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.

After Hurricane Maria hit in 2017 — the second deadliest in U.S. history — Congress allocated billions to Puerto Rico’s grid to repair energy plants and power lines damaged by the storm and ...

Many in Puerto Rico were glad when Luma took over the grid in 2021 after years of poor service from a state-run utility. But ...

The island of Puerto Rico has relied on a fragile, decrepit, patchwork system for its power grid. Even though overhauls were promised after the devastation of Hurricane Maria five years ago ...

Puerto Rico sits in the Caribbean, between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with the Caribbean Sea to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Although the island is small ...

The storm's sustained 249 kilometer per hour (155 mph) wind and heavy rain destroyed the Island's power grid leaving most of Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents without electricity. Severe damage ...

By Tuesday night, more than 336,000 clients, including 16 hospitals and Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company, had power back, according to Luma. However, the company’s webpage detailing who ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Department of Homeland Security today over their plans to rebuild Puerto Rico’s centralized electric ...