Most of the island of Puerto Rico was hit by a power outage early on Tuesday. More than 1.3 million people are in the dark.
Luma Energy said that it suffered a system-side blackout at around 5:30 a.m.
It said that while the cause of the outage is under investigation, preliminary findings point to a fault on an underground line.
It has activated emergency operations to restore power.
Luma says it will restore power to customers in phases but the full process will take 24-48 hours.
Declaraciones (8:30 a.m.): LUMA activa operaciones de emergencia para restaurar la energía después de un apagón en todo el sistema
— LUMA Puerto Rico (@lumaenergypr) December 31, 2024
LUMA ha activado su Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia y actualmente está trabajando con Genera y demás colaboradores de generación para reiniciar…
Puerto Rico has chronic power outages that are blamed on a crumbling power grid, the Associated Press reported.
Hurricane Maria in 2017 caused widespread devastation to the power distribution system. It has struggled to completely rebuild it.
