Puerto Rico is a
Caribbean island in distress (Well Duh)
Puerto Rico is a
(110mi by (40mi) island.
It is always windy,
sunny and warm.
Because it is an
island, water is everywhere, salt and fresh.
Puritans
make trash,
sewer,
heat/cool their building
and
power their island,
right?
Why not do so with
'Alternative Energy Systems'?
Build everything
possible under or close to the ground for obvious reasons.
Petroleum products
fuel transportation, electricity generation, and industry in Puerto Rico,
supplying three-fourths of the energy consumed in the commonwealth.
In 2016, 47% of
Puerto Rico’s electricity came from petroleum,
34% from natural gas,
17% from
coal,
and
2% from renewable energy.
Two wind farms
supplied nearly half of Puerto Rico's renewable generation in 2016;
one of
them, the 95-megawatt Santa Isabel facility, is the largest wind farm in the
Caribbean.
As of June 2017,
Puerto Rico had 127 megawatts of utility-scale solar photovoltaic generating
capacity and 88 megawatts of distributed (customer-sited, small-scale)
capacity. In the first six months of 2017, more renewable electricity came from
solar energy than any other source.
Puerto Rico is a
large Caribbean island of roughly 3,500 square miles located in the West
Indies.
The maximum length
from east to west (from Punta Puerca to Punta Higuero) of 180 km (110
mi) and with a maximum width from north to south (from Isabella to Punta Colón)
of 65 km (40 mi). Comparative area: approximately three times the
size of Rhode Island.
It’s the easternmost
island of the Greater Antilles chain, which also includes Cuba, Jamaica and
Hispaniola (divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic). After centuries of
Spanish rule, Puerto Rico became a territory of the United States in 1898 and has
been largely self-governing since the mid-20th century. It has a population of
some 3.4 million people and a vibrant culture shaped by a mix of Spanish,
United States and Afro-Caribbean influences.
After three separate
votes in 1967, 1993 and 1998 reaffirmed Puerto Rico’s commonwealth status, a
majority of residents who voted in a 2012 referendum said they were not
satisfied with the status quo, and indicated their preferred choice was
independence over statehood.
Hundreds of
thousands of voters left the second part of the referendum blank, however,
leaving the question open for further debate. A fifth referendum in 2017 ended
in a majority vote for statehood, but only 23 percent of voters (a historic
low) turned out.
