Only a fraction of the island’s 1.4 million utility customers had power on Tuesday morning. The electricity provider said it would take 24 to 48 hours to restore power.
Good luck to convince the U.S. government to do that about anything.
The Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund program went live almost two years ago and will provide solar panels and battery storage systems to low-income households in Puerto Rico with zero upfront costs.
The citizens of PR seemingly have better access to Solar and Battery subsidies than most people living in an actual State.
PR could do it themselves. Most states already have energy efficiency rebate programs and sell discounted batteries. If PR can’t because they aren’t a state…well maybe they should change that.
I wholly support statehood if only to give them more representation and autonomy. I don’t care who they vote for.
Puerto Ricians don’t care about the island anymore. The dude they chose OKed calling it a pile of garbage in the ocean. Apparently, the limits of pride reach to just below voting for a woman and just above referring to your homeland as garbage.
First of all, Puerto Rico can only symbolically vote for president because they don’t get electoral college votes. I’m not sure why you aren’t aware of that.
Secondly, that symbolic vote was overwhelmingly for Harris.
Just subsidize personal battery systems and lock the electric companies with no price increases for 5 years, or some variation of the above.
EcoFlow and others have made it very easy to have a personal grid backup that can charge off cheap solar panels.
Good luck to convince the U.S. government to do that about anything. You’ve got less than a month.
The Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund program went live almost two years ago and will provide solar panels and battery storage systems to low-income households in Puerto Rico with zero upfront costs.
The citizens of PR seemingly have better access to Solar and Battery subsidies than most people living in an actual State.
You have apparently forgotten who just got elected president.
PR could do it themselves. Most states already have energy efficiency rebate programs and sell discounted batteries. If PR can’t because they aren’t a state…well maybe they should change that.
I wholly support statehood if only to give them more representation and autonomy. I don’t care who they vote for.
Puerto Ricians don’t care about the island anymore. The dude they chose OKed calling it a pile of garbage in the ocean. Apparently, the limits of pride reach to just below voting for a woman and just above referring to your homeland as garbage.Disregard this. I was fucking wrong lol.
First of all, Puerto Rico can only symbolically vote for president because they don’t get electoral college votes. I’m not sure why you aren’t aware of that.
Secondly, that symbolic vote was overwhelmingly for Harris.
https://puertoricoreport.com/puerto-rico-election-results-2024/
Yeah. I was thinking of Cuban Americans, not Puerto Ricians.
Across the board, every Latino group voted for Harris except Cubans.
This was a fuckup on my part, and I will eat my crow now.
Federal subsidies are already there.
There’s also Investment Tax Credits, Property Tax Credits, and Net Metering.