La Junta asks Ports Authority for NFEnergía lease payment history
The fiscal board gave the Ports Authority until Monday to produce the full payment record on the 2018 lease that gave New Fortress exclusive use of San Juan's gas docks - while the plant the pier supplies runs on diesel.
Puerto Rico's Fiscal Supervisory Board has demanded the full payment history for the lease that NFEnergía - a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy - holds over the Puerto Nuevo pier in San Juan, where the company receives and processes the natural gas that feeds the San Juan Central power plant. [1][2][3][4]
Board executive director Robert F. Mujica sent the request letter to Ports Authority executive director Norberto Negrón Díaz and gave the agency until Monday to deliver the data. [5][6]
The lease under examination dates to 2018, when the Ports Authority awarded New Fortress a non-competitive, 20-year deal for exclusive access to the island's only northern gas-import docks - an agreement that was never submitted to the fiscal board for review or approval. [7][8][9] The board has since warned that the deal gives New Fortress a port monopoly at the San Juan terminal. [10]
The records request lands in the middle of an active supply crisis. San Juan Central's units have been running on diesel since the weekend after gas supplies ended, [11][12] a backup fuel the Energy Office estimates has cost $82.5 million - costs that will be added to customer bills between January and March of 2027. [13][14] Genera PR is meanwhile arranging alternate natural gas suppliers at the 3PPO's direction. [15]
The payment history is also the paper trail behind a live money dispute: under the lease, New Fortress can charge a dock toll of 50 cents per MMBtu when third parties use the terminal, and the government has gone to federal court to activate that mechanism. [16][17]
The lease has been politically charged as well: PPD senators have questioned why the government keeps the exclusive gas-entry contract alive, [18] after the PNP majority defeated a PPD resolution to cancel the dock contract in August. [19]
The board has already warned that the 2018 deal made New Fortress a monopoly at the San Juan terminal; [10] the payment ledger it now wants covers the dock at the center of that warning. [4]La Junta de Supervisión Fiscal de Puerto Rico ha exigido el historial completo de pagos del arrendamiento que NFEnergía, una subsidiaria de New Fortress Energy, mantiene sobre el muelle de Puerto Nuevo en San Juan, donde la compañía recibe y procesa el gas natural que alimenta la central eléctrica San Juan. [1][2][3][4]
El director ejecutivo de la Junta, Robert F. Mujica, envió la carta de solicitud al director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de los Puertos, Norberto Negrón Díaz, y le dio a la agencia hasta el lunes para entregar los datos. [5][6]
El arrendamiento bajo examen data de 2018, cuando la Autoridad de los Puertos le otorgó a New Fortress un acuerdo no competitivo de 20 años para el acceso exclusivo a los únicos muelles de importación de gas del norte de la isla, un acuerdo que nunca fue sometido a la junta fiscal para revisión o aprobación. [7][8][9] La Junta desde entonces ha advertido que el acuerdo le da a New Fortress un monopolio portuario en el terminal de San Juan. [10]
La solicitud de récords llega en medio de una crisis de suministro activa. Las unidades de San Juan han estado operando con diésel desde el fin de semana luego de que terminaran los suministros de gas, [11][12] un combustible de respaldo que la Oficina de Energía estima ha costado $82.5 millones, costos que se añadirán a las facturas de los clientes entre enero y marzo de 2027. [13][14] Genera PR mientras tanto gestiona suplidores alternos de gas natural por instrucción del 3PPO. [15]
El historial de pagos es también el rastro documental detrás de una disputa de dinero activa: bajo el arrendamiento, New Fortress puede cobrar un peaje de muelle de 50 centavos por MMBtu cuando terceros usan el terminal, y el gobierno ha acudido al tribunal federal para activar ese mecanismo. [16][17]
El arrendamiento también ha estado cargado políticamente: senadores del PPD han cuestionado por qué el gobierno mantiene vivo el contrato exclusivo de entrada de gas, [18] luego de que la mayoría del PNP derrotara en agosto una resolución del PPD para cancelar el contrato del muelle. [19]
La Junta ya ha advertido que el acuerdo de 2018 convirtió a New Fortress en un monopolio en el terminal de San Juan; [10] el libro de pagos que ahora busca cubre el muelle en el centro de esa advertencia. [4]
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What this stands on
Puerto Rico's Fiscal Supervisory Board requested on Friday that the Ports Authority provide full payment history for NFEnergía's San Juan port lease. · Metro Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
Junta de Supervisión Fiscal requested NFEnergía pier lease payment history from Ports Authority. · metro.prPuerto Rico
NFEnergía is a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy. · metro.prPuerto Rico
NFEnergía leases Puerto Nuevo pier in San Juan. · metro.prPuerto Rico
Robert F. Mujica sent the request letter to Norberto Negrón Díaz. · metro.prPuerto Rico
Ports Authority was given until Monday to deliver requested data. · metro.prPuerto Rico
The pier lease was signed in 2018 without fiscal board approval. · metro.prPuerto Rico
Autoridad de los Puertos awarded a non-competitive 20 year dock lease to a New Fortress Energy subsidiary in May 2018. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
The 2018 dock lease grants New Fortress Energy exclusive access to the only northern Puerto Rico gas import docks. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
JSF warned New Fortress Energy holds a port monopoly at San Juan terminal. · metro.prPuerto Rico
Central San Juan units operate on diesel since the prior weekend. · metro.prPuerto Rico
Two San Juan power plant units operate on diesel after gas supplies ended. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
The Energy Office estimated diesel use costs reached $82.5 million. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
Diesel costs will be added to customer bills from January to March 2027. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
Genera PR is arranging alternate natural gas suppliers per 3PPO order. · metro.prPuerto Rico
New Fortress Energy may charge 50 cents per MMBtu as dock toll for third party gas. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
The government filed a federal lawsuit against NFE to activate the toll mechanism. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
PPD Senate delegation questioned PNP keeping the New Fortress Energy exclusive San Juan gas entry contract active. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
PNP defeated a PPD resolution to cancel the gas dock contract in August 2026. · noticel.comPuerto Rico
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