Following the back-to-back strikes by Hurricanes Irma and María, Puerto Rico’s municipal governments, for the most part, represented the first line of response to the emergency, prompting the central government to unveil a $100 million fund to support their work.
Finders Keepers, a local consignment shop on San Juan’s iconic Loíza Street, will be closing its doors temporarily for the next several weeks, as it relocates from the sector that has been hard-hit by a lack of power for the better part of the last three months.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced the development of six projects that combine solar photovoltaic and Tesla energy storage on the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, where electricity service was interrupted after the passage of Hurricane María.