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 at the time, including AENJ called out as not worth taking, because of the risks the states own EMP way back in 2019 pointed to the fact if other states had challenges with their own energy policies, there was the potential for enormous cost increases:

But in an attempt to not take blame for the failure of wind, the Murphy Administration inadvertently admitted the truth about PJM. And in the process undercut months of lies from elected officials, candidates for office, the BPU and advocates who have doing everything they can to point the finger away from their own failures on energy policy and toward the grid operator:

Oh so you mean it didn’t matter whether they were on PJM or not? Color us surprised…

That mean’s it’s not the fault of the grid operator, it’s the fault of the states that feed into the grid and their policies that took base load energy offline faster than they put new energy options online to replace.

It looks like they are going to need to find some new talking points… or you know change the policies to actually start addressing these problems and stop ignoring the reality that everyone else can see.