In August 2022, our team joined The United States Census’ Opportunity Project in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Lab to rebuild the Puerto Rican grid to be climate resilient.

We learned a lot about the future of island communities and how a localized energy system works in America. The project worked in phases, and are described below.

1. Research and Stakeholder Engagement

   For the first month, our team continued our researched and contacted several User Advocates. User Advocates are a variety of stakeholders from the island community who have worked in the local energy sector for decades. They give us geographically specific suggestions, and connected us with the Puerto Rican Port Authority.

2. Product Development

   We utilized our distributed energy network and the network provided by the National Renewable Energy Lab to build our Flame Tanager Toolkit. To date, our Toolkit has 3 different tools. Our International connections and online networking system will help us grow this system.

3. Flame Tanager Advancement

   We will advance our software with new features alongside our distributed energy network. We will need to track long-term ESG ratings for our partners.