Puerto Rico was struck by an island-wide blackout on Wednesday as residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend, energy distribution company Luma Energy confirmed.
The outage came after the island’s power plants were knocked out of service, the private company confirmed in a statement on social media.
According to Luma Energy, the outage began at approximately 12:40 p.m. local time.
The company said “an event was recorded that affected service island-wide,” meaning all 1.4 million customers were without power.
In an update at 5:30 p.m., the distributor said employees had begun reestablishing the electrical system after the “unexpected outage of all the power plants,” without providing further details….