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Puerto Rico’s latest power outage has left over 1.3 million customers without power on New Year's Eve.

The outage is attributed to an infrastructure problem at a power plant on the island's southern coast.

LUMA, the energy company, is working to restore power in phases, but it may take up to 48 hours.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Customers?

Of course the colony has a private energy grid

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017 LUMA was developed. It is a partnership between ATCO (Canada) and Quanta Services Inc (USA) to develop and modernize Puerto Rico's electrical grid over a 15-year contract. (source)

As such it is a privately-owned grid, not unlike dozens of others in the US. The only difference is that Puerto Rico does NOT receive any federal funds to help offset the costs of the upgrades ... the citizens pay every cent themselves to those privately-owned companies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was privatized under Trump after all the rolling blackouts the public grid kept having. So far it has actually rather improved in quality somehow.

[–] AshMan85 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In this case, "customers" may be more precise, bc if like a whole family has one account that's only one customer, but perhaps representing 5+ people affected?

And a business could be even worse, affecting >10 people.

[–] AshMan85 1 points 4 weeks ago

You are accurate from a buisness perspective. Though, they would not be referred to this way if they were on the mainland and would be handled more urgently.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Like people choose to have power to their house.

It should be a human right.

[–] xc2215x 13 points 1 month ago

Terrible to see for Puerto Rico.

[–] Fredselfish 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is the Biden administration going do anything about this before Trump takes over and ignores our territory.

[–] FlyingSquid 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, but Trump will come over and throw some paper towels again, so that will be nice.

[–] Kbobabob 3 points 4 weeks ago

I know you're just trying to make a funny but he did actually call them and offer support.

President Joe Biden spoke with Pierluisi on Tuesday evening about the outage and offered federal assistance. Biden also spoke with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and directed her to offer any help needed to speed power restoration on the island.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/31/nx-s1-5243984/puerto-rico-power-outage-blackout-new-years-eve

[–] Fredselfish 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was toilet paper, but I was afraid of that.

[–] betweenthesixes 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, it was paper towels. Why not fact check before attempting to correct someone?

Sources: BBC NBC 1 NBC 2

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As the person corrected: I knew they were incorrect, but I also didn't think it was worth pointing out because what type of disposable paper product he threw really does not matter at all. It certainly isn't worth being rude to them over it.

[–] betweenthesixes 4 points 1 month ago

Apologies if this came off as rude, I truly meant no harm. While I understand the specifics in this case are relatively trivial to most, my intent was to simply underscore the value of fact checking and attention to detail when correcting someone. This was likely a poor instance to attempt to convey that message.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Biden called the governor and offered federal aid.