About a third of puerto rico s residents over 900 000 are still living without electricity five months after hurricane maria battered the island on sept.
Does puerto rico have electricity restored.
Nearly 500 000 people had power service restored by wednesday morning up from 100 000 the night before and the island was generating about 542 megawatts of electricity the power authority aee.
20th of last year.
Text power returned to parts of puerto rico after a series of earthquakes caused widespread blackouts toppled homes and schools and killed one person.
The puerto rico electric power authority prepa says power was restored around 7 a m.
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Before restoration the popular tourist site relied on.
The puerto rico electric power authority said sunday that 75 35 percent of customers now have electricity.
Power had been restored to 980 000 people by september 20 when hurricane maria struck leaving nearly the entire island without power.
Two weeks later power had been restored to about 10 of customers.
A series of earthquakes that began dec.
Utility says 99 of customers have electricity puerto rico s public utility prepa tweeted some welcome news monday.
An underwater cable to the island of culebra was reconnected.
This was the first major outage to knock out power to affect the entire island since hurricane.
That nearly all of the homes.
Power has been fully restored in puerto rico 18 months after hurricane maria.
The puerto rico electric power authority said.
Nearly six months after hurricane maria decimated puerto rico the island s electricity has been restored to 75 percent capacity according to its utility company.
Full restoration was expected to take months and many puerto ricans bought generators.