More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused a blackout
She said her neighbors had been outraged by recent increases in power bills, which were already higher than in most U.S. states.
Luma, the company that took over transmission and distribution from Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority last year, said the blackout could have been caused by a circuit-breaker failure at the Costa Sur generation plant — one of four main plants on the island. Officials said at least three generation units were back online by Thursday, with crews working to restore more.
The outage further enraged Puerto Ricans already frustrated with an electricity system razed by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Emergency repairs were made at the time, but reconstruction efforts have not yet started, and power company officials blame aging, ill-maintained infrastructure for the ongoing outages.
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