NJ S3939

Dual-use or agrivoltaics solar facilities on unpreserved farmland would become eligible for New Jersey's community solar energy program, allowing farmers to combine solar power generation with continued agricultural production on the same land.

Currently, community solar projects are restricted to rooftops, carports, contaminated sites, landfills, bodies of water, and mining sites; this bill expands eligibility to include solar panels installed above active agricultural or horticultural land.

Dual-use facilities would gain access to community solar program incentives in addition to the existing Successor Solar Initiative (SuSI) program incentives they currently qualify for.

Community solar participants receive bill credits equal to the electricity generated by their share of a solar project located within their utility service territory but away from their property.

The bill amends P.L.2018, c.17 and takes effect immediately upon enactment.