Wind-Powered Microgrids Being Sent to Puerto Rico in Relief Effort
The microgrid industry continues to rally to help Puerto Rico, with the latest effort coming from makers of distributed wind-powered microgrids.
The Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) reports that is members are getting ready to send turnkey microgrids to help Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands that lost power as a result of Hurricane Maria.
Puerto Rico’s electric grid was almost entirely destroyed by the hurricane, leaving most of the island’s 3.4 million people with little to no access to electricity.
The island’s utility, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), had restored only 8.6 percent of its customers as of today, two weeks after the hurricane made landfall. The utility is forecasting that it may have 15 percent restored by October 21, but has warned it may be months before even half of the island has power. Some customers may be without electricity into 2018.
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Bloomberg Law
7 年Yay microgrids!
retired program manager
7 年Instead of what turbine I'm looking at, I appreciate the help they are receiving in Puerto Rico -- for those interested in the type of turbines being used I appreciate your engineering curiosity.
We XANT would be more then happy to see where we can help with our hurricane proof wind turbines. just let us know and we'll see what we can do
Managing Director
7 年Looks like a Kingspan wind turbine ????