About 600,000 to 650,000 of the island's 1.5 million utility customers had electric service restored, the territory's power grid operator said Friday morning. That leaves about 800,000 to 850,000 homes and business without power in an outage that has closed schools island-wide for two days and caused other interruptions for Puerto Rico's 3.2 million residents."We hope that at some point tonight, we will be able to have 1 million customers back online.
Energy, the operator of Puerto Rico's power grid operator, told reporters in San Juan.Puerto Rico Fast FactsAn unspecified failure led to a fire at the Costa Sur power plant outside the town of Guayanilla on the southwest coast around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, cutting power across the island, Acevedo has said. Firefighters have since extinguished the flames.
Energy's senior vice president of engineering and asset management, told reporters in San Juan on Friday.The power outage also has interrupted water service tens of thousands of homes and businesses, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said, citing the island's aqueducts and sewers authority.Puerto Rico canceled classes Friday for students for a second straight day.
is a joint venture of Quanta Services and the Canadian energy company ATCO, which the Puerto Rican government chose to take over the operation of the power grid from its previous public electric utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. has been in charge of the power grid since June 1.CNN's Rafy Rivera, Stefano Pozzebon and Michelle Watson contributed to this report.
They need to rise up against the US hegemony and break free.
This can’t be good.
May I humbly suggest that anyone living in Puerto Rico invest in one of these.
Americans don't understand how badly the US has screwed up Puerto Rico. Discouraged local industry, and a drug war largely driven by trafficking to mainland US made security a terrible issue. Corruption fed by relationship to DNC/RNC and narcos. Everything falling apart.
Nothing seen in the horizon.
why don't Biden help them?
Sadly