Opinion:

¶ “Repair or Renovate? Puerto Rico Faces Stark Power Grid Options” • It has been 68 days since Hurricane Irma took down much of Puerto Rico’s aging power grid and 54 days since Maria took the rest, leaving nearly all 3.4 million residents without electricity. Experts say the island is in desperate need of a power grid makeover. [Scientific American]

Destroyed power lines (Credit: Hector Retamal | Getty Images)

Joseph Mangum, of Sunnyside Solar, is on the ground in
Puerto Rico, helping people. How to help him help them?
One way is at [Sunnyside Solar’s crowdfunding website].

¶ “Even IEA says coal boom is dead, hails the solar age” • Here is bad news for the coal industry, its advocates, and acolytes: Even the highly conservative International Energy Agency is calling the end of the coal boom and hailing the age of solar. Its annual World…