After Hurricane Maria hit in 2017 — the second deadliest in U.S. history — Congress allocated billions to Puerto Rico’s grid to repair energy plants and power lines damaged by the storm and ...

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Puerto Rico sits in the Caribbean, between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with the Caribbean Sea to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Although the island is small ...

The storm's sustained 249 kilometer per hour (155 mph) wind and heavy rain destroyed the Island's power grid leaving most of Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents without electricity. Severe damage ...

The island suffers from chronic power outages that worsened after Hurricane Maria razed the grid when it slammed into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm in September 2017. However, the grid was ...