Text power returned to parts of puerto rico after a series of earthquakes caused widespread blackouts toppled homes and schools and killed one person.
Does puerto rico have electricity restored.
Utility says 99 of customers have electricity puerto rico s public utility prepa tweeted some welcome news monday.
Puerto rico s electric power authority said that as of 7 27 a m electricity had been restored to about a third of its 1 4 million clients.
The puerto rico electric power authority said.
Cnn power restoration after hurricane maria which struck almost a year ago has been completed according to the puerto rico electric power authority.
About a third of puerto rico s residents over 900 000 are still living without electricity five months after hurricane maria battered the island on sept.
Full restoration was expected to take months and many puerto ricans bought generators.
An underwater cable to the island of culebra was reconnected.
This was the first major outage to knock out power to affect the entire island since hurricane.
Power had been restored to 980 000 people by september 20 when hurricane maria struck leaving nearly the entire island without power.
Before restoration the popular tourist site relied on.
According to our reports all of our.
One person was killed and several others injured.
Two weeks later power had been restored to about 10 of customers.
That nearly all of the homes.
A series of earthquakes that began dec.
Power has been fully restored in puerto rico 18 months after hurricane maria.
The puerto rico electric power authority prepa says power was restored around 7 a m.
Nearly six months after hurricane maria decimated puerto rico the island s electricity has been restored to 75 percent capacity according to its utility company.