- Most Puerto Ricans woke up on New Year’s Eve to widespread electricity blackouts, affecting over 1.2 million of 1.47 million clients.
- The outages result from a deteriorating power grid, damaged by Hurricane María in 2017 and inadequately restored.
- LUMA Energy is investigating the cause, initially pointing to a fault in an underground cable, with restoration efforts expected to take up to 48 hours.
- Puerto Rico’s governor has demanded answers and solutions from both LUMA and Genera PR, the company responsible for power generation.
- Power outages have led to public protests, indicating significant frustration among Puerto Ricans regarding the privatization of electricity.
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