LUMA warns of 36.9 days of load shedding; the temporary contracts remain unsigned

On June 1, 2026, NotiCel publishes that LUMA Energy told the Negociado de Energía there is a persistent risk of load shedding. The Resource Adequacy Study for fiscal year 2026, according to the outlet, expected about 37 days of load shedding between July 2025 and June 2026, with an estimated average of 196 hours of interruption per customer. LUMA's most recent report, NotiCel cites, puts 36.9 days of shedding in 2026 from insufficient resources: about three days a month, with more risk in summer.

Francisco Domenech, secretary of the Gobernación, had said in May that massive blackouts are already a thing of the past and that in the administration's first 500 days more than 1,200 megawatts were added, with another 600 temporary megawatts still to come in. Those temporary-generation contracts, NotiCel stresses, were approved by the Junta de Supervisión Fiscal on May 8 and as of June 1 had not been signed. Sources close to the process, according to the outlet, say Gotham Energy lost interest and that Javelin Commodities did not accept terms it considers onerous. Power Expectation was not available for comment.

Governor Jenniffer González Colón, when renewing federal Department of Energy emergency orders in May 2026, said there have been no island-wide blackouts in a year. NotiCel separates that whole-island frame from rotating shedding. Installed capacity it attributes to LUMA is around 5,948 megawatts; available, about 3,041. In April and May 2026, the outlet reports events of 70,000 to 200,000 customers in a day; on April 21, a failure at San Juan Unit 5. Who oversees Genera PR and LUMA, in this piece, is Mary Zapata, executive director of AEE.

The same date, NotiCel covers Carmen Vega Fournier's audit of the O and M contract accounts. That note is about transfers and Grey Sky Days. This one is about the shedding forecast and unsigned contracts. Two threads. On June 2 the Junta gives final approval to sign Power Expectations, a 400-megawatt contract; that is another outlet and another URL. Here the fact is the 36.9 and the temporary units still without ink on June 1.

NotiCel does not confirm whether the 36.9 days have already been met or exceeded. Nor does it turn Francisco Domenech's 1,200 megawatts into a plant inventory. What remains is the study before the Negociado, the 36.9 figure, the 3,041 available, and the lack of signature. The reader has the URL. This is not original reporting.

Source: NotiCel. https://noticel.com/en/noticias/20260601/riesgo-persistente-de-apagones-por-relevos-de-carga/