For the second time this year, the Public Buildings Authority has awarded a contract to New York-based utiliVisor to monitoring energy consumption levels at government centers in Aguadilla and Caguas, as well as the Police Department’s Hato Rey headquarters.
The island’s lack of a policy to protect against power failures and outages, energy fluctuations, and electricity quality problems that damage equipment is detrimental to business investments and triggers significant losses, Enrique Chávez, sales director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of Eaton Corporation’s power quality division.
The tight cultural and commercial relationship between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic is about to get even stronger in coming months as the islands work to develop joint projects in the areas of biofuel and energy production that also involve private sector participation, said Virgilio Álvarez-Bonilla, ambassador and executive director of the Joint Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico Bilateral Commission.
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