Puerto Rico power outage slowly being rectified after massive New Year's Eve blackout

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Source: CBS News/AP

Updated on: January 1, 2025 / 4:40 AM EST


San Juan, Puerto Rico — A massive power outage hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on New Year's Eve, leaving more than 1.2 million of the U.S. territory's 1.47 million clients without electricity, according to Luma Energy, a private company that oversees electricity transmission and distribution on the island. By late Tuesday evening, Luma said power had been restored to about 700,000 clients, roughly half of those affected.

The company had warned early Tuesday that it could take up to 48 hours to restore electricity across the island, "conditions permitting," but a couple hours later it said service had been restored to in some areas.

Luma said late Tuesday that at least 31 hospitals and medical centers across Puerto Rico were up and running again, along with both of capital city San Juan's airports.

Luma Energy spokesperson Hugo Sorrentini told CBS News the blackout was caused by a failure in one of the electric lines at one of the main power plants, called Costa Sur. The failure in the line caused the power plant to go out of service and then "created a waterfall effect in the system," he said, which led to the other power plants on the island going out of service.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-power-outage-blackout-new-years-eve-power-grid-electricity/

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1. They're a part of the USA, why the hell can't we help them improve their infrastructure?

Oh wait, if we spend money helping the people of Puerto Rico that'll be less money that can be funneled to the oligarchs.

Also, we should be offering to help Cuba with their ongoing issues (which are at least partially exacerbated by our idiotic trade embargo). If we put a bit of effort into helping Cuba we'd earn a ton of goodwill and they'd become a valuable trading partner instead of serving solely as a target for right wing vitriol.