"Given the fragile nature of the grid, we will need to manage available generation to customer demand, which will likely require rotating temporary outages," said Juan Saca, president of Luma Energy.
Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón...urged moderation in energy consumption to help reduce load shifting, so that more people can have access to electricity and the system can start up without any major setbacks.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the outage, but Luma Energy said a preliminary review pointed to a failure in an underground electric line in the south of the territory.
By Wednesday afternoon, power was back up for 98% of Puerto Rico's 1.47 million utility customers, said Luma Energy, the private company overseeing transmission and distribution of power in the archipelago.
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