{"id":22633,"date":"2023-03-16T23:39:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/what-were-reading-puerto-rico-town-celebrates-first-of-its-kind-solar-microgrid\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T23:39:40","slug":"what-were-reading-puerto-rico-town-celebrates-first-of-its-kind-solar-microgrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/what-were-reading-puerto-rico-town-celebrates-first-of-its-kind-solar-microgrid\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading: Puerto Rico town celebrates \u2018first-of-its-kind\u2019 solar microgrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-md-12 panel-display mccoppin clearfix \">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 radix-layouts-column2 panel-panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-panel-inner content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-gia-submitted-by field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<div class=\"field--name-node-submitted-by\">Submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giarts.org\/blog\/Jaime%20Sharp\">Jaime Sharp<\/a> on March 16, 2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-body field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<p>&#8220;Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is celebrating a milestone this week as it completes the final phase in a project to boost its energy resiliency,&#8221; said Ricardo Arduengo for Grist. &#8220;The community\u2019s 17,600 residents now host the archipelago\u2019s first cooperatively managed solar microgrid \u2014 a network of photovoltaic panels and battery storage units that will use renewable energy to keep the lights on and power flowing during a power outage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The system includes some 700 panels mounted on seven buildings in the town\u2019s central plaza and a battery storage system capable of providing up to 187 kilowatts of power.* The batteries can provide enough off-grid electricity to keep 14 downtown businesses running for up to 10 days, serving as community hubs in case of an extended power outage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Business owners and residents will run the microgrid through a nonprofit called the nonprofit Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas, which will sell electricity to the commonwealth\u2019s grid through a power purchase agreement. Money saved by not buying power from Puerto Rico\u2019s main power company will support maintaining the microgrid and starting new community projects, according to the Honnold Foundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The system was built in response to Puerto Rico\u2019s increasingly severe hurricanes and the prolonged power outages they have caused for Adjuntas residents \u2014 some of whom have gone without electricity for as long as 11 months. Last fall, Hurricane Fiona destroyed half of Puerto Rico\u2019s transmission lines and distribution infrastructure, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people. The damage came even as the archipelago\u2019s power struggled to recover from similar destruction caused five years earlier by Hurricane Maria. Beyond the risk from extreme storms, Puerto Rico\u2019s gas-fired power plants face ongoing risks from earthquakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As hurricanes and other climate-related natural disasters grow more destructive, many communities across the U.S. are turning to microgrids. One report published in 2021 said the cumulative capacity of such systems could more than triple by 2030, creating almost half a million jobs nationwide and billions of dollars in economic activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll do the kind of things that really help communities keep together during power outages and natural disasters,\u201d Trujillo said. \u201cIt\u2019s a beacon of light, both figuratively and literally, in times of need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are doing with the microgrid is a reference for what can and should be done in other municipalities in Puerto Rico,\u201d he told me. \u201cWe can change our energy system, it can be done \u2014 we have shown that it can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/solutions\/puerto-rico-town-celebrates-first-of-its-kind-solar-microgrid\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.mccoppin --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Jaime Sharp on March 16, 2023 &#8220;Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is celebrating a milestone this week as it completes the final phase in a project to boost its energy resiliency,&#8221; said Ricardo Arduengo for Grist. &#8220;The community\u2019s 17,600 residents now host the archipelago\u2019s first cooperatively managed solar microgrid \u2014 a network of photovoltaic panels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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