On Saturday, the majority of power consumers in Puerto Rico who were left without power earlier this week due to a severe outage that affected over a million people had their power restored.
The two entities in charge of providing electricity to Puerto Rico's 1.5 million power customers said their crews have been working hard since Wednesday night, when a circuit breaker at the Costa Sur generation plant, one of the island's four main plants, caught fire, shutting down the remaining power plants.
According to Luma Energy, the Canadian-American private corporation that took over Puerto Rico's power transmission and distribution last year, power has been restored to at least 1.3 million consumers as of late Saturday morning.
As roughly 87 percent of customers gained access to electricity, Luma Energy also urged consumers to limit their power use in order to avoid energy demand upticks that could hinder the ongoing restoration process at some of the main power plants.
Workers from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the bankrupt public corporation in charge of controlling power generation units, have reconnected at least seven of the shutdown plants.
On Saturday morning, the power authority said on Twitter that it started working on reconnecting Puerto Rico’s two largest power plants, Costa Sur and EcoEléctrica.
"As long as the EcoEléctrica and Costa Sur units are not in service, the system will not have the required energy reserve," to deal with setbacks, the power authority said in Spanish.
