Electric Companies to Deploy Additional Restoration Workers and Support Personnel to Puerto Rico in Early January

Many investor-owned electric companies that are members of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) will deploy nearly 1,500 additional restoration workers and support personnel to Puerto Rico in early January to accelerate ongoing power restoration efforts across the island. These new personnel will work under the direction of the seven incident management teams (IMTs) that were deployed to Puerto Rico on Dec. 10 to support the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA’s) regional directors.

See the complete article in the Illinois Energy Forum-January 2018