A community installation on the community on a New Jersey warehouse roof of Solar Landscape.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has the opening of the Third invitation of the Competitive Solar Incentive (CSI) programAn existing program that is designed to reduce the costs of solar development and to encourage grid and other qualifying solar projects in New Jersey. The board has established the third application for the CSI program to open on 14 May 2025 for pre-qualification and close to bids on July 23, 2025. CSI has helped to considerably increase the amount of solar energy in New Jersey-that more than 5 GW has now been installed capacity for lower ratepayers.
“Today’s board action proves that the future of solar energy is strong in New Jersey and builds on years of action that expands the reach of solar energy in our great state,” said NJBPU president Christine Guhl-Sadovy. “In the past seven years, our robust solar programming, including CSI and Community Solar, have doubled the amount of solar energy on our schedule. This growth in solar energy in New Jersey and in our region has helped to save hundreds of millions of millions in avoided the following round of Ratepayers.”
The growth of a clean energy in New Jersey and in PJM New Jersey Ratepayers has saved billions in avoided costs. Without the PJM-wide (onshore) wind and sun sources that offer in the PJM 2024 capacity auction, the clearers of prices would have been around 60% higher, which would have cost New Jersey Ratepayers around $ 1.1 billion extra in the coming year.
In the last CSI application in 2024, the board granted more than 310 MW of solar capacity and 80 MWh of energy storage. Together, the projects awarded are able to generate sufficient electricity to provide 42,000 houses with electricity annually. This application underlined the most important policy performance that large-scale solar projects can be developed competitively, which means that the costs for New Jersey-Ratepayers can be fallen. This was the cheapest solar energy that the board ever stimulated. Since 2017, New Jersey has contributed to reducing the costs of solar energy to Ratepayers by more than 50%.
In the third application, to stimulate competition, the board approved recommendations to deliver capacity goals in the tranche for grid, in the built environment, making projects on the industrial country and floating solar energy possible. The capacity goal of Tranche 4 for non-residential projects with net measurements larger than 5 MW was lowered from 40 MW to 15 MW to encourage a more robust participation in the other tranches. The board proposed a consistent request schedule and emphasized improvements in the interconnection process to support project development, making goals of 300 MW of the solar generation and 160 MWh energy storage. Moreover, the board has a long -existing policy with priority in generating solar generation on land use that is not optimal for other development, such as warehouse roofs or stamped locations, and away from the important open spaces of New Jersey.
On December 7, 2022, the NJBPU established the CSI program as a result of the Solar Act of 2021. The CSI program is open to qualifying solar facilities for the supply of grid and non-residential net measured solar facilities with a capacity greater than 5 MW, as well as to be eligible Solar facilities with.
News item from the NJBPU
