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Is Puerto Rico’s Grid Ready for Hurricane Season?

From our Editorial Team
June 29, 2020
June 1st marked the opening of Puerto Rico’s hurricane season, but it’s just one of many challenges confronting the island’s electric grid. The year opened with massive earthquakes that shut down the Costa Sur power plant, and then a pandemic upended the market and consumption patterns. Despite, or perhaps because of, these disruptions, the Puerto […]
Webinar – Puerto Rico: Bracing for Hurricane Season

From our Editorial Team
May 29, 2020
Is Puerto Rico’s grid ready for the 2020 hurricane season? Join key stakeholders for a webinar to find out. Experts discuss current preparations, including efforts to bring the Costa Sur plant back online, and the implications of Covid-19 and a potentially heavy hurricane season. To watch this complimentary webinar, click here. We hear from […]
Webinar – Covid-19 & Investment in Caribbean Infrastructure

From our Editorial Team
May 11, 2020
How is Covid-19 re-shaping the need for infrastructure investment in the Caribbean, and our ability to finance it? Watch a complimentary webinar held on Thursday, May 14th with leading figures from the regional and international infrastructure community who answer these questions and more. To watch this complimentary webinar, click here. Webinar topics include: What do […]
Women in Energy: Navigating Covid-19

From our Editorial Team
May 8, 2020
As Covid-19 continues to impact livelihoods and economies, what are the implications for the clean energy market in the Caribbean? How can we personally rise to the challenges and maintain our own self-resilience in these unprecedented times? We gathered an all-female webinar panel of Caribbean energy leaders to hear how they are navigating Covid-19 related […]
How Covid-19 is impacting Puerto Rico’s grid

From our Editorial Team
April 24, 2020
Just a few months ago, a disaster in Puerto Rico was measured in the magnitude of several earthquakes. But a slower and more seismic disaster has now struck, as Covid-19 unravels the island’s economy. How will Covid-19 impact Puerto Rico’s grid? We gathered the CEO of PREPA, and some of the utility’s biggest customers, to […]
Webinar | Puerto Rico & COVID-19: Impact on the Grid

From our Editorial Team
April 9, 2020
How is Covid-19 impacting Puerto Rico’s energy market, and what are the implications for utility customers? On Tuesday, April 14, we explored what this means for the future of the island’s grid. To listen to this complimentary webinar, click here. The discussion covers critical issues such as: How shifts in electricity demand are impacting the […]
How will COVID-19 re-shape the Caribbean?

From our Editorial Team
April 9, 2020
The Caribbean is no stranger to disaster. In a COVID-19 world, however, the Caribbean faces not only an unknown future for itself but a future in which its typically stable partners are experiencing the same economic contraction. Is there a way for the Caribbean to emerge stronger, and more resilient? With Caribbean islands in various […]
Coronavirus: The Caribbean is the First Domino to Fall, but There is Hope

From our Editorial Team
April 9, 2020
Guest Editorial by David Gumbs, James Fletcher & Justin Locke COVID-19 is crushing tourism-based, import-dependent economies across the Caribbean. Recovery will be slow—but it can also be revolutionary. Guest contributors David Gumbs, James Fletcher and Justin Locke frame for us a vision for how regional governments, with the help of multilateral institutions and global philanthropy, […]
(Summary) Coronavirus: The Caribbean is the First Domino to Fall, but There is Hope

From our Editorial Team
April 9, 2020
Summary of Guest Editorial by David Gumbs, James Fletcher & Justin Locke Read the editorial in full here. The global economy is on lockdown and the predictions are staggering. What is becoming increasingly clear is that the world after COVID-19 will look very different than it did before COVID-19. The long-term realities of the coronavirus […]