New Jersey to meet PV goal (90 MW) by 2008 (not original headline)

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Solar energy heats up across the country

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/09102006/business-biz910_sol-pow.html

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Starting practically from scratch five years ago, New Jersey now has 1,668 solar power systems with the capacity to provide electricity for 3,137 homes.

A state rebate program that has paid or agreed to pay $173.8 million in subsidies has propelled the New Jersey boom in the use of photovoltaic cells.

"We're very happy with it. It's more popular than we expected," Jeanne Fox, president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, said in an interview this week.

Current solar capacity in New Jersey is 21.7 megawatts, an additional 22.5 megawatts have been approved, and projects that would add 37 megawatts of power are awaiting approval, putting the state close to its goal of 90 megawatts by 2008.

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