Puerto Rico Power Outage: Residents Want Utility Company Luma Energy Out After Massive Blackout | Latin Post [Video]

Puerto Rico‘s electricity woes continued as yet another power outage hit the US territory on Wednesday night, which was later restored. However, Puerto Ricans now want Luma Energy out after this latest incident that left over 340,000 customers without any electricity.

This latest blackout happened after two of the island’s power plants shut down. It mostly affected the capital, San Juan, but the neighboring municipalities of Bayamon, Caguas, and Carolina were also affected by the power outage.

Luma Energy soon released a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that the power e outage was tied to an issue with the power plants’ transmission lines. A company spokesperson spoke with the Associated Press and stated that “the outage coincided with the shutdown of units operated by Genera PR, which operates and maintains state power generation units.”

Much like the residents, the Puerto Rican government was also not happy with Luma Energy, which operates the transmission and …