Five proposals from Puerto Rico requesting a combined $163,000 in funding have been selected to benefit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program, or REAP, to develop energy efficiency projects.
Gathered before a group of professionals, politicians and government officials, the founders OPEN Puerto Rico, a digital platform that seeks to serve as a repository for public information, discussed details of its first fundraising campaign.
The Gov. García-Padilla administration is looking to broaden the scope of possibilities regarding the establishment of public-private partnerships, or P3s, through legislation that would allow smaller scale projects, P3 Authority Executive Director Grace Santana said.