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Hurricanes blew away Puerto Rico's power grid. Now solar power is rising to fill the void.
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Sat, 2018-01-06 09:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux
submitted by Bill Sullivan
usatoday.com - by Daniella Cheslow - January 5, 2018
More than three months after Hurricanes Maria and Irma slammed their island, over a million Puerto Ricans are still without reliable power. But one recent day, Rosa López and José Quiñones finally left those ranks.
It happened when four technicians installed a Tesla Powerwall solar battery pack onto a wall in their suburban San Juan home — a 275-pound white metal beast that can store enough electricity to keep a house running from sunset to sunrise.
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