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Nearly A Year After Maria, Puerto Rico Officials Claim Power Is Totally
Restored
Puerto Rico's sole provider of electricity for 1.5 million residents says
power has been returned to all homes that lost electricity from Hurricane
Maria last September.
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority identified a family near the
mountainous, rural barrios of Real and Anón, in Ponce, a city and
municipality in the island's south, as their final customers to receive
returned power. PREPA tweeted their image.
A PREPA engineer told ABC News that bringing power to the rural area took "
more than two weeks working to make roads and excavators bringing and
raising electrical poles."
The blackout in Hurricane Maria's wake was one of the largest ever. More
than 160,000 Puerto Rican homes were damaged or destroyed. Power restoration
cost more than $3 billion and was mired in controversy: PREPA's seen five
CEOs in the 11 months since the storm.
One of those CEOs, former General Electric executive Rafael Díaz Granados,
resigned in July, rather than accept demands by the island's Gov. Ricardo
Rosselló that his $750,000 salary be reduced. PREPA is bankrupt and $9
billion in debt. In January, Rosselló announced plans to sell the insolvent
company.
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In this May 2018 photo, residents without power from the municipality of
Yabucoa protested outside the Electric Power Authority office. A protester's
sign read "Light now!"
Carlos Giusti/AP
For months following the hurricane, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
helped repair the island's power grid. However, in July FEMA's assistance
ended while about 16,000 homes remained without electricity, despite urging
from Puerto Rico's Congressional representative for the agency to extend its
contract.
Many experts say that despite PREPA's efforts, the island's grid remains as
fragile as it was before the storm. Plans to improve it are underway and
will cost $26 billion more, according to a report submitted to Congress
earlier this month. Days before, a federal judge ruled that the island doesn
't have final say over its finances, a decision that has already cut into
public assistance.
Some Puerto Ricans say PREPA's claims of total restorations are false.
Residents in El Yunque National Forest in the island's northeast tell CNN
that power has yet to be restored "because of a back-and-forth with the U.S.
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