U.S. Pulls Puerto Rico Backup Power Before Hurricane Season Peak

Just a month into the Atlantic hurricane season, Puerto Rico—which saw its entire power grid collapse when storms slammed into the U.S. territory last year—is about to lose some of its backup power generation.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been responsible for leasing three “mega” backup power plants in Puerto Rico as it recovered from hurricanes Irma and Maria that took out power to about a million households there last year. Now that service has been restored, the agency is canceling a contract for one of those generators, at Yabucoa, in eight days. The other two ...