Puerto Rico's Earthquakes & Grid Resilience with Gilberto Guevara, Program Director, Responsive Innovation Lab at Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust

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English - January 16, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MB
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There have been more than 1,500 earthquakes in Puerto Rico since I arrived on January 3rd 2020. One 6.4 magnitude quake destroyed the island’s largest power plant and caused the grid to go down - and now Puerto Rico's energy supply is more vulnerable than ever.

Grid resiliency is the ability of the grid to avoid or withstand stresses without suffering outages. Puerto Rico is still recovering from infrastructural damages wrought by Hurricane Maria, and the recent earthquakes have brought back to mind that devastation. To explain the situation on the ground we invited guest Gilberto Guevara, Program Director from the Puerto Rico Science and Research Trust. We discuss what one person can do to ensure their lives are resilient, and the broader societal call for creating backup microgrids.

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