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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Department of Homeland Security today over their plans to rebuild Puerto Rico’s centralized electric ...

The length of power outages in Puerto Rico increased 11% last year as the island struggles to rebuild an electric grid that already lacked maintenance and investment when it was razed by Hurricane ...

Hurricane Maria made landfall in September 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm's sustained 249 kilometer per hour (155 mph) wind and heavy rain destroyed the Island's power grid leaving most of ...