{"id":372620,"date":"2025-11-11T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372620\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:36:14","slug":"rare-blackout-hits-the-dominican-republic-as-crews-scramble-to-restore-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372620\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare blackout hits the Dominican Republic as crews scramble to restore power"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) \u2014 A rare blackout hit the entire Dominican Republic<\/a> on Tuesday, snarling traffic and paralyzing businesses in the country of nearly 11 million people.<\/p>\n

Officials blamed a failure in the grid\u2019s transmission system, although it wasn\u2019t immediately clear what caused it.<\/p>\n

Generation units in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and the Quisqueya Power Plant shut down, triggering a cascade of failures at other transmission and generation plants, according to the Dominican Electricity Transmission Company, a decentralized state agency.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how quickly power would be restored, but as of Tuesday night, some 15% of the system was back online, according to Energy Minister Joel Santos.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll restore power little by little,\u201d he said, adding that transportation and health were among the sectors with priority.<\/p>\n

Santos said authorities are investigating what caused the outage, noting that \u201cthe electrical system is complex and requires in-depth analysis before a final report can be issued.\u201d<\/p>\n

The blackout disrupted mass transit systems including aerial cable cars and the metro in the capital, Santo Domingo, where some people disembarked from the train and began walking through tunnels alongside the railway. Hospitals, banks and other large institutions were relying on generators, but many homes and small businesses were without power. <\/p>\n

\u201cTraffic is already chaos in eastern Santo Domingo,\u201d said Tom\u00e1s Ozuna, 37, as he headed to his night shift as an IT worker. \u201cI don\u2019t know how we\u2019ll work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lissa Fern\u00e1ndez, 26, said there was a generator at the bank where she works, but she wasn\u2019t sure how she would get home. \u201cThe metro isn\u2019t running. I have to figure out how to get there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Leonel Encarnaci\u00f3n, who owns a barbershop in Santo Domingo, said his business was full when the blackout hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since the air conditioning shut down, the clients left,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

Most of the Dominican Republic\u2019s energy supply is fueled by oil and its products, followed by coal, natural gas, and to a lesser extent, solar, wind and hydroelectric power, according to the International Energy Agency.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) \u2014 A rare blackout hit the entire Dominican Republic on Tuesday, snarling traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1613,14505,10102,57,179397,1612,179396,25418,50,7053,866,179398,522,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-372620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-central-america","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-energy-industry","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-joel-santos","13":"tag-latin-america","14":"tag-leonel-encarnacin","15":"tag-mass-transit","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-power-outages","18":"tag-renewable-energy","19":"tag-toms-ozuna","20":"tag-transportation","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115533696387382697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}