N.J. aims to triple its reliance on wind energy

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press • October 6, 2008 ATLANTIC CITY - New Jersey is powering up its plan for wind energy. Gov. Jon Corzine says the Garden State is tripling the amount of wind-generated energy it plans to use by 2020, to 3,000 megawatts. That would be 13 percent of New Jersey's total energy. The state's original plans called for 1,000 megawatts of wind energy by 2020. But Corzine says the state... [read full story]