CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
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A raíz de la devastación causada por el huracán María, el Gobierno federal de Estados Unidos puso en marcha iniciativas de ayuda de emergencia para Puerto Rico. El informe analiza los gastos posdesastres federales, y los sectores y empresas contratados. Nuestros hallazgos principales sugieren que el gasto federal de socorro y recuperación en Puerto Rico se está utilizando mayormente para contratar firmas estadounidenses.
In the wake of the devastation resulting from hurricane María, the United States Federal Government mobilized numerous emergency relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Traditionally, Federal disaster response has been thought of as the “silver lining” that stems from a catastrophic event, given the millions of US Government dollars that are pumped into the local economy.
Black Start 2019 is poised to become a defining event for the future of energy in Puerto Rico. We are thrilled to welcome Fundación Colibrí to our team as the Presenting Sponsor of the Conference. Fundación Colibrí is a new philanthropic entity established by a Puerto Rican family in the diaspora with the purpose of helping Puerto Rico to rebuild after the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.
Good morning, Senator Lawrence Seilhamer Rodríguez, Chairman of the Special Committee on Energy Affairs of the Senate of Puerto Rico, members of the committee, and everyone here with us today.
El 31 de julio el gobierno de Puerto Rico, la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (“AEE”) y la Junta de Control Fiscal (“JCF”) anunciaron un acuerdo preliminar para apoyar la reestructuración de una parte de la deuda de la AEE con un grupo de bonistas no-asegurados de dicha entidad.
Natural disasters mostly destroy, but they also generate new vocabularies that include an alphabet soup of acronyms and all sorts of technical concepts that we survivors have to quickly learn and assimilate—concepts, for instance, like “resilience.”
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s energy system. After the storm, the island essentially has had to re-activate its energy system from the equivalent of a system-wide “blackstart”, which is the technical term for restarting an energy system from a complete shutdown.
