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PowerBridge Advisory Insight Beyond Technology: The Core Challenges of Puerto Rico’s Energy Transformation https://lnkd.in/emGMbuZW Puerto Rico’s energy transition depends not only on technology, but on people, trust, and institutional collaboration. This brief explores how alignment among key energy entities, transparent governance, and coordinated action can accelerate progress toward a cleaner, more resilient future. PowerBridge Advisory helps bridge policy, regulation, and implementation to turn vision into results. #EnergyTransition #PuertoRico #CleanEnergy #EnergyPolicy #PowerBridgeAdvisory Puerto Rico’s energy transition is a complex and evolving journey shaped as much by people and institutions as by technology. The challenges are not primarily technical but stem from the need for stronger collaboration, alignment, and shared vision among the island’s key energy entities. Agencies such as PREPA, LUMA Energy, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB), and the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3) each play an essential role, yet often operate within different mandates and priorities. Building cohesion and trust among these organizations—and with the communities they serve—is central to ensuring that the transition is both efficient and equitable. Debt remains a major structural constraint, limiting investment capacity and slowing grid modernization. Meanwhile, the erosion of public trust, shaped by years of system instability and governance challenges, continues to affect confidence in the transition process (EIA, 2023; IEEFA, 2024). The complexity and duration of permitting and regulatory processes pose challenges to advancing renewable energy projects at the pace needed to meet Puerto Rico’s clean energy goals. PowerBridge Advisory can contribute by supporting coordination, transparent communication, and program management across agencies and stakeholders. Through strategic facilitation, regulatory insight, and project alignment, PowerBridge helps translate policy goals into implementable, trusted, and timely actions that advance Puerto Rico’s clean energy transition.

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For investors, the message is clear: Brazil is activating the next phase of its energy expansion cycle. In 2026, #Brazil plans major power, transmission, and oil and gas bidding rounds, including a long-awaited capacity reserve auction, its first battery storage tender, and new upstream offering cycles. With firm energy demand projected to rise sharply toward 2028 and 2040, these auctions will be central to strengthening system reliability, scaling storage to support renewables, and unlocking fresh upstream investment, particularly in pre-salt areas. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/e_2EbF5C Written by: João Montenegro #Energy #OilAndGas #Investment BNamericas Greg Barton Juan Carlos Badillo, JD, MBA Rogerio Jelmayer Pedro Ozores Figueiredo Yasmin Meireles Florencia Manifesto Carlos Gaviria Emiliana Pero Cesar Illiano Gustavo Soto Russo Daylton Araújo Mônica A.

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📈 With PJM capacity prices rising and load growth surging from data centers, #DemandFlexibility is urgently needed to mitigate bill impacts, capacity constraints, and power interruptions. For states and utilities looking for a clear path forward, check out the Demand Flexibility Maturity Model, which I developed with Berkeley Lab. It’s grounded in well-documented industry best practices and barriers to broader adoption. 𝗪𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 — we need a plan to scale. It’s time for demand flexibility to grow up. https://lnkd.in/gvuEenGD

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DISTRIBUTECH remains one of the industry’s most invigorating gatherings, connecting utility leaders, technology partners, and innovators driving grid modernization.   The energy sector faces increasing complexity right now — from grid management and DER integration to customer engagement, aging workforce optimization and peak load demands. Utilities are moving beyond fragmented operations, and the next operating model is a 360° view — where customer, workforce, business, and the grid operate in one connected flow, with decisions that are informed, timely, and intelligent.   At DTECH 2026, SEW.AI will share how Vertical AI is enabling this shift at enterprise scale, helping utilities operate as one intelligent ecosystem across grid automation, customer experience, workforce execution, energy efficiency, payments, and demand response.   #DISTRIBUTECH #DTECH #Utilities #EnergyTransition #AI #GridModernization #SEW

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Only 10 percent of the low-emissions technologies needed for the global energy transition have been deployed. An expansive view of energy innovation is needed to deliver a successful transition, improving low-emissions technologies and bringing about profound change in energy supply and consumption. Tiago Devesa and Mekala Krishnan explain.

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A distributed Virtual Power Plant in action. The Bitcoin network is a globally distributed VPP. The next edition of my newsletter - Satscribers - will explain why... #VirtualPowerPlant #VPP #Renewables #CleanEnergy #ESG #Bitcoin #Satscryption #Satscribers

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International Energy Agency (IEA) | Delivering Sustainable Fuels — convergence with Aventra’s ethanol agenda The IEA’s Delivering Sustainable Fuels: Pathways to 2035 strengthens a performance-based, technology-open pathway that complements electrification and prioritizes bankability (credible accounting, predictable policy, investable supply chains). Where it converges with our agenda at Aventra Energy: 🔹 Raise the bar on ESG, certification, and data integrity — interoperable, audit-grade lifecycle metrics as the basis for incentives and capital allocation. 🔹 Correct economic distortions — phase down fossil subsidies, address tax asymmetries, and reduce trade barriers so prices reflect carbon and performance. 🔹 Recognize ethanol + electrification as cost-effective for light-duty transport — leveraging high-efficiency powertrains and existing infrastructure while EVs scale. 🔹 Value firm biomass for power-system reliability and adequacy — dispatchable bioenergy as a complement to variable renewables and to strengthen grid resilience. Full report in the comments. #IEA #sustainablefuels #bioenergy #ethanol #decarbonization #ESG #certification #MRV #energytransition #Aventra

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