Puerto Rico relies on fossil fuels, primarily diesel and other forms of liquid petroleum, for 98 percent of power generation. As a result, utility grid energy prices in Puerto Rico, in common with islands territories and nations throughout the Caribbean and around the world, are amo...
Luma Energy, which operates transmission and distribution for Puerto Rico's power authority, said on X that the outage was tied to an issue with the power plants' transmission lines. It provided a statement to The Associated Press saying it was investigating the outage that coincided with the s...
Soon thereafter, it also filed in representation of the Puerto Rico Energy Power Authority (PREPA). At the time of hurricane María there was a controversy between the Government of Puerto Rico and the Financial Oversight Board in the implementation of the approved Fiscal Plan, regar...
distributed power generationThe variability of solar PV power plants has led to some utilities imposing ramp limitations. For example, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) includes a 10% of capacity per minute limit on ramp rates produced by PV power plants in its minimum technical ...
of power generation and distribution, a robust infrastructure is extremely important for the health, safety, and well-being of the people who rely on it. Hopefully these steps will improve Puerto Rico’s situation, especially since this won’t be the last time a major storm impacts the island...
Tens of thousands of customers are still without power across Puerto Rico, a week after Ernesto swiped the U.S. territory as a tropical storm.
“More importantly, those states didn’t completely lose power like Puerto Rico did,” says Kwasinksi. “When the whole grid goes down, and you have to begin again from nothing, it’s much more complicated.” This tricky process is called ablack start. The challenge is that bi...
Whitefish Energy announced that it was halting work to help restore power in Puerto Rico because it has not been paid by the U.S. territory's government.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced the release Friday of $13 billion in assistance to repair years-old hurricane damage in Puerto Rico and pledged to restore its economy, setting aside his past bitter treatment of the island and its lead
Luma, the company that took over transmission and distribution from Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority last year, said the blackout could have been caused by a circuit-breaker failure at the Costa Sur generation plant — one of four main plants on the island. ...