Puerto Rico's new governor, Jenniffer González Colón, who was sworn in on Thursday, has called out the territory's ailing power grid and promised that stabilizing it will be her top priority.

SAN JUAN (Reuters) -Puerto Ricans were without electricity on New Year's Eve after a grid failure left ... Puerto Rico has long dealt with chronic power outages as its infrastructure crumbles.

The power just won't stay on in Puerto Rico despite big bucks spent on restoration ... major problems with its fragile electrical grid. As of Monday morning, power had been restored to about ...

The island suffers from chronic power outages that worsened after Hurricane Maria razed the grid when it slammed into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm in September 2017. However, the grid was ...

The length of power outages in Puerto Rico increased 11% last year as the island struggles to rebuild an electric grid that already lacked maintenance and investment when it was razed by Hurricane ...