PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO

PSE&G

Our T&D business is not affected when customers choose alternate electric or gas suppliers since we earn our return on our net investment in rate base to provide T&D service, not by supplying the commodity. Based on our transmission formula rate and the CIP program for electric and gas distribution, we are also minimally impacted by changes in customers’ usage. Our growth is driven by (i) our investment program to deliver energy more reliably by investing to meet anticipated demand growth and modernizing our electric transmission and electric and gas distribution system and (ii) investing in programs that meet State targets to help deliver cleaner energy, including our EE programs to help customers use less energy and investment programs to build EV infrastructure and solar generation. There may also be opportunities to expand into related energy infrastructure, including generation and storage, though participation in these areas is subject to regulatory approval and market design, which continues to evolve. That growth can be affected by customer cost pressures which could result from higher commodity costs, higher supply costs to support subsidized renewable generation, higher operating costs, higher tax rates, macro-economic conditions including inflation, and other factors. Further, technological advances could impact the rate of growth of our gas and electric T&D businesses.

Changes previously ordered by FERC and implemented by PJM and other ISOs to eliminate contractual provisions that previously provided us a “right of first refusal” to construct new transmission projects in our service territory could result in third-party construction of transmission lines in our area in the future and also allow us to seek opportunities to build in other service territories. While there has been minimal impact so far, these rules continue to evolve so both the extent of the risk within our service territory and the opportunities for our transmission business elsewhere remain difficult to assess.

Various market participants compete with us and one another in transacting in the wholesale energy marketsand entering into bilateral contracts. Our competitors include but are not limited to merchant generators, utility generators, energy marketers, retailers, private equity firms, and other financial entities.

Anticipated demand growth and the pace of that relative to retirements of existing firm generation and new additions of intermittent and firm generation capacity, as well as subsidized generation capacity, or technological advances could impact forward market prices in the future.

PJM has a capacity market that has been approved by FERC. FERC regulates this market and must approve market design rule changes proposed by PJM. For information regarding recent actions by FERC relating to capacity market design, see the discussion in Regulatory Issues—Federal Regulation.

Environmental issues could also impact our competitiveness, including requirements regarding capital investments at our nuclear stations, such as cooling towers, and could lead to a material adverse effect, while other actions to further regulate carbon dioxide emissions could better position our nuclear plants.