Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Non-Utility Businesses, Strategy & External Affairs, New Jersey Resources
Search every verified Amy Cradic interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amy Cradic, senior vice president and chief operating officer of non-utility businesses, strategy and external affairs at New Jersey Resources, appeared on the Energy Thinks podcast in August 2025. She discussed the company's approach to the energy transition, stating that New Jersey Resources has been in the natural gas business for about seven decades and in the clean energy space for about 15 years, and that they think of the company's efforts as "all of the above." Cradic said the company has taken a "show, don't tell" approach by pursuing innovative projects around clean fuels and carbon capture to demonstrate emission reductions using existing infrastructure. Cradic said that stakeholders are aligned around a shared goal of emission reductions, but that the implementation of clean energy policies has created reliability and affordability challenges. She noted that regulators and policymakers are now asking how to keep costs down and meet capacity gaps. Cradic described her approach to influence as having "quiet conversations" and bringing facts to the table, rather than "getting on a podium and railing against a certain position." She advocated for incremental investments and progress, saying that an "all or nothing" approach has not delivered and has created difficulties around affordability and reliability.
“Our company's been in the natural gas business for about seven decades, but we've been in the clean energy space for a good period of time, about 15 years. We kind of think about those as we need all of the above.”
“The public is not accepting clean energy policies at any cost and the implementation as contemplated early in this energy transition as a narrow set of solutions to this point is essentially failed. We're in a reliability spot right now. We're in an affordability spot that we need to correct.”
“The good news from a practical perspective is the stakeholders are all aligned around a shared goal of emission reductions. There's some trust to build around the fact that we do believe in the same goal. The real change is not figuring out if we align around a goal, the good news is we do. It's just how do we get ther...”
“Now when we walk into a regulator or a policy maker's office they're saying how are you going to keep cost down and how are you going to meet the demands and the capacity gaps that we have today. So you're seeing a total new prioritization of the discussion.”
In this episode of the Energy Thinks podcast, Tisha Schuller is joined by Amy Cradic, senior vice president and chief operating ...
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