Comments on: Puerto Rico groups ask Congress to fund solar + storage for vulnerable communities https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/11/puerto-rico-groups-ask-congress-fund-solar-storage/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/11/puerto-rico-groups-ask-congress-fund-solar-storage/#comment-138344 Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:21:12 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=100512#comment-138344 ““It has been five years since Hurricane María and we still suffer from frequent blackouts,” said David Ortiz, Solar United Neighbors Puerto Rico Program Director. “It’s time to fix this problem. Solar energy and battery storage is the solution. It would save Congress billions of dollars in the future, everytime we get hit by a storm.””

It depends on whose “article” one has come acrossed over the years since Maria destroyed the incompetently maintained electric grid in 2017. It was said Puerto Rico had $50 billion dollars in relief aid “available” after Maria, but only something like $15 billion was used. Other articles had the relief funds at up to $91 billion dollars and if this was true, [every] home on Puerto Rico could have an 8.5kWp solar PV array and a 30kWh smart ESS installed for about $61 billion total. One might find taking an entire town and installing say 8MWp solar PV system and create a microgrid with 48MWh energy storage would allow many distributed microgrids to serve the citizens in a more cost effective manner. This type of utility scale microgrid could well reap the rewards of economies of scale over singular residential homes microgrids.

Why does it have to be so hard?

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