CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
PREPA’s operational and financial restructuring, the rebuilding of the grid and a new Integrated Resource Plan are converging at a critical moment. We assess each process and warn that disputes over natural gas and rooftop versus utility-scale solar are delaying the transition.
Residents of eight communities along El Caño MartĂn Peña have shaped one of San Juan’s biggest infrastructure projects. Their resident-led model of planning, relocation and a community land trust shows the way to truly rebuild the country.
A special edition on Puerto Rico at a Crossroads, our conference with three Yale centers on restarting sustainable growth. Scholars discussed fiscal policy, human capital, inequality and trade, with a keynote by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Once a crown jewel of Puerto Rico’s government, the Planning Board turned 80 with little fanfare. We trace how political pressure and developer interests eroded it, and why Puerto Rico still needs a strong long-term planning agency.
A special edition on Puerto Rico’s energy transformation: where PREPA’s debt restructuring, grid reconstruction, the LUMA transition and the PR100 Study stand, plus highlights from our analysis of the Genera contract.
We analyze the agreement under which Genera PR will operate, maintain and eventually decommission PREPA’s legacy power plants. It offers better protections than the LUMA contract, but its projected savings are thin and poorly supported.
More than 8,000 doctors have stopped practicing in Puerto Rico since 2009. Drawing on Spain’s experience, we argue the shortage calls for rethinking the island’s health system as a whole, not just offering tax incentives.
At a Federal Reserve Bank of New York event on equitable growth, CNE founder Miguel A. Soto-Class discusses the opportunities that natural disasters and resiliency efforts create for more equitable growth.
