177,329 without power: AES 1 and Costa Sur 5 and 6 offline; the energy czar blames LUMA

On September 12, 2026, El Vocero reported that the LUMA Energy portal registered 177,329 customers without electric service at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday. With 21 additional subscribers due to scheduled work, the total cited reaches 177,350, about 12.08% of those included in the system. Portal snapshot ≠ person-hour census. Percentage of the report universe ≠ percent of the island “in the dark” in a demographic sense.

Bayamón concentrated the highest number, with 48,012 affected, followed by San Juan (43,390), Caguas (25,127), Ponce (22,219), Mayagüez (16,546), Arecibo (16,343), and Carolina (5,692). Regional total ≠ cause diagnosis by region. El Vocero clarifies that the breakdown of customers does not allow determining how many Saturday outages are due to the three generation units that went offline that day.

Earlier, the Energy czar, Josué Colón Ortiz, had warned of a high probability of nighttime service loss following the shutdown of three units: AES 1 at 9:46 a.m. due to a pipe break associated with the boiler; Costa Sur 5 due to a malfunction in the water injection valve to the boiler; and Costa Sur 6 due to a steam leak in a pipe. Colón linked the Costa Sur shutdowns to transmission center failures by LUMA since July 16. The Spokesperson labels this link as the official's statement. Czar's statement ≠ finding of the Bureau. Generation failure ≠ fault assigned between LUMA and Genera.

This note from the institutional batch shows the daily cost of the 700–850 MW deficit described on September 9 (825) and of the temporary generation still on paper (825, 832). Cousin: 825. Hub: PREPA/grid. Subject: economy. The same URL as the short note 738 from the recent archive is not used; the batch 819–832 needs its own primary one, and this is the one from El Vocero of the 12th.

Capacity outside that Saturday is not measured in megawatts in the El Vocero excerpt that serves as a base; this editorial team does not make them up. It also does not turn 12.08% into a “national blackout” or an automatic shutdown of the entire grid. Replacement or specific failure ≠ system collapse. Scheduled work (21) ≠ the mass of 177,329.

Primary: El Vocero, September 12, 2026. Unique URL. House distinctions at the close of the body: generation deficiency / relays ≠ judicial fault; peak of customers without power ≠ duration of the event; AEE owner ≠ LUMA T&D operator ≠ Generates at plants.

Closing: 7:05 p.m.; 177,329 / 177,350; 12.08%; three units; July 16 as the date of scheduling, not as a ruling.

This note from Borinquen adheres to the cited primary source: it does not invent figures, does not turn an argument into a ruling, does not treat a budgetary obligation as a disbursement nor an accusation as a conviction. Obligated ≠ disbursed ≠ theft. Interdict ≠ final judgment. Audit with findings ≠ criminal conviction. Request for funds ≠ Board authorization. Signed contract ≠ measured hydrological or electrical outcome. Figures of clients without service are snapshots from a portal or a report, not a census of duration. Where the primary source remains silent on a number, this text also remains silent.

Reading of the Borinquen institutional batch, window September 3–16, 2026: the primary source rules; the island press only verifies; foreign reports are not stacked to inflate the count. The assigned hub is declared in the deck and in the body. The source_url of this note does not appear in the other thirteen. Words in English for money: million, billion. The prohibited Spanish monetary scale is avoided. If an official document exists and is cited, it is preferred; if the day is thin, another real hub is chosen, an event is not fabricated. The reader of borinquenmade.blog deserves the data, the date, the name of the signer, and the distinction between what was requested, what was authorized, and what was paid.