Achieving energy efficiency doesn’t have to break bank
February 27, 2014
Lowering energy costs has become a number one priority for scores of businesses all over the world, and particularly in Puerto Rico, where their budgets take a serious hit every month when electricity bills arrive.
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Novel paper recycling program a hit in Puerto Rico
February 3, 2014
Puerto Rico residents have not always been too inclined to recycle, perhaps due to a lack of education on the importance of doing so to help the environment, or simply for a lack of facilities where to take their paper, glass and plastic goods.
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SuperGreen Solutions looking to expand into Puerto Rico
January 17, 2014
A Florida-based franchise chain specialized in energy-efficient goods and services is looking to expand to Puerto Rico.
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EPA to spend $3M to clean up Scorpio Recycling site
November 6, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to address contaminated soil at the Scorpio Recycling Superfund site in Toa Baja, and will begin clean up efforts that will cost an estimated $3 million, the agency announced Tuesday.
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Renowned wildlife artist Harvey to join SJ estuary cleanup
October 21, 2013
Renown marine wildlife artist and conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey will join forces with Pesca, Playa y Ambiente, a Puerto Rican nonprofit organization, and hundreds of volunteers in a massive cleanup effort in a San Juan lagoon and estuary system highly-regarded as a tarpon habitat.
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Gov’t opens call for Green Energy Fund financing
September 30, 2013
Puerto Rico-based companies interested in benefiting from the government’s Green Energy Fund program will have from Oct. 1-5 to sign up and apply for financing online, José Maeso, executive director of the Energy Affairs Administration announced.
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Puerto Rico Police Assoc. to deploy energy-saving LPG tech
September 13, 2013
Scuderi Group Inc. announced Thursday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Puerto Rico Police Association for the first Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine to be utilized as a liquefied petroleum gas generator with compressed air energy storage (CAES) capability.
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EPA seeks comment on $3M Scorpio Recycling cleanup
August 9, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a $3 million cleanup plan to address contaminated soil at the Scorpio Recycling Superfund site in Toa Baja, for which it will hold a public meeting to discuss its proposal and garner public opinion. SRI was a metal recycling company that operated from 1972 until 2010 in a […]
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Clinton: ‘Puerto Rico could lead Caribbean in move toward energy independence’
July 17, 2013
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who visited Puerto Rico this week to discuss his views on furthering renewable energy use, told a roomful of government officials, academics, lawmakers and business leaders Tuesday that the U.S. territory has the tools to “lead the entire Caribbean in a move toward being energy-independent.”
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Study: Energy from renewable sources would save Puerto Ricans $240M
July 12, 2013
The energy drawn from renewable sources could represent savings of up to $240 million in energy production by 2020, resulting in significant relief to thousands of island residents who are served by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, according to the findings of a study unveiled Thursday by the Renewable Energy Producers Association.
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Puerto Rico Energy Affairs to assign $25M in rebates this year
July 4, 2013
The Puerto Rico Energy Affairs Administration has a $25 million budget to provide subsidies for eligible residential and commercial renewable energy projects, representing a 20 percent increase over the $20 million available for fiscal 2013, agency Executive Director José Maeso said Wednesday.
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Ford grants $40K for environmental conservation projects
June 21, 2013
Fourteen local non-profit organizations in Puerto Rico will be expanding their environmental conservation efforts this year after being awarded a total of $40,000 by Ford Motor Company’s Environmental Grants Program.
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Waste-to-energy plant lands key EPA permit, awaits EQB decision
June 12, 2013
Less than a week after the Puerto Rico government cancelled its contract with Energy Answers for the construction and operation of a new 77-megawatt solid waste facility in Arecibo, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday its final approval of an air permit for the proposed waste-to-energy plant.
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Experts: Increased renewable energy use could shave $200M off electricity bills
May 30, 2013
Despite the existence of several adverse factors that affect the price of renewable energy production in Puerto Rico, the amount per kilowatt-hour is considerably lower today than what it costs the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to produce energy from fossil sources, the head of the Association of Renewable Energy Producers said Wednesday.
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APER seeks to help ‘stabilize, reduce’ Puerto Rico energy costs
May 7, 2013
Faced with the constant demand by consumers wanting relief in soaring energy costs and the government's efforts to try to meet those expectations, the Association of Renewable Energy Producers went public Monday with a mission to help stabilize and reduce the price of energy in Puerto Rico.
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