Environmentalists aren’t the only ones cheering the Garden State’s ambitious plans to generate renewable energy with the projects.

As part of its RENEW 2022 initiative, the utility provider intends to replace 24,100 linear feet of water main, as well as service lines, valves and fire hydrants.

Projects included $161.5 million to install more than 71 miles of main to replace and rehabilitate aging pipes.

The company also announced the creation of new subsidiary as part of its long-term goal of building out a renewable energy platform.

The New York City company provides construction-to-permanent financing for middle-market solar developments across North America.

“There is apparently one thing all New Jerseyans can agree on nowadays and that’s the time-honored Jersey tradition of having your gas pumped for you,” said Ashley Koning, an assistant research professor and director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

The Garden State sites – a 553 kW system in North Brunswick and a 1.99 MW system in Somerset – are expected to produce 3,255 MWhs of clean, renewable energy each year.

The partnership between Greenland Technologies Holding Corp., headquartered in East Windsor, and Bordentown-based Princeton NuEnergy creates a sustainable solution for the lithium-ion batteries used in Greenland's electric industrial vehicles.

The purchase "represents the first tranche of a larger $100 million agreement between Nexus" and the Ridgewood-based vertically integrated distributed energy platform.

IDC Government Insights is recognizing the Garden State's public transportation system for its Experiential Commuter Journey project. The public is invited to vote for a winner.

The installations, which were recently approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, are part of the company's plan “to modernize the electric distribution system.”

The work is scheduled to begin March 7 in Northfield and Pleasantville.