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Energy czar approval to be a priority for Legislature

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By The Star Staff


Rep. Víctor Parés Otero, who chairs the Government Committee in the island House of Representatives, said Tuesday that the approval of legislation to create the position of the Office of the Energy Czar will be a priority during the first days of the Legislative Assembly that began on Monday.


The District 4 (San Juan) lawmaker said the panel he chairs will begin evaluating the measure creating the post of energy czar and proceed to its approval because “we believe that it is one of the most important pieces of legislation.”


Both Gov. Jenniffer González Colón and House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez have assured that the czar is a legislative priority.


In addition to the reconstruction of the island’s energy platform, the czar will be in charge of the system while at the same time “establishing a backup structure such as batteries that are being evaluated for installation,” said Parés, who is a member of the Energy Transformation Committee created by the governor.


The legislator noted that the position of the energy czar has previously been implemented with success in the United States, giving the example of then-President Richard Nixon’s creation of the Office of Energy Policy (which later became the Federal Energy Office and then the Federal Energy Administration) during the Arab oil embargo in 1973. A few years later the FEA was merged with another agency to form the U.S. Department of Energy.

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