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NJ Spotlight News: NJ hits a solar energy milestone
January 23, 2025
New Jersey announced that it has doubled the state’s solar energy output since Governor Phil Murphy took office in 2017, writes NJ Spotlight News.
“New Jersey has reached the milestone of five gigawatts of installed solar energy, enough to power 700,000 households in the Garden State, according to the state Board of Public Utilities.
This more than doubles the state’s solar energy output since 2017 when Gov. Phil Murphy took office. The BPU also said 2024 was a big year for solar, with nearly 400 megawatts of solar capacity installed. That puts New Jersey on track to install 7,500 gigawatts of solar capacity by next year.”
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Launched in 2017 by the governors of Washington, New York, and California to help fill the void left by the U.S. federal government’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the Alliance has grown to include 24 governors from across the U.S. representing approximately 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population. Governors in the Alliance have pledged to collectively reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28 percent by 2025, 50-52 percent by 2030, and 61-66 percent by 2035, all below 2005 levels, and collectively achieve overall net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as practicable, and no later than 2050.
The Alliance’s states and territories continue to advance innovative and impactful climate solutions to grow the economy, create jobs, and protect public health, and have a long record of action and results. In fact, the latest data shows that as of 2023, the Alliance has reduced its collective net greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent below 2005 levels, while increasing collective GDP by 34 percent, and is on track to meet its near-term climate goal of reducing collective greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
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