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Puerto Rico’s power crisis

Today, Explained

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Puerto Rico's Electricity Crisis

Luma energy is a private consortium of a Canadian and US company Atco and Quanta they came in were given very generous terms in a contract with the Puerto Rico government to take over distribution and transmission. Luma has been here now for about a year and a half. They had one year to study the system and officially took over last June. In that time there is documented evidence that the performance of the power grid in Puerto Rico has precipitously declined. The way that it was designed was perfect for where Puerto Rico was about 70 years ago more than 70 years ago.

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