PREPA

“In twenty-nineteen, PREPA signed a 1.5 billion dollar contract with an American company called New Fortress Energy. To replace, ah, two of its oil-fired power plants with fossil gas, and kind of more controversially, to build an import terminal for liquefied f…”

“The fossil fuel industry still have a total control of PREPA, but we have done like a projection by 20, 25, Puerto Rico should be producing by net metering by citizenship. Citizen investment up to one gigawatt of power, which will be more than necessary for re…”

“In the fall of last year, there was some investigative reporting about what was happening to the grid under Luma, and one of the stats that grabbed me was that outage times have actually doubled under Luma. It's taking them longer to repair service than it did…”

“Puerto Rico has that as well, but for whatever reason, for reasons that are unclear, PREPA did not initiate that process until months later.”

“What you're seeing is that individuals, communities, nonprofit organizations are the ones that are really driving this effort toward a renewable, resilient power system, and not so much the government or the utilities.”

“As a result of sort of those financial troubles, they had laid off half of their workforce.”

“The government had amassed over seventy billion dollars in debt, historic levels, and the utility itself was nine billion dollars in debt. In fact, they filed for bankruptcy in July, just months before the hurricanes hit.”