Over 1.4 million residents of Puerto Rico lost their power on Wednesday. The massive power outage resulted in a major blackout across the U.S. territory. The company that generates power in Puerto Rico, Genera PR, stated, “We have experienced a massive blackout across the entire island due to all of the power generation plants unexpectedly going offline.” The cause of the black out is currently unknown. Power Outage Causes Blackout Across All Of Puerto Ricohttps://t.co/NYt5OLoQFu pic.twitter.com/7RIJ9s0H0g — Forbes (@Forbes) April 16, 2025 Puerto Rico is experiencing a total island-wide blackout with all power plants generating zero electricity. The outage forced passengers to evacuate Tren Urbano rail cars as services came to a halt. Authorities are investigating the cause. pic.twitter.com/xag9Fn7SGS — Geopoliti? Monitor (@GeopolitixM) April 16, 2025 Per The New York Times: More than 1.4 million customers in Puerto Rico lost electricity on Wednesday afternoon when all of the island’s power plants were knocked out of service. The cause was not immediately clear, according to the private electrical companies that generate and distribute Puerto Rico’s power. The island often recovers slowly from power disruptions. It has taken as long as several days to restore service after similar blackouts in the past, including an islandwide outage on New Year’s Eve. “We have experienced a massive blackout across the entire island due to all of the power generation plants unexpectedly going offline,” Genera PR, the company that generates power in Puerto Rico, said in a social media post on Wednesday. Luma Energy, the company that distributes energy, said in its own post that the blackout began around 12:40 p.m. on Wednesday. Many Puerto Ricans were preparing on Wednesday to be off work starting on Thursday as part of Holy Week; Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón was away on a personal trip. Puerto Rico was hit by another massive power outage Wednesday, leaving a majority of the United States territory in the dark for a second time in four months, officials said. Read more: https://t.co/HIF2ekVOeI pic.twitter.com/WFD2hvJnvo — ABC News (@ABC) April 16, 2025 Check out what ABC News reported: Puerto Rico was hit by another massive power outage Wednesday, leaving the United States territory in the dark for a second time in four months, officials said. Local power authorities, Genera and LUMA, recorded a system failure at approximately 12:40 p.m. that affected service island-wide. In a post on X, LUMA Energy said it could take two to three days to restore service to 90% of customers — and that the priority for now is to restore power to critical facilities, such as the Centro Médico hospital in the capital San Juan.