Puerto Rico elemental energies

What is Puerto Rico's energy policy?

The Energy Public Policy Ofice implements energy policy in Puerto Rico. In 2010, Act 82 was passed, requiring the energy supply in the territory to be diversified and establishing a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring 20% of electric-ity sales from renewables by 2035.

How can NREL support energy planning in Puerto Rico?

NREL’s ongoing and past activities to support energy planning in Puerto Rico, including publications, tools, and other resources, is available on the lab’s Multi-Lab Energy Planning Support for Puerto Rico webpage. Puerto Rico has committed to meeting its electricity needs with 100% renewable energy by 2050.

How much energy does Puerto Rico use?

This profile provides a snapshot of the energy landscape of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico—a U.S. territory located about 60 miles east of the Dominican Republic and directly west of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico’s utility rates are approximately $0.24/kilowatt-hour (kWh), below the Caribbean regional average of $0.33/kWh.

Is solar a solution for Puerto Rico's energy future?

Earthjustice and its partners pushed the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, which regulates energy in Puerto Rico, to reject reliance on a liquefied natural gas terminal and the construction of new gas plants, and instead embrace rooftop solar and battery storage as the true solution for Puerto Rico’s energy future.

What can Puerto Rico do to support end-use electrification?

To meet these goals and support widespread end-use electrification, Puerto Rico is exploring renewable energy and other generation technologies for energy storage, distributed generation, distribution control, electric vehicles, and energy efficient and responsive loads that can be deployed in each of Puerto Rico’s cities and communities.

What is the Puerto Rico energy Resilience Fund?

This program is a consumer-facing application phase of the first round of funding from the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund, a $1 billion DOE program focused on improving the resilience of Puerto Rico’s electric grid with an emphasis on the region’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged households and communities.