Puerto Ricans stay with out energy (each electrical and in Congress) after an island-wide energy outage plunged the disenfranchised colonial territory into darkness Wednesday night.
Each buyer on the primary island misplaced electrical energy when “all of the producing items went offline,” Josue Colon, Puerto Rico’s lead telecommunications and infrastructure engineer, instructed reporters, and greater than one-third of Puerto Rican energy prospects had been nonetheless at midnight Friday morning.
The preliminary failure was brought on by a hearth on the Costa Sur energy plant exterior Guayanilla. Puerto Rico’s grid was decimated by Hurricane Maria and has been affected by unreliability as efforts to modernize the grid have struggled below the non-public U.S.-Canadian firm that took over Puerto Rico’s grid final 12 months.
Regardless of poor service, residents of Puerto Rico pay nearly twice as a lot for electrical energy as prospects on the U.S. mainland. “That is horrible,” Luisa Rosado, a San Juan mom of two instructed NBC. “To extend payments once you don’t present an ideal service… the extent of impunity is absurd.”
For a deeper dive:
CNN, E&E, The Wall Road Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Occasions; Grid modernization failures: NBC; Local weather Alerts background: Hurricane Maria
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