Most Puerto Ricans got up on New Year’s Eve to extensive electrical power power outages, the current repercussion of a falling apart power grid that was ruined by Hurricane Mar ía in 2017 and never ever completely brought back by the private companies that took it over.
More than 1.2 countless 1.47 million customers lacked power, according to LUMA power, the personal firm that took control of electrical power circulation in the united state area in 2021.
The company said on its social networks networks that the source of the interruption was under examination yet initial searchings for indicate a mistake in a below ground cord. They claimed it would certainly take 24-48 hours to recover power and would certainly supply updates every 2 hours.
However, Josu é Col ón, head of Puerto Rico’s electrical power authority, informed the Telemundo network it might take numerous days to completely recover solution, CBS News reported
Puerto Rico Gov Pedro Pierluisi claimed the federal government touches with LUMA and Genera PUBLIC RELATIONS, the personal firm accountable of power generation.
“We are demanding answers and solutions from both LUMA and Genera,” he wrote in a social media post.
Power interruptions have actually been a substantial source of tension and irritation for Puerto Ricans the last couple of years. People have actually required to the roads to object the privatization offers and revealed their outrage on social networks. San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero issued a state of emergency over the power interruptions in June in the center of a warm summer season.
Puerto Rican rap artist Bad Bunny accentuated the problem in 2022 with his video for “El Apagón,” which includes a docudrama on the concerns Puerto Rico encounters at the end of it.
