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\n\n\n“In the continental U.S., no one’s burning a significant quantity of oil to generate electricity,” said Cathy Kunkel, an energy consultant at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. But that’s not the case in Puerto Rico, where oil-fired plants make up about 60% of generating capacity. The island “just has a lot of old oil-fired power plants that were constructed in the ’60s and ’70s, when oil was obviously a lot cheaper.”
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Island nations like Puerto Rico really highlight the costs of having to import fossil...
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://solarnoon.net/2026/03/31/this-is-cool-clever-and.html","date_published":"2026-03-31T21:21:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Solar Noon","url":"https://solarnoon.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F48%2F1849788.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"solarnoon"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-31 21:21","date_timestamp":1774992098,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lxithupzehcm3ds5q2ofnhdr/post/3mif4dr7kza25"]}}]}[Sage Geosystems cofounder Cindy Taff] sees a broad range of fossil fuel workers, from drillers to geologists, who will fit right into the renewables sector, arguing that the same industry that evolved from simple land wells to offshore operations in water thousands of feet deep has a vast pool of technical expertise.
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