Borinquen Made2026-07-23 · Economy and politics
The Board asks to pause contracting of new permanent electric generation
On July 23, 2026, El Nuevo Día reports that the Financial Oversight Board requests a pause in the process of contracting new permanent electric generation. According to the body, numerous questions persist that must be answered before any award. The newspaper timestamps the piece at 11:10 p.m. The body of the page, on opening it, came up short: the outlet summarizes the request and does not break down in the visible text each technical question.
This desk's ledger, aligned with the headline, places the act in a request to the Public-Private Partnerships Authority to pause the award of the permanent-generation RFPs while fuel and interconnection matters are answered. Those two words — fuel and interconnection — are not converted here into an inventory of plants or a megawatt figure. They stand as the frame the Board names for not awarding now.
Josué Colón Ortiz directs that authority and, the same week, speaks as czar of the Costa Sur and EcoEléctrica trips. A request to pause the RFPs and a tight-reserve outage are two tables. On July 18, NotiCel showed him asking LUMA for reports and Genera for deadlines. On the 23rd, El Nuevo Día places him, on the Board's side, before a contracting that should not close. They are not averaged.
This pause is also not mixed with the 11 solar farms the Board green-lighted on July 3, according to NotiCel, nor with the arbitration clause in solar-panel contracts that the Supreme Court will uphold on the 27th. Large-scale permanent generation, farms, and rooftops are three fleet genres. Here it covers the RFP the Board wants to pause.
Robert F. Mujica Jr. does not appear quoted in the visible El Nuevo Día fragment. The Board speaks as a body. The reader who wants the letter or the P3A file has the URL at the foot. What the page did not open is not invented.
Source: El Nuevo Día. https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/junta-fiscal-solicita-pausa-al-proceso-de-contratacion-de-nueva-generacion-electrica-permanente/