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NJ Gov. Christie Expands New Jersey’s Solar Net-Metering Program

NJ Gov. Christie Expands New Jersey’s Solar Net-Metering Program

by Chris Meehan on 08/11/2015 in Solar Energy, Solar Panels, Solar Power, Solar Rebates

Yesterday (Aug. 10) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican seeking the Presidency, signed into law with little fanfare S-2420, which expands the state’s net-metering capacity threshold to 2.9 percent of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in state. The legislation will allow more home and business owners in the state to install solar power.

However, the legislation is a stepping stone to a longer-term sustainable energy policy for the state, which had been a leader in solar energy for a number of years. The state’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) actually is expected to meet to address New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan for the coming years.Solar being installed on a New Jersey home. Courtesy NREL.Prior to signing the bill into law, New Jersey’s utilities were only required to source 2.5 percent of their electricity from net-metered electric systems. The NJSpotlight reports that the state already is above that threshold. In the past the state’s lawmakers have had to step in and tell the BPU to allow more solar power already. The expansion, though small, should allow the state up to three years to come up with a better solution, according to the NJSpotlight’s sources.

Meanwhile, as the state heads into debates about its energy future, advocates are already lining up to push for clean energy. For instance, yesterday Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, wrote an editorial for The Star Ledger. “Never has our energy future been clearer than it is today between clean energy and dirty fossil fuels,” he wrote. “We have a choice between more dirty fossil fuels, pipelines, oil trains and pollution or renewable energy, energy efficiency and a green economy.”

Tittle pointed out that New Jersey needs to take action to address clean energy now. Particularly since President Obama introduced his Clean Power Plan last week and since New Jersey previously rolled back its renewable energy standard requirements from 30 percent in the 2008 master plan to 22.5 percent in the 2011 master energy plan. “We need to push for a 30 percent reduction in energy use through energy efficiency by 2030. We need to look at the long-term to get rid of dirty fossil fuel sources like closing the state's three coal power plants. We should have a goal of 80 percent of our energy to come from renewable sources by 2050,” he said.

The backpedaling in energy efficiency and renewable has cost New Jersey, according to Tittle. “New Jersey was a leader in clean energy and energy efficiency before Gov. Chris Christie took office,” he said. “We were second in the nation and we're now seventh. We had 10,000 jobs in solar energy; now 5,500. We were seventh in energy efficiency and are now 21st.” 

“While the CPP calls for a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses nationally, it's only a modest 23 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 in New Jersey,” Tittle said. “New Jersey should and could be able to do a lot more than that but Gov. Christie and his administration oppose even those modest goals.”

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