Puerto Rico has been immersed in darkness after a power grid failure sparked a blackout across much of the island. The New Year’s Eve blackout cut power to nearly 1.27 million households, out of a total of 1.5 million clients, according to the private energy company LUMA, which is responsible for maintaining the electricity grid. “We have already begun the …
A series of quakes destroyed or damaged about 300 homes, and led Governor Wanda Vazquez to declare a state of emergency. Puerto Rico‘s top energy executive on Thursday warned that the United States territory’s largest power plant could remain off line for up to a year because of earthquake damage, evoking memories of lengthy power outages that followed a pair …
