A monthly electricity surcharge, from 85 cents for residential customers up to $2,400 for industrial customers, collecting in total $150 million/year to subsidize two nuclear power plants.
The Future Energy Jobs Bill establishes a ZEC program to compensate nuclear generators for the benefits provided by their emissions-free generation, valued at the Social Cost of Carbon.
Bill S-2313 establishes a Zero Emissions Certificate (ZEC) program to maintain New Jersey’s nuclear energy supply.
Measures the importance of discount rates in determining the comparative value of nuclear power.
Reviewed a variety of different policy mechanisms to support nuclear power, including Zero Emissions Credits, Nuclear Energy Standards, advanced cost recovery, carbon taxes or cap-and-trade, power purchase agreements, and tax incentives.
Defines Community Benefit Agreements between wind developers and host communities.
Allows eligible landowners to select to have the utility purchase the entire property over which a high voltage transmission line will pass.
Provides several innovative land-assembly alternatives to the traditional eminent domain model, including land assembly districts, SPDCs, transmission corridor districts, and equity model limited liability corporations.
Reviewed alternate compensation methods for landowners, including damage payments, annual per-pole payments, and collective bargaining through landowner’s associations.
Landowner Compensation in Transmission Siting for Renewable Energy Facilities and From the Ground Up: Addressing Key Community Concerns in Clean Energy Transmission