Bronx elected officials with ties to Puerto Rico are sounding the alarm over the territory’s failing energy infrastructure amid a recent two-day island-wide blackout.
Although power was restored to nearly all 1.5 million customers by the morning of April 18, the problem goes far beyond a single incident. The island has a notoriously unreliable energy system and has seen little improvement since Hurricane Maria in 2017, when Congress allocated billions to upgrade and repair the grid and set up solar-powered backup that can run when the grid fails.
