New Jersey Outlines Plan to meet 100% Clean Energy by 2050
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New Jersey Outlines Plan to meet 100% Clean Energy by 2050
via Utility Dive:New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy released on Monday a wide-ranging plan with details on how the state could achieve 100% clean energy by 2050, a goal adopted by governors of both Massachusetts and Washington in the past month. The governor's "Energy Master Plan" admits that New Jersey’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions thus far are insufficient to achieve the target of 80% reduction from 2006 levels set by the state’s Global Warming Response Act, passed last summer. Major proposals in the plan include additional steps to ensure that 7.5 GW of offshore wind is part of New Jersey's energy mix by 2035. Murphy also announced proposals to have state regulators require utilities to explore "non-wire solutions" like storage and distributed energy resources (DERs) and establishing an electric vehicle "ecosystem" to build up EV charging infrastructure.Link