Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Provide Resilience During Island-Wide Blackout
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Summary
Puerto Rico experienced a widespread blackout, but the town of Adjuntas remained powered by solar microgrids during the outage. The island's aging electrical grid faced challenges, with vegetation being blamed for the recent blackout.
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· 3 pulledWhen power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on.
The rest of the island waited over 24 hours, and in some cases longer, for electricity to be restored.
Vegetation was to blame for April’s blackout, according to LUMA Energy.
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
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