The latest of some 89 nationwide blackouts over the past 37 years, which occurred last Tuesday, 11 November 2025 has brought a flurry of requests and demands for answers as to how it happened. The preliminary explanations have varied from “technical error” to “human error” to “we won’t know for two weeks.” There had not been a nationwide blackout since 2015.
According to Energy and Mining Minister Joel Santos, while some 65% of the investigations are complete, the government will need two weeks to prepare the final report.
Members of the coordinating committee for the National Interconnected Electric System (SENI) told reporters that the companies that produce electricity are cooperating fully with the investigation to pinpoint the precise cause of the nationwide event. They noted that simplistic explanations will not satisfy the requirements of the investigation, but rather a thorough search through the mountains of data that are available and that the technicians need to find the root cause of the incident. Not only are they be looking for the origin of the problem, but also the sequence of the cascading events that produced a total nationwide blackout is being evaluated.
One of the theories that is currently circulating among the public is that there was human error when a technician was changing a line at the San Pedro de Macoris substation, and because of a lack of certain safety equipment, this mistake set of a chain reaction that disconnected several power stations located in the eastern part of the country.
Meanwhile, the Presidency announced the change of the director of the Dominican Electric Transmission Company (Eted).
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17 November 2025