For more than 24 hours, the whole of Puerto Rico has been deprived of access to electricity. This is the second most powerful power grid failure in the country's history. Millions of people can not function normally. The cause of the disaster is m.in. Hurricane Maria, who swept through the Caribbean last summer.
Maria has made unimaginable losses to Puerto Rico. The energy and communication network of the country suffered the most. The government is doing its best to rebuild the entire infrastructure, but not only does it lack funds, but also new systems often undergo new failures. The current has been giving way to the inhabitants of the island for over 24 hours and nobody knows when it will be manageable.
Meanwhile, energy magazines constructed in Puerto Rico by Tesla. Elon Musk on his Twitter profile wrote that his company keeps supplying electricity to 662 locations on the island and is working intensively on launching hundreds more.
Musk just after the hurricane, Maria allocated from private funds 250,000 dollars to build the first energy stores. Now there are hundreds of them.
In the coming months, Tesla intends to build there dozens / hundreds of solar farms and energy stores, thanks to which a large part of the Puerto Rican community, over 3 million, will be protected by energy, and the country will become one of the most ecological places on the entire planet.
After the hurricane, Puerto Rico was also hampered access to the global network, but such companies as Google or Facebook provided it from the air, namely with the help of special balloons.