By Richard Henning president and CEO of New Jersey Utilities Association (NJUA) March 29, 2026 | nj.com Even if you kept your thermostat steady (mine is set to 67 degrees), your heating system worked harder to maintain that temperature during the cold snap(s) — so the impact will show up on upcoming bills. And that impact may be compounded by higher energy supply costs Read More: Click Here NJ SEED: Mr. Henning shares his thoughts on the reliability of gas and electricity t

March 25, 2026 | jerseyvindicator.org New Jersey’s suburban housing market is no longer the affordable alternative to New York City it once was, as home prices surge past some city levels and erase a decades-old cost advantage, according to a new regional housing market analysis by the real estate data platform PropertyShark . Over the past decade, suburban home values across the New York metro region and New Jersey have jumped 86%, roughly double the 43% increase seen in N

By: Heidi Yeh, policy director for the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and member of the New Jersey Wind Works Coalition. March 29, 2026 | nj.com Recent snowstorms in New Jersey — winter storm Fern in late January and Bomb Cyclone Hernando in early February — show that our state is not immune to disruptions in power service. But the most serious outages of the future may not come from fallen branches or ice‑coated wires. They may stem from something far more systemic: a mi

March 24, 2026 | nj.gov A4529/S3819 Modifies certain requirements for transmission-scale energy storage procurement under BPU incentive program. The enacted legislation will: Modify project maturity requirements in order to expand the number of projects eligible to receive incentive awards under the second segment of the transmission-scale GSESP, thereby increasing competition among bidders and protecting ratepayers from inflated pricing resulting from a supply-constrained

March 20, 2026 | njspotlightnews.org All 564 New Jersey municipalities this week faced a deadline to comply with the state’s affordable housing law. That means they had to adopt ordinances stating how they’ll plan for such residences over the next decade. It’s been a contentious journey. Several towns are still not on board, even as housing advocates say the state needs more than 200,000 new units to help address the affordability crisis. In February, the median home sale pri