AENJ Weekly Email Newsletter
AENJ Email 1/16/23: Questions Continue to Mount over the Viability, Feasibility And Rising Costs Of Wind Energy
Warnings At First Sign Of Cold Weather Give A Glimpse Of The Dark Future Ahead Over the holidays as temperatures dipped for the first time, we got a glimpse of the future starting now. We saw warnings issued from PJM like below to conserve energy in order to protect...
AENJ Email 1/9/23: A Resolution For The New Year…
Warnings At First Sign Of Cold Weather Give A Glimpse Of The Dark Future Ahead Affordable Energy For New Jersey started 2023 with a resolution for more transparency and honesty from the NJ BPU for the Energy Master Plan as picked up by ROI-NJ: Common sense and simple...
AENJ Email 1/3/23: The Future is now…
Warnings At First Sign Of Cold Weather Give A Glimpse Of The Dark Future Ahead Over the holidays as temperatures dipped for the first time, we got a glimpse of the future starting now. We saw warnings issued from PJM like below to conserve energy in order to protect...
AENJ Email 12/28/22: And The Award Goes To
AENJ Recognizes The Affordability Advocate Of The Year For Courage To Speak Against NJ Energy Plans The Office of rate counsel is a thankless position and too often gets beat up by others including this organization. But when you’re right, we believe you should get...
AENJ Email 12/20/22: House of Cards
NJDEP Tells NJBPU Their Energy Master Plan Calculations Are Built On A House Of Cards The NJ DEP has postponed the implementation of a mandate calling for the electrification of all commercial boilers. This is yet another example of how the BPU has...
AENJ Email 12/12/22 – Runaway Train Heading This Way
NY to Ban Gas/Propane Equipment in 2025 New York is planning to take action next week phase out the use of natural gas in all homes and commercial buildings across the state. According to the Buffalo News: But many are questioning how the pie in the sky...
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...