A New Jersey BPU study conducted by the Brattle Group into how much ratepayers will pay for the state’s transition to clean energy faced criticism.

The last two coal-fired electricity generation units in New Jersey will close under an agreement approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

Solar advocates question whether developers will be willing to go through a complicated application process without knowing the value of incentives.

Gov. Phil Murphy appointed Brian Lipman, a veteran litigator and senior executive at the state Division of Rate Counsel, to lead the consumer advocacy agency.

The New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel appealed the state BPU’s recent award of $300 million in subsidies to three nuclear plants.