Puerto Rico Hands Control of its Power Plants to a Natural Gas Company

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Advocates worry that the privatization of the territory’s generation units, which was negotiated in secret and awarded to a controversial company, will slow the transition to renewable energy.

Puerto Rican authorities have hired a natural gas company to operate the island’s publicly-owned fleet of fossil fuel power plants, despite the commonwealth facing increasing pressure to rapidly transition its aging energy system to renewable sources.

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