Puerto Rico seeks to replace 400 megawatts after the signature scandal

On August 19, 2026, Caribbean Business writes that the collapse of the Power Expectations contract, at 5.9 billion dollars, leaves a 400-megawatt gap in the middle of hurricane season. The Aguirre project was meant to help close the shortfall. With the contract revoked, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the Energy Bureau, according to the outlet, have to accelerate repairs, speed 244 megawatts of peak and storage from Genera PR already under construction, and weigh an expedited purchase. That is not turned here into a timetable of megawatts online.

Documents the Financial Oversight Board released Tuesday, Eva Llorens relates, show how close PREPA came to continuing with a contract resting on a forged signature. Robert F. Mujica Jr., the Board's executive director, wrote to energy czar Josué Colón Ortiz, 3PPO president Osvaldo Carlo, and PREPA executive director Mary Zapata. The June 17 letter from ERock's general counsel, he says, was never delivered to the Board despite information requests. The omission, he wrote, deprived the regulator of evidence of a fabricated identity, a fake email domain, and a signature attributed to someone ERock says does not even exist.

ERock holds that Power Expectations forged the signature of Jhoby Weaks, a Caribbean-operations COO who, it says, does not exist, with an email on a domain ERock does not own. It alleges it warned from November 2025 that it would not sign, and that Power Expectations sent a 10 billion dollar demand on letterhead of a Miami firm whose lawyer denied representing them. On June 12, two days after the contract was executed, Enchanted Rock's interest passed to Flotek Industries without PREPA's consent. PREPA learned on July 9 and consented on the 31st, without knowing of the signature. The Board, according to Caribbean Business, learned on August 7 from a press inquiry.

Without Enchanted Rock, the Board says, the consortium no longer meets the qualification basis. The outlet adds that the 1.18 billion dollar performance bond was not delivered and that, 68 days after execution, there were no milestones. Speeding San Juan and Palo Seco, and Genera PR's 244-megawatt package, is the race Caribbean Business names. On August 18, Telemundo covered Mary C. Zapata Acosta's cancellation letter. On the 14th, the Board had revoked. This note of the 19th is the 400-megawatt gap and the June 17 letter that, according to Robert F. Mujica Jr., was not in the RFI replies.

This gap is not mixed with Genera's reserve-unit fines or with the operational cut El Nuevo Día dated August 26. What remain are Caribbean Business's figures and the attribution to Robert F. Mujica Jr. A reader who wants the letters has the URL at the foot.

Source: Caribbean Business. https://caribbean.business/puerto-rico-scrambles-to-replace-400-mw-lost-to-forged-signature-scandal/