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Late Sunday morning, Tropical Storm Fiona strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. As of Sunday afternoon, even though the hurricane was far weaker than Maria, the island had lost all power — like five years before. Puerto Rico’s patched-up power grid continually acts up, causing constant blackouts and brownouts even when weather events aren’t present.
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Residents have experienced longer service restoration times since June, when Luma Energy, a Canadian-American company, took over Puerto Rico’s energy system. In a recent congressional hearing, [a Luma Energy executive] said the company had done more in the past 15 months to increase energy efficiency than what had been done in the past decade.
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Puerto Rico depends mostly on imported oil [for] electricity. There has been some progress to use renewables, mostly solar panels to counteract the tenuous power grid. [But] renewable energy generation is currently at less than 4%. A few weeks ago, [FEMA] made $9.5 billion available for Puerto Rico to rebuild its power grid, the largest ever public infrastructure project.