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What do you answer to those who say we need not rebuild or convert to new fuels any of the existing fleet, but just fix it to keep running until the renewables come on-line?

Can you identify critical units that absolutely must go offline soon for maintenance?

Please provide us the latest generation report and the tables/report on the condition of the generating fleet.

How good is our infrastructure right now? Is it going to handle any hurricane?

Four years after Hurricane Maria, 1 year since the obligation of over $10 billion in different funds to build a better grid, 3 months after a much-proclaimed contract for Transmission and Distribution, this has ended the people's patience.

I hope this hearing provides better guidance to all of us in addressing this issue, in answering what is going to happen when the people of Puerto Rico are going to have power, and when PREPA is going to submit to FEMA all the necessary…

In order for that to happen, we must now, first and foremost, provide the people of Puerto Rico an energy supply that is affordable for the consumer; reliable for both base loads and peak loads for the private sector, as well--our…

I want to thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member Westerman, for the opportunity to have this very timely hearing.

On October 4, 2021, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi publicly recognized that AES-PR is ready to convert its thermal plant to another source of energy.

What does it mean to your members, and transit organizations that serve new transit routes created in response to COVID-19, that we are unable to provide long-term certainty and funding?

This is a bipartisan legislation that would apply the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the submerged lands off the five U.S. territories for renewable energy purposes.

This bipartisan legislation would apply the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the submerged lands off the five U.S. territories for renewable energy purposes.

I, therefore, hope that we can once again work in a bipartisan manner to move H.R. 1689 out of the Committee and finally get it across the finish line.

By allowing us to tap into potential offshore wind resources, H.R. 1689 would help the territories address high energy costs, diversify our fuel sources, and end our reliance on foreign petroleum imports.

The bill was filed on March 2, in commemoration of the 104th anniversary of the granting of U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans.

The Act of Admission was filed by Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez Colon.

This would represent a significant electoral weight, which would give it more political power than 25 states in the nation.

Can we establish how much time?