After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica\u2019s grid last year, officials at the island\u2019s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company\u2019s initiatives were only in the planning and early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit as a Category 5 storm on Tuesday, according to research group BloombergNEF.<\/p>\n
Officials don\u2019t yet know the full extent of the storm\u2019s damage and it could take days, maybe weeks, to conduct a comprehensive damage survey from the strongest known storm to hit Jamaica. According to early reports, there were blackouts over almost 80% of the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica\u2019s grid last year, officials at the island\u2019s sole utility vowed to fortify it.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[101489,428,75574,50690,9285,556,101490,1397,5149,464,20072,101488,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-240746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-aim","tag-australia","tag-bahamas","tag-bloombergnef","tag-c-suite","tag-climate-change","tag-damian-obiglio","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-infrastructure","tag-jamaica","tag-jamaica-pub-svs-co-ltd","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}