PSEG enters court fight to stop Burlington City seizing facilities

BURLINGTON CITY — The state’s largest natural gas and electric utility has joined a legal fight to stop the city from seizing waterfront properties that host an electrical generating station and an electrical switching station that are considered critical regional facilities. Public Service Electric & Gas was approved on March 29 to join a lawsuit that Parkway Generation Operating LLC filed in January. The case is in Burlington County Superior Court before Judge Jeanne Covert. “The PSE&G Switching Station conducts both electric Transmission and Distribution functions,” the PSE&G filing states. “The … Station continues to be necessary for PSE&G to…