Op-Ed: Power Outages Are Changing and N. J. Isn’t Ready

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 mismatch between electricity supply and demand.

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NJ SEED: Ms. Yeh writes a persuasive story. The Sherrill Administration has already moved in the direction of encouraging energy storage facilities. Ms. Yeh, however, calls for much more in the way of an energy mix to meet not only emergency demand but also the growing demands of an AI economy. She relies heavily on wind and solar generation – and even (in times of emergency) evil fossil fuels.