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1 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: @lumaenergypr, a newly founded private company, is now in charge of all transmission & distribution of electricity on the island of Puerto Rico. Luma replaces the government run Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. The government approved is now official: at 12am ET.
This is the company’s website lumapr.com/?lang=en
About the transition from government run to private run bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
And as @RobbyCortes notes, LUMA starts the same day hurricane season official starts, June 1st.

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31 May
THREAD: Nelly Gracia, her husband, and her son Eddie have power back on tonight thanks to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority crew which repaired the problem and restored electricity for Nelly and her neighbors, in San Juan, around 6:20pm local time.
With the lights back on, Eddie can now go back to receiving dialysis at home, 5 hours a day, 6 days a week. As of tonight. on the island of Puerto Rico 11,618 customers are still without power, and many of them have been without it for more than a week.
PREPA tells me only 35% of the workforce showed up for work today. LUMA Energy takes over operations of PREPA at midnight on June 2nd. Many workers have refused to show up to work in protest.
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28 May
THREAD: This is Nelly Gracia and her son Eddie, age 44.
They live in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Eddie undergoes dialysis 6 days a week, 5 hours a day.
He does dialysis from home.
He and his family haven’t had power for 7 days.
They were using a generator but it died today.
Nelly drove her son to a dialysis facility which still has power so he wouldn’t miss a treatment.
This is what people in Puerto Rico deal with regularly.
There are Nelly & Eddie stories across the island. Why is the power out?
There’s no good excuse.
There hasn’t been a natural disaster.
The power problems in Puerto Rico have long been human disaster: mismanagement, incompetence, greed, & laziness. All sides are to blame.
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25 May
.@amandakloots’ book ‘Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero’ is out soon. We talked through parts of the book, her response to COVID-19 skeptics, & the prospect of falling in love again after Nicks death.
I ❤️ her. Full interview:
She talks about the calls that came in the middle of the night asking for her permission to provide a certain kind of care for Nick. She was nervous. She felt the weight of the responsibility & yet was scared of giving the wrong answer.
I asked her if the experience of going through the illness with Nick and eventually his death led to her questioning her faith; she said it actually strengthened her faith, but acknowledged moments where she’d go home and yell “where is God right now...?”
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24 May
A Puerto Rico resident just text me “I haven’t had power for over 50hrs. I’m sooooooo mad & desperate.” LUMA energy takes over running Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority June 1st.
65% of workers didn’t not show up at work today in protest.
Thousands of ppl are without power
More elvocero.com/gobierno/sin-l…
A recent video shows the head of the union saying "But the most important part here colleagues... this week is important... what I call crucial is when we take LUMA out... Taking LUMA out is crucial, the week is important. You know why?...”
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18 May
A message from the heart from me. @thetalkcbs
I was a co-host on CBS show 'The Talk' today and the first topic was about feeling "the other". Here's the backstory: Oprah & Prince Harry have produced a docuseries 'The Me You Can't See,' which premieres on Apple TV+ May 21, the Duke of Sussex and the OWN mogul—
along with several other stars—reflect on their own struggles and emotional well-being. The first trailer for the series, released on May 17, shows Harry and Oprah sitting down to start an honest conversation on mental health.
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17 May
Less than 5% of registered voters in Puerto Rico voted in today’s election to send shadow congressmen/women & 2 senators to Washington DC to advocate for statehood. There are more write in votes than in person. The PNP party says fmr. Gov Ricardo Rossello leads the write in votes
elnuevodia.com/noticias/polit…
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