Puerto Rico Blackout on New Year’s Eve

Puerto Rico’s near-total blackout on December 31, 2024 was not an accident—it was a warning. Puerto Rico Blackout on New Year’s Eve is a Strategic Intelligence Report that dissects how decades of underinvestment, fragile infrastructure, and contested privatization culminated in a power failure affecting nearly 90% of the island’s population.

This report analyses the immediate trigger—the underground line failure at the Costa Sur power plant—but goes deeper into the structural roots of the crisis. It traces Puerto Rico’s centralized grid design, ageing generation assets, and deferred maintenance that have persisted since the 1970s. Particular focus is placed on LUMA Energy’s takeover of transmission and distribution, the accountability gaps that followed, and the political backlash now facing the island’s leadership.

Beyond infrastructure, the report evaluates the geopolitical and governance constraints shaping recovery: federal funding bottlenecks, public debt limits, regulatory friction, and the challenge of integrating renewables into a brittle grid vulnerable to hurricanes and extreme weather. Scenario analysis outlines whether Puerto Rico is heading toward managed modernization—or perpetual blackout cycles.

Designed for policymakers, energy investors, resilience planners, insurers, and geopolitical risk analysts, this product turns an outage into strategic foresight.

Energy systems fail quietly—until they don’t. Following Global Eye Intelligence ensures you identify these inflection points early, before infrastructure fragility becomes political and economic breakdown.