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Puerto Rico Electric Grid Rebuilding Pushes Forward<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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After facing unreliable electricity since Hurricanes Maria and Irma devastated the island three years ago, Puerto Rico residents finally see a glimmer of hope with its new revised Integrated Resource Plan, released Aug. 24. Experts say this 20-year plan is better aligned with the territory\u2019s goals of using sustainable, renewable energy and is a step forward for the island after its first plan received major pushback for being too reliant on fossil fuels. With the U.S. territory\u2019s catastrophic electricity failures, the island has a long road ahead, but the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority now has the roadmap with the IRP, which has been approved by its regulatory body, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau. PREPA\u2019s most recent CEO, Jose Ortiz, resigned in August after outrage over mismanagement of power outages, and the authority is again restructuring its management. Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda V\u00e1zquez Garced recommended acting CEO Efran Paredes-Maisonet as a permanent CEO. PREPA\u2019s board still needs to approve his appointment.<\/p>\n

New Plan The new and aggressive 332-page IRP aims to underground all major transmission lines; diversify, relocate and privatize generation; increase renewable generation; and build out a resilient distribution grid. The plan proposes a contract for 3,900 MW of renewable energy and 1,640 MW of battery storage, with no limit on expansion of renewables and storage space.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy that they\u2019re making these strong recommendations and making sure that PREPA moves forward [with] the right energy solutions for the proper energy transition of the island,\u201d says local Agust\u00edn Carb\u00f3, who serves as senior manager of microgrids at the Environmental Defense Fund, an independent entity that pushes for transparency in Puerto Rico\u2019s energy public policy through ensuring public participation and that information be made public.<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, which oversees PREPA, also ordered the authority to directly incorporate use of \u201cminigrids\u201d into all of its transmission, distribution, and resource planning exercises. Minigrids, an off-grid electricity distribution network involving small-scale forms of generation for remote areas, have been deemed a critical part of the resiliency solutions envisioned for Puerto Rico. The IRP says the island should approve one minigrid to determine if the concept can function as planned, \u201cincluding load management, careful vetting of generation options and a design to deliver knowledge and experience relevant to advancing a decentralized renewable energy future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Environmental Defense Fund, this is extremely important considering that we are in the process of designing a clean energy system that can provide resiliency to a community in Puerto Rico,\u201d Carb\u00f3 says. \u201cIt\u2019s been tough here. We have a pretty old system that hasn\u2019t been really updated. This is the reason why we have all these outages. We need to think about more decentralized solutions versus centralized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics of the original IRP, including EDF, complained it didn\u2019t lessen the island\u2019s reliance on fossil fuels. The Sustainable and Alternative Renewable Energy Act, enacted in 2010 and amended in 2019, established a renewable energy portfolio standard in Puerto Rico. The IRP cites the act and how it requires retail energy providers to procure 12% of its power needs through renewable energy by 2015, 15% by 2020 with a goal of reaching 20% by 2035.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the IRP focuses on renewable energy and decentralized clean energy options such as distributed generation, microgrids, energy efficiency and demand response to meet the renewable portfolio standard and to replace the fossil fuel-generated assets that will be retired, including the AES coal-fired power plant, which will retire by 2027. The distributed generation will also reduce the island\u2019s reliance on electricity that is now brought by transmission lines over its mountainous center. The IRP also approves a preliminary assessment for a combined cycle gas turbine in the island\u2019s metropolitan area. A budget of $5 million was approved for limited siting, permitting and feasibility analysis.<\/p>\n

“The need for decentralized power generation has been made obvious by multiple hurricanes and earthquakes knocking out concentrated generation on the south shore when [70%] of the people live on the north shore. So that is a no brainer,\u201d says Stephen Spears, president of Bonneville Contracting & Technology Group LLC, a Puerto Rico-based specialty contractor business concentrating in utilities.<\/p>\n

New Fortress Energy has begun construction on a gas port and a generation facility in San Juan, which will serve its Port of San Juan facility, including truck loading bays. The port will supply liquefied natural gas to the San Juan Combined Cycle Power Plant and encourage on-island industrial, commercial and transportation customers to use this type of more affordable and environmentally friendly energy solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlbeit small, it is a start and it will create more LNG price competition. So that is a good start,\u201d Spears says. \u201cKnocking down existing PREPA-owned plants in the northern Metro area is being discussed \u2026 . Selling those properties to private producers seems to be a rational alternative for those old, expensive and antiquated bunker fuel burning plants.\u201d<\/p>\n

If PREPA accepts the changes made by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, it will be effective. If not, the authority can appeal the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuente de la noticia: https:\/\/www.enr.com\/topics\/129-power-industrial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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