Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | October 06, 2017:
The upside of Twitter showed in an exchange between Ricardo Rossello, the governor of Puerto Rico, and real-world Tony Stark Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Governor Rossello was seemingly sending a desperate plea of help to someone who gets turned to for that more and more. He was reaching out specifically about support rebuilding the collapsed grid in Puerto Rico. Ever so swiftly, Elon Musk responded positively.
As any CleanTechnica reader must know, the hurricane-stricken island’s best plan for rebuilding the grid should involve solar power and energy storage — two Tesla specialities.
Elon hinted that Tesla would be there to help, but the twitter conversation was brief, to the point, and then led to a private phone call.
It was actually a “normal tweeter’s” initial suggestion that Tesla help that led to the solicitation from Governor Rossello, going by the timeline of tweets:
Tesla had already shipped hundreds of its Powerwall battery systems to be paired with solar panels. The joint systems will help the battered island territory restore electric power.
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