Can NJ’s ongoing power outage problems ever be solved?

August 7, 2020

Every time there’s a significant storm — whether it’s rain, wind snow or ice — millions of residents in the state lose their electricity for an extended period of time.

Professor Frank Felder, the director of the Rutgers University Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy, said there are multiple reasons why the Garden State has so many power outage problems, not the least of which is that the state is the most densely populated in the nation, which means there are a lot of power lines jammed together.

NJ1015.com, August 6, 2020

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