New Jersey legislation · 2026-2027 Regular Session
New Jersey A1072: Distributed battery storage program-direct BPU & electric utilities to establish
Status: Passed one chamber, September 28, 2026
Direct BPU to establish certain incentive programs for energy storage and management.**
What the bill says
An Act concerning energy storage and management and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes. 1. As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill): Block means an amount of incentive awards for customer-sited energy storage systems, front-of-the-meter energy storage systems, or both, measured in megawatts of installed capacity, made available under the incentive program for a certain time period and the associated requirements governing those incentive awards. Board means the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities or any successor agency. Critical community faci.
From the committee substitute text, June 23, 2026:
An Act concerning energy storage and management and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes. 1. As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill): Block means an amount of incentive awards for customer-sited energy storage systems, front-of-the-meter energy storage systems, or both, measured in megawatts of installed capacity, made available under the incentive program for a certain time period and the associated requirements governing those incentive awards. Board means the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities or any successor agency. Critical community facility means and includes, but is not limited to, any facility that has been formally identified by State or local offices of emergency management in a hazard mitigation plan or similar document as a critical community facility. Distributed energy resource means the same as that term is defined in section 1 of P.L. 2023, c.316 (C.48:25-13). Customer-sited energy storage system means energy storage that operates in parallel with an electric distribution system, is connected on the customer side of the meter, and is owned by the customer or another party that is not the electric public utility that provides electric power to the customer. Electric public utility means the same as that term is defined in section 3 of P.L.1999, c.23 (C.48:3-51). Energy storage means the same as that term is …