{"id":34872,"date":"2012-12-27T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/electricity-for-christmas-was-a-short-lived-blessing\/"},"modified":"2012-12-27T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:43:56","slug":"electricity-for-christmas-was-a-short-lived-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/12\/27\/electricity-for-christmas-was-a-short-lived-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity for Christmas was a short-lived blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Following improved services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the electricity grid collapsed on Wednesday 26 December, with a deficit of 700 megawatts, leading to power outages across the country with only 10 generators working out of a total of 36.  <\/p>\n<p> The generators available were AES Andres with 300 megawatts, Los Mina 5 and 6 with 105 each, Barahona Carbon 44, La Vega 90, Palamara 102, Monte Rio 99, and Juancho Lo Cocos I, 8 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p> According to the Dominican State Electricity Company (CDEEE), there was constant supply over the two days of Christmas with only two outages in Barahona and Azua that were quickly resolved.<\/p>\n<p> Nevertheless residents in Arroyo Hondo Viejo in Santo Domingo complained that their electricity was off for five hours on Christmas Eve, which had never happened before in the 24-hour circuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following improved services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the electricity grid collapsed on Wednesday 26 December, with a deficit of 700 megawatts, leading to power outages across the country with only 10 generators working out of a total of 36. The generators available were AES Andres with 300 megawatts, Los Mina 5 and 6 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/12\/27\/electricity-for-christmas-was-a-short-lived-blessing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}