Please join us if you can!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Energy\n\u201cknow-it-all\u201d Mike Winka and\nSustainable Princeton\u2019s Executive Director Molly Jones will speak on \u201cThe NJBPU New\nJersey Community Solar Energy Pilot Program: Bringing Open\nAccess to Solar to Your Neighborhood.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike is a member of\nthe Lawrence Township Green Team, Sustainable Lawrence, and Mercer\nCounty Sustainable Coalition and has worked for New Jersey state\ngovernment for over 38 years. In 2003 he\nwas named Director of the newly organize Office of Clean Energy at the New\nJersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). \nHe managed New Jersey\u2019s Clean Energy Program through 2012 and is\ncurrently Senior Policy Advisor. Mike assisted\nin the development and implementation of a number of New Jersey\u2019s Energy Master\nPlan and worked on the state\u2019s joining in the Regional Greenhouse Gas\nInitiative (RGGI). At NJDEP he managed\nthe first statewide Sustainability\/Greenhouse Gas Action Plan. This was the nation\u2019s first Plan with an economy-wide\ntotal greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal. \nThe goals in that Plan were achieved and the economy is still humming\nalong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Most\nimportantly Mike has worked in developing New Jersey\u2019s solar program. Starting from virtually zero in\n2003, this year New Jersey reached a milestone with more than 100,000\nsolar projects installed in the State. These installations provide almost 5% of the\nstate\u2019s electricity needs. The majority\nof these systems are installed on homes and businesses. The benefit of these systems is the electric\nmeter to spin backwards, offsetting the energy used onsite. This is called net metering. Because of programs like New Jersey\u2019s solar\nincentives, solar has achieved a 3-fold reduction is cost since 2003. Today\nsolar is on the verge of being cost effective without incentives just with the\nbenefits of net metering. So today it\nmakes sense for all New Jerseyans to install solar. However not all New Jersey home owners or\nbusinesses can put solar on their property. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Molly Jones joined\nSustainable Princeton as the Executive Director in January 2017. \nPreviously Molly spent the prior 10 years as a fundraising and non-profit\nmanagement consultant, contributing to the notable progress of multiple local\nand California-based non-profits, including the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed\nAssociation, Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton in Latin America, the Latin\nAmerican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Virtual Science Center and the\nCalifornia Science Center. Molly will share community perspective on evaluating\nthe various approach options to bringing Community Solar to your town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nevening\u2019s presentation will provide a basic understanding to encourage your\ntown\u2019s consideration of entering the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU)\nCommunity Solar Pilot Program. This new\nBPU pilot program allows any customer of an electric public utility to\nparticipate in a solar project. Unlike\na traditional net metered system, the community solar system does not need to\nbe directly connected to the community solar subscriber\u2019s electric system.\nInstead, the system can be located anywhere in the subscriber\u2019s electric\nutility service territory. The community solar facility could be on a\nneighborhood parking lot, a municipal landfill across the state or an\nindustrial warehouse roof shared between commercial and residential customers. \nIt could be on the common space of a condo development or on an affordable\nhousing building, with the power divided among the building\u2019s low- income residents. \n\nFor further information See http:\/\/njcleanenergy.com\/renewable-energy\/programs\/community-solar<\/a> or https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/bpu\/pdf\/rules\/14%208%209%20Community%20Solar%20Pilot%20Rule%20Adoption%20-%20Advance%20Draft%2021119.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please join us if you can! 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