Science on Tap
Cecilio Ortiz Garcia and Marla Perez-Lugo
Date & Time: July 16, 2019, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Federal Taphouse - State College, PA
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Science on Tap July 16 at Federal Taphouse. Talk starts at 7pm but get there as early as 6 to claim your seat and grab some food and drinks!
After the catastrophe caused by 2017’s Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans were left without electricity for months. Now, what is the best plan to radically reform electricity access on the Caribbean island? Better still, how can we reform our national and global energy systems to meet the demands of net-zero carbon emissions? Is Puerto Rico the canary in the coal mine or something more?
Dr. Cecilio Ortiz Garcia and Dr. Marla Perez-Lugo are co-Founders of the University of Puerto Rico’s National Institute of Energy and Island Sustainability, recognized after Hurricane Maria by the Department of Energy as “the foundation in which to firmly establish Puerto Rico as a Center for Excellence on distributed grid operations , and could also provide both the supply of interdisciplinary engineers and policymakers Puerto Rico will need and the expertise other island and remote grid systems will need in their transition to a distributed, resilient electric sector."
