The executive director of an industry group says the cheaper energy prices promised through fracking can help encourage business development in New Jersey.

First announced in April, the merger pushes Morris County-based Suburban into 11 new states, and gives it a total of 1.3 million customers.

Opponents of a controversial program designed to spark power plant construction got their day in court today, but a decision on the constitutionality of the subsidy program is still weeks away.

Utilities are among the nation's biggest dividend-payers, and since 2003, the Internal Revenue Service has taxed corporate dividends at the same rate as capital gains — currently, 15 percent. But tax parity is set to expire at year's end, part of the looming "fiscal cliff" that will trigger massive tax hikes and budget cuts,...

While Princeton-based NRG Energy has grown its retail electricity supply business to more than 2 million customers in Texas, the company has not seen significant growth in its retail sector in New Jersey, despite its acquisition of Philadelphia-based Energy Plus Holdings LLC last year. Read More »

New Jersey's solar lifeline legislation already is boosting business, even though it hasn't yet been signed into law.

Competitive Power Ventures, which is building a power plant under a New Jersey program to subsidize the creation of additional electricity capacity, broke ground today on its natural gas-fired plant in Woodbridge.

The solar industry finally got its rescue bill this week, as the state Senate and Assembly passed legislation aimed at reviving and stabilizing the state's solar market.