
A widespread power outage struck Puerto Rico on Wednesday night, affecting more than 340,000 customers after two power plants in the U.S. territory experienced shutdowns. The outage left the capital city of San Juan and neighboring municipalities such as Bayamón, Caguas, and Carolina without power.
Luma Energy, responsible for transmission and distribution in Puerto Rico, stated that the outage was linked to transmission line issues at the power plants. The company is currently investigating the cause of the outage, which coincided with the shutdown of units operated by Genera PR, the entity in charge of maintaining state power generation units.