New Jersey’s day In the sun

Public Service Electric & Gas received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on July 29 to invest $515 million in 80 megawatts of solar projects, doubling the state’s solar capacity and creating green jobs. Under an agreement reached in its Solar 4 All filing, the utility expects to complete the installations by the end of 2013. The program has two segments, each 40 megawatts in size. The first segment consists of installing a solar unit (a small distributed solar system of approximately 200W) on 200,000 utility poles in PSE&G’s service territory, which includes the state’s six largest cities and roughly 300 rural and suburban communities. It will be the largest pole-attached solar installation in the world. The solar units will be connected directly into PSE&G’s electric distribution system and the power will be sold into the PJM wholesale grid.