while the state is wrapping up Earth week with a massive new solar project New Jersey is getting more than $156 million from the Federal Environmental Protection agency's solar forall competition to expand Community solar efforts that'll give lwi income disadvantaged neighborhoods access to the clean energy and the benefits it brings the governor today touted the money during an event in Ocean County where a former landfill was closed capped and turned into a solar field that'll provide to roughly 1,600 homes the Murphy Administration says the new federal funding will enable grid upgrades more residential solar ownership and Community Partnerships that'll also deliver about 175 megawatts of energy to more than 20,000 homes in the state the solar forall award is also expected to help New Jersey meet its goal of reducing emissions by 80% in the next 30 Years and at a time when global temperatures are rising at an unsustainable able and unprecedented Pace we need to work even faster and even harder and in that Spirit today I'm thrilled to announce that this year with the help of solar projects just like this one New Jersey for the first time ever will exceed five gwatt or 5,000 megawatts of installed solar capacity that is a big deal to put that in perspective that is enough energy to power more than 750,000 homes throughout throughout all of New Jersey [Music]