[grania]

FWIW, I wonder about solar instead of getting back to the basics, such as hydro. I'm not sold that solar grids are good for the environment, aren't expensive and aren't hard to maintain. If they were so great, they wouldn't need government subsidies....corporate America would be all over it, making profits. I feel the same about windmills.

Wouldn't it be better to keep it simple and keep it as self-sufficient as possible, especially in isolated, poorly governed places such as Puerto Rico?

[gleeaikin]

Actually solar makes more sense in tropical PR than it does in a number of areas in the mainland US.