The number of customers without electricity has not stopped increasing today in Puerto Rico.
According to figures from the Electric Power Authority (PREPA), some 109,023 subscribers were still without service at 10:30 a.m. Previously, at 8:02 in the morning, LUMA Energy announced that a “limited generation event process” entered.
Since Sunday, PREPA subscribers have experienced power outages, a problem that, among other things, was attributed to the sargassum that plugged filters and pipes at the Aguirre Power Plant, in Salinas. Yesterday, the rupture of a boiler at the Palo Seco Power Plant, located between Toa Baja and Cataño, was also reported. Meanwhile, this morning there was “an event” in unit 4 of Palo Seco, which left it out of service. The causes are still being investigated.
PREPA’s generation director, William Ríos Mera, informed the press that possibly tonight, Tuesday, the Aguirre power plant would return to function.
“At the Aguirre power plant we have been working. We hope during the morning to have finished the work and to carry out the tests. We know that more deficiencies can emerge in these tests. Once these tests are carried out and they are satisfactory, we begin with the start-up process, ”said the official.
This morning the only thing left to do is a welding job to start turning it on, a process that could take between six to eight hours, explained the president of the Union of Electrical and Irrigation Workers, Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo.
