The following article by Steven Mufson, Jack Gillum, Aaron C. Davis and Arelis R. Hernández was posted on the Washington Post website October 23, 2017:
Hurricane Maria knocked out the electricity in Miram Carrasquillo’s home in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Ten days after the storm, she was able to get a small generator to power her nebulizer. Authorities say it could be months before the electrical grid is up and running again. (Zoeann Murphy, Victoria Walker, Melissa Macaya, Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico’s crippled electrical grid, the territory’s state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.
The company, Whitefish Energy, said last week that it had signed a $300 million contract with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to repair and reconstruct large portions of the island’s electrical infrastructure. The contract is the biggest yet issued in the troubled relief effort. Continue reading “Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico’s biggest contract to get the power back on”