Puerto Rico’s transition to renewable energy “will be a substantial effort, and won’t happen overnight, but 100% clean energy is 100% possible,” Agustín Carbó, director of DOE’s Puerto Rico Grid Recovery and Modernization Team, said in a call with reporters on Tuesday.
The PR100 study assessed the land requirements and technical potential for utility-scale solar, land-based wind and offshore wind, among other technologies. The study was published by DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and takes into account the island’s financial situation and the bankruptcy of its electric utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as PREPA.
“Renewable energy resource potential assessed for Puerto Rico exceeds by more than tenfold what is required to meet the current and projected total annual loads through 2050,” according to a summary of the study provided to reporters. “Moreover, electric load can be met with mature technologies, such as distributed PV, utility-scale PV, utility-scale wind, storage, and reciprocating engines running on biofuels.”
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