“The grid has become the poster child of the decay of the colonial system, its institutions and a very vulnerable population," Ortiz García said. Hurricane Maria knocked out power to Puerto ...

which helped degrade its system before the storm hit. The debt crisis, degraded infrastructure, and poverty found in Puerto Rico made it more vulnerable to a disaster like Hurricane Maria.

Crews were reported to be making progress restoring power to Puerto Rico after an island-wide blackout that affected the main international airport, several hospitals, and hotels filled with Easter ...

Puerto Rico’s governor on Monday urged people to moderate their energy consumption as she warned that the island has no additional power generation capability to fall back on days after a massive ...

This neglect, combined with the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria in 2017, has created a system that is highly vulnerable to failures. The privatization of Puerto Rico’s power transmission ...

Local power authorities, Genera and LUMA, recorded a system failure at ... Jose Jimenez/Getty Images MORE: Puerto Rico's power grid is struggling 5 years after Hurricane Maria.

Puerto Rico’s power grid has been plagued by extensive problems since Hurricane Maria hit the island ... including that the power transmission system is fragile, hard to stabilize and outdated ...

"Preliminary analysis points to a failure in the protection system as the initial trigger ... Outages have been a chronic problem for Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria destroyed a power grid ...

That is a national disgrace." MORE: Puerto Rico's power grid is struggling 5 years after Hurricane Maria. Here's why. The blackout is the latest in a series of significant power disruptions that ...

It’s the latest in a series of outages hitting Puerto Rico since September 2017, when Hurricane Maria hit the island and damaged the power grid that crews still struggle to rebuild, the AP reported.

Dozens of people were forced to walk next to the rails of the rapid transit system ... Year’s Eve. Puerto Rico has struggled with chronic outages since September 2017 when Hurricane Maria ...

The blackout started at about 12:40 p.m. on April 16, when the Puerto Rico Governor's Office said a failure in the transmission of the electrical system ... more than 80%. Hurricane Maria in ...