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W hen power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. There, nestled in the mountains on the midwestern side of the is ...
Puerto Rico’s governor pledged Thursday to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected last year as anger intensifies over repeated ...
LUMA Energy, which operates and manages the electric power transmission and distribution system in Puerto Rico for 1.5 ...
The Puerto Rico House Consumer Affairs Committee is investigating LUMA Energy’s rejection of 1,828 claims for household ...
Some $365 million in federal funds will be redirected to Puerto Rico in efforts to bolster the island’s grid resiliency and ...
Many in Puerto Rico worry that any storm, regardless of how small, could knock out the grid, given its fragile state.
The U.S. Department of Energy says that $365 million originally slated for solar projects in Puerto Rico will be diverted to improve the island’s crumbling grid ...
That’s what Puerto Rico experienced last week. Every customer of LUMA Energy—the company responsible for running Puerto Rico’s power distribution—lost electricity. Over 328,000 residents ...
Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón said officials are waiting for an explanation from Luma Energy, a private company that oversees transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico, about what ...