A hurricane once again ripped apart Puerto Rico's electric grid. Advocates say solar and batteries can help the island deal with future storms. Presented by Deloitte.
to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid and protect it from disasters. President Joe Biden, during a tour of the island's hurricane damage this week, promised to quickly get those funds out the door to transform the system.
"Distributed power like rooftop solar and battery storage can be done locally and minimize the expensive costs of transmission and distribution," Santiago, who is also a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, told Insider. Smaller grids prevent island-wide blackouts when a key transmission line goes down, she said.
When asked by Insider, Luma pushed back against accusations that it's not doing enough to advance renewable-energy projects and noted that it took over the grid from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a government-owned utility that went bankrupt in 2017 and is trying to restructure its $9 billion debt.
PREPA still owns most of the island's power plants but turned distribution, transmission, and maintenance over to Luma under a 15-year contract. "We are very pro renewables," Mario Hurtado, Luma's chief regulatory officer, told Insider, adding that the company had connected more than 28,000 customers to residential solar in 16 months — more than what PREPA did in a decade.
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