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Predicted annual growth of electricity consumption in New Jersey until 2020 is 1.5 percent
  • New Jersey residents and businesses used 75,977,804 Megawatt-hours (MwH) of electricity in 2005.

  •  Of the MWh used in 2005:

    28,888,317 Residential
    37,213,643 Commercial
    9,464,307 Industrial
    411,535 Transportation

  • New Jersey has over 18,000 MW of electric generator capacity and 3,421 MW of onsite generation.

  • The average residential, commercial , and industrial and transportation customers used 8, 462, 11,498, 3,385 and 48,317,667 KwH, respectively for the year 2004.

  • There are 3.2 million household customers, 419,000 commercial customers, and 13,200  industrial electric customers in the state. Under the Renewable Portfolio Standards established for New Jersey, Twenty percent of the state’s electricity demand must be produced from renewable sources by 2020.