Puerto Rico's power grid collapses, leaving island in the dark

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Posted on 12/31/2024 7:38:32 AM PST by dynachrome

Puerto Rico woke up in darkness on Tuesday morning after a power grid failure left nearly all of the island without electricity.

Around 90% of clients were without power at 9:30 a.m. (1330 GMT), according to energy distribution company Luma Energy's real-time portal.

It will likely take 24 to 48 hours to turn the lights back on, "conditions permitting," Luma said in a statement.

"While the cause of the outage is under investigation, preliminary findings point to a failure in an underground line," Luma added.

Ivan Baez, a spokesperson for power generator Genera, called the grid failure a "major incident" in a local radio interview.

He said that the line believed to have failed was operated by Luma and brought down plants belonging to Genera as well as private generators.

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Let them become an independent country.

1 posted on 12/31/2024 7:38:32 AM PST by dynachrome

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