The executive director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority resigned Thursday reportedly as a result of a disagreement on policy with the governor.
Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González Colón was unhappy that Mary Carmen Zapata wasn't following the same priorities as her energy czar, Josué Colón, and sought and received her resignation, according to a news report.
Carmen Zapata couldn't be reached for a comment. The spokesperson for the governor didn't immediately respond. The spokesperson for PREPA couldn't be immediately contacted.
In the aftermath of the resignation, the board of directors appointed Fernando Osorio Caño, director of Hydroelectric Operations and Irrigation at PREPA, interim executive director.
Separately, on Wednesday, Power Expectations, a company involved in a contract to provide temporary power generation units, filed a lawsuit against PREPA in the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico as a result of the contact's cancellation last month.
In mid-August the Puerto Rico Oversight
A few days later, PREPA also cancelled the contract, citing the Oversight Board's action and saying the subsidiary had failed to post the performance bond.
The suit will give parties to PREPA's bankruptcy "more arguments for a receiver by bondholders," said John Mudd, an attorney in Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile, energy czar Colón told a Puerto Rico legislative committee Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Puerto Rico Justice Department had interviewed him concerning the contract.
In other Puerto Rico business, on Wednesday the judge overseeing the
