Hurricane Melissa Shows Why Electricity Access Is Not Grid Resilience [Forbes]
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reaffirmed a sobering global reality that having access to electricity does not guarantee that the system is resilient. The Government and the local electric utility company anticipate that full restoration of power could take up to six months according to a Jamaica Gleaner article on November 19. Despite Jamaica having a previous electrification rate that approaches 100 percent, Hurricane Melissa left entire parishes in darkness for weeks. Shops and gas stations closed, communication lines went down and families were forced to rely on candles and small generators. The storm revealed how quickly modern life unravels when the grid collapses. It also exposed deep weaknesses in infrastructure, operations, and vegetation management, offering hard lessons for building back stronger and for other regions to reinforce their grids in a warming climate. The Electricity Outage in Context According to the JPS website's Hurricane Melissa Restoration Highlights published on November 19, 2025
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