With a Crippled Energy Grid, Puerto Rico Turned to Solar Power. (Spoiler: It's Working)

On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico and devastated the island's aging and inefficient power grid. Air conditioning couldn't work. Water couldn't be pumped to higher floors. Hospitals couldn't maintain lifesaving machinery. Diesel and propane generators helped, but they're costly and unwieldy and pump noxious fumes into the air.

It would be late November before more than ... Get Published - Build a Following The Energy Central Power Industry Network® is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it.

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