Officials said more than 98% of the customers were restored on Friday after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico.
According to Luma Energy, more than 1.45 million customers had less than 48 hours of power of the outage hit, which oversees the power transmission and distribution on the island.
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Luma warned that “some customers may continue to experience temporary outage due to limited generations.”
The village Jennifer Gonzalez said that the power was restored by all the blackouts affected by the blackout, and more than 21,400 customers were the result of other unknown issues on Friday without electricity.
Nuris Perez transferred a generator to provide electricity to his beauty salon during a blackout on San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Grandilo)
“Obviously, Luma still has to work,” he said. “It is a shame for our people … that we have such insufficient, average system.”
Generally, a few thousand customers are temporarily temporarily without electricity every week in Puerto Rico for various reasons.
Gonzalez said that more than 98% of the customers also had water.
“We are away, thank God, a great crisis this week,” he said.
Officials said that after the failure of a transmission line, the blackout on Wednesday afternoon and then safely closed the generator on the entire island, the officials said. It also left more than 400,000 customers without water at that time.
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It was not immediately clear what causes the failure, although authorities are investigating whether a series of breakers has failed or if the vegetation is guilty of uprooting.
Gonzalez said that they are expected to receive the initial report in the coming days.
This is the second huge blackout to hit Porto Rico in less than four months. The last one new year was on the eve.
