A view from a hilltop near Salinas, Puerto Rico, shows the vast area now covered in solar panels for one of the island's largest photovoltaic plants. Another facility more than twice the size is ...

Power lines rise in front of electric towers and smokestacks at the Palo Seco power plant in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — ...

“Thank you Casa Pueblo. My daughter was able to do her dialysis. We’re forever grateful,” wrote Nery Torres in Spanish on the sustainability nonprofit’s Facebook page, on Sept. 19, just days after ...

For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucy’s Pizza was the only restaurant open in the central mountain town of Adjuntas. The town’s 18,000 residents, like those on the ...

Ruth Santiago is an attorney with a community and environmental-energy law practice in Puerto Rico, and is a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. American taxpayers are ...

For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucy’s Pizza was the only restaurant open in the central mountain town of Adjuntas. The town’s 18,000 residents, like those on the ...

The solar tech startup with a mission to “democratize solar energy,” is preparing to launch its all-in-one home solar and ...

In Puerto Rico, residents are flocking to rooftop solar and backup batteries in search of more reliable, affordable — and cleaner — alternatives to the central power grid. Fire stations, hospitals, ...

ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico, March 31 (Reuters) - For U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Graholm, the transformation of Puerto Rico's power grid to solar and other renewable power, after hurricanes wiped it out ...

Nine days after Hurricane Fiona, a Category 1 storm, more than half a million homes and businesses in Puerto Rico were still without electricity, but many people across the rural municipality of ...

Puerto Rico's electric power grid does not have a great track record when it comes to weathering powerful storms. Last year, Hurricane Fiona knocked out electricity for many across the island. And ...

Ten months after Hurricane Maria, Adjuntas still loses power any time a heavy rain or wind pounds the rickety power lines feeding this town high in the central mountains of Puerto Rico. That leaves ...