Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore New Jersey's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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A Roadmap to Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles in New Jersey

This report provides an overview of New Jersey’s medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) sector and provides a framework for transitioning to zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Transportation accounts for the largest percentage of the state’s emissions at 38 percent, making the transition to zero-emission vehicles a key strategy in meeting New Jersey’s goal of reducing statewide CO2e emissions by 80 percent by 2050, compared to a 2006 baseline.

To meet this goal, New Jersey is undertaking multiple efforts to reduce transportation emissions including transitioning the nearly 512,500 MHDVs registered in the State to zero-emission vehicles. While Class 3 and larger trucks make up approximately 49 percent of the MHDVs registered in the State, they are responsible for approximately 70 percent of the resulting greenhouse gas emissions, 82 percent of NOx emissions, and 78 percent of fine particulate matter emissions from MHDVs in New Jersey. These emissions disproportionately impact residents of communities with high truck traffic, such as the counties neighboring the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

CPRG Implementation Grant: Clean Corridor Coalition

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (lead applicant), along with coalition member States Connecticut, Delaware, and Maryland, collectively received over $248 million in EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) Program Implementation Funds for the Clean Corridor Coalition, a project to deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure for commercial zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the Interstate-95 freight corridor and adjacent roadways. This project will collectively: 
- Develop approximately 20 freight truck charging infrastructure sites, including an estimated 148 ports suitable for overnight use, 164 fast charging ports, and 138 ultra-fast charging ports to advance the electrification of a national priority freight corridor and create a high-impact early deployment area for zero-emission freight.  
- Leverage the U.S. Department of Energy-funded analyses to strategically deploy funding and build on a demonstrated history of leadership on ZE-MHDV deployment and multi-state collaboration amongst the coalition states. 
- Implement a workforce development program to train 400 workers in the construction, operation, and maintenance of heavy-duty vehicles infrastructure.  
- Create opportunities for low-income and disadvantaged community members to receive specialized workforce training with a direct path towards high-quality employment.
- Drive transformative emissions reductions in a difficult-to-decarbonize sector and provide an example of success that can be replicated across the country.

New Jersey Clean Energy Act of 2024

The New Jersey Clean Energy Act of 2024 establishes 100 percent clean electricity standard by 2035 and directs the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to establish a clean electricity certificate program.

The CSI Program will serve as the permanent program within the Successor Solar Incentive (SuSI) Program and provide incentives to larger solar facilities. The CSI Program is open to qualifying grid supply solar facilities, non-residential net metered solar installations with a capacity greater than five (5) megawatts (“MW”), and to eligible grid supply solar facilities installed in combination with energy storage.

Competitive Solar Incentive (CSI) Program

The Large Energy Users Program is designed to promote self-investment in energy efficiency for eligible projects in the states' largest non-hospital commercial and industrial facilities. To qualify as a Large Energy User, entities must have paid a minimum of $5,000,000 in Total Annual Energy Costs to NJ Utilities on bills received between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

The program has a minimum incentive commitment per energy plan of $100,000.  Additionally, the energy plan must not constitute more than 50% of savings from lighting measures. Projects not meeting these thresholds will be redirected to other programs for C&I customers.