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Obviously, Luma still has work to do,
We have overcome, thank God, a great crisis this week,
Although restoration is nearing completion, some customers may continue to experience temporary outages due to limited generation,
When are we going to do something?"
Popular rap artist Bad Bunny called out the island's government in Spanish on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday This is a disgrace and embarrassment. This is what happens when you hand over essential public infrastructure to unaccountable companies like LUMA Energy... I stand with the people of PR and am calling for an investigation into what went wrong and why this keeps happening."
New York City mayoral candidate Scott Stringer said in a Thursday X post Puerto Rico needs a modern, reliable grid and we will hold all stakeholders accountable to ensure meaningful progress. We appreciate the partnership and communication with the White House,@ENERGY, and other federal agencies to assist Puerto Rico."
González-Colón replied, writing on X @ENERGY is monitoring the situation in Puerto Rico as the island continues to make progress on restoring power to its residents. We are in communication with Governor González-Colón and are standing by to provide assistance if necessary."
Wright said in an X post Thursday morning That is not under doubt or question,
The governor acknowledged the contract concerns As part of our response efforts, we are investigating the cause of this incident, including what role and effect the long-recognized impact of the fragility of the system had on this island-wide outage,
Unleashing affordable, reliable and secure energy for all Americans is a top priority for this administration. We are actively working with Governor González-Colón to strengthen Puerto Rico’s grid and restore stability for the Puerto Rican people.”
Last night was horrible, ... I woke up with a headache.”
she told the outlet, adding People must be fed up with us having such a mediocre system. If it’s not the transmission, it’s the generation,
Our personnel are working tirelessly to restore service to affected areas as soon as possible, and we project that the percentage of supply customers will continue to increase as the power system regains its generation capacity,
Our crews will continue working throughout the day to ensure that 90% of customers have service restored within the next 48 hours,
Luma Energy said in a statement Puerto Rico can't be the island where the power goes out all the time,
said Puerto Rico's governor There are no words that can ease the frustration we feel as a people in the face of another massive blackout,
Gonzalez said in her post While the cause of the interruption is being investigated, preliminary findings indicate an unexpected shutdown at all generating plants,
a representative from Luma Energy said We cannot continue to repeat this cycle of blackouts without taking concrete measures to strengthen our energy infrastructure,
It is unacceptable that we have a failure of this magnitude in the transmission of the electrical system."
I'm desperate. My generator is broken."
One affected resident, a mum to a six-month-old and a five-year-old with Down syndrome said as the temperatures soared on Wednesday
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