Crews restore power to nearly all customers after island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico

Power was restored to much than 98% of customers Friday aft an island-wide blackout deed Puerto Rico earlier this week, authorities said.

More than 1.45 cardinal customers 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.

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Luma warned that "some customers whitethorn proceed to acquisition impermanent outages owed to constricted generation."

Gov. Jenniffer González said that each those affected by the blackout had powerfulness restored, and that the much than 21,400 customers without energy connected Friday was a effect of different unidentified issues.

Nurys Perez moves a generator into spot to powerfulness her quality salon during a blackout successful San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 17, 2025.  (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

"Obviously, Luma inactive has enactment to do," she said. "It is simply a shame for our radical ... that we person specified an insufficient, mediocre system."

Normally, a mates 1000 customers are temporarily without powerfulness each week successful Puerto Rico for assorted reasons.

González noted that much than 98% of customers besides had water.

"We person overcome, convey God, a large situation this week," she said.

The blackout that deed Wednesday day occurred aft a transmission enactment failed and past caused generators crossed the land to protectively unopen down, officials person said. It besides near much than 400,000 customers without h2o astatine the time.

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It wasn’t instantly wide what caused the failure, though authorities are investigating whether a bid of breakers failed oregon if overgrown vegetation is to blame.

González said she expected to person a preliminary study successful upcoming days.

It’s the 2nd monolithic blackout to deed Puerto Rico successful little than 4 months. The erstwhile 1 happened connected New Year’s Eve.