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US Army’s 249th Power Division works on a distribution line in the northeast part of Puerto Rico, Oct. 30. (Photo by Jeff Miller) (credit: Western Area Power) Since Puerto Rico was struck by Hurricane Maria in late September, the island has struggled to repair power lines, water pumps, cell phone towers, roads, and bridges. The […]
Enlarge / An AT&T Cell on Wings. (credit: AT&T) AT&T is using an LTE-equipped drone to reconnect some Puerto Ricans who lost wireless service after Hurricane Maria. This obviously isn’t a permanent fix for Puerto Rico, where 48 percent of cell sites are still out of service more than a month after the hurricane wrecked […]
Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Varcarcel/U.S. Navy Puerto Rico is still digging out of the worst of Hurricane Maria’s devastation. Grid power has been restored to 56 of 69 hospitals, while the others are using generators. Two hospitals remain entirely out of service due to storm damage. The US Navy’s USNS Comfort docked in San […]
Published time: 30 Oct, 2017 21:57 The Justice Department is reportedly investigating the $ 300 million contract awarded to Whitefish Energy to repair Puerto Rico’s power grid in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The island’s governor canceled the contract over the weekend. Agents from the FBI’s Puerto Rico field office are said to be examining […]
Energy regulators on Friday launched a broad investigation of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s effort to rebuild the island’s hurricane-wrecked electric grid, BuzzFeed News has learned. The Puerto Rico Energy Commission’s probe will include examining how and why the state-owned utility awarded a $ 300-million contract to the small Montana company Whitefish Energy, a decision […]
Last week AT&T announced it was the first carrier working with Alphabet’s balloon-distributed wireless setup in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and now T-Mobile customers have access too. Project Loon started off in the X Labs at Google, which are now a part of its parent company Alphabet, and uses balloons floating 20km high in […]
Enlarge / Image of Tesla’s solar+storage system outside of Hospital del Niño. (credit: Tesla) Two weeks ago, battery makers Tesla and Sonnen pledged to build microgrids and deliver batteries to hospitals and other critical infrastructure in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which wiped out power to nearly all of the island’s electricity […]
Real-life heroes do exist. And they look a lot like our fictional ones. Scarlett Johansson has rallied her fellow Avengers (you might even say assembled) to participate in an event from which the proceeds would go toward relief efforts in Puerto Rico. The U.S. territory is still reeling from the destruction inflicted by Hurricane Maria, which […]
About a month after Hurricane Maria’s devastating landfall on Puerto Rico and a couple of weeks after the FCC gave clearance, Project Loon is bringing wireless internet to people on remote parts of the island. Part of (Google parent company) Alphabet’s X innovation lab, the project uses balloons circling the Earth at high altitude to […]
Screenshot/Project Loon Google’s parent company Alphabet, in collaboration with AT&T, is now delivering limited internet connectivity in Puerto Rico through its internet balloon project called Project Loon. This is the first time Loon has ever been available in the US. That means that some AT&T customers in Puerto Rico can access limited internet connectivity on their smartphones […]
