Posted on 12/31/2024 7:43:30 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve.
More than 1.2 million out of 1.47 million clients were without power, according to Luma Energy, a private company that oversees electricity transmission and distribution on the island.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the widespread outage or when power would be restored. Luma officials did not immediately return a message for comment.
In a post on X, Luma said it was in touch with crews and companies overseeing the generation of power in Puerto Rico to solve the outage. It said it would offer details as soon as possible.
A spokesperson for Genera PR, which oversees power generation, could not be immediately reached for comment.
Puerto Rico continues to struggle with chronic power outages blamed on a crumbling power grid that was razed by Hurricane Maria, a powerful category 4 storm that struck the island in September 2017.
The system was already in decline prior to the storm given years of lack of maintenance and investment.
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We need to get more of them over here to save our power grid!
Am I crazy or should there be more than one power company in a region as big as Puerto Rico?
Coming to a Central Bank Digital Currency near you...
This is an unacceptable failure. BUT, nothing will be done about it.
On the upside, honda is doing a banner business on portable generators.
CC
This is like a story out of an Ayn Rand novel.
Oh noes! AOC’s abuela has no power! Quick....someone blame Donald Trump!
“You have displeased your Overlords, Your Smart Meter has been deactivated.
rat controlled for years padding thier retirements and investments, the hell with the people
We were just in San Juan yesterday!
Puerto Rico is Going GREEN!!!
Since September 2017?
How many billions have gone to Puerto Rico since then? I’d love to see an audit of that.
Relax... we’re trading Puerto Rico for Greenland. /sarc
Is Luma a subsidiary of Lucas, the Prince of Darkness?
Can they create bio fuel out of the floating island of garbage?
Cubans running the grid?
This has been an ongoing issue in PR for a few years now. 2017 with the Hurricane, 2018 lasted several days impacting most of the island, and again in 2022.
Their infrastructure hasn’t been properly upgraded/maintained for years and then the hurricane damage only made it worse.
My guess would be widespread leftism.
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