About 746,000 still without power in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona By Reuters

(Reuters) – An believed 746,000 houses and enterprises were nonetheless with no ability in Puerto Rico on Monday early morning soon after Hurricane Fiona brought about an island-vast ability outage for its roughly 3.3 million residents.

Fiona, which was downgraded to a article-tropical cyclone by the U.S. National Hurricane Heart on Saturday, battered Puerto Rico and other sections of the Caribbean a week back, killing at minimum 8 people today.

The storm reminded a lot of Puerto Ricans of the devastation triggered by Hurricane Maria 5 many years in the past, which knocked out electric power for practically all 1.5 million consumers for a week.

PowerOutage.us, which estimates outages primarily based on utility info, reported 746,144 consumers remained devoid of services early Monday based on info from LUMA Electrical power, which operates Puerto Rico’s grid.

There ended up about 928,000 prospects devoid of electrical power early Friday out of a overall 1.468 million, according to PowerOutage.us.

The popular power outages have led to cascading electrical power problems for Puerto Rico, where gas distribution limits and surging demand for fuel to run backup generators has remaining lots of fuel stations dry.

LUMA is a joint venture owned by models of Canadian strength firm ATCO Ltd (50%) and U.S. electrical power contractor Quanta Providers Inc (NYSE:) (50%).