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Nearly 620,000 are still without electricity in Porto Rico on Thursday, more than 24 hours after the whole island lost electricity when its power plants were eliminated, the last ventilation of the defective electricity network in the territory.
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Key facts
Luma Energy, electricity distributor of Puerto Rico, says that it restored electricity to more than 850,000 customers, or 57.9% of its customers, at 2:20 p.m. HA on Thursday.
In the capital of San Juan, 84% of Luma’s customers are back online on Thursday afternoon, while only 27% of customers in the southern Ponce city were restored to electricity (the full list of energy catering by region can be found on a live dashboard on emergency interventions on the Luma website).
The breakdown started around 12:40 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Luma’s social media, for reasons that are not immediately clear.
The power failure affected more than 1.4 million customers to Puerto Rico, the New York Times reported.
The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration said in a position that he worked with the White House and other federal agencies to “ensure that Porto Rico receives the necessary support and that all essential services are restored as quickly and safe as possible”.
What to monitor
Governor Jenniffer González said it would take at least three days to understand what caused the power failure, reported the Associated Press.
Key
Porto Rico faced chronic power outages in the past, including a New Year’s power failure last year which left almost the whole island without electricity. In 2017, Hurricane Irma and Maria caused the country’s electrical network collapse, leaving some without electricity for almost a year, according to the Ministry of Energy. In 2019, the territory adopted the Puerto Rico Energy Public Public Policy Act, which includes an objective for the island to repair its electricity problems by 2050 – although progress has been slow.
Is San Juan Airport open?
Flights from Luis Muñoz Marín airport, located near San Juan, normally operated at 7:55 a.m. HAE Thursday, according to a post in the airport account, which said that power was completely restored. Late Wednesday afternoon, the airport operated on generators due to the island level breakdown.
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