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Coming Home to Roost for JCP&L?
July 25, 2026 - On July 15, 2026, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) took an important step toward holding JCP&L accountable for failing to meet the state's Minimum Reliability Level standards in 2022, 2023, and 2024. For years, CHARGE has warned that New Jersey's electric utilities - especially JCP&L - have neglected the local distribution system, the part of the electric grid responsible for more than 99% of customer power outages. Storms don't create the proble
New Jersey Needs a Statewide Strategy for Data Centers—Before It's Too Late
July 16, 2026 - Data centers are not just technology projects—they are major consumers of water and electricity, with significant long-term regional consequences for our environment, utility infrastructure, and ratepayers. Data Centers and New Jersey's Water Crisis Modern data centers require enormous amounts of freshwater to cool servers operating around the clock. A single large facility can consume up to five million gallons of water every day—roughly the daily water needs
DC Watchdog Says Customers Should Not Pay PSE&G’s Inflated Costs
While most of us are familiar with JCP&L's penchant for transmission projects, it is not alone. In December 2024, PSE&G, New Jersey’s...
Kudos to Mayor Perry on His Explanation of Middletown Power Outages
June 26, 2024 - More than 1,500 Middletown (Monmouth County, NJ) residents lost power this weekend. A local reporter asked Middletown...
Partial WIN to Stop Raritan Bay Gas Pipeline Project
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued an order on January 18, 2024 granting a one-year extension for Transco for its...
Utilities Dirty Secret
August 26, 2023 – Earlier this week, the Mayor and Council of Toms River, NJ publicly stated that action must be taken against JCP&L over...
CHARGE Supports Offshore Wind at BOEM Public Hearing
June 26, 2023 – Speaking at a public hearing conducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on the two offshore wind projects...
It's Time to Rethink Our Electric Grid
June 6, 2023 - A recent New York Times Editorial Board opinion (“NYT Opinion”) stated that “To tap the potential of renewable energy, the...
"Clear and Present Danger"
August 3, 2021 - Imagine that after RAGE’s 3-year opposition of the Monmouth County Reliability Project (“MCRP”) that resulted in the NJ...
This is Crazy!
June 21,2021 - A new bill was introduced by the New Jersey Legislature with alarming speed and without an adequate public process. On...
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