Emma Foehringer Merchant, Greentech Media
Clean up and electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico are ongoing. Photo Credit: Flickr/The National Guard
Summary
Thee Puerto Rico Energy Commission unveiled 29-pages of proposed regulations last week for future microgrid installations on the island.
The regulations, which are now open for 30 days of public comment, synthesized pages of responses received after a November 10 call for recommendations. Commission chair José Román Morales said it’s the most interest the not yet four-year old commission has received during a public rulemaking process.
The goal was to sketch a clearer outline for a tricky-to-define concept -- a microgrid can refer to many types of generation islanded from the central grid -- as more developers eye installations on the recovering island.
“There’s not a standard definition of what a microgrid is, not even on the mainland,” said Román Morales.
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