LUMA Energy is making progress upgrading Puerto Rico’s electric grid and has requested $8.2 billion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support hundreds of modernization initiatives.
The utility is advancing a “record number of critical reconstruction projects,” Juan Rodríguez, LUMA Energy’s vice president of capital programs, wrote in a recent column first published March 31 by Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día. The utility later shared an English language version.
Over the last 21 months the utility submitted 314 projects to the disaster relief agency, all aimed at “restoring and modernizing the most critical elements of the infrastructure and electric grid,” Rodríguez said.
