SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s government has sued Luma Energy in the first legal step to cancel its multimillion-dollar contract with the private power company as the U.S. territory battles chronic outages, increases in power bills and the slow reconstruction of a grid razed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

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Puerto Rico’s government has sued Luma Energy to cancel its multimillion-dollar contract

The lawsuit, announced late Thursday, comes as the U.S. territory battles chronic outages and rising power bills

Luma took over power transmission in June 2021, inheriting a crumbling infrastructure

Governor Jenniffer González accuses Luma of failing to improve the electrical system as promised

The lawsuit announced late Thursday comes more than five years after th

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