photo via JCP&L
Jersey Central Power and Light, the electric utility that services Monmouth County, announced today that they have expanded an environmental program to help protect New Jersey’s threatened ospreys.
The company is surveying their poles and other equipment to determine where osprey are nesting—or have given indication of future nesting–and then building new nesting platforms where the birds will not be in danger due to the proximity to electrical equipment. Specialized equipment is installed to divert and discourage ospreys from nesting in potentially hazardous locations.
Two osprey nests within JCP&L’s Monmouth and Ocean service territories, one in Union Beach and another in Brick, were relocated in 2016.
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Posted: December 27th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: JCP&L, Monmouth County News | Tags: JCP&L, Jersey Central Power & Light, Monmouth Beach, Ocean Township, Oceanport, Osprey, Spring Lake Heights, Union Beach | 4 Comments »
HOLMDEL – One of the state’s largest energy providers announced Thursday that it plans to relocate its regional headquarters to the 2-million-square-foot Bell Works site on Crawfords Corner Road. Jersey Central Power & Light, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., formally signed a 10-year lease with Somerset Development on Thursday to occupy 64,000 square feet of the… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 28th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: Holmdel, Monmouth County News | Tags: Bell Works, Holmdel, JCP&L, Jersey Central Power & Light, Monmouth County News | Comments Off on JCP&L relocating regional headquarters to historic N.J. building
Jersey Central Power & Light is still trying to win regulatory approval to spin off its transmission assets into a separate company. In an amended petition, the state’s second-largest electric utility is slightly modifying a previous proposal rejected earlier this year by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. In denying the spin-off, the board balked…
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