Posted on 04/16/2025 6:17:24 PM PDT by dynachrome
From elsewhere. How big is this island grid anyway? 2050!!!!
” In 2019, the territory passed the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act, which includes a goal for the island to fix its electricity woes by 2050 – though progress has been slow.”
How dare nbc. That’s as racist as floating garbage.
If only legislation actually made everything happen we’d be living in a paradise.
Puerto Rico is just a LARP (Live Action Role Play) of “Atlas Shrugged”.
Puerto Rico, l saving then planet by leading the way to Net Zero by 2050 !
Didn’t this happen last time PDJT was in office?
And didn’t the governor of PR blame him for it?
In all of the rural areas people should have their own systems with battery storage.
In cities and towns, enough local solar to run pumps and communications.
Have only air conditioning and industry on the grid.
“While the cause of the interruption is being investigated, preliminary findings indicate an unexpected shutdown at all generating plants,” the company said.
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So they all came down at once? Suggests a common denominator of some sort..... Y2K came a few years late?
They’ve agitated for independence for years. Time to cut ‘em loose. Not our problem.
Puerto Rico would be a good test place for the introduction of Small Modular Nuclear Reactor electric generation facilities.
Puerto Rico is in the peculiar position where all “fossil” fuel to power their electric generation has to be imported, in large volume and on an ongoing basis. Their “grid” is the most cobbled-up, dilapidated and inefficient example of electrical distribution anywhere in the world. It makes Cuba look almost modern in comparison.
I spent more than a few months there commissioning a power plant during the early 2000’s. I enjoyed the people, the culture, the entire vibe (but only during daylight hours - the nigh time was a different story).
One thing though, back then it was easy to recognize that, although the workers had all the modern stuff, and appeared competent, most were woefully unprepared to adequately perform their assigned tasks.
I know a couple of ex-Puerto Rican guys who would say:
“Yeah, the power went and nothing happened, just like any other day.”
Alejandro had to take a leak and there was no one else around to pedal the bicycle.
Sorta like Cuba.
3rd world is as 3rd world does ...
“In all of the rural areas people should have their own systems with battery storage.”
equipment and batteries would be stolen within 24 hours of installation ... a lot like the national grid ...
PR govt are ALARA - As Little As Reasonably Acceptable
During every hurricane, it takes months to restore all the Hi voltage lines around the island. This is slow requiring specialized crews. All those lines should be safe and secure in underground tunnels. all the hi voltage transformers, switch-gear and power generation should be in Cat 5 silos.
“So they all came down at once? Suggests a common denominator of some sort”
indeed: the same problem that caused the NE power blackout in 1965 [and the NYC blackout in 1977]: inability to install a functioning automatic load-shedding system that reacts to major system failures by automatically shedding load to keep the rest of the system stable, instead of allowing said failures to take down the rest of the system like a row of toppling dominoes ...
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