Solar panels. Batteries. Emergency fossil fuel-fired generators. They’ve all been deployed across Puerto Rico to help get the lights back on in the months following devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Houston's CenterPoint Energy will send crews to Puerto Rico in January, as part of a national effort to repair the island's power grid after Hurricane Maria hit this fall.
Puerto Rico plans to cancel a $300 million contract to rebuild the hurricane-ravaged electrical grid that went to a tiny company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Montana hometown, the head of the island’s power utility said.
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s creditors are offering to lend the bankrupt utility $1 billion to help it after Hurricane Maria damaged the utility system so severely that the entire island was left without power.
