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Full blackout hits the Dominican Republic as crews scramble to restore power
- On Tuesday, the Dominican Republic experienced a rare nationwide blackout, snarling traffic and paralyzing businesses in a country of nearly 11 million people.
- Generation units at San Pedro de Macorís and the Quisqueya Power Plant shut down, triggering a cascade of failures across other plants, the Dominican Electricity Transmission Company said.
- Mass transit including the metro and aerial cable cars halted in Santo Domingo on Tuesday, while hospitals, banks and other large institutions relied on generators as homes and small businesses remained without power.
- Restoration work began after a substation failure at 1.23 p.m., with some 15% of the system restored and over 527 megawatts generating power, Joel Santos said.
- Officials said the transmission system failure is under investigation, noting smaller blackouts in recent weeks and last month's Hurricane Melissa caused four deaths in the region.
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Nationwide power outage hits Dominican Republic
A massive power outage left most of the Dominican Republic without electricity, disrupting transportation, businesses, and public services across the country, according to authorities. The blackout began at 1:23 p.m. local time on Tuesday after a major failure at a power substation in San Pedro de Macorís, in the eastern Dominican Republic, according to the state-owned power transmission company ETED. ETED reported that a transmission line malfu…
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The authorities noted that “a large technical team has been deployed to work on the correction of the incident, with a view to restoring supply in the shortest possible time”.
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