state should wait for [...]

We keep pointing out how our leaders are letting the clock tick and every day we aren't building more energy is a day we aren't taking steps to solve the problems we are facing. And when you don't deal with the problems you are facing, you force someone else to take action because it will ultimately impact them. We are [...]

With the focus in the Governor's race continuing to stay on energy, NJ Monitor last week had an extensive story offering some long overdue scrutiny of the Energy Policies of the administration. It included this eye opening comment from the former head of the Sierra Club about the bet on wind that went bankrupt: It was a gamble that people [...]

The New York Times was focusing on the upcoming election in New Jersey last week and the headline for their coverage said 22% Jump in Electricity Rates Dominates New Jersey Governor’s Race. While the headline is certainly jarring enough to get anyone's attention, it was this quote about how energy is impacting families and the reaction it is creating among [...]

This all could have been avoided. We could have continued reducing emissions while providing affordable, reliable energy. But our elected leaders decided to enact their own political agenda calling it policy while ignoring the facts and putting us in a situation where we are now importing 1/3 of our energy from other states. So now that we see rising demand [...]

There's been lots of talk about bad news when it comes to energy and rates, but this week actually brought some good news about emissions. Check out this chart that Axios put together to illustrate the progress that has been made in the last two decades reducing CO2 emissions around the country: Now obviously each state has taken their own [...]

We get it, our leaders would rather repeat their talking points than take a look at what is really going on. But at AENJ, we would be remiss if we just accepted the blame game as doing enough. We wanted to point out a few recent headlines that lay out the state of play when it comes to energy here, [...]

States around the country are looking for more energy. That's no secret. They see demand rising and are looking for options to meet the need. As New York searches for solutions, they are considering Nuclear, which gives us this news: And they're not alone. As the rubber now meets the road and it turns out that shutting down power plants [...]

Recent gubernatorial campaign proposals, that are being supported by members of the Legislature, regarding energy and freezing prices have raised legal, constitutional and affordability questions. You don't have to take our word for it. The Governor himself, whose policies have helped put us here, has questions: And a fmr. BPU Commissioner was much more direct making clear that it cannot [...]

The bills are coming due. Even though we are going into the fall and you have back to school bills already, you are going to keep paying even more for the energy mistakes NJ has made in the coming months. After seeing electric bills spike 20% at the beginnig of the summer, the BPU decided to defer the pain (not [...]

With the continued talk of rising energy prices, it is important to look at the role that mandate and bans are playing and how they will continue to make the problem worse. Specificlly in this email we will focus on gas car ban that is coming. Since there is no new EMP update, we are left to go off of [...]

It was another week in New Jersey where leaders and elected officials continued to try to play the blame game instead of doing their job by taking any actions to help the people who are getting hit with higher energy bills. Since there is alot of rewriting history and misinformation out there, we decided to go back and do some [...]

Look, we get it. No one likes to see energy prices increase. That's why we've been trying to get the attention of policy makers for years, because these are big problems that have been created through policy choices that the state has made. Unfortunately, we continue to see an absence of leadership from those in power who with the ability [...]

Anyone who has read this weekly email or followed the work of AENJ knows that we believe sunlight is the best disinfectant. They know that we have called for more transparency on our energy policy for years. In fact, we've kept a running count in this very email that we update each week counting the number of days since the [...]

When you find yourself in a hole, the first step to getting out is to stop digging. Yet instead of doing that, it sems like NJ and our leaders are doing everything they can to make the hole even bigger. With energy rates rising across the state, NJ decided to hold hands with other states and make the problem worse [...]

Wind has been a frequent topic at AENJ. So we would be remiss if we let the two year anniversary of the Orsted bailout pass without a recap and update of how it crashed and burned. It's been two years since the NJ Legislature gave $1 billion in tax credits that was supposed to come back to the ratepayers. Instead, [...]

If a legislator in Trenton drops a nonsensical bill, should it become public policy? Last week, NJ Assembly Democrats introduced a bill (A5902) to explore leaving the PJM Interconnection LLC, the non-profit regional transmission operator that New Jersey helped form (that's the J in PJM) in 1927. That's right, instead of examining new energy sources to help meet demand like [...]

Imagine if we told you that we were going to take $2 in taxes from you. Then we would return $1 to you, but pay it out over 4 months in quarters. We then would expect you to be grateful and then give you the same $1 at the end of the year. Instead of focusing on long term solutions [...]

You may be getting tired of us talking about energy affordability and reliability. But you don't have to take our word for it because the latest NJ poll from Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future covered by the Tri-State Infrastructure News reinforces what we have been saying for years and reveals overwhelming concern among New Jersey voters about rising [...]

We think we've made it clear at AENJ that we want people to pay as little as they need to for the energy that they need, which is why we have continued to support an all of the above energy strategy. We just don't support a shell game to make it happen. That's why you could say it is frustrating [...]

We are just weeks away from when people will start to get their higher electricty bills. As state Legislators continue to try to point blame at PJM, it's important to look back at how we really got to this point in order to make informed decisions going forward so we don't end up in this position again. We have continued [...]

With electricity rates set to balloon in 2 weeks, NJBPU President Christine Guhl-Sadovy appeared before the Legislature last week to provide testimony on budget priorities and answer critical questions. It was a must watch for what transpired. On the heels of the total collapse of Offshore Wind Industry in NJ, President Guhl-Sadovy was asked several times whether any ratepayer money was still going [...]

For nearly the last decade, NJ State government - the Governors office, regulatory agencies and Legislature - have run full speed toward intermittent renewable energy generation with zero plan B. Now, as the rate hikes that AENJ warned of for years are actually coming, we see scrambling to find quick fixes like a student cramming for a test when the [...]

So with all of the outrage, headlines, talking points and social media posts that we've seen in recent weeks regarding coming energy rate hikes, we were hoping that maybe the Legislature would get the hint and start taking some real actions to deal with the problems New Jersey is facing. You could say we were dissapointed when we took a [...]

It's been another bumpy week for the BPU as they try to continue to point the finger in any direction but their own when it comes to the coming rate hikes. This week, responses came from both PJM directly and then their own board members questioning not only decisions the board has made, but the process by which they have [...]