Rebecca Smith and Russell Gold of the Wall Street Journal report -”New Jersey’s biggest utility is outfitting 200,000 utility poles with solar panels, part of the state’s embrace of a try-anything strategy that has made it the nation’s second-biggest producer of solar energy behind California.

Instead of bemoaning what it doesn’t have — bright sunshine, high winds, empty land — New Jersey has looked for places where solar capacity can be squirreled away inconspicuously. In addition to utility poles, the state is pushing solar panels for industrial locations with many flat roofs.”

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