The lights went off in Puerto Rico at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, darkening almost the entire island as people prepared to ring in the New Year.
Power was restored to nearly all electrical customers across Puerto Rico on Wednesday after a sweeping blackout plunged the US territory into darkness on New Year's Eve.
Luma Energy, the private company overseeing transmission and distribution of power on the island said by Wednesday afternoon, power was back up for 98% of Puerto Rico's 1.47 million utility customers.
Lights returned to households as well as to Puerto Rico's hospitals, water plants and sewage facilities after the massive outage that exposed the persistent electricity problems plaguing the island.
But, the company warned that customers could still see temporary outages in the coming days.
It said full restoration across the island could take up to two days.
The lights went off in Puerto Rico at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, darkening almost the entire island as people prepared to ring in the New Year.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the outage, but Luma Energy said a preliminary review pointed to a failure in an underground electric line in the south of the territory.
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