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Dear NJBPU Listserv subscribers,

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

In response to Governor Sherrill’s Executive Order No. 2 (January 20, 2026), the Staff of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (“NJBPU” or “Board”) hereby requests the state’s four Electric Distribution Companies (“EDCs”), Atlantic City Electric, Jersey Central Power & Light, Public Service Electric & Gas, and Rockland Electric Company, to provide written responses to this Request for Information (“RFI”) regarding the following within 30 days:

1. Address how the company is endeavoring to achieve complete compliance with BPU’s regulations at N.J.A.C. 14:8-5;
2. Identify opportunities for the BPU to modify or waive existing regulations in order to improve efficiency and speed of interconnecting new projects;
3. Address how the company can improve hosting capacity maps and ensure projects can connect to 34.5 kV distribution lines;
4. Identify constrained circuits within the company’s service territory that should be upgraded to expedite and support interconnection of DERs; and
5. Address other means of supporting development of DERs on constrained circuits.

COMMENTS

All comments should be filed under Docket No. QO24030199.

The deadline for comments on this matter is 5 p.m. on March 5, 2026.

Comments may be submitted directly to the specific docket listed above using the “Post Comments” button on the Board’s Public Document Search. Comments are considered public documents for purposes of the State’s Open Public Records Act. Only public documents should be submitted using the “Post Comments” button on the Board’s Public Document Search tool.

More information and specific questions are provided in the Request for Information.

Thank you for your interest in NJBPU.