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Puerto Rico plunges into darkness as power outage hits more than 1.3 million customers on New Year’s Eve

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More than 1 million energy customers were without power in Puerto Rico since 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning .

A problem with a power line in the south caused a “cascade effect” that led to multiple power plants failing, a power plant official says.

Power restored to 44,700 customers across the metro area and the island of Culebra .

The island continues to be beset by power outages as the fragile electric grid has not been permanently rebuilt since Hurricane Maria .