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Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., is asking the U.S. Department of Energy to help Puerto Rico track the economic losses from the recurrent power outages that have been plaguing the U.S. territory since the beginning of the month, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity as the island grapples with heat warnings.
At a news conference Thursday, officials of Luma Energy, the company in charge of Puerto Rico’s power transmission and distribution system, said overgrown vegetation caused failures in two transmission lines on Wednesday night, leaving more than 340,000 customers without electricity.
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