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Puerto Rico Renewable Energy Essay

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United Nations, while not actively helping Puerto Rico, has taken steps towards renewable energy. One of their Development Goals is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all” (United Nations). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been working to install renewable energy sources in countries like Nepal (UNDP). And while America pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement Puerto Rico, along with fourteen other states, are remaining (Governor Jay Inslee). But the UN needs to do more with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and they need to call out the US for not doing as much as they could. FEMA also should help improve Puerto Rico’s grid rather than just rebuild it as it was because if they do more …show more content…

It is also important to know who is going to buy PREPA and what they are going to do with it, especially with renewable energy.
If BOEM does not want to help Puerto Rico there are many nearby, prospering hydroelectric companies (Technavio). Georgia Power Co. is a potential company from the US or BC Hydro and Power Authority, a Colombian company, could help too (Technavio). There’s also wind energy too. It currently already is Puerto Rico’s largest renewable source but after Hurricane Maria it has left Puerto Rico with it’s biggest wind plant offline. There are currently 44 wind turbines at Santa Isabel ready to start working (Dreazen). My recommendation would be to not expand on wind energy by much because, as mentioned earlier, the climate doesn’t lend itself well to turbines (U.S. Energy Information Administration). If Puerto Rico were to prefer solar energy over hydro or wind energy then Tesla could help like they wanted to. At the end of September Tesla said it would send Powerwall Storage Packs, solar powered generators, to help restore power (Merchant). Elon Musk even pushed back the release of the Tesla Semi to work on increasing the battery life of the Tesla Powerwall for Puerto Rico (Pullen). Additionally “about 40,000 solar

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