Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge
Summary
Puerto Rico regulators on Friday issued final microgrid rules to help boost development, as the island continues to struggle to recover from last September’s island-wide power outage following Hurricane Maria.
The rules (CEPR-MI-2018-0001) arrived in a speedier fashion than the norm for energy regulation, with just five months between draft and finalization by the Puerto Rico Energy Commission (PREC).
Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, is now ahead of most of the states in terms of presenting clear guideposts for the growing microgrid industry. It is also more desperate. On April 18 the central grid went down once again, plunging the entire island – about 3 million people — into darkness.
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