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Casa Pueblo keeps the lights on
1980
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
Frank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A community group that started by stopping open-pit mining in the central mountains and spent the following decades putting solar panels on its own roof. When Hurricane María took the grid down for months in 2017, the house was one of the few places in the region with power, and it became a distribution point for the whole town.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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