What Will A Clean Energy Future Look Like in 2050?
And How Do We Get There?
Pat and Steve Miller, founding members of Middletown for Clean Energy, will provide a vision of a clean energy future for our town, state and beyond. Examples include wind and solar energy, changes in home heating and appliances, vehicles we will be driving and using for transport, and the future job market. They will also describe the path Middletown will take to get to clean energy and a sustainable future.
Middletown for Clean Energy is a bipartisan citizens’ group working to guide Middletown, and other towns in Monmouth County and across NJ, to 100% clean energy by 2050. They have ongoing support from Sierra Club “Ready for 100” and a parallel Climate Reality Project “100% Committed”. The mission of Middletown for Clean Energy is to leave a legacy of a livable world for our children and grandchildren.
Members of Middletown for Clean Energy from across Middletown have been working with Middletown officials and administration and with Sustainable Jersey for the past three years to guide Middletown toward a sustainable future. They have recently released a draft Middletown Energy Plan that will be incorporated into Middletown’s Master Plan revision, due out later in 2020. The Energy Plan is based on NJ’s recently released Energy Master Plan, as informed by the NJ Global Warming Response Act. Both plans include actions such as “switch to renewable electricity” and “transition to electric vehicles”. The Energy Plan also supports actions Middletown will soon undertake to achieve Sustainable Jersey’s Gold Star in Energy, after having attained Silver Certification in 2019.
Pat and Steve are both retired Bell Labs engineers. Pat Miller holds an MS in Statistics from Rutgers. She retired as a project manager in telecommunications at Telcordia Technologies. She is a member of the Middletown Green Team and President of the Northern Monmouth County Branch of American Association of University Women. Steve Miller holds an MSEE degree from NYU. He retired as Technology Manager at Avaya Communications. He is “Climate Chair” for the Jersey Shore (Monmouth) Sierra Club.