Power Finally Returning to Puerto Rico After Wednesday's Plant Fire Sent 1.2 Million Customers
Source: Virgin Islands Consortium
Electricity started returning to Puerto Rico on Friday, though about 200,000 customers were still without power on Saturday. The blackout occurred on Wednesday following what Lumar Energy, the private operator of Puerto Rico's public power utility, suspects was a failed circuit breaker at the Costa Sur power plant — one of the utility's largest — led to a fire.
The disruption led to canceled school classes and shuttered businesses that were unable to operate. It also led to protests across the island commonwealth of 2.8 million people.
Lumar Energy, the Canadian American group, vowed to reduce outages when it took control of operations in June 2021. However, for customers whose power was restored over the weekend, intermittent outages were still occurring, leading Lumar to advise that sporadic disruptions would continue until the system is fully restored.
“We’ve been encouraging all of our customers to conserve energy through the weekend,” said Lumar CEO Wayne Stensby. “It’s in everyone’s interest that they be as careful with their energy as possible.”
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