Power Outages

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Powers been out here for about 4 hours now... went out yesterday for a couple hours... before that it hadnt gone out in almost a month.

I'm in Las Praderas in S.D..
 

Robert

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Power cuts announced for maintenance
There has been a noticeable increase in power outages over the last few days, and the reason is the government's failure to pay its debts to the electricity companies. Yesterday's deficit was estimated at 300mHw, and the government owes the electricity companies an estimated US$350 million. Power distribution companies Edenorte and Edesur have announced a series of scheduled power interruptions at the end of this month, for maintenance work. Santiago and La Vega provinces will be affected on the 24 and 27 January. On the latter date, there will also be cuts in Puerto Plata, Salcedo and Espaillat (Moca). The following day (28 January) will see Dajabon, Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris), La Vega, Monte Cristi, Puerto Plata, Santiago and Valverde (Mao) affected by the works. More interruptions are slated for 29 January to affect Puerto Plata, Santiago, Monsenor Nouel (Bonao), Espaillat, Duarte and Dajabon and on 30 January for Monte Cristi, Puerto Plata, Salcedo, Santiago, Espaillat and Monsenor Nouel. The dates of 24 and 27 January will affect the capital, to include the provinces of Azua, Pedernales and San Cristosbal on 27 January. On 28 and 29 January the eastern part of Santo Domingo will be subject to power cuts, along with San Cristobal on 29 January. On 30 January certain parts of the capital, Barahona and San Cristobal will feel the effects. In a communique from the "Edes", they apologize in advance to the public for the inconveniences that this will cause.
 

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Robert said:
Power cuts announced for maintenance
Power distribution companies Edenorte and Edesur have announced a series of scheduled power interruptions at the end of this month, for maintenance work ... on the ... 27 January ... there will ... be cuts in Puerto Plata ... The following day (28 January) will see ... Puerto Plata ... affected by the works. More interruptions are slated for 29 January to affect Puerto Plata ... and on 30 January ... Puerto Plata.
So, then, today is the 30th of January? We've been getting 16 hour days from EdeNunca since Friday.I thought that was the 16th. My bad! Glad to know we're through all this now. Whew! What a relief!

Tom (aka XR)
 

Chirimoya

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Mid-morning to late afternoon every day almost without exception, here in my part of Arroyo Hondo.

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Electricity Report Program Available

For those of you who haven't followed the thread about who has power and who doesn't, there is a program I wrote available to allow any DR1'er to quickly and instantly post their power status here on DR1.

Download the program if you'd like to participate! It's very easy to use, you just check a box when you have power. It'll create the text for your post right on your Windows clipboard. Then just paste it right into the message box of your post! It'll look like the report below.

I think it's fun seeing in near real-time where there is power in the country, and where it is off and am looking forward to seeing more reports!

Tom (aka XR)

XR'S DR1 POWER REPORT GENERATOR
 

Chirimoya

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Always look on the bright side of life, tadum, tadum, tadum, tadum-dadum...

For a change, and in contrast to all my friends here on the forums, I would like to congratulate and extend my sincere thanks to the power companies for an unprecedented achievement.

In my eight years in the DR I have never known the power cuts to occur with such blindingly efficient punctuality. In the past, the timing of a power cut was a completely random event. It could hit you half way through washing your hair (water goes when electricity goes because it depends on electric water pumps), using the blender or when the washing machine is half way through its cycle.

For the last week or so I have been able to set my clock by the cuts. The power is gone by 9:00 am so I make sure that all tasks and activity that require power and water are done by then. I have to get up a little earlier, but hey, what the hell? The "leccy" is usually back on by 4:00 pm. BINGO!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, power companies. You have helped improve my quality of life beyond recognition since this new regime came into force. I am perfectly willing to pay a higher bill each month for less than 16 hours power per day. Why oh why do people have to be so negative? I won't hear a word against our beloved, heroic Edes. Congratulations, thanks, felicidades, gracias....

Chiri
 

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XANADU RANCH POWER REPORT - POWER IS ON SINCE 18:00 TODAY

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This DR1 post was created using XR's DR1 Power Report Generator. Click here to download!

 

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XANADU RANCH POWER REPORT - POWER IS OFF SINCE 23:30 YESTERDAY

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This DR1 post was created using XR's DR1 Power Report Generator. Click here to download!