DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

An unusual massive, nationwide power outage crippled the Dominican Republic, leaving vast swathes of the country without electricity for most of the afternoon of Tuesday, 11 November 2025. The blackout obliged millions to turn on their back up power and spend billions on fuel for several hours.

The Minister of Energy Joel Santos said that by 11:30pm of the evening 25 power plants (2,000 megawatts or 62% of the demand) were back supplying power to the National Interconnected Energy System (SENI). At that time, only five: Punta Catalina, Los Minas V and VII, and Cepem I and III were missing to synchronize and return to the national power grid.

The national blackout had been confirmed Tuesday, 11 November 2025 in the afternoon by the president of the Unified Council of Electricity Distribution Companies, Celso Marranzini.

Marranzini assured the public crews were working diligently to correct the systemic failure that triggered the massive interruption.

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