Oh, boy. This should be good.
On Tuesday, Democrat Mikie Sherrill will become the next governor of the doomed state of New Jersey, and she’s already planning some of that razzle damn dazzle that Democrats do so well.
She’s going to ‘freeze electric rates’ in the state while simultaneously accelerating ‘new power generation.’
Oh, man – that’s a neat trick to pull off. You go, girl.
New Jersey’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill, is poised to freeze electricity rates on her first day in office, following through on a key campaign promise as US politicians including President Donald Trump rush to take on soaring energy costs.
Sherrill, a Democrat, will issue an executive order calling a state of emergency on utility costs after she’s sworn into office Tuesday, said a person familiar with the matter. The much-anticipated moves will enable New Jersey to block utility-rate increases sought by companies while it accelerates new power generation, said Allison Clements, co-chair of Sherrill’s energy transition team.
And how exactly does the whiz kid who can turn a couple of years in Congress and a couple of hundred thousand dollars in assets into seven million bucks and the governor’s gig go about performing this feat of almost superhuman, well…whut?
Magic!
— Joe (@BTC_Chihuahua12) January 20, 2026
Something new and exciting she’s kept under wraps, possibly? Innovative technology no one’s heard about yet?
Frankly, I’d be surprised because she never once struck me during the campaign as anything other than a mediocre intellect coasting on being female, but hey! Everyone deserves a chance to shi…you’ve got to be kidding.
…In New Jersey, where power bills were expected to jump as much as 20% as a result of an auction last year, Sherrill is readying a series of measures to ease the pain, said Clements, who served on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, mostly during the Biden administration.
The steps include immediately connecting small, community-based solar projects, expanding programs that pay customers to reduce electricity use during peak demand and boosting enrollment in bill-assistance programs.
…Sherrill has also said she will fast-track stalled solar and battery storage projects, pursue new nuclear development and modernize existing natural gas facilities. The former Navy helicopter pilot and congresswoman has also pledged to take Trump and regional grid operator PJM Interconnection to court to force faster connections for clean energy projects.
Absolutely worthless. The only thing remotely worth pursuing in her little laundry list that would make the quickest impact is modernizing existing natural gas plants. What would make an exponentially faster impact would be building NEW ones to tide everyone over until nuclear plants could finally come online. Because attempting to build nukes in NJ is going to take forever, IF ever, and little Miss Governor Solar Cell damn well knows it. I have no doubt she’s counting on it as an excuse to push for the offshore farm developments to restart.
The state is already operating at a net loss in power generation compared to just eight years ago, thanks to the premature retirement of plants without replacements being brought online. As much as I would love to hang it all around Phil Murphy’s skinny, verminous neck, the single nuclear plant that shut down ten years prematurely on his watch began as a Chris Christie initiative (One more reason to despise that back-stabbing RINO food blister.).
…The amount of power New Jersey supplies to the grid run by PJM fell over Murphy’s tenure despite increases to the state’s overall generation, according to a New Jersey Monitor review of state and federal energy data.
Roughly 2,914 megawatts in grid generation were retired under Murphy through the end of August. Since the start of Murphy’s first term in 2018, New Jersey has added 1,417 megawatts in grid generation, meaning the grid saw a net loss of about 1,500 megawatts from New Jersey over the governor’s time in office.
…Hale last month released a study examining a decade of energy policy in New Jersey and neighboring states, one that concludes New Jersey did not create a “plan B” that would have mitigated any failures to increase its renewable and clean energy capacity.
“Instead of looking at renewables or not renewables, the better policy would’ve been ‘let’s get rid of the worst.’ Let’s get rid of coal, but in a transition period, let’s turn those coal plants into natural gas so we have that power,” Hale told the New Jersey Monitor.
The power that did come online hasn’t been reliable; it’s been renewable.
And now Jersey Mikie is all set to save the state by throwing more money the state doesn’t have at subsidies for already stretched rate-payers (which does not address the core rate issue in the least) and slapping solar cells on homes, which are often covered with snow for the winter months – detrimental, I have heard, for power generation. Money into the wind rather than build new gas-fired plants now in lieu of nuclear plants that may never materialize.
Honest to God – if pipe dreams were dollar bills, New Jersey could buy anything in the world seven times over.
NJ representatives are…I think downright ‘dismissive’ is the word.
Asm. @VoteMyhre and I traveled to Annapolis representing the @NJAssemblyGOP Energy Task Force for our second joint multi-state hearing on Friday.
What one state does to its power grid has critical impact on ALL states in the region. Democrat leaders have deliberately dismantled… pic.twitter.com/yjJD7PxT5A
— Dawn Fantasia (@DawnFantasia_NJ) January 17, 2026
…What one state does to its power grid has critical impact on ALL states in the region. Democrat leaders have deliberately dismantled RELIABLE power before replacements existed, nowhere more recklessly than in NJ, where @GovMurphy and the Trenton go-green gang shut down existing sources, stupidly gambling the grid on offshore wind that never came online.
Once a power exporter, NJ is now a STRAIN and a STAIN on the regional grid. As @Congressman_JVD aptly put it this week, this is a crisis of our own making.
The irony is that NJ and MD love to lecture about “clean energy leadership” while relying on massive amounts of coal and natural gas from neighboring states like PA, the reliable and affordable sources they publicly shun but know we can’t function without.
Case and point: solar has a 20-year lifespan with a 45-year return on investment and is nothing more than a SUPPLEMENTAL energy source, a point confirmed by expert testimony, yet Governor-elect @MikieSherrill continues to push it as a viable baseload solution.
DO NOT shut down RELIABLE and AFFORDABLE power sources before replacements are built. Build transmission instead of blocking it. Stop throwing millions at the inept RGGI (Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative) that is a feel-good scam that has done NOTHING WHATSOEVER to make our air or water cleaner, and that is an irrefutable fact. RGGI states shut down in-state power and imported more electricity from non-RGGI states. The power is still being generated, just somewhere else, and now NJ ratepayers still pay more.
Oh, gosh. She may as well be whistling into the wind. New Jersey, much like Virginia, is going to get what most of it voted for.
And lying about ‘Donald Trump’s energy policies’…
NJ Democrats like Cory Booker crying about high energy costs blaming someone else all while they shut down power plants killing supply for 8 years
Their “green push” catastrophically increased your electric 💡 bills, & are desperate to convince people they didn’t https://t.co/pFJ1TO68gR pic.twitter.com/51MbX04vF4
— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) December 30, 2025
…isn’t going to help you all as the rest of the country rockets past.
Once again, New Jersey voted for the magic.
But it was wearing the Joker’s hat.
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