District court rules renewable energy must be considered in Puerto Rico energy rebuild

District court rules renewable energy must be considered in Puerto Rico energy rebuild

Conservation and community groups have won a legal challenge to federal plans to spend billions of dollars to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric grid back to the centralized, fossil fuel-dependent status quo instead of investing post-disaster funding in distributed renewable energy. Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico holds that the Federal Emergency… The post District court rules renewable energy must be considered in Puerto…