Pedro Pierluisi: “My constituents hear about all those billions, and they ask a simple question, where are they?”

The 15-year contract provides a payment methodology that includes either bonuses or penalties, depending on compliance with the metrics.

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.

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

We respectfully ask this Committee and Congress to help us address some additional challenges that we are facing in our ongoing post-disaster reconstruction.