The Department of Energy announced Thursday that it would be scrapping solar projects in Puerto Rico intended to install rooftop systems for some 30,000 low-income families as the island deals with a crumbling power grid.
The announcement explained it would be canceling roughly $350 to $365 million in funding intended for residential rooftop solar and battery storage for the U.S. territory as it struggles with chronic power outages.
The DOE said that the Puerto Rican governor’s rapid deployment of renewable energy systems has led to “unacceptable instability and fragility” in an already weak grid, according to an email from the DOE obtained by The Associated Press.
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“The Puerto Rico grid cannot afford to run on more distributed solar power,” the email reads. “The rapid, widespread deployment
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