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Senator presses DOE nominee on status of $1 billion Puerto Rico resiliency projects
Summary
At a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, a senator asked a Department of Energy nominee whether congressionally appropriated funds and recent DOE awards for resilient electricity projects in Puerto Rico would be implemented after the department issued new requirements that may put the projects at risk.
At a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, a senator asked a Department of Energy nominee whether federally funded projects to provide resilient electricity to medically vulnerable residents in Puerto Rico would be carried out after recent administrative changes.
The senator noted that "In 2022, Congress appropriated $1,000,000,000 to the Department of Energy for resilient energy infrastructure in Puerto Rico," and that the department announced "$365,000,000 in awards for energy supply projects at community health care centers" last December. The senator added that the department issued a letter in March specifying requirements to advance those projects and asked whether the nominee could be…
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