- We need new power plants to stop more rate hikes and avoid massive power failures like in Puerto Rico and Europe.
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2. Atlantic City Electric raised its rates 20% last year, and proved need for 17% increase this year.
3. We are paying more because Governor Murphy’s Democrats shut down 6 NJ power plants during the past seven years. One was at Beesleys Point in Upper Township by the Garden State Parkway Bridge at Milepost 28. Another was the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township.
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4. Since Democrats shut down those plants, every electric company in NJ now buys much of its electricity at very high prices from out of state. This is causing the big rate hikes. Many politicians are telling us to oppose the rate hikes at hearings of the NJ BPU (Board of Public Utilities). However, they know the BPU cannot force any private business to sell a product for less than the cost of buying and delivering it.
5. Democrats are lobbying for special deals to protect their voters and make “somebody else” pay. They want to delay this year’s increase until after the November election for Governor. That would cause a double increase next year. Democrats then want electric bills to be based on “family income” instead of cost. That way, only businesses, government agencies, and high and middle-income families to pay to full cost of expensive electricity.
6. We need more electricity to power electric cars and Artificial Intelligence. We urgently need new power plants.
7. The two nuclear reactors at Salem supply 42% of New Jersey’s electricity. They are the only reason we don’t have routine power failures like Puerto Rico or super-high rates like California and Rhode Island. As it is, New Jersey already has the 10th highest electric rates in America. Natural gas produces 49% of New Jersey’s electricity. Utility companies are forced to pay top retail prices for 7% of their electricity from solar panels. However, sunlight in New Jersey is unpredictable and intermittent. Much of its electricity is produced when not needed and is wasted.
8. Atlantic City Electric installed “smart” meters to be ready for Puerto Rico type power failures. It can now instantly cut off the power of any customer it chooses from its home office.
9. The only way to fix this problem is to replace the six power plants that Murphy’s Democrats shut down and then built more.
Above image: The Beesley Point Power Plant by the Garden State Parkway Bridge by Milepost 28 in Upper Township, NJ before 2022 demolition began.
10. The quickest and cheapest site for a new power plant is Beesleys Point in Upper Township. It was safely used as a power plant since 1962. All needed permits, environmental approvals, transformers, and transmission lines are already in place. It cost far more and take years to locate, prepare, and get permits for a site anywhere else.
11. A power plant at Beesleys Point plant can be fueled by cheap, safe and abundant natural gas from Pennsylvania. South Jersey Gas made plans for a 22 mile pipeline to bring it from Millville15 years ago!
12. The current owners of the Beesley’s Point site want permits from Upper Township to build 768 homes there. That would be another big mistake. It would condemn the entire state to endless rate hikes and the power failures. It would also cause massive local tax hikes to fund public schools, police protection and new water and sewer service.
13. Upper Township needs to deny those permits. It must re-zone the use of that site back to what it was since 1962—a vital power plant!
14. New Jersey made many big mistakes with energy during the past ten years. We paid hundreds of millions of dollars for useless wind turbine and solar projects. We let “woke” Democrats stop South Jersey Gas from building a 22 mile natural gas pipeline under existing roads to Millville. We let them shut down the Beesleys Point plant in 2019. Even worse, we watched Democrats cheer when they completely destroyed the cooling tower, boilers, and smokestack for the power plant during the next four years.
15. We cannot afford any more mistakes.
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