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Grid Watch: Outages Peaked at 13,417 Customers on Oct 14; Rest of the Week Quieter

Published Oct 19, 2026, 6:07 AM AST787daily · Original analysis

At a glance

  • 0.14% of customers out on a typical 6:00 AM this week (Oct 12–18)
  • Worst morning Oct 14: 0.91% out, led by Ponce
  • Previous week’s typical morning: 0.3%
  • Jayuya was among the ten towns with the most interruptions on 4 of 7 mornings

Why this matters: Whether outages are easing or getting worse for households: a week of mornings, against the week before.

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On a typical morning this week about 2,089 of LUMA’s customers were without service at 6:00 AM, the middle reading of 7 mornings (Oct 12–18), out of about 1.47 million. One morning carried the week: Oct 14, when 13,417 customers were out, about seven times a typical morning, led by the Ponce region.

A typical morning last week was 0.3%; this week is 0.16 points better. The quietest was Oct 16 at 0.02%.

None of the customers out were on LUMA’s planned jobs on any of the seven mornings, so these were faults rather than maintenance.

Morning by morning

scattered elevated 0.0% 0.5% 1.0% 1.5% 2.0% Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 last week 0.3% Oct 12, 0.04% out, 631 customersOct 13, 0.14% out, 2,089 customersOct 14, 0.91% out, 13,417 customersOct 15, 0.24% out, 3,575 customersOct 16, 0.02% out, 293 customersOct 17, 0.05% out, 760 customersOct 18, 0.21% out, 3,070 customers 0.21% 0.91% Oct 14
Customers without service at 6:00 AM, Oct 12–18, against LUMA's severity bands. One reading a morning, not the whole day.
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  • Oct 12, 0.04% out, 631 customers
  • Oct 13, 0.14% out, 2,089 customers
  • Oct 14, 0.91% out, 13,417 customers
  • Oct 15, 0.24% out, 3,575 customers
  • Oct 16, 0.02% out, 293 customers
  • Oct 17, 0.05% out, 760 customers
  • Oct 18, 0.21% out, 3,070 customers
Source: LUMA Energy outage portal, one reading per morning, Oct 12–18.
Morning (One reading at 6:00 AM AST from LUMA's outage portal)Customers out (Customers LUMA reported without service at that moment)Share (Share of all LUMA customers)
Oct 126310.04%
Oct 132,0890.14%
Oct 1413,4170.91%
Oct 153,5750.24%
Oct 162930.02%
Oct 177600.05%
Oct 183,0700.21%

Where it kept happening

Source: LUMA Energy outage portal, Oct 12–18.
MunicipioMornings in the ten busiest (Mornings this municipio was among the ten with the most active interruptions LUMA listed)Most interruptions at once (The most active interruptions LUMA listed in the municipio on any morning that week; LUMA's town list gives no customer counts)
Jayuya4 of 73
Adjuntas4 of 73
San Juan4 of 73
Caguas4 of 72
Arecibo3 of 74
Utuado3 of 72

Live outages by town, updated continuously, are on the power tracker. This series keeps one reading from LUMA’s public outage portal every morning.

This is the 5th Grid Watch (last week’s is here).

In context (787daily, from public data)

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Source: 787daily, “Grid Watch: Outages Peaked at 13,417 Customers on Oct 14; Rest of the Week Quieter”, Oct 19, 2026, https://787daily.com/news/2026-10-19-grid-watch-outages-peaked-at-13-417-customers-on-oct-14-rest/

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