The States

A conversation with the directors of Special Projects and Government Affairs.

“In a litigated matter, this office works between the Commissioners and the Staff to make sure information flows both ways, and is correct and complete, so that the policymakers can make decisions, and the divisions know what those policy calls are and how they should be implemented.”

“This office oversees external facing facets of the BPU, including Communications and Legislation, as well as internal operations, such as Fiscal, IT, and HR. The technical divisions, such as Clean Energy, Water, and Reliability and Security, report to the Executive Director’s office.”

“We need people who are able to install, repair, and keep the infrastructure operating. When kids are young, is when you have to start getting them interested. It’s important and should be one of our charges as Commissioners.”

“My goal is to create an incentive for water utilities enabling them to put acoustical testing on hydrants and mains, to be able to find leaks, stop them, and prevent them from becoming main breaks and sinkholes taking out other valuable infrastructure.”

“The big challenge is balancing our desire to address climate change through our clean energy policies and achieving the goals Governor Murphy has set out, against our obligation to protect the ratepayer.”

“We don’t look at utilities as our adversaries. We look at them as partners because we have the physical threats of all the natural disasters, and we also have cyber threats.”

“We’re seeing economic development evolve from the renewable energy field. Over 7,000 people have jobs in the solar industry in New Jersey.”

“Today we are already well on the way to solving our energy problems. And if it can be done here, then it can be done elsewhere.”

“There’s no organized group that intervenes on behalf of large industrial customers or large commercial customers. We are supposed to represent the interests of all of those consumers.”