First Community Solar Installation Goes Live In Puerto Rico
, a local organization that describes itself as a community self-management project committed to appreciating and protecting natural, cultural, and human resources. It was born in 1980, when the government of Puerto Rico wanted to start a mining operation in 17 deposits of silver, gold, and copper. Mining would have caused an ecological and social catastrophe in 36,000 acres of land in the municipalities of Adjuntas, Utuado, Lares, and Jayuya.
The Adjuntas microgrid has been in the works since 2019, as supporters needed time to raise funds for the system’s many components and figure out how to transport them up the mountain into town. Progress was further hamstrung by COVID-related supply chain disruptions, as well recurrent earthquakes and hurricanes.
Casa Pueblo used to own the only building in Adjuntas equipped with solar panels capable of meeting the community’s needs during an outage. Now, the microgrid will expand residents’ access to off-grid electricity, giving them the ability to refrigerate food and medicine, charge electronic devices, and more. “It’ll do the kind of things that really help communities keep together during power outages and natural disasters,” Trujillo said.
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