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AES,
. . . donates 6 MW of batteries to Puerto Rico.
“Our goal,
. . . is to deploy these resources,
. . . where the power is likely to not come back anytime soon,
. . . because of the damage sustained from the storm.”

Other clean energy, and energy storage companies, including:
. . . . . . Tesla,
. . . . . . Sonnen, and
. . . . . . Tabuchi America,
. . . have been prominent in making:
. . . . . . equipment donations,
. . . . . . contributing time, and
. . . . . . labour, to local efforts.

Puerto Rico’s Energy Commission,
. . . also asked stakeholders to offer their views,
. . . on how best to go about rebuilding electricity networks.
AES offered up a plan,
. . . that would consist of a network of minigrids,
. . . “reinforced by key transmission, and distribution lines,
. . . powered by:
. . . . . . 10,000MW of large-scale solar, and
. . . . . . 2,500 MW of 10-hour battery-based energy storage.”

DoE has also identified,
. . . 200 sites which could be suitable for microgrid development,
. . . for “key locations”, such as:
. . . . . . hospitals, and
. . . . . . water treatment plants.
This would represent some
. . . 11MW of energy capacity, while a further
. . . 400 sites are also being investigated.

12-8-2017 Source:  Puerto Rico: 6 MW Battery donation