Governor Jenniffer González Colón called LUMA Energy's filing a 'barbarity' at the SESA Summit 2026 in San Juan.^[1] The company responded the same day that it had asked for nothing. LUMA Energy president Janice Quiñones said on Tuesday that the $48 million fuel cost filing submitted to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau is not a request for an electricity rate increase.^[2] LUMA issued a press release stating it did not request a rate increase from the Energy Bureau.^[3] That answers, on the record, what the filing is being called by the two sides. It does not close the gap over what consumers pay. The $48 million is a budgetary deficit in the electricity system that could push consumers to pay more for power in November and December, according to Primera Hora.^[4] Engineer Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo said Monday that LUMA's fuel purchase deficit had grown from $48 million to $54 million.^[5] FEMA administers $13.7 billion allocated for reconstruction of Puerto Rico's electric grid.^[6] For the 3.2 million residents on the system, the dispute now turns on a plain question the filings do not settle: whether a fuel deficit the parties decline to call a rate increase lands on the bill anyway in the last two months of the year.^[7]