This is a list of

electricity-generating Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery (transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its storag ...

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

s in the U.S. state of

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, sorted by type and name. In 2020, New Jersey had a total summer capacity of 17,424 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 61,106 GWh. The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 47.8% natural gas, 45.8% nuclear, 2.5% solar, 1.7% coal, 1.2% biomass, 1% non-biogenic waste, and 0.1% hydroelectric & wind. New Jersey's renewable portfolio standard was updated in 2018 to require that 21% of electricity be from renewable sources by 2021, 35% by 2025, and 50% by 2030. In February 2023, Governor

Phil Murphy Philip Dunton Murphy (born August 16, 1957) is an American financier, diplomat, and politician serving as the 56th governor of New Jersey since January 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States ambassador to Germa ...

set a goal of 100% clean electricity (including non-renewable zero-emissions sources) by 2035. About 75% of in-state renewable generation came from small- and large-scale solar

photovoltaic Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...

s (PV) that year. Small-scale solar, which includes customer-owned PV panels, delivered an additional net 2,693 GWh of energy to the state's electrical grid during 2021. This was nearly twice the generation of New Jersey's utility-scale PV plants.

Nuclear power stations

There are two

nuclear power stations A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces elec ...

in New Jersey both operated by PSEG Nuclear. The

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Station was a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant in the United States. The plant is located on an site adjacent to Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New ...

in Lacey Township owned and operated by Oyster Creek Environmental Protection permanently ceased operations on September 17, 2018.

Fossil-fuel power stations

Data from the

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serves as a general reference.

Natural gas

Petroleum

Renewable power stations

Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.

Biomass and municipal waste

Additional data from New Jersey Department of Environmental Protectionhttp://energyrecoverycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ERC_2014_Directory.pdf

Hydroelectric

Wind farms

Photovoltaic

As of January 2023, New Jersey has more than 90 photovoltaic installations of over 5 MW, which have a cumulative capacity of over 850 MW, and over 510 projects of over 1 MW, with a cumulative capacity of 1,680 MW. Most of these are net-metered. The largest in the state include (incomplete list; selected projects):

Storage power stations

Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.

Battery storage

Pumped storage

Decommissioned plants

References

External links

Energy Information Administration State Profile Analysis
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