Puerto Rico will celebrate New Year’s Eve in darkness. The Caribbean island was actually hit by a new blackout (the latest in a long series), but this time 80 percent of its territory and 88 percent of users were left without power. More than 1.3 million people attended, who will most likely spend New Year’s Eve and even the first hours of 2025 by candlelight.
The outage was caused by the breakage of the underground cable.
The news was reported by the American media, which quoted a statement from the local energy company Luma explaining that the interruption of electricity supply to a large part of the territory of Puerto Rico was due to an infrastructure problem at a power plant. plant on the southern coast of the island. According to the company, which took immediate action to eliminate the outage, the power outage was caused by the breakage of the underground cable. The problem is that it may take 24 to 48 hours for the fault to be repaired.
The Governor of the island, Pedro Pierluisi, intervened with his post on X to inform the citizens. “We can inform you that work is already underway to restore service at the San Juan and Palo Seco facilities,” he wrote. “We are seeking responses and solutions from both Luma and Genera that should expedite the restart of production units, barring the malfunction. We would like to inform them about the measures they are taking to restore service in the region.” Inform as necessary.” This isn’t the first power outage in Puerto Rico. The electricity grid is very old and poorly maintained, causing constant blackouts.
Source: Today IT
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