Puerto Rico sees power outageOn the same day The BCI published an article on energy resiliency[1], Puerto Rico saw more than 1 million customers left without electricity after an incident at a critical power plant resulted in the largest scale blackout so far this year for the territory. Alongside this, the loss of power has reportedly resulted in 160,000 customers being left without water[2]. In this circumstance it’s critical that essential organizations and businesses, such as hospitals, have generators or other alternative power supplies to keep services operational. The New York Times reports that LUMA Energy took over power distribution and power transmission in Puerto Rico last year[3] in an attempt to reduce the number of power outages seen in the territory through a programme of maintenance and modernization. Regardless if improvements are introduced, the outages have demonstrated the importance of having an alternative power supply on standby to ensure critical operations can keep running in the case of disruption.

Source: New York Times April 08, 2022 14:34 UTC