Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo Credit: Steve Hanley | CleanTechnica
Rooftop solar is booming in Puerto Rico, but facing the cold shoulder toward renewables that is fashionable in Washington, DC today.
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Puerto Rico has been ravaged and is facing significant loss of human life and harm to human life, among other things. Lack of drinking water, dehydration, food scarcity, and so many other problems are facing the Americans living there. The electric power grid in Puerto Rico is gone.
In a humanitarian effort to help the devastated and still threatened population, one of the companies stepping in to help is Tesla.
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