Items Tagged with 'Hurricane Maria'

Collaboration will propel repairs to the Guajataca Dam, damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017, which supplies drinking water to about 300,000 rssidents..

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district hired PowerSecure Inc. in 2017 via a sole source time-and-materials contract for power grid repair and restoration in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, but the government says the firm improperly withheld pricing data.

Cobra Acquisitions took over power restoration work in Puerto Rico after a contract with the maligned Whitefish Energy was canceled.

Puerto Rico will get 100% of its power from renewable resources by 2050 under legislation signed April 12 by the territory’s governor.

If Kris Caldwell has a mantra, it’s “we have to do more.” 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is starting work on a massive scope of flood control projects in Puerto Rico that are expected to help protect communities from damages inflicted by flooding like that caused by hurricanes Maria and Irma.

After a management crisis in early July, operations at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority have settled down following the appointment of electrical engineer José F. Ortiz as the utility’s new executive director and chief operating officer.