New Jersey's Clean Energy Program produces significant energy bill reductions for the state's consumers. Over the years, the scope has included energy conservation programs in the mid-'80s to the mandatory Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs to the Standard Offer programs.

For 2001 through 2009, program activities have resulted in lifetime energy savings of over 26.6 million MWh of electricity; 80 million dekatherms of natural gas; 11.5 million MWh of renewable generation, and 1.9 million MWh of distributed generation from combined heat and power systems.  Additional information is available in the Clean Energy Program Annual Report.

The table below shows the average cost of savings for New Jersey's Clean Energy Program, which is significantly below the cost that would have been incurred to generate or purchase an equivalent amount of electricity or natural gas.

The savings identified in the chart below accrue to New Jersey residences and businesses that installed energy efficiency or renewable energy measures in 2009. The energy savings produced by these measures also produce savings on infrastructure costs, reduce congestion on transmission and distribution lines, and increase reliability. The customer bill reductions in the table above do not include the avoided environmental costs of the reductions in air emissions, wastewater discharges, and waste generated.

Summary of energy savings that resulted from the energy efficiency programs implemented in 2009:

Summary of renewable energy generation that resulted from the renewable energy programs implemented in 2009:

Summary of generation that resulted from combined heat and power systems installed or committed to in 2009: