An article from El Nuevo Día examines whether Puerto Rico's average residential electricity rate could reach a record 34.6 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), a figure that will depend on how the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (Negociado de Energía de Puerto Rico, NEPR) weighs several factors in its quarterly rate adjustment calculation. These factors include the current crisis over natural gas supply at the San Juan Bay, apparent discrepancies of tens of millions of dollars between projections submitted by LUMA Energy and Genera PR, and the need for cash the bureau has withheld from collecting from customers for about a year amid ongoing disputes with fuel suppliers.
The piece frames the potential rate increase as contingent on how the NEPR reconciles these competing inputs when setting the quarterly adjustment.