Pedro Pierluisi: “LUMA is represented at this hearing, so you can ask them directly.”

I am devoting--it is my call--$500 million of CDBG-MIT funding to provide, basically, solar systems with batteries to roughly 25,000 low-income households.

We are devoting $1.3 billion of CDBG-DR funding for microgrids, distributed energy initiatives in remote communities.

The people of Puerto Rico voted and chose permanent union with the United States through statehood as their path forward.

We need to do public-private partnerships for both transmission and distribution and generation, and actually split the two so that there is no monopoly in Puerto Rico.