Over a million customers in Puerto Rico have experienced intermittent power outages since Hurricane Maria, with many losing electricity this time even before Fiona made landfall.
September 22, 2022, 11:55 AMPeople walk on a street with power lines downed by the passing of Hurricane Fiona in Penuelas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 19, 2022.as it heads toward Bermuda, left in its wake large-scale devastation in Puerto Rico.
"Outages have been occurring for one reason or another," Tom Sanzillo, the director of financial analysis for think tank the Institute of Energy and Economics and Financial Analysis, told ABC News. "It's beyond belief how bad the system is."Didn't a power outage happen five years ago with Hurricane Maria?
Three years after Hurricane Maria, in September 2020, the Trump administration announced nearly $9.6 billion in federal funding for the repair of the island's power system. The sum made up more than half of the support that PREPA would need to modernize its electric grid over the ensuing 10 years, bond credit rating service Moody's said at the time of the announcement.
The delay owes primarily to disagreement between FEMA and the government of Puerto Rico over the implementation of the funds, said Sergio Marxuach, policy director at the Center for a New Economy, a Puerto Rico-based nonpartisan think tank. "The municipalities are broke," Ortiz-García told ABC News. "So that right there is basically a black hole."Meanwhile, the island also privatized its electric system. In June 2021, a Canadian-American business partnership called LUMA Energy took over management of the electric grid.
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