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Grid Watch: About 741 Customers Out on a Typical Morning

Published Oct 26, 2026, 6:07 AM AST787daily · Original analysis

At a glance

  • 0.05% of customers out on a typical 6:00 AM this week (Oct 19–25)
  • Worst morning Oct 20: 0.3% out, led by Carolina
  • Previous week’s typical morning: 0.14%
  • Caguas was among the ten towns with the most interruptions on 6 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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Power live: 5,322 customers out island-wide at 8:21 AM

On a typical morning this week about 741 of LUMA’s customers were without service at 6:00 AM, the middle reading of 7 mornings (Oct 19–25), out of about 1.47 million. A typical morning last week was much the same, at 0.14%.

The worst morning was Oct 20: 0.3% out (4,356 customers), led by the Carolina region. The quietest was Oct 22 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 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 last week 0.14% Oct 19, 0.14% out, 2,041 customersOct 20, 0.3% out, 4,356 customersOct 21, 0.05% out, 741 customersOct 22, 0.02% out, 293 customersOct 23, 0.04% out, 656 customersOct 24, 0.07% out, 990 customersOct 25, 0.03% out, 368 customers 0.03% 0.3% Oct 20
Customers without service at 6:00 AM, Oct 19–25, against LUMA's severity bands. One reading a morning, not the whole day.
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  • Oct 19, 0.14% out, 2,041 customers
  • Oct 20, 0.3% out, 4,356 customers
  • Oct 21, 0.05% out, 741 customers
  • Oct 22, 0.02% out, 293 customers
  • Oct 23, 0.04% out, 656 customers
  • Oct 24, 0.07% out, 990 customers
  • Oct 25, 0.03% out, 368 customers
Source: LUMA Energy outage portal, one reading per morning, Oct 19–25.
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 192,0410.14%
Oct 204,3560.3%
Oct 217410.05%
Oct 222930.02%
Oct 236560.04%
Oct 249900.07%
Oct 253680.03%

Where it kept happening

Source: LUMA Energy outage portal, Oct 19–25.
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)
Caguas6 of 72
San Juan5 of 75
Bayamón5 of 71
Arecibo3 of 72
Utuado3 of 72
Carolina3 of 71

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 6th Grid Watch (last week’s is here).

In context (787daily, from public data)

  • LUMA's portal showed 0.1% of customers out at 6:06 AM AST on Oct 26, 2026. Across the 50 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 · Oct 26, 6:06 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
  • Places in this storyCarolinaCaguasSan JuanBayamón
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Source: 787daily, “Grid Watch: About 741 Customers Out on a Typical Morning”, Oct 26, 2026, https://787daily.com/news/2026-10-26-grid-watch-about-741-customers-out-on-a-typical-morning/

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