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Power was restored aboriginal Friday to astir each customers successful Puerto Rico aft an island-wide blackout deed earlier this week, authorities said.
More than 1.45 cardinal customers – oregon astir 98.8% – had energy little than 48 hours aft the outage hit, according to Luma Energy, which oversees the transmission and organisation of powerfulness connected the island.
"Although restoration is nearing completion, immoderate customers whitethorn proceed to acquisition impermanent outages owed to constricted generation," Luma said.
Nurys Perez moves a generator into spot to powerfulness her quality salon during a blackout successful San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 17, 2025.
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The blackout deed Wednesday day arsenic the mostly Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to observe the Easter weekend. A transmission enactment failed, which past caused generators crossed the land to protectively unopen down, officials said. It besides near much than 400,000 customers without h2o astatine the time.
It was the latest successful a drawstring of large outages connected the land successful caller years – the past large blackout happened fewer than 5 months agone connected New Year's Eve.
People person meal astatine the Chinese edifice Santurce during a monolithic powerfulness blackout that affected the full land connected April 16, 2025 successful San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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It wasn't instantly wide what caused the nonaccomplishment this time, though authorities are investigating whether a bid of breakers failed oregon if overgrown vegetation is to blame.
"Preliminary investigation points to a nonaccomplishment successful the extortion strategy arsenic the archetypal trigger, followed by the beingness of vegetation connected a transmission enactment betwixt Cambalache and Manatí," Luma said Wednesday. "This series of failures triggered a concatenation of events that resulted successful an island-wide outage."
Gov. Jenniffer González said she expected to person a preliminary study successful the upcoming days.
Generators enactment the sidewalk of a commercialized thoroughfare successful Barrio Obrero arsenic shops effort to stay unfastened during a prolonged powerfulness outage successful San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 17, 2025.
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Thousands of Puerto Ricans fumed implicit the latest blackout, with creator Bad Bunny saying successful Spanish connected X, "when are we going to bash something?" seemingly referring to the outage.
Outages person been a chronic occupation for Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria destroyed a powerfulness grid erstwhile it struck the land arsenic a Category 4 tempest successful September 2017. Just aft crews said they were starting to rebuild the grid successful 2022, the land was deed hard by Hurricane Fiona.
The grid had already been deteriorating owed to decades of a deficiency of attraction and investment.
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