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LUMA Schedules Thursday Maintenance Work That May Cause Outages in 15 Towns

Published Sep 9, 2026, 11:40 PM ASTvia Primera Hora

At a glance

  • LUMA Energy will carry out maintenance and infrastructure improvement works in 15 towns in Puerto Rico
  • The works may cause power outages in the affected areas
  • The company aims to increase the resilience of electrical poles and attend to customer-required works

Why this matters: For the residents of the 15 affected towns, the scheduled power outages may impact daily life and economic activities.

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LUMA Energy announced maintenance, vegetation removal, and infrastructure improvement work scheduled for Thursday across various municipalities in Puerto Rico, part of efforts to strengthen the electrical system, increase pole resilience, and address customer-requested work. Hazardous vegetation removal is planned in Cidra (Barrio Arena, Santa María sector), Cabo Rojo (numerous communities including Elizabeth, Puerto Real, Cayo del Sol, Marie Garden Apartments, Playa Buyé, Puertas de Buyé, and James Garfield Elementary School, plus dozens of listed sectors and developments), Ponce (Anaida Gardens, Campo Alegre, Alta Vista, Sagrado Corazón, Santa Clara, Villas de Sagrado Corazón, Parque Los Almendro, Villa Panonia, Barrio Sabanetas, and the La Ceiba public housing project), San Juan (Wonderville urbanización on Urano and Neptuno streets, and El Paraíso), and Vega Baja (Jardines de Vega Baja).

Pole resilience improvement work is scheduled in Lares, in Barrio Pueblo’s La Sierra sector and Barrio Palmar Llano along PR-111, kilometer 37.6. LUMA did not specify exact hours or the expected duration of any outages resulting from the work.

In context (787daily, from public data)

  • LUMA's portal showed under 0.1% of customers out at 6:07 AM AST on Nov 2, 2026. Across the 57 days 787daily has tracked it, the daily average is 0.3% and the worst was 1.8% on Sep 30, 2026.

    LUMA Energy outage portal · Nov 2, 6:07 AM AST
  • Customers averaged 28.4 hours without power in the fiscal year that ended in June 2026, the worst of the five full years LUMA has run the grid and up from 26.3 hours the year before.

    LUMA operates the transmission and distribution system.

    PR Energy Bureau, as filed by LUMA · fiscal year ending June 2026
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