(Bloomberg) -- Puerto Rico’s shaky power grid is facing its latest test with Tropical Storm Ernesto, which threatens to trigger widespread blackouts as it...
-- Puerto Rico ’s shaky power grid is facing its latest test with Tropical Storm Ernesto , which threatens to trigger widespread blackouts as it bears down on the island with gale-force winds and heavy rain.Gottheimer Calls for Rail Riders to Be Reimbursed for Delays
Puerto Rico’s 3.2 million residents suffer chronic outages even during calm weather because of the power grid’s vulnerability. They also pay some of the highest electricity rates in the US. Luma Energy, a US-Canadian consortium, manages the grid and is tasked with modernizing and strengthening the system’s infrastructure, but progress has been slow.
Puerto Rico is already struggling to stabilize and fortify its grid, ramp up its renewable generation and strike a long-fought debt-cutting deal with bondholders and creditors, Sergio Marxuach, policy director at the Center for a New Economy, a San Juan-based think tank that focuses on the island’s finances and its energy challenges, said in an email.
It isn’t clear if Ernesto will make landfall in eastern Puerto Rico overnight or simply come very close to the island, but there will be widespread heavy rain, said Alex DaSilva, a meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. Ernesto is forecast to snake its way through the Caribbean, passing over parts of Puerto Rico late Tuesday into Wednesday and then churning into the Atlantic well east of the Bahamas. At that point it will start to strengthen as it makes a run north toward Bermuda, which it could hit Saturday as a Category 2 hurricane — or even a Category 3 — on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.Kamala Harris 4.
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