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| ‘Island-Wide Blackout’ Strikes Puerto Rico After Major Power Station Erupts In Flames |
| 2022-04-08 |
| [ZeroHedge] Puerto Rico's power grid was hit by a devastating fire at one of the largest power plants on the island that triggered widespread blackouts, according to Bloomberg. On Wednesday night, the outage began when a fire broke out at the Costa Sur power plant in the island's southwest region, Puerto Rican utility company LUMA Energy said. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) tweeted a video of one of the power plant's generator circuit breakers erupting in flames, shooting fireballs into the night sky. "The power grid has suffered a massive island-wide blackout, potentially caused by a circuit breaker failure at the Costa Sur generation plant," LUMA officials said Wednesday night. The fire was extinguished hours later. In recent months, the outage was one of the biggest for the island's deteriorating electrical grid, which has seen frequent rolling blackouts grow worse by the year. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico exited bankruptcy last month, but PREPA remains buried in insurmountable debt, totaling around $9bln. Related: Puerto Rico: 2022-02-09 Keeping the Lights On Puerto Rico: 2022-01-15 Suspect in deadly East Harlem Burger King shooting of woman demands 'reparations' for slavery, promises 'America is gonna burn' Puerto Rico: 2021-12-23 Five members of human smuggling network that charged $20,000 per person are arrested in the Dominican Republic after being linked to deaths of three of the 56 migrants killed in Mexico truck crash |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 A man has got to know his lubrications. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-04-08 12:49 |
| #2 Mayor Carmen Yulin will have to have kids sew her protest shirts by hand. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-04-08 11:29 |
| #1 Since Hurricane Maria, PREPA has supposedly received and spent big $$ 'upgrading' their systems. Wonder how much was actually spent on the electrical infrastructure and how much was pocketed. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-04-08 11:01 |