is slowly recovering from an island-wide power outage that began Wednesday night. However, hundreds of thousands of people are still without electricity as the territory continues to grapple with .
The power outage was the result of a breaker failure at the Costa Sur power plant. Based on , the plant produces more electricity than any other facility on the island. Luma, a private Canadian-American company that took over management of the grid from a utility company last year, said there was “major damage” to the plant. An investigation is underway to determine the exact cause, although it appears to have been .
Based on , a website that tracks power outages, more than 429,000 customers out of 1.47 million were without power at 1:25 p.m. ET on Friday. As of Friday morning, Luma it cannot provide an estimate of how long it will take to fully restore power.
Critical facilities such as hospitals are operating, although public school services were canceled on Friday. About 182,000 or 10 percent of water and sewerage customers were without water on Thursday.
Once it starts operating the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system, Luma said it will make power outages less frequent. However, according to the report, the power outage continued and lasted longer than when the public utility agency managed the power grid.
After In 2017, the whole island lost power. Some people had to wait more than a year before that a situation that highlights the precarious state of the territory .
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