Power line Whitefish Energy worked on in Puerto Rico keeps failing

It’s been nearly two months since Category 4 Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico, leaving behind immense devastation. On Wednesday morning, the island took another step backward, as the lights went off in San Juan once again. 

Shortly after the storm, the island’s government signed a controversial $300 million deal with a little-known Montana company known as Whitefish Energy to restore power to parts of the island. Yet the island continues to experience major problems with its fragile electrical grid.

As of Monday morning, power had been restored to about 50 percent of the island. That’s when a power line known as the Cambalache Manatee line failed, again, plunging San Juan into darkness.  Read more…

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