By Robert Bryce • Feb 12, 2026

About Bad Bunny And Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid

During the Super Bowl LX halftime show, Bad Bunny included a segment dramatizing Puerto Rico’s struggle to generate and transmit electrical power. The segment featured three linemen on power poles, showers of sparks, and Bad Bunny climbing and performing atop a power pole.

Bryce writes that Puerto Rico’s electric grid has been left in tatters by hurricanes Irma and Maria.

In this article on his Substack, Bryce shares three powerful interviews from his 2019 documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, available to stream on Amazon Prime or YouTube.

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