Josué Colón Ortiz warns of selective outages for lack of generation

On July 19, 2026, NotiCel reports that Energy czar Josué Colón Ortiz anticipates a round of selective outages Sunday afternoon because of a generation shortfall. Genera Puerto Rico technical staff, according to the note, has not completed work on units San Juan 7, Palo Seco 4, and Costa Sur 5. Until those three units synchronize to the system, the shortfall to meet peak demand between 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. will continue.

Josué Colón Ortiz asks for prudence in consumption to minimize the number and the time in which customers see service affected. The shortfall, he says, includes last week's break of Costa Sur Unit 6. Work on the three units must be completed for Monday; Unit 6 will take two weeks. Those two calendars come from the same piece. There is no reserve megawatt figure here, nor a count of municipalities under shedding.

On July 18, NotiCel had published Josué Colón Ortiz's instruction to Genera to advance Costa Sur 5 (400 MW), Palo Seco 4 (200 MW), and San Juan 7 (100 MW) for July 20, and the pointing at LUMA over Thursday's disturbance. This July 19 note does not repeat those megawatts. It confirms that the three units remain unfinished and that Sunday there will be selective outages. A deadline, a warning, and a later outage are three steps. They are not collapsed.

On July 16, NotiCel covered Costa Sur 6's trip and an outage on the order of 188 thousand customers. On July 21 it will cover another trip, this time of Unit 6 at Central San Juan, with a little more than 133 thousand customers without service. On the 22nd, LUMA will warn of shedding with about 254 thousand without power at 6:40 p.m. Those figures are from other dates. This July 19 note does not anticipate them.

The Energy czar speaks as director of the partnerships and as spokesman of the deficit. Genera appears as the one that has not closed the three units. LUMA does not speak in this piece. The reader who wants the written statement has the NotiCel URL at the foot.

Source: NotiCel. https://noticel.com/uncategorized/20260719/zar-de-energia-advierte-que-seguiran-apagones-selectivos-por-falta-de-generacion/