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Congress to deepen its investigation into Puerto Rico’s energy situation

The decision to move toward an emergency declaration at PREPA was announced at the end of the Natural Resources Committee hearing on the power outages and LUMA’s performance

October 7, 2021 - 11:40 AM

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Members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources insistently demanded explanations about the causes of the growing number of outages in Puerto Rico. (Agencia EFE)

By José A. Delgado

Corresponsal de El Nuevo Día en Washington D. C.jose.delgado@gfrmedia.com

Washington - Just after leaving a congressional hearing, the head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) announced yesterday that they had initiated the process to declare the public corporation in a state of emergency due to the “critical condition” of its generation fleet.