A collaboration with Cornell is bringing relief to Vieques, a Puerto Rican island that still has unreliable power nine years after Hurricane Maria. A solar-powered battery that operates independently of the main island’s grid is the first installment of a project led by Héctor Abruña, chemistry professor in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences – still to come is a green-hydrogen fuel cell system.
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On storm-ravaged Vieques, a microgrid builds resilience
