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Puerto Rico governor's effort to eliminate renewable energy goals sparks pushback

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Gov. Jenniffer González , a Trump supporter, recently filed a bill to scrap a law calling for renewable energy to meet 40 percent of the U.S. territory’s needs by 2025 and 60 percent by 2040 .

The bill would eliminate renewable energy goals and extend operations of a coal-fired plant.

The coal-burning plant produces up to 20% of power consumed in Puerto Rico , generating an average of 510 megawatts a year.

The length of power outages in Puerto Rico increased 11% last year as the island struggles to rebuild an electric grid.

Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress , Pablo José Hernández , urged Trump to declare a federal emergency on the energy crisis.

The latest mass outage to hit Puerto Rico was an island-wide blackout that left 1.2 million clients without power on December 31 .

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English

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