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$365,000,000

Department of Energy·Department of Energy

to PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY

energyactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-14·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_DEGD0001048_089
Award description

PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY (PREPA) ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCE & STABILIZATION THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RESULTING AWARD TO PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY (PREPA) IS TO IMPROVE THE RESILIENCE AND STABILIZATION OF THE PUERTO RICAN ELECTRIC GRID. THE AWARD FOCUSES ON KEY EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO ADDRESS CRITICAL VULNERABILITIES ACROSS GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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In plain English

Funds emergency activities to improve resilience and stabilization of Puerto Rico's electric grid across generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

Sub-sectors
grid-resiliencepuerto-rico-infrastructureemergency-stabilization
Why this matters

Puerto Rico's grid vulnerability poses risks to 3.2M residents and U.S. territory stability; this 2025-launched effort addresses critical infrastructure gaps.

Supply-chain signal

Will drive demand for grid modernization equipment, energy storage systems, and transmission/distribution hardware suppliers serving Caribbean infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

Grid resilience in U.S. territories strengthens domestic energy independence and reduces reliance on foreign supply chains for critical infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-18. Cost: $0.003027.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-12-31
Status
activein 184 days
Sources

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