Puerto Rico: Massive blackout leaves people without electricity on New Year's Eve

Restoring the service will take between 24 and 48 hours, if conditions permit Restoring the service will take between 24 and 48 hours, if conditions permit
Restoring the service will take between 24 and 48 hours, if conditions permit
Photo: Internet
Con El Mazo Dando 11 años

Published at: 31/12/2024 04:53 PM

The island of Puerto Rico woke up this December 31 in the midst of another massive blackout. Luma Energy, the main operator and distributor of electrical energy in the United States, warned that the process of restoring service “will take between 24 and 48 hours, if conditions permit.”

The fault began at 5:30am, after a fault in the Costa Sur power plant, located in the southern municipality of Guayanilla, caused a cascading effect and took all other power plants out of service.

At noon local time, 1 million 251 thousand 249 customers were without service, out of a total of 1 million 468 thousand 223, according to the latest data update on the Luma portal.

Previously, there were around 100,000 more customers without electricity, but Luma has already managed to restore service to some homes.

Mazo News Team