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Puerto Rico’s Energy Future: Keeping Power With the People

Puerto Rico’s Energy Future: Keeping Power With the People 765772 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018765772New Labor ForumSweeney research-article2018 Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 87 –92 Puerto Rico’s Energy Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Future: Keeping Power sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796018765772 DOI: 10.1177/1095796018765772 With the People journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Sean Sweeney Keywords trade unions, climate change, corporations, debt, environmental movement, neoliberalism, privatization Puerto Rico is now at the center of the global was also criticized for dragging its feet on the debate about climate resiliency, the potential of development of wind and solar power. Puerto renewable energy technologies, and the best Rico has significant wind and considerable way to transition away from fossil fuels. To solar potential, but only 3.3 percent of its pre- some extent, it has compressed the struggle for Maria power was generated by renewables. Oil the world’s energy future both geographically generates 47.4 percent of Puerto Rico’s power; and temporally. The whole system was shut about 33 percent was generated by gas and down by an “extreme weather event” in the roughly 16 percent from coal—all of it form of hurricane Maria that hit the island on imported. In 2010, the island’s legislature intro- September http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Puerto Rico’s Energy Future: Keeping Power With the People

Sweeney, Sean
New Labor Forum , Volume 27 (2): 6 – May 1, 2018
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765772 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018765772New Labor ForumSweeney research-article2018 Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 87 –92 Puerto Rico’s Energy Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Future: Keeping Power sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796018765772 DOI: 10.1177/1095796018765772 With the People journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Sean Sweeney Keywords trade unions, climate change, corporations, debt, environmental movement, neoliberalism, privatization Puerto Rico is now at the center of the global was also criticized for dragging its feet on the debate about climate resiliency, the potential of development of wind and solar power. Puerto renewable energy technologies, and the best Rico has significant wind and considerable way to transition away from fossil fuels. To solar potential, but only 3.3 percent of its pre- some extent, it has compressed the struggle for Maria power was generated by renewables. Oil the world’s energy future both geographically generates 47.4 percent of Puerto Rico’s power; and temporally. The whole system was shut about 33 percent was generated by gas and down by an “extreme weather event” in the roughly 16 percent from coal—all of it form of hurricane Maria that hit the island on imported. In 2010, the island’s legislature intro- September

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