The Senate is expanding a long-stalled disaster assistance bill to aid farmers and ranchers swamped by recent Midwest floods, but it’s still not clear when Congress will pass the legislation due to a dispute between the White House and House Democrats over funding for Puerto Rico.

Bruce Walker, the newly installed assistant secretary in DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, says his recent two-week visit to Puerto Rico showed the need to make the island’s electric grid more resilient against future storms.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) sent 1,000 power line poles to Puerto Rico last week to help rebuild the electrical grid devastated by Hurricane Maria.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 - Amid criticism, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is backing out of a $300 million contract with Montana-based Whitefish Energy.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) plans to send microgrids and small-scale wind turbines to Puerto Rico.