All of Puerto Rico Loses Power for the Second Time This Year
Puerto Rico Power Company Restores Electricity
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Last week, more than 800,000 Puerto Rico utility customers lost power when a single tree fell on a transmission line.
A month earlier, another line failure affected hundreds of thousands, while a substation fire crippled power plants in February. Then, there was the November blackout, which hit San Juan just as it celebrated the milestone of 50 percent power generation after Hurricane Maria last year.