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 [...]

We've seen alot of grandstanding in New Jersey from elected officials this past week in an attempt to pass the buck and shift the blame. Phil Murphy has found his target. Instead of looking in the mirror and taking responsibility, he says that he wants to investigate PJM, the grid operator. It's as if they want you to pay no attention [...]

Lately in Trenton, we've seen a good amount of political theater coming from our government. Whether it's the Governor's Office, the BPU or Legislators themselves. Either it's legislating by press release, grandstanding and posturing at hearings or taking the fight to people on social media assuming they won't know the real facts, they are still ignoring the fundamental problem that [...]

Energy is getting it's time in the spotlight these days (before the power can go out altogether). And it's putting people in a rage too. But all the anger in the world won't matter unless it is directed in a way that can help solve the problems that have enraged rather than simply fanning the flames of the fire they [...]

The lack of transparency depths has reached a new low….even for the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities this week. After holding their long-awaited “stakeholder” meeting for the draft 2024 Energy Master Plan, which is already past deadline, the BPU decided rather than giving the plan they would simply publish an executive summary slide deck which amounted to sixty-two pages [...]