If I was Governor of NY I would look into making sure the solar panels were going to be built here in Buffalo instead of how to add more burden to the people of NYS.

Can Elon Musk fix Puerto Rico's broken power grid?




Elon Musk is offering to solve Puerto Rico's energy crisis -- for the long haul.
Millions of Puerto Ricans are living in the dark at home after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island, knocking out its already fragile electric grid. Two weeks later, only 9% of residents have electricity, according to Puerto Rican government figures.
Musk, the CEO of electric-car maker Tesla (TSLA), suggested his company's solar power unit could be a long-term solution.
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"The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico," Musk tweeted Thursday morning, adding that the decision is up to Puerto Rican government officials.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/05/news...omy1050AMStory

Tesla has built solar energy grids for islands before, such as Kauai in Hawaii. However, that island's population is about 70,000 people. Puerto Rico has 3.4 million residents.
If this happens a push to make sure every solar panel for this project is built at the Solar City. If they are not built at the Solar City plant answers should be sought why not.

Tesla built a huge solar energy plant on the island of Kauai



Islands in the Pacific Ocean are some of the most practical places to install solar panels. Since there’s no natural gas pipeline or rail line to haul in coal, islands like Kauai in Hawaii have traditionally generated electricity by shipping in many barrels of diesel fuel.

These days, because so many residences and businesses have installed solar power, there’s a greatly reduced need to burn fossil during the day — but at night, the generators kick in. Tesla wants to change all that, with a massive new solar farm and energy storage project on the island.

Much of renewable energy generation is intermittent: wind and solar power generation peaks are often around times of low demand. So Tesla (which changed its name from Tesla Motors last year largely because of projects like this) offers the Powerpack, a massive battery that can store electricity during the day when supply is abundant, and discharge it when demand goes up after the sun goes down.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/8/14...tery-generator




I would still like to know the amount of pollution that is created making the batteries and panels.