The $5.6 million LNG co-generation facility supports the energy needs of the pharmaceutical plant.
Eleven rural small businesses in Puerto Rico will split $245,000 in loans and grants approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to further renewable energy use, agency Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s chronic foot-dragging on allowing individuals and businesses to connect their renewable energy systems to the grid is causing the island to lose out on federal funding opportunities available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development agency, this media outlet confirmed.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has reached agreements with six renewable energy companies who will now produce power that is expected to generate $63 million in savings for the agency in 20 years, Executive Director Juan Alicea said Tuesday.
The Association of Renewable Energy Producers will host Tuesday a forum focusing on industry issues and the challenges the sector faces in Puerto Rico related to infrastructure, pricing and economic matters.
Four Puerto Rico farms will receive about $160,000 combined to develop on-site photovoltaic solar systems to slash their energy bills through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which is authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, the agency announced.
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.”
President Bill Clinton arrived to Puerto Rico Monday afternoon to begin a brief 24-hour visit that includes an agenda of private meetings with government officials and supporters, as well as delivering a speech on the importance of renewable energy during a forum today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Puerto Rico farmers and rural small businesses for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects looking to develop energy efficiency and renewable energy projects have the chance to obtain funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program, agency Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced.
Hundreds of professionals representing the green energy, construction, and recycling industries, as well as local and national environmental organizations got together in Puerto Rico this week to present alternatives for sustainable development.
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