Greg Allen
Puerto Rico is still literally powerless. Though Hurricane Mariamade landfallas a category four hurricane over a week ago, the storm has left the island almost entirely without electrical power. The island’s electrical grid was unable to resist the one-two punch of Hurricane Irma follo...
Puerto Rico without power after largest storm in over 80 years In the aftermath of the storm, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló made an official governor-to-governor request to New York to ask for essential supplies, services and assistance in assessing the severely damaged power grid. In resp...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -An estimated 349,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico on Wednesday after Hurricane Fiona hit on Sept. 18, causing an island-wide power outage for its 3.3 million people. PowerOutage.us, which estimates outages based on utility data, sai...
Resilient Power Puerto Rico(RPPR) has completed 28 community-centered solar-storage systems installations across the island in the last 11 months. Thirty-eight more are in the works, according to the nonprofit. “The current installation pipeline should take us well into the first half...
Emergency crews are racing to evacuate tens of thousands of people who live downstream from a failing dam in northwest Puerto Rico. The reservoir behind the dam is swelling from heavy rain left by Hurricane Maria as Puerto Rico continues to struggle with
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority was an unregulated monopoly for over 70 years, which set the stage for broad mismanagement and corruption.
Around a third of Puerto Rico's population remains in the dark amid aseries of earthquakes. The island's power authority said 600,000 customers have power, but around 900,000 people still don't know when the lights will return. The power plant in Guayanilla that gener...
the fundamental problem facing Puerto Rico is its current unincorporated territorial status. This is not to suggest that if we solve the political status question all of its other problems will disappear. The problems facing Puerto Rico are many and deep, and no single step in and of itself wi...
Study of power quality: problems in commercial buildings in Puerto Rico This paper describes studies of power quality done in Puerto Rico. A different studies made in the past related to power quality problems in P.R. Data, fro... Ortiz-Rivera,I E. - IEEE International Conference on Electri...