After Hurricane Fiona knocked out electricity for the whole island’s roughly 3.3 million population on Sunday night, an estimated 746,000 homes and businesses in Puerto Rico were still without it on Monday morning.
Fiona, which the U.S. National Hurricane Center reduced to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday, devastated Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands last week, killing at least eight people.
Many Puerto Ricans said the storm brought back memories of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Maria five years ago, which knocked out electricity for nearly all 1.5 million people for a week.
According to statistics from LUMA Energy, which manages Puerto Rico’s grid, 746,144 customers were still without electricity early on Monday, according to PowerOutage.us, which calculates outages using utility data.
Because of the extensive power outages and the rising demand for fuel to power backup generators, many gas stations in Puerto Rico are running out of fuel, which has caused a cascade of energy issues.
Units of the Canadian energy company ATCO Ltd. (50%) and the American energy contractor Quanta Services Inc. jointly own LUMA.
