of the U.S. Caribbean territory’s 311-mile coastline is roasting in temperatures of up to 114 degrees Fahrenheit. Federal forecasters say heat exhaustion or stroke are “likely with prolonged exposure.”
Santa Isabel is one of three municipalities on Puerto Rico’s southern shore facing power outages that could last for seven weeks.America’s most populous unincorporated territory hasn’t had steady electricity since Hurricane Maria laid waste to the aging power grid in September 2017. The storm triggered an 11-month blackout ― the second-longest in modern history, leaving thousands to die without refrigerated medicine or filtered water.The territory’s government hired private companies from the U.
If that wasn’t enough, the bankruptcy courts handling the mammoth debt Puerto Rico’s utility accrued before the storm want to add a surcharge to every ratepayer’s bill for the next three decades to pay off what critics call the Wall Street equivalent of loan sharks.last year. Negotiations over how to restructure the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s outstanding $9 billion in bond debt
Erecting poles and stringing insulated power lines to reconnect the substation to Guayama would take five to six days, according to Rafael Machado, the retired southern regional director in charge of transmission at PREPA who happens to live in Santa Isabel. Doing so, however, would require LUMA to spend its own money now, rather than wait for federal funds to come through for an already-planned project nearby.
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