Nearly 1,500 additional grid repair workers headed to Puerto Rico
By Caribbean Business on December 28, 2017
SAN JUAN – Eighteen member companies of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) industry trade group will send nearly 1,500 grid-restoration workers and support personnel to Puerto Rico in January to accelerate power restoration efforts across the island.
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As part of this mutual assistance deployment, hundreds of trucks with tools and equipment will be loaded on ships this week and barged to Puerto Rico, and our goal is for the nearly 1,500 mutual assistance crews from the mainland to arrive on the island by January 12,” added Carlos Torres, the island’s power restoration coordinator.
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With the new arrivals, the total number of power restoration workers on the island will increase to more than 5,500, the EEI said, including Prepa’s own crews, a contingent of crews from New York who are working as part of an intergovernmental agreement and crews mobilized under USACE contracts.
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Crews will be coming from utilities in the following states:
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia
Michigan
Missouri
Florida
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Read the whole article, it is very good news for a change.
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