Puerto Rico Will Take Over Energy Restoration With or Without Oversight Clarity

Route Fifty: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will transfer energy restoration operations over to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority on May 18, amid debate over how best to regulate the public utility.

As of Monday—more than seven months after Hurricane Maria devastated the territory—the Army Corps had restored power to 1.45 million PREPA customers, 98.4 percent, leaving about 22,900 people still without electricity.

Senators at an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday worried that progress in building a truly resilient electric grid hasn’t been fast enough to prepare Puerto Rico for the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1.

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