Why Is There No Electricity In Puerto Rico

Puerto rico is still literally powerless.

Why is there no electricity in puerto rico.

Securing parts and grappling with an old system with no money is making it tougher. Puerto rico has no coal resources and produces no coal. This was the first major outage to knock out power to affect the entire island since hurricane. The puerto rico electric power authority prepa is an electric power company owned by the commonwealth of puerto rico responsible for electricity generation power distribution and power transmission on the island.

Four months after hurricane maria about 450 000 of 1 5 million electricity customers in puerto rico still have no service. 85 the commonwealth has one coal fired electricity generating plant at guayama which began operations in 2002. Though hurricane maria made landfall as a category four hurricane over a week ago the storm has left the island almost entirely without electrical power. Many puerto ricans woke up on wednesday to a second day without electricity after the island s worst earthquake in a century knocked out power collapsed homes and killed at least one person.

Five months after hurricane maria devastated puerto rico there are parts of the island that still don t have power. 87 88 in 2017 hurricane maria damaged the generating plant and transmission grid but the plant resumed. About half of puerto rico is without electricity two months after the hurricane npr began their interview with governor ricardo rossello. The governor says their hope is to get power to everyone by christmas but that full restoration of electricity could take much longer.

The puerto rico electric power authority prepa says power was restored around 7 a m. 86 typically about 1 6 million tons of coal are imported annually from colombia to supply the 454 megawatt plant. Puerto rico electric power authority metro 787 521 3434 non metro 1 800 981 2434.