North Jersey: The office that doles out state solar energy rebates for residential installations has been deluged with applications from people afraid that the program will run out of funds after Governor Christie took the money from it to help plug the state’s budget gap. With future funds for the program uncertain, in a single day recently more than 1,100 people applied for $6 million in rebates for their residential solar installations, forcing the state Board of Public Utilities to cut off the …