Like most people, I enjoy mocking New Jersey as a toxic miasmatic wasteland. Yesterday, New Jersey responded by serving me a double portion of shut-the-hell-up. By a 4-0 vote, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved one of the most robust renewable-energy standards in the country. By 2020, 20% of the electricity the state's utilities sell must come from renewable resources. And there's more: 2% must come from solar, making New Jersey, on a solar-per-capita basis, the nation's solar leader. Take that, you California hippies.
New Jersey to California: You are #2 2
-
Posted 8:41 PM on 13 Apr 2006
by Adam Browning -
Posted in
Read More About
Add a Comment
You are not logged in. Thus, you cannot post a comment. If you have an account, log in. If you don't have an account, well, by all means go make one! Meet you back here in five.
Comments
View as Flat
accel2 Posted 11:51 pm
16 Apr 2006
Boo-ya!
Permalink
amazingdrx Posted 1:07 am
17 Apr 2006
This NJ homeoner got 1200 bucks for his credits last year and produced 2/3 of his electric power from his roof mounted solar panels. payback thanks to NJ inintial installation incentives? 8.5 years. And as power prices soar from fossil fuel monopoly wars and market manipulation that payback is even faster.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/1/1556401.html
And NJ is fairly cloudy. A very encouraging result for distributed solar power generation. Thanks to one of the very few GOP environmentalists, Gov Whitman, asked to leave the Bushco administration.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
Permalink