Puerto Rico experiences massive blackout, leaving over a million without power

Published April 17, 2025 6:35am ET



Residents of Puerto Rico were left in the dark on Wednesday as the island experienced a massive blackout resulting from a service interruption at the island’s power distribution company, Luma Energy. 

The power outage began shortly before 1 p.m. local time, and all of the company’s 1.4 million customers were left without electricity, according to multiple reports. Over 328,000 people did not have running water due to the outage as of Thursday morning.

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