Authorities said power recovered to more than 98% of customers on Friday after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico earlier this week.
Luma Energy, which oversees the island’s power transmission, more than 1.45 million customers had acquired power within 48 hours of the outage.
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Luma warned that “some customers may continue to experience temporary outages due to limited generation.”
Governor Jennifer Gonzalez said all people affected by the blackout had restored their electricity, and on Friday the more than 21,400 customers without electricity were the result of other unidentified issues.
On Thursday, April 17th, 2025, during a power outage in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nurlys Perez moves the generator into place and powers the beauty salon. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)
“Obviously, Ruma still has work to do,” she said. “It’s a shame for our people… that we have such an inadequate, mediocre system.”
Typically, thousands of customers do not exert temporary power every week in Puerto Rico for a variety of reasons.
Gonzalez noted that over 98% of its customers have water.
“We’ve overcome it, thank God, this week’s big crisis,” she said.
The blackout hit Wednesday afternoon came after a power line failed and subsequently blocked generators across the island protectively, officials said. Also, more than 400,000 customers were out of water at the time.
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Authorities are investigating whether a series of breakers failed or whether the growing vegetation is responsible, but it was not immediately clear what caused the failure.
Gonzalez said she expected her to receive a preliminary report in the next few days.
It was the second major blackout to hit Puerto Rico within four months. The previous one happened on the big ve.
