PREPA to hire crews, fix 106K streetlights post-Maria

摘要

Puerto Rico's power company said yesterday that it plans to hire private firms to repair some 106,000 streetlights across the U.S. territory that remain in the dark more than a year after Hurricane Maria. Carlos Alvarado, technical operations chief for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, said it does not have enough employees to do the job. He said he expected to contract companies starting in mid-January for repairs that would otherwise take up to eight months.