The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been assigned

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been assigned a mission by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to lead the planning, coordination and integration efforts to execute electrical power grid repair in Puerto Rico due to impacts caused by Hurricane Maria. USACE has partnered with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Department of Energy and FEMA in order to establish unity of effort and accomplish the mission. USACE awarded the first of a series of major contracts toward the repair of the power grid in Puerto Rico to provide 50 MW generation at the Palo Seco power plant in San Juan.