Posted on 12/31/2024 7:38:32 AM PST by dynachrome
Puerto Rico woke up in darkness on Tuesday morning after a power grid failure left nearly all of the island without electricity.
Around 90% of clients were without power at 9:30 a.m. (1330 GMT), according to energy distribution company Luma Energy's real-time portal.
It will likely take 24 to 48 hours to turn the lights back on, "conditions permitting," Luma said in a statement.
"While the cause of the outage is under investigation, preliminary findings point to a failure in an underground line," Luma added.
Ivan Baez, a spokesperson for power generator Genera, called the grid failure a "major incident" in a local radio interview.
He said that the line believed to have failed was operated by Luma and brought down plants belonging to Genera as well as private generators.
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“ preliminary findings point to a failure in an underground line”
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Termites? /sarc
Windmills/solar panels! Lets go joementia! Oh, closed for vacation. Again?
Green energy fanatics: take heed.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-protest-power-bills-87e7c6f0c6a83e06aea67c133de93f52
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of people including religious leaders, economists, teachers and retirees on Wednesday protested a proposed increase to already high electric bills that a growing number of people in the U.S. territory are struggling to pay.
My son is moving there next month!
B) It's still dark at 9:30 a.m. in Puerto Rico?
Good ole underground lines.
Every time a storm hits and lines go down the know-nothing bozos go on and on about: “If evil capitalist companies just invested the money to put lines underground there would not be any problems.”
F@#$ing boneheads. Imagine underground lines and finding where the break is. Miles and miles. Yah know the break is down there within a mile or two. But, that is a lot of digging.
We were just in San Juan YESTERDAY....
AOC says “Go all electric! What could go wrong? Just pay for it!”
Say what?
Why would a cable failure in the grid take "private generators" out of action? The whole idea of a private generator is that it works when the grid fails.....
“Puerto Rico’s power grid collapses...”
Again? The supposedly elected Puerto Rican territorial government, corrupt to the core, could not manage a one-car funeral, and would probably wind up at the wrong cemetery.
Years of chicanery and graft of government funds at the expense of maintaining the infrastructure has reduced Puerto Rico to the status of a poverty-stricken ghetto, by which moving to the roughest parts of any big-city slums in the mainland US is a move up in status and household wealth.
You're thinking of individual home generators. The reference here are powerplants that supply electricity to the grid that aren't owned by the government. When the grid breaks down, the powerplant can't send the electricity its generating anywhere. Thus, they have to shut down the powerplant.
What are they doing, contracting out their power grid maintenance to Cuba??
“F@#$ing boneheads. Imagine underground lines and finding where the break is. Miles and miles. Yah know the break is down there within a mile or two. But, that is a lot of digging.”
speaking of boneheads: even the simplest TDR [time domain reflectometer] can pinpoint a break in a copper line ... you can buy them on amazon ... i own one for just such purposes ... optical TDRs are a little more expensive, but do the same thing for optical fibers ...
Hurricane Maria decimated the island's electrical system when it struck in late September 2017, mainly by knocking out transmission lines. Since then, restoration work has been focused on replacing those lines, while most other facets of the grid have not been updated, said Tom Sanzillo of IEEFA, who researches Puerto Rico's power system.
It took several years under the Trump Administration for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to approve $9.6 billion in September 2020 to rebuild Puerto Rico's electrical grid. About another $3.4 billion in federal funding has been added since.
Most of it went into people's pockets... and not infrastructure
speaking of boneheads: even the simplest TDR [time domain reflectometer] can pinpoint a break in a copper line ... you can buy them on amazon ... i own one for just such purposes ... optical TDRs are a little more expensive, but do the same thing for optical fibers ...
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o’scope and a pulse generator.
“Let them become an independent country.”
That’s fine IF we invoke the Monroe Doctrine.
So the corrupt lefty bums who run puerto rico received (i.e., stole) over $13,000,000,000.00 from the US Taxpayers to rebuild their crappy electrical system...and the money apparently “disappeared”. The Hell with puerto rico.
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