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September/October 2012

BUILDING THE FUTURE

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie lent a hand in late July as Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G, Public Service Enterprise Group’s operating company) and union workers broke ground on a renewable energy project that will transform a dormant Hackensack, NJ, brownfield into a 1.06-megawatt (MW) solar farm.

At the job site, PSEG chairman, president, and CEO Ralph Izzo also announced that the utility will request approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to invest up to $883 million to expand the utility’s Solar 4 All and solar loan programs to develop an additional 233 MW of solar capacity. This expansion will create approximately 300 direct jobs per year over the next five years.

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