Puerto Rico town celebrates ‘first-of-its-kind’ solar microgrid
From the article:
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is celebrating a milestone this week as it completes the final phase in a project to boost its energy resiliency. The community’s 17,600 residents now host the archipelago’s first cooperatively managed solar microgrid — a network of photovoltaic panels and battery storage units that will use renewable energy to keep the lights on and power flowing during a power outage.
“This is a first-of-its-kind project,” said Kate Trujillo, deputy director of the nonprofit Honnold Foundation, which helped install the microgrid alongside the Adjuntas-based nonprofit Casa Pueblo. “It’s amazing to see it all coalescing.”A big motivation for this project was the infrastructure damage from increasingly severe hurricanes, which have left communities like this without power for many months in the past. This is an excellent example of a community taking climate resiliency and adaptation into their own hands–as well as increasing their energy independence.
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