A new power outage affects over one million homes in Puerto Rico

A large-scale power outage hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday, affecting over one million households across the entire territory. According to Genera, the private company that operates the island’s power plants, the incident was caused by an “unexpected” shutdown of all the facilities. At 12:40 PM local time, Luma Energy, the electricity distributor, confirmed a failure affecting the entire electricity distribution network. Nearly three hours later, with around 1.1 million homes still without power, the company indicated that it was actively working to identify the cause of the outage and restore service safely.