Category Archives: Energy

RED BANK: Two days early, borough Environmental Commission hosts an Earth Day Green Fair at the middle school tonight.

RED BANK: On the council agenda: new rules for parking on Spring Street, EV charging stations. Not on: cannabis.

RED BANK: Borough's use of donated Tesla spotlights need for charging infrastructure before EVs can be considered, McConnell says.

RED BANK: Council wraps 2021 with PBA contract, a plan to recombine workshop and regular sessions, a new used Tesla, and praise for a departing colleague.

RED BANK: Couple offers borough their used, fire-engine-red Tesla sedan, hoping it will demonstrate the feasibility of adding EVs to the fleet.

RED BANK: Downed power line briefly cuts electricity to hundreds of JCP&L customers – and interrupts Gabbagools hard at work across the street.

RED BANK: More than a century after it was used as a gas works, a borough property may get some 20th-century environmental remediation.

FAIR HAVEN: Apparent backpedaling by JCP&L on a streetlamp test project sets environmental commission member sparking like a downed wire.

RED BANK: What's on the council agenda, and, once again, what's not: dueling resolutions calling investigations into leaked emails.

RED BANK: Customers of the concession stand at Count Basie Fields could soon be drinking hot chocolate made with an assist from the sun.

RED BANK: Power is out for up to 100 customers in the area of Maple Avenue following an incident in which two utility poles snapped.

RED BANK: Borough kicks off public awareness effort after council begins transition to electricity program said to reduce bills from JCP&L level.

RED BANK: Council moves to create energy aggregation program, under which electricity customers would get rates lower than JCP&L's.

ON THE GREEN: BPU rejects JCP&L high-power line plan for 10-mile-long high-power line terminating in Red Bank.

RED BANK: Judge rejects JCP&L power line plan along 10 miles of rail, citing "overwhelming' adverse impacts and unproven need.

RED BANK: Pedestrian suffers minor injuries when she's hit by falling debris as a truck takes down a pole on Brad Street.

LINCROFT: Two months after they were thwarted from speaking, opponents of a proposed JCP&L high-voltage line vent their anger.

LINCROFT: Two months after objectors packed a hearing on JCP&L's proposed high-voltage line, a second hearing is slated for tonight in a 2,000-seat gym.

RED BANK: Legislators call JCP&L transmission line 'unacceptable.'

FAIR HAVEN: Driveways and a roof dome that "looks like a blister" doom bank plan.