[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey Board of Public Utilities accepts Public Service Electric & Gas solar plan, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PSE&G GETS GO-AHEAD ON SMALLER SOLAR PLAN, BUT SPLITS VOTE AT BPU
Some critics of settlement raise concerns that utility has unregulated affiliate building solar farms without ratepayer assistance

by TOM JOHNSON 
NJ Spotlight
December 1, 2016 

A divided state agency yesterday approved a scaled-down version of a plan by Public Service Electric & Gas to build grid-supply solar arrays on brownfields and landfills amid concerns why about utility customers are paying to support the projects.

In an unusual split 3-2 vote, the Board of Public Utilities accepted a tentative settlement allowing the utility to spend $80 million to develop an additional 33 megawatts of solar farms on former garbage dumps and brownfields in its service

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For the entire article, see
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/16/11/30/pse-g-gets-go-ahead-on-smaller-solar-arrays-but-splits-vote-at-bpu/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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