LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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April 20, 2023

Can Puerto Rico Achieve its Solar Energy Goals?

Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi announced new solar energy initiatives in an annual state of the territory address. // File Photo: @GovPierluisi via Twitter.

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Kenneth Davison McClintock, 22nd Lt. governor and secretary of state of Puerto Rico: “Despite the governmental powers that PROMESA took away almost seven years ago from duly elected governors and legislative assemblies of Puerto Rico, the chief executive retains enormous powers to get things done to achieve, among other challenges, the 40 percent of renewable energy goal by the end of 2025, 32 months away. Just as Governor Fortuño got renewable energy jumpstarted in 2010, including major wind farms and solar farms, with biweekly meetings to pressure permitting team members for two long years, and running through three PREPA executive directors who had been less committed to renewable energy than him, Governor Pierluisi still has the power to …”

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