This Brooklyn Architect Wants to Rewire Puerto Rico with Solar
This Brooklyn Architect Wants to Rewire Puerto Rico with Solar
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 27, 20188m 18s
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Show Notes
The sixth-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s grinding-up of Puerto Rico brought what might feel like good news. According to AEE, the Electrical Energy Authority, almost 93 percent of Puerto Ricans—1,365,065 people—now have power. The process has been agonizing—a misguided early repair contract to the unlikely Whitefish Energy for $300 million got cancelled, and it took months for crews from better-suited firms to get started.
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