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More of that money laundering from Biden's inflationary bills.
More disaster for taxpayers.
We need a true accounting of where all these trillions of Biden's wasteful spending have wound up. Cui bono?
The Biden-Harris administration has, for years, vowed to deploy thousands of solar panels to stabilize Puerto Rico's power grid amid regular blackouts, government mismanagement, and ever-increasing residential electricity rates. But, years after making that promise, a $1 billion program central to that effort yielded only a tiny handful of solar panels, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
"We’re talking about energy and solar. That’s where the power is, right there," Vice President Kamala Harris said during a speech in Puerto Rico earlier this year. [Me: More priceless Harris word salad]
During her remarks, Harris touted the so-called Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund, a $1 billion fund managed by the Department of Energy and designed by Democrats in 2022 to quickly address Puerto Rico's electrical grid vulnerabilities via the installation of tens of thousands of rooftop solar and battery storage systems across the island. That fund has taken a central role in the administration's plans to, as President Biden said in October 2022, "transform the entire" Puerto Rican grid.
While the Department of Energy declined to tell the Free Beacon how many solar panels have been installed using program funds, Sunnova Energy—one of two U.S. solar firms awarded funding to oversee implementation of the program—acknowledged that just "a small, initial batch" of installations have been completed across the entire island so far. The other firm, Generac Holdings, declined to comment.
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The media have given little attention to the program because of the Biden-Harris administration's decision not to provide a progress update on installations. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and New York Democratic Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though, traveled to San Juan on July 17 to trumpet the program but, again, didn't share information about the number of installations that have occurred.
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"There have been significant corruption cases in the handling of federal funds in the past, so local authorities are very careful and slow in handling federal funding as everyone involved locally is very afraid of mishandling funds or being accused of doing so," said Rodriguez. "This is mainly because we lack, at the local level, the systems, processes, and structures to handle such a large and historic volume of federal funds."
"The fact is that we lack the market efficiencies to execute properly. The paternalist government that we have had for so many years and the significant extra limitations of our government in our markets are at the root cause of those market failures seeing today," he continued.
freebeacon.com
More disaster for taxpayers.
We need a true accounting of where all these trillions of Biden's wasteful spending have wound up. Cui bono?
The Biden-Harris administration has, for years, vowed to deploy thousands of solar panels to stabilize Puerto Rico's power grid amid regular blackouts, government mismanagement, and ever-increasing residential electricity rates. But, years after making that promise, a $1 billion program central to that effort yielded only a tiny handful of solar panels, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
"We’re talking about energy and solar. That’s where the power is, right there," Vice President Kamala Harris said during a speech in Puerto Rico earlier this year. [Me: More priceless Harris word salad]
During her remarks, Harris touted the so-called Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund, a $1 billion fund managed by the Department of Energy and designed by Democrats in 2022 to quickly address Puerto Rico's electrical grid vulnerabilities via the installation of tens of thousands of rooftop solar and battery storage systems across the island. That fund has taken a central role in the administration's plans to, as President Biden said in October 2022, "transform the entire" Puerto Rican grid.
While the Department of Energy declined to tell the Free Beacon how many solar panels have been installed using program funds, Sunnova Energy—one of two U.S. solar firms awarded funding to oversee implementation of the program—acknowledged that just "a small, initial batch" of installations have been completed across the entire island so far. The other firm, Generac Holdings, declined to comment.
...
The media have given little attention to the program because of the Biden-Harris administration's decision not to provide a progress update on installations. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and New York Democratic Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though, traveled to San Juan on July 17 to trumpet the program but, again, didn't share information about the number of installations that have occurred.
...
"There have been significant corruption cases in the handling of federal funds in the past, so local authorities are very careful and slow in handling federal funding as everyone involved locally is very afraid of mishandling funds or being accused of doing so," said Rodriguez. "This is mainly because we lack, at the local level, the systems, processes, and structures to handle such a large and historic volume of federal funds."
"The fact is that we lack the market efficiencies to execute properly. The paternalist government that we have had for so many years and the significant extra limitations of our government in our markets are at the root cause of those market failures seeing today," he continued.
Biden-Harris Admin Said a $1B Program Would Bring Thousands of Solar Panels to Puerto Rico. Years Later, Only a Few Have Been Installed.
The Biden-Harris administration has, for years, vowed to deploy thousands of solar panels to stabilize Puerto Rico's power grid amid regular blackouts, government mismanagement, and ever-increasing residential electricity rates. But, years after making that promise, a $1 billion program central...
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