Why do some neighborhoods have underground utilities? How does that come about? What are the pros/cons of having the utility poles underground vs. above-ground? Wildfire season will soon descend upon California, which emerged last year from one of the deadliest, and...
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power infrastructure
Can NJ’s ongoing power outage problems ever be solved?
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...
Spring R/ECON forecast: New Jersey’s recovery still trails nation’s
While New Jersey is on pace to add 48,600 nonagricultural jobs in 2013, that figure is 0.1 percent lower than last year’s total (49,100) and helps to explain while the state’s recovery rate is slower than the nation’s. “Although our economy has improved the past two...