Posted on 04/17/2025 6:34:25 PM PDT by george76
Puerto Rico's grid struggles since 2017 hurricanes..
Outage caused by protection system failure and vegetation on lines..
Nearly half of the homes and businesses in Puerto Rico that receive electricity from the commonwealth's main utility were still without power on Thursday, a day after a widespread blackout struck the island, Luma Energy said in a statement.
Hospitals, airports and prisons were among the structures still out.
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On New Year's Eve last year an underground power line was the most recent failure that led to island-wide
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some customers who have had service restored may experience temporary system outages throughout the day, and possibly tomorrow.
This time, a power line is also believed to have triggered outages.
Following overnight aerial patrols with helicopters, Luma said a preliminary analysis suggested a number of factors had caused the power outage.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Why the hell isn’t Tequila Sandy Cortez doing stuff for her “people”? With a mouth like she’s got, she should have the electricity up an running in no time.
Again?
That dang Trump.
Why don’t they vote them some Democrats in?
What’s with this tagline?.... veterinarian.... doctor?
WTF??
Oh yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.....
Well we can now kiss the State of Florida goodbye.
The Sun is a dangerous thing.
As bad as the us left some of those beautiful islands , we should outfit them with a good nuclear source.
They need to up their contract with Asplundh. 8 years is more than enough time to fix this problem.
Puerto Rico can't maintain its electrical grid due to massive corruption, God forbid they had to maintain a nuclear reactor.
Also, it sounds like this isn’t an issue with power production, but lines and power distribution. A random nuke plant isn’t gonna fix that.
I was thinking something more modern and modular. Nothing old school wouod work right by design .
Remembering the issues the Texas grid experienced with the 2021 Polar Vortex...
Grid Blackouts in Spain & Portugal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b7953rLKyI
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