The Billions in Change Foundation has launched Energize-Mobilize: Puerto Rico, a campaign to bring mobile electricity to Puerto Rico through both cash contributions and in-kind donations of portable energy devices.
Maximo Solar Industries, which specializes in the development of solar energy projects and in selling major brands of solar storage batteries in Puerto Rico and Florida, became the first company to receive funding from the new Popular Mezzanine Fund.
The pristine Sun Bay Public Beach in the island municipality of Vieques recently reopened for use, nearly seven months after Hurricane María struck, getting its power from residential hybrid solar-plus-storage manufacturer Tabuchi America.