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Citizen-driven solar in Puerto Rico will reach 1 gigawatt by 2025

Arturo Massol-Deyá · The tension over Puerto Rico’s energy future · Jun 8, 2022 · at 19:05

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Arturo Massol-Deyá, executive director of Casa Pueblo, outlines projections for citizen-led solar adoption in Puerto Rico.

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“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 residential consumption.”

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The claim, plainly

By 2025, net-metered solar power capacity installed through citizen investment in Puerto Rico will reach approximately one gigawatt, generating enough electricity to exceed Puerto Rico's total residential consumption.

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Assessment

The claim bundled two specific projections for 2025: (1) that net-metered distributed solar capacity from citizen investment would reach approximately one gigawatt, and (2) that this capacity would generate enough electricity to exceed Puerto Rico's total residential consumption. Official and industry data (EIA, PREB/NEPR, LUMA Energy, IEEFA) confirm that the first leg succeeded: cumulative net-metered rooftop solar reached approximately 1.2 GW by mid-2025 and 1.456 GW by year-end 2025. However, the second leg did not hold: the ~1.8 to 2.3 TWh generated annually by these systems represented only about 25% to 35% of Puerto Rico's annual residential electricity demand (~6.0 to 7.5 TWh), falling far short of exceeding total residential consumption.

EIA and Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB/NEPR) reported rooftop net-metered solar capacity reached 1,456 MW (1.456 GW) across 191,929 systems by year-end 2025, confirming the capacity goal of ~1 GW was met.
IEEFA and industry analyses estimated distributed solar generation at approximately 1.8 to 2.3 TWh annually in 2025 (~10–12.5% of total island load).
Total island-wide residential electricity consumption in Puerto Rico was approximately 6.0 to 7.5 TWh per year in 2024–2025, significantly exceeding total distributed solar generation.

Checked against

[1] ieefa.org [2] pv-magazine.com [3] eia.gov [4] ieefa.org [5] rivsolar.com [6] reddit.com [7] statbase.org [8] wikipedia.org

"Puerto Rico" "net metering" solar capacity MW LUMA 2024 OR 2025 Puerto Rico rooftop solar generation vs residential consumption "Puerto Rico" total residential electricity consumption "GWh" OR "TWh" "residential electricity consumption" Puerto Rico "GWh" OR "megawatt hours" OR "kWh" 2024 OR 2025

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Citizen-driven solar in Puerto Rico will reach 1 gigawatt by 2025

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