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Puerto Rico suffers another power failure, leaving more than 197,000 customers without electricity
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Puerto Rico suffers another power failure, leaving more than 197,000 customers without electricity

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • More than 197,000 electricity customers in Puerto Rico lost service after Costa Sur units 5 and 6 shut down abruptly.
  • LUMA Energy said it was carrying out load shedding because of generation shortfalls and was coordinating with generating companies to limit the impact.
  • The outage renewed public anger over Puerto Rico’s fragile grid, which suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Maria in 2017.

More than 197,000 customers in Puerto Rico were without electricity Sunday after two generating units at the Costa Sur power plant shut down abruptly.

LUMA Energy, the company responsible for transmission and distribution, said Costa Sur units 5 and 6 had gone offline and that load shedding was taking place because of generation deficiencies. The plant sits in Guayanilla, in southern Puerto Rico.

Company data showed 197,674 customers without service at 3 p.m. local time. LUMA said generating companies were responsible for power production and that it remained in contact with them to reduce the effect on customers.

The Costa Sur 5 and 6 units shut down abruptly, and load shedding is taking place because of generation deficiencies.

— LUMA EnergyCompany statement about the cause of the outage.

The outage brought renewed criticism of LUMA across the archipelago. The company serves about 1.4 million electricity customers and frequently faces protests. Some residents blame LUMA, while others point to generation problems under the state-run Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and decades of poor public management.

Puerto Rico’s power network has remained vulnerable since Hurricane Maria devastated it in 2017, and outages remain frequent across the archipelago.

Load shedding is taking place because of generation deficiencies. The generating companies are responsible for generation. We remain in constant communication with them to minimize the impact on customers.

— LUMA EnergyFurther explanation posted by the electricity transmission and distribution company.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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