LUMA said the exact cause of the power outage, which began at 5:30 a.m. local time, remains under investigation.
While blackouts used to be rare in the US territory, Puerto Rico’s power grid has found itself struggling in recent years due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm ...
Puerto Rico continues to struggle with chronic power outages blamed on a crumbling power grid that was razed by Hurricane Maria, a powerful category 4 storm that struck the island in September 2017.
The New Year’s Eve outage is just the latest time that Puerto Rico’s power system has faltered on a mass scale. In 2017, Hurricane Maria left hundreds of thousands of people without power for ...
The U.S. Department of Energy says it's setting aside $1.2 billion in federal funds to help finance renewable energy projects ...
BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Power was restored to nearly ... The island’s power grid was ravaged in September 2017 by Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm. Unreliable electricity remains ...