Fighting between PREPA and LUMA Energy and their regulators hampered efforts to rebuild the island's electric grid before Hurricane Fiona, Schumer said.
The island’s energy grid has struggled to recover after Hurricane María almost wiped it out in 2017. While solar-power systems can fill gaps, they aren’t cheap.
Residents, already fed up with repeated outages and rate hikes, were captivated last week by the dramatic escalation of a standoff between lawmakers and the chief executive of the island’s new energy company.
