Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

The report says that the bond restructuring plan would lead to greatly increased rates and drastically cut usage.

On Sunday Puerto Rico's governor said she would oppose rate increases to support the authority's debt restructuring.

Puerto Rico's legislature may not want to approve what would effectively be an electricity rate increase, said analysts at a recent conference.

The index increased in comparison to figures from a year and month earlier.

While the aid is for repairs following 2017's Hurricane Maria, some are particularly welcoming it now after earthquakes have shaken the southwest for two weeks.

Moody's says handling electrical demand will be a challenge for the island.

On Monday there was a magnitude 5.7 earthquake Monday and Tuesday a 6.4 earthquake was followed by a 5.6 earthquake and multiple smaller aftershocks.

The Census Bureau’s 3,193,694 estimate for July 1 is 2.6% higher than the Oversight Board predicted for the date in its May 2019 fiscal plan.

To avoid a return of the economic downturn, the board may need to improve its program to promote economic growth. Part V of a five-part series.

Three Puerto Rico-based economists offer alternatives to the board's plans. Part IV of a five-part series.

A poverty level three times the national average leaves Puerto Rico especially vulnerable if service cuts and tax increases go too far. Part III of a five-part series.

Economists point to past successes and failures as Puerto Rico's Oversight Board focuses on conservative approaches. Part II of a five-part series.

The Oversight Board is following a belt-tightening strategy that some economists warn may squelch economic growth, putting bonds back into restructuring. Part I of a five-part series.

Puerto Rico, with more than $70 billion of bonds at stake, has become a testing ground of austerity for an economy in decline.

The index gained 0.4% year-over-year in October.

Five Republican representatives asked three Democrats to withdraw their legal brief opposing the agreement.

Gov. Wanda Vázquez's bill aims to prevent the commonwealth from pursuing debt practices that have gotten it into trouble.

Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez's misgivings about rate increases threaten to upend the $8 billion restructuring plan, a lawyer for unsecured creditors told the bankruptcy court.

The plan would rebuild the power system with a web of "micro grids," funded in part with federal and private money.

Two board members said an effort in congress to shift responsibility for the commonwealth's infrastructure revitalization is ill timed.