According to a recent article in the Courier News Public Service Electric & Gas is planning on incorporating solar energy into their repertoire. They plan to install solar panels on 200,000 utility poles as well as on some schools, municipal buildings, low income housing and garbage dumps.

This addition of an environmentally friendly form of energy does not come without a cost. PSE&G expects to spend $773 million to generate 120 megawatts of electricity. That amounts to barely 1 percent of the power consumed in the Garden State. Customers would pay 10 cents a month more in the first year and as much as 35 cents during the course of the five-year project.

State regulators have yet to approve the project.

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