A week after Hurricane Fiona swiped Puerto Rico, causing catastrophic flooding and knocking out power to the entire island of 3.1 million, just over half of the US commonwealth has electricity, officials said. As of Sunday, power had been restored to more than 825,000 of the island’s 1.5 million households and businesses, or about 56%, officials from grid operator Luma Energy said during a press conference. As long as generation continues to ramp up, and absent additional problems, the company expects to restore power to as many as 64% of its clients by Monday and up to 77% by Wednesday. As many as 91% of clients are expected to have power by Friday, said Daniel Hernandez, Luma’s director of renewables. “These estimates are not written in stone,” he said. “These […]