CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
We reviewed a summary of the main findings of the PR100 Study in a prior policy brief. This time around we want to focus on a handful of issues that we believe merit further public discussion and analysis in Puerto Rico.
In this edition of Reading the DC Tea Leaves we present a list of upcoming federal policy issues that CNE will pursue over the coming years.
Congress should not make U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico wait to receive a fair portion of their daily bread until the next Farm Bill deliberations in 2028. The time for Congress to discharge its legal and moral obligations to Puerto Rico is now.
On February 7, representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy presented a summary of the findings of the PR100 Study. While the PR100 Final Report will not be released until late March, in this policy brief we highlight some of the findings of the PR100 Summary due to their importance and their potential policy implications for Puerto Ricoās electricity sector.
Now in 2023, the reconstruction and transformation of Puerto Ricoās electric power system is entering a critical stage, as several important processesāPREPAās operational and financial restructuring; the commencement of large-scale projects to rebuild the grid; and the elaboration of a new Integrated Resource Planāconverge at a key point in time.
AdemĆ”s de los numerosos premios internacionales que han recibido, y las mĆŗltiples reseƱas, estudios y escritos que se han redactado, la experiencia del CaƱo se ha discutido como ejemplo en Brasil, EspaƱa, SudĆ”frica y en otras comunidades que enfrentan problemas similares en diversas partes del mundo. Ahora falta que muchos mĆ”s aquĆ tomen nota y entiendan que, desde el CaƱo, se estĆ” repensando y verdaderamente reconstruyendo el paĆs.
En mayo del aƱo pasado, la Junta de PlanificaciĆ³n de Puerto Rico cumpliĆ³ 80 aƱos de existencia y poco o casi nada se dijo sobre este acontecimiento en un paĆs acostumbrado a festejar y reconocer cualquier cosa que se le venga a la mente a nuestros oficiales pĆŗblicos. Lee la columna de Deepak Lamba-Nieves.
In this Policy Brief, we will present an analysis of the principal components of the Generation Operation and Maintenance Agreement, including the basic structure of the transaction; the compensation of the Operator; the estimated savings to be generated as a result of hiring a private operator to operate and maintain the Legacy Generation Assets; the planned decommission of most of the existing facilities that currently use fossil fuels to generate electricity in Puerto Rico; and the resulting structure of Puerto Ricoās electricity market.
