Five years ago, Hurricane Maria knocked out Puerto Rico's power grid. They were only 'just starting to rebuild' when Fiona hit.
Puerto Rican Carol Ward is a lung cancer patient who requires oxygen around the clock. A black oxygen machine never leaves her side. But the power instability on the island of Puerto Rico puts her life at risk almost daily.
In 2021, the Puerto Rico government hired the private company, LUMA Energy, to handle the transmission and distribution of power on the island. "We are just basically starting to rebuild the grid. We have 209 active projects that represent about 5.5 billion of federal dollars," said Cortez. CBS News requested an interview LUMA Energy CEO, Wayne Stensby. He originally agreed to an interview with Begnaud but two days before the interview was set to take place, Stensby pulled out due to"personal reasons."
"We know exactly what the customer is saying. And we know that they're speaking pretty loud. We are all Puerto Ricans, we live here. We do have outages in our homes, too," LUMA representative Noriette Figueroa said. "The last couple of power outages, by their own admission, dealt with lack of maintenance on critical transmission lines and that that's not acceptable to me. I know LUMA inherited a very fragile grid and I know that the reconstruction or the rebuilding of this grid will take years. But that's what they were hired for," the governor said.
Cortez said LUMA has spent the last 15 months working on stabilizing the power grid—which has caused a delay.
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