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Puerto Rico will get $325 million in federal power funding

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Editorial Board Published July 19, 2024
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The U.S. authorities introduced Thursday that $325 million in federal funds might be accessible for photo voltaic and battery storage installations throughout Puerto Rico because the U.S. territory struggles with persistent energy outages.

This system, funded by the U.S. Division of Vitality, will goal group facilities and healthcare services, in addition to frequent areas in sponsored, multi-family housing.

“Households aren’t the only place you need power during and after an emergency,” mentioned U.S. Vitality Secretary Jennifer Granholm throughout a go to to Puerto Rico.

The announcement comes amid widespread anger over outages that repeatedly go away Puerto Ricans at the hours of darkness. The island of three.2 million individuals has a greater than 40% poverty fee and a few can’t afford a generator.

Authorities officers say the outages additionally endanger the lives of those that rely upon oxygen, refrigerated insulin and dialysis machines.

Granholm on Thursday visited the southern coastal city of Santa Isabel, one in all a number of cities within the space hit by an influence outage in June that left 10,000 clients at the hours of darkness.

That very same month, one other widespread outage left some 350,000 clients with out energy throughout Puerto Rico, prompting Gov. Pedro Pierluisi to order an investigation.

“It is unacceptable,” Granholm mentioned of the state of affairs.

The outage in Santa Isabel and close by cities prompted Luma, a personal firm that operates the transmission and distribution of energy, to put in emergency turbines.

Luma additionally launched a $4-million effort to move and set up a brand new mega transformer within the space, however the plan failed after crews found that an “internal problem” rendered the tools unusable, additional enraging clients and authorities officers.

Luma not too long ago mentioned it might relocate one other transformer primarily based within the southeast coastal city of Maunabo, however the announcement angered the native mayor, who blocked entry to the tools, saying his city relied on it.

Luma has mentioned that transformer is just not important to offering electrical energy to Maunabo.

On Sunday, Luma warned that no less than 11 transformers in electrical substations throughout Puerto Rico are “vulnerable,” and in the event that they have been to fail, tens of hundreds of consumers can be left with out energy.

Puerto Rico’s energy grid stays frail almost seven years after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island as a strong Class 4 storm, leaving some with out electrical energy for as much as a 12 months.

Whereas the storm razed the ability grid, it had lengthy been crumbling given a scarcity of funding and upkeep by Puerto Rico’s Electrical Energy Authority, which is s until attempting to restructure greater than $9 billion in debt.

Previous to Maria, renewable power era in Puerto Rico was at 3%. It has since grown to 9% because of houses and companies which were capable of afford to put in rooftop photo voltaic and storage, in line with the Institute for Vitality Economics and Monetary Evaluation.

Amid the outages, Puerto Ricans have been hit with energy invoice will increase that many have decried. Puerto Rico’s electrical energy fee is now 41% greater than the common U.S. fee.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Division of Vitality additionally introduced an $861 million mortgage assure to assist construct two photo voltaic photovoltaic farms within the southern cities of Guayama and Salinas. The assure was provided to Clear Versatile Vitality, LLC, an oblique subsidiary of AES Company and TotalEnergies Holdings USA, Inc.

Previous to arriving in Puerto Rico, Granholm visited the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday, the place officers introduced $100 million in federal funds to assist purchase gas storage services.

The U.S. territory additionally has struggled with persistent energy outages lately, with island-wide outages hitting St. John and St. Thomas the day Granholm visited.

Almost three months in the past, Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. declared a state of emergency following ongoing blackouts on St. Croix.

The U.S. Virgin Islands Water & Energy Authority faces crumbling infrastructure, with varied native companies together with the waste administration authorities and entities similar to hospitals owing greater than $11 million in whole amassed debt.

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