SOUTH JERSEY (KYW Newsradio) — New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a package of three bills addressing rising utility costs Tuesday morning.
The bills offer rebates and credits for ratepayers, hold data centers responsible for the costs of their high energy consumption, and change the PJM Interconnection program to ensure verified consumption reductions actually come with lowered costs.
Sherrill said the package will save up to $1 billion annually.
She signed the package in Woodstown, Salem County, at the kitchen table of Assemblyman Dave Bailey’s mother, Eileen. The governor said that many New Jersey residents are on fixed incomes and struggle to make ends meet amidst skyrocketing prices.
“As governor, my focus isn’t on the boardroom or the backroom; it’s on the kitchen table at homes like this,” she said. “It’s on people like Eileen, doing everything they can to stay above water, even as the waterline keeps rising.”
Sherrill also renewed the Summer Termination Program, protecting vulnerable households from utility shutoffs during extreme heat, and announced a dozen new solar projects that will bring clean energy to more than 45,000 homes.
The bills offer rebates, ensure lower energy costs, and blunts impact from data centers
The bills offer rebates, ensure lower energy costs, and blunts impact from data centers
