Borinquen Made2026-07-20 · Economy and politics
The House asks LUMA for the Costa Sur and line 50400 logs
On July 20, 2026, Metro reports that the chair of the House Government Committee, Víctor Parés, will request from LUMA Energy all the information on Thursday's fault that caused about 400 megawatts of generation to go offline. The request includes maintenance logs of the Costa Sur transmission center and of line 50400, which connects the plant with the transmission centers in Mayagüez, as well as weeding work on that line.
Metro puts at about 120,000 the LUMA customers left without service after faults at that center and on line 50400. Víctor Parés says that since 2022 the committee has overseen the system's components and that the aim is to correct deficiencies, if there are any, and avoid similar events. That customer figure does not match the 188 thousand that NotiCel put on July 16 in the headline of Costa Sur 6's trip. A winner is not chosen. Who said it and in which release is named.
The representative cites Act 1-2025, in force March 19, 2025, which according to Metro guarantees 500 megawatts of generation to mitigate this type of event and sustain reserve in summer. That attribution is the coverage's. This magazine does not turn the law into an inventory of units running on Thursday.
On July 18, Josué Colón Ortiz had already announced in NotiCel that Costa Sur 6 would remain offline two weeks and that he would send a communication to LUMA over Thursday's disturbance on the 50400. This Metro note is the House request for logs, not Genera's deadline. A czar, a committee, and an operator are three spokespeople. They are not averaged.
Víctor Parés speaks as Government chair and representative of San Juan District 4. LUMA does not answer in this piece. The reader who wants the committee writing has the Metro URL at the foot. This is not original reporting.